RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 23.11.01
02 Jan 2024
Koha is the first free and open source software library automation
package (ILS). Development is sponsored by libraries of varying types
and sizes, volunteers, and support companies from around the world. The
website for the Koha project is:
Koha 23.11.01 can be downloaded from:
Installation instructions can be found at:
- Koha Wiki
- OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball
Koha 23.11.01 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 25 bugfixes.
System requirements
You can learn about the system components (like OS and database) needed for running Koha on the community wiki.
Bugfixes
Accessibility
Other bugs fixed
- 35157 The searchfieldstype select element produces invalid HTML
Cataloging
Other bugs fixed
- 35383 Dragging and dropping subfield of repeated tags doesn't work
- 35414 Silence warn related to number_of_copies
- 35425 Sortable prevents mouse selection of text inside child input/textarea elements
- 35441 Typo 'UniqueItemsFields' system preference
Command-line Utilities
Other bugs fixed
- 34091 Typo in help for cleanupdatabase.pl: --log-modules needs to be --log-module
ERM
Other bugs fixed
- 35408 ERM > Titles > Import from a list gives an invalid link to the import job
I18N/L10N
Other bugs fixed
- 35376 Rephrase: Be careful removing attribute to this processing, the items using it will be impacted as well!
Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)
Critical bugs fixed
- 34516 Upgrade database fails for 22.11.07.003, points to web installer
OPAC
Other bugs fixed
- 33244 Do not show lists in OPAC if OpacPublic is disabled
- 35436 Copy is not translatable in OPAC search history
Patrons
Other bugs fixed
- 35344 Patron image upload does not warn about missing cardnumber
- 35352 Cannot hide SMSalertnumber via BorrowerUnwantedField
Preservation
Other bugs fixed
- 35387 Capitalization: Labels in preservation module are not capitalized
This fixes the capitalization of some label names in the Preservation module (name -> Name, and barcode -> Barcode).
Searching
Other bugs fixed
- 35410 856 label is inconsistent between detail page and search results in XSLTs
This updates the default staff interface and OPAC XSLT files so that "Online resources" is used as the label in search results for field 856 - Electronic Location and Access, instead of "Online access". This matches the label used in the detail page for a record.
It also adjusts the CSS class so OPAC and staff interface both use online_resources.
System Administration
Critical bugs fixed
Templates
Other bugs fixed
- 34398 Inconsistencies in Record matching rules page titles, breadcrumbs, and header
- 35327 Fix capitalization of language name
This fixes the capitalization of English (english -> English) in the ILS_DI GetAvailability information page (:/cgi-bin/koha/ilsdi.pl?service=Describe&verb=GetAvailability).
- 35378 'This authority type is used {count} times' missing dot
- 35404 Wrong copy and paste in string (ILL batches)
- 35412 Capitalization: Toggle Dropdown
- 35415 Rephrase: Some patrons have requested a privacy ...
- 35449 Accessibility: No links on "here"
- 35450 Preservation system preferences should be authorised value pull downs
- 35453 Wrong 'Laserdisc)' string on 007 builder (MARC21)
Documentation
The Koha manual is maintained in Sphinx. The home page for Koha
documentation is
The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at
Translations
Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff
interface are available in this release for the following languages:
- Arabic (ar_ARAB) (69%)
- Armenian (hy_ARMN) (100%)
- Bulgarian (bg_CYRL) (99%)
- Chinese (Traditional) (92%)
- Czech (58%)
- Dutch (75%)
- English (100%)
- English (New Zealand) (64%)
- English (USA)
- Finnish (99%)
- French (93%)
- French (Canada) (97%)
- German (100%)
- German (Switzerland) (52%)
- Hindi (94%)
- Italian (84%)
- Norwegian Bokmål (73%)
- Persian (fa_ARAB) (92%)
- Polish (92%)
- Portuguese (Brazil) (93%)
- Portuguese (Portugal) (88%)
- Russian (89%)
- Slovak (62%)
- Spanish (100%)
- Swedish (82%)
- Telugu (71%)
- Turkish (81%)
- Ukrainian (74%)
Partial translations are available for various other languages.
