Monday Minutes: 24.11 Preview

by Jessie Zairo on Dec 2, 2024

In this week's Monday Minutes, Nick and Jessie discuss Koha's newest release, 24.11. The Koha community was proud to announce the release of Koha 24.11.00 on Tuesday, November 26. This major release includes 10 new features, 184 enhancements, and 647 bug fixes. The full release notes are available here.

Bug 35570 - Add a generic master form in ILL

This incorporates the ILL backend, previously known as "FreeForm" (ILL Form), into core Koha, which is now labeled "Standard."

This allows the ILL module to be used as soon as the ILLModule system preference is enabled, without the need to install additional third-party backends, although the option to do so still exists.

All prior "FreeForm" ILL requests, attributes, and comments will be transferred to the new "Standard" backend after upgrading.

Bug 14180 - Make "Always show checkouts immediately" a global setting

This enhancement adds the ability for libraries to have checkouts always show immediately. To turn on this new feature, set the new system preference 'AlwaysLoadCheckoutsTable' to 'do. If you find that checkouts are slow to load, you can add a delay to the table so the rest of the page can load and checkouts can proceed using the new system preference 'LoadCheckoutsTableDelay'.

Bug 34440 - Add warm-up and cool-down periods to bookings

This enhancement to the recently added bookings functionality allows libraries to define a lead-in and trail-out period to be prepended and appended to bookings.

These periods prevent checkouts or bookings from taking place too close to each other and allow for things like transfers and maintenance to be carried out.

Bug 33736 - Add bookings to collect circulation report

The enhancement adds a new 'Bookings to collect' report into the Circulation module. It parallels the 'Holds to pull' report allowing staff to easily report against upcoming bookings and collect them from the shelves ready for collection by the patron who has the item booked.

Bug 29560 - Add option to create MARC links when adding items to bundles

This enhancement adds the new `link_marc_host` method to Koha::Biblio to facilitate adding a host link to the marc record of the biblio.

Bug 34355 - Automated MARC record ordering process

This enhancement creates a process for automatically creating order lines from a MARC record. Users can define a directory for a particular vendor and then set a cronjob to check that directory for new files periodically. The cronjob will then stage the file, import biblios/items as required and then create order lines.

Additional Resources

Monday Minutes: Item Bookings

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Creating Bundles of Items in Koha

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