The Koha Community Announces 24.11 Release

by Jessie Zairo on Dec 3, 2024

The Koha Community, home of the world's first free and open-source library system, announced that the Koha 24.11 release is available. The Koha community was proud to announce the release of Koha 24.11.00 on Tuesday, November 26, 2024. This major release includes 10 new features, 184 enhancements, and 647 bug fixes. The full release notes are available through the Koha Community Webiste.

Katrin Fischer, the 24.11 Release Manager, also managed Koha's 24.05 release, and commented on the 24.11 release.

Getting a release out is a big adventure, including some monsters and also big rewards. I’d like to give some special thanks to:

• My employer BSZ and my coworkers for enabling me to do this in the first place and for a second time.
• The RM assistants Jonathan, Martin, and Tomás for their help and support.
• Our Release Maintainers for their never-ending work of backporting.
• The people of the Koha Community for all their contributions. This wouldn’t be possible without you.
• The libraries using Koha, without you everything we do would be pointless.
• Jenkins: we’ve been better this time around, but I’d really like if you were failing less randomly at times.

Access the Release

Koha 24.11 can be downloaded from:

• Download

Installation instructions can be found at:

• Koha Wiki
• OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball

Koha Manual can be found at:

• Koha Manual

Koha Schema can be found at:

• Koha Schema

Release Team

The release team for Koha 24.11.00 is

• Release Manager: Katrin Fischer
• Release Manager assistants:
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • Martin Renvoize
  • Jonathan Druart
• QA Manager: Martin Renvoize
• QA Team:
  • Marcel de Rooy
  • Kyle M Hall
  • Emily Lamancusa
  • Nick Clemens
  • Lucas Gass
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi
  • Julian Maurice
  • Victor Grousset
  • Aleisha Amohia
  • David Cook
  • Laura Escamilla
  • Jonathan Druart
  • Pedro Amorim
  • Matt Blenkinsop
  • Thomas Klausner
• Topic Experts:
  • UI Design — Owen Leonard
  • Zebra — Fridolin Somers
  • ERM — Matt Blenkinsop
  • ILL — Pedro Amorim
  • SIP2 — Matthias Meusburger
  • CAS — Matthias Meusburger
• Bug Wranglers:
  • Aleisha Amohia
  • Jacob O’Mara
• Packaging Managers:
  • Mason James
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi
• Documentation Manager: Philip Orr
• Documentation Team:
  • Aude Charillon
  • Caroline Cyr La Rose
  • Lucy Vaux-Harvey
  • Emmanuel Bétemps
  • Marie-Luce Laflamme
  • Kelly McElligott
  • Rasa Šatinskienė
  • Heather Hernandez
• Wiki curators:
  • Thomas Dukleth
  • George Williams
• Release Maintainers:
  • 24.05 — Lucas Gass
  • 23.11 — Fridolin Somers
  • 23.05 — Wainui Witika-Park
  • 22.11 — Fridolin Somers

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

• Athens County Public Libraries
• Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing
• Chetco Community Public Library
• Cuyahoga County Public Library
• Rapid City Public Library

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

• Tomás Cohen Arazi (100)
• Kevin Carnes (1)
• Nick Clemens (123)
• Laura Escamilla (10)
• Andrew Fuerste-Henry (3)
• Eric Garcia (16)
• Lucas Gass (74)
• Kyle M Hall (62)
• Emily Lamancusa (34)
• Sam Lau (28)
• Brendan Lawlor (18)
• Owen Leonard (113)
• Yanjun Li (2)
• CJ Lynce (9)
• Eric Phetteplace (1)

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

• Athens County Public Libraries (113)
• ByWater Solutions (271)
• Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing (18)
• Chetco Community Public Library (60)
• Dubuque County Library District (3)
• Montgomery County Public Libraries (34)
• PTFS Europe (503)
• Theke Solutions (100)
• Westlake Porter Public Library (9)

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

• Alyssa Drake (1)
• Hebah Amin-Headley (1)
• Tomás Cohen Arazi (103)
• Catrina Berka (1)
• Valerie Burnett (1)
• Nick Clemens (159)
• Dave Daghita (1)
• Laura Escamilla (34)
• Andrew Fuerste-Henry (20)
• Eric Garcia (8)
• Lucas Gass (115)
• Kyle M Hall (136)
• Andrew Fuerste Henry (5)
• Heather Hernandez (1)
• Barbara Johnson (10)
• Kristi Krueger (13)
• Emily Lamancusa (63)
• Sam Lau (25)
• Brendan Lawlor (37)
• Owen Leonard (100)
• Yanjun Li (2)
• CJ Lynce (6)
• Jesse Maseto (1)
• Kelly McElligott (4)
• Esther Melander (16)
• Laura ONeil (3)
• Eric Phetteplace (2)
• Jason Robb (2)
• Lisette Scheer (27)
• Michelle Spinney (2)
• George Williams (2)

Thank you to our Library Partners and Staff who contributed to the Koha Manual

• Catrina Berka (3)
• Heather Hernandez (4)
• Brendan Lawlor (1)
• Eric Phetteplace (1)
• Heather Rommens (3)

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, Metabase, 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