Koha Community Announces 23.11 Release

by Jessie Zairo on Dec 21, 2023

The Koha Community, home of the world's first free and open-source library system, announced last month that the Koha 23.11 release is available. Koha 23.11 is a major release, that includes 10 new features, 330 enhancements, 573 bugfixes. You can read more about the 23.11 release at https://koha-community.org/koha-23-11-released/.

Tomas, 23.11 Release Manager, and Software and System Maintainer, commented on the release.

Another busy release cycle. Thanks to everyone for the chance to be part of this, and for being around when the team needed you.

Special thanks to:

• Brendan, Nate and Cindy
• my ByWater colleagues for their unconditional support
• Katrina
• Martin and Pedro
• Andrii
• Jonathan and Loup

Access the Release

Koha 23.11 can be downloaded from:

• Download

Installation instructions can be found at:

• Koha Wiki

Koha Manual can be found at:

• Koha Manual

Koha Schema can be found at:

• Koha Schema

Release Team

The release team for Koha 23.11.00 is

• Release Manager: Tomás Cohen Arazi
• Release Manager assistants:
  • Jonathan Druart
  • Martin Renvoize
• QA Manager: Katrin Fischer
• QA Team:
  • Aleisha Amohia
  • Nick Clemens
  • David Cook
  • Jonathan Druart
  • Lucas Gass
  • Victor Grousset
  • Kyle M Hall
  • Andrii Nugged
  • Martin Renvoize
  • Marcel de Rooy
  • Petro Vashchuk
  • Emily Lamancusa
• Topic Experts:
  • UI Design — Owen Leonard
  • Zebra — Fridolin Somers
  • REST API — Martin Renvoize
  • ERM — Pedro Amorim
  • ILL — Pedro Amorim
• Bug Wranglers:
  • Aleisha Amohia
• Packaging Manager: Mason James
• Documentation Manager: Aude Charillon
• Documentation Team:
  • Caroline Cyr La Rose
  • Lucy Vaux-Harvey
• Translation Manager: Bernardo González Kriegel
• Wiki curators:
  • Thomas Dukleth
  • Katrin Fischer
• Release Maintainers:
  • 23.05 — Fridolin Somers
  • 22.11 — PTFS Europe (Matt Blenkinsop, Pedro Amorim)
  • 22.05 — Lucas Gass
  • 21.11 — Danyon Sewell
• Release Maintainer assistants:
  • 21.11 — Wainui Witika-Park

Thank You to our Library Partners for the Sponsorship of New Features

ByWater Solutions' Partners Sponsor Development in Koha 23.11 Release

Thank You to our Library Partners and Staff who have Contributed Patches for Koha

• Tomás Cohen Arazi (254)
• Nick Clemens (142)
• Laura Escamilla (11)
• Lucas Gass (72)
• Kyle M Hall (84)
• Emily Lamancusa (19)
• Brendan Lawlor (1)
• Owen Leonard (241)

Thank you to our Partner Libraries and Community Partners who contributed patches to Koha

• Athens County Public Libraries (241)
• ByWater-Solutions (309)
• Chetco Community Public Library (3)
• CLAMS (1)
• Montgomery County Library (19)
• Theke Solutions (258)

Thank you to our Library Partners and Staff who Tested Patches for Koha

• Tomás Cohen Arazi (1840)
• Christopher Brannon (1)
• Catrina Berka (1)
• Nick Clemens (221)
• Rebecca Coert (1)
• Esther Melander (2)
• Danielle M Elder (4)
• Laura Escamilla (11)
• Andrew Fuerste-Henry (31)
• Lucas Gass (108)
• Kyle M Hall (150)
• Hebah Amin-Headley (1)
• Heather Hernandez (37)
• Barbara Johnson (10)
• Kristi Krueger (2)
• Rhonda Kuiper (1)
• Emily Lamancusa (41)
• Sam Lau (133)
• Brendan Lawlor (3)
• Owen Leonard (98)
• Kelly McElligott (47)
• Laura ONeil (2)
• Lisette Scheer (5)
• Ed Veal (1)
• George Williams (1)
• Jessica Zairo (66)

About Koha

Koha is the first open-source Integrated Library System (ILS). In use worldwide, its development is steered by a growing community of libraries collaborating to achieve their technology goals. Koha’s impressive feature set continues to evolve and expand to meet the needs of its user base. It includes modules for circulation, cataloging, acquisitions, serials, reserves, patron management, branch relationships, and more.

Koha’s OPAC, circulation, management, and self-checkout interfaces are all based on standards-compliant World Wide Web technologies, HTML5, CSS, and Javascript, making Koha a truly platform-independent solution. Koha is distributed under the open-source General Public License (GPL). For more information about Koha, please visit http://koha-community.org/.

About ByWater Solutions

ByWater Solutions is a full service, high-quality Open Source support and implementation company dedicated to providing libraries with a lower cost, more advanced level of support for their systems than a traditional proprietary solution can offer. ByWater Solutions has a proven track record in first-rate implementation and support services with library systems of all sizes for the Koha ILS, Aspen Discovery, Folio LSP, Coral ERM, and Libki PC Management.

Our highly ranked, comprehensive support is what sets our company apart from any other vendor in the industry. Partnering with ByWater Solutions not only lowers the cost of implementation and maintenance of OSS but more importantly empowers libraries by giving them the flexibility and freedom they deserve. For more information please visit https://bywatersolutions.com.

For More Information

Jessica Zairo
Director of Library Sales and Outreach
ByWater Solutions
bywatersolutions.com
Phone:(888)900-8944