The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see
For information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate
list to volunteer:
The most up-to-date translations can be found at:
Release Team
The release team for Koha 23.11.01 is
Release Manager: Katrin Fischer
Release Manager assistants:
- Tomás Cohen Arazi
- Martin Renvoize
- Jonathan Druart
QA Manager: Marcel de Rooy
QA Team:
- Marcel de Rooy
- Julian Maurice
- Lucas Gass
- Victor Grousset
- Kyle M Hall
- Nick Clemens
- Martin Renvoize
- Tomás Cohen Arazi
- Aleisha Amohia
- Emily Lamancusa
- David Cook
- Jonathan Druart
- Pedor Amorim
Topic Experts:
- UI Design -- Owen Leonard
- Zebra -- Fridolin Somers
- REST API -- Tomás Cohen Arazi
- ERM -- Matt Blenkinsop
- ILL -- Pedro Amorim
- SIP2 -- Matthias Meusburger
- CAS -- Matthias Meusburger
Bug Wranglers:
- Aleisha Amohia
- Indranil Das Gupta
Packaging Managers:
- Mason James
- Indranil Das Gupta
- Tomás Cohen Arazi
Documentation Manager: Aude Charillon
Documentation Team:
- Caroline Cyr La Rose
- Kelly McElligott
- Philip Orr
- Marie-Luce Laflamme
- Lucy Vaux-Harvey
Translation Manager: Jonathan Druart
Wiki curators:
- Thomas Dukleth
- Katrin Fischer
Release Maintainers:
- 23.11 -- Fridolin Somers
- 23.05 -- Lucas Gass
- 22.11 -- Frédéric Demians
- 22.05 -- Danyon Sewell
Release Maintainer assistants:
- 22.05 -- Wainui Witika-Park
Credits
We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 23.11.01
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 23.11.01
- Tomás Cohen Arazi (5)
- Kevin Carnes (1)
- David Cook (1)
- Jonathan Druart (2)
- Magnus Enger (1)
- Lucas Gass (2)
- Victor Grousset (1)
- Owen Leonard (6)
- David Nind (1)
- Andrii Nugged (1)
- Adolfo Rodríguez (1)
- Slava Shishkin (1)
- Fridolin Somers (4)
- Emmi Takkinen (1)
- Lari Taskula (1)
We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 23.11.01
- Athens County Public Libraries (6)
- BibLibre (4)
- ByWater-Solutions (2)
- David Nind (1)
- Hypernova Oy (1)
- Independant Individuals (2)
- Koha Community Developers (3)
- Koha-Suomi (1)
- Libriotech (1)
- Prosentient Systems (1)
- Theke Solutions (5)
- ub.lu.se (1)
- Xercode (1)
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha
- Pedro Amorim (1)
- Matt Blenkinsop (1)
- David Cook (2)
- Jonathan Druart (3)
- Katrin Fischer (27)
- Andrew Fuerste-Henry (1)
- Lucas Gass (2)
- Victor Grousset (13)
- Kyle M Hall (1)
- Barbara Johnson (2)
- Emily Lamancusa (2)
- Brendan Lawlor (1)
- Owen Leonard (3)
- David Nind (11)
- Phil Ringnalda (2)
- Marcel de Rooy (5)
- Fridolin Somers (25)
We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertently missed,
please send a patch against these release notes to koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org.
Revision control notes
The Koha project uses Git for version control. The current development
version of Koha can be retrieved by checking out the master branch of:
The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release
line is 23.11.x.
Bugs and feature requests
Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug
tracker at:
He rau ringa e oti ai.
(Many hands finish the work)
Autogenerated release notes updated last on 02 Jan 2024 10:31:47.