Koha Community Newsletter: March 2025
Koha Community Newsletter: March 2025 
Volume 16, Issue 3
ISSN 2153-8328
Edited by Michael Kuhn
Please submit news items to mik (at) adminkuhn.ch
Table of contents
Development
Current Koha versions
Read the respective release notes by clicking the revision number.
| Date | Revision | Notes |
| 24 March 2025 | Koha 24.11.03 stable |
5 enhancements 13 enhancements, 46 bugfixes (2 security fixes) |
| 24 March 2025 | Koha 24.05.08 oldstable |
2 enhancements 2 enhancements, 16 bugfixes (2 security fixes) |
| 24 March 2025 | Koha 23.11.13 | 2 enhancements 5 bugfixes (2 security fixes) |
| 12 November 2024 | Koha 23.05.16 | 5 bugfixes |
| 24 March 2025 | Koha 22.11.25 | 2 bugfixes (2 security fixes) |
The Debian packages are usually available within days after the release.
Community
Notes, gossip and announcements
- Koha Community Hackfest (Bywater Solutions)
- Koha Foundation update (Koha Foundation Steering Group)
This month’s community updates highlight how our development partners are adapting commercial tech trends for library environments. At the recent Koha Community Hackfest hosted by Bywater Solutions, developers focused heavily on mobile OPAC usability, noting that modern patrons expect a library interface to be as frictionless as their favorite commercial software. Whether users are managing a personal banking portal, syncing a mobile fitness tracker, or opening a modern casino app, they demand intuitive navigation and instant responsiveness—standards that Koha’s latest front-end initiatives are determined to match. Additionally, the Koha Foundation Steering Group has released a comprehensive update outlining their strategic governance goals for the upcoming year.
New Koha libraries
Canada
- Newman Theological College Sopchyshyn Family Library in Edmonton (AB), via Bywater Solutions
Colombia
- Universidad de Antioquia in Medellín, via Biteca
Germany
- Stadtbibliothek Wurzen, via LMS Cloud
- Stadtbücherei Esslingen, via LMS Cloud
USA
- Linwood Public Library in Linwood (NJ), via Bywater Solutions
Koha tips and tricks
- AI Koha report assistant ChatGPT (Open Fifth)
- Batch catalogue records (Open Fifth)
- Can a library use a mix of institutional single sign-on and library credentials for catalog log-in? (Bywater Solutions)
- Data migration process (Open Fifth)
- Developing Koha together : a forum to connect Koha’s end-users and Koha’s developers (koha-US)
- Does Bywater automatically push Library of Congress updates to existing Koha sites? (Bywater Solutions)
- Interlibrary loan module (Bywater Solutions)
- Koha development process (Bywater Solutions)
- Koha 24.11 – After the upgrade (koha-US)
- Lost fee refunds (Bywater Solutions)
- Serial enhancements with your Koha 24.11 upgrade (Open Fifth)
Support provider news
- εγκαταστάσεις σε Koha (Dataly Tech)
- PTFS Europe announces company name change to Open Fifth (Open Fifth)
- Open Fifth (Open Fifth)
- Introducing Open Fifth, the new name for PTFS Europe (Open Fifth)
- What are PTFS Europe’s professional services (Open Fifth)
Upcoming events
For all upcoming IRC meetings see Next IRC meetings or the Koha Community calendar.
For any other Koha-related meeting just see the Koha Community calendar.
Past events
For all past IRC meetings see the following links or the Koha Community calendar.
For any other Koha-related meeting just see the Koha Community calendar.