What's new in Koha?

Catalyst Koha team

Slides: https://slides.com/aleisha/koha-whats-new-20230927

Agenda

Collaboration and development
Contributing to Koha
What's new in Koha 23.05?
Q&A

Collaboration and development

As an open source project, Koha depends on a community to maintain it.

Every six months the Koha community releases a new version of Koha with fixes, features and enhancements.

Catalyst is a regular contributor to the Koha community, in different ways.

Contributing to Koha

Share your usage statistics with Hea
Share content with the Koha Community with ManaKB
Contribute directly
- Test patches
- Write patches
- Sponsor bug fixes and enhancements
KohaCon24, to be held in September in Montreal, Canada

Test sites for today

https://demo.catalyst-koha.com.au/

https://demo-admin.catalyst-koha.com.au/

Username: staff Password: staff1

https://demo.mykoha.co.nz/

https://demo-intra.mykoha.co.nz/

Username: staff Password: staff1

New design for staff interface [30952]

Introduced in Koha 22.11
Changed green/grey colour scheme
Header more compact, stretches across page

Most important (call to action) button on pages is yellow
All other buttons are green

Header searchbar no longer has tabs
Instead it has links to the right of the searchbox - with icons and text labels for accessibility
Your selected function is displayed on the left of the searchbox

Tools related to modifying bibliographic or item records have been shifted out of the Tools module and onto the Cataloguing home page.

Koha 23.05

26 new features
145 enhancements
701 bug and security fixes

What's new in Koha 23.05?

Read the blog post

Read the release notes

Receiving multiple order lines at once
Add auto-completion to SQL reports editor
Add 'Harmful content warnings' to catalogue records
Strip leading/trailing whitespace characters from input fields when cataloguing
Ability to change authority type while editing record
Configure public lists to be editable by some staff
Show patron's 'savings' on the OPAC
Highlight records that cannot be batch deleted/modified

Specify action of action_logs entries to purge
Move emails for sending cart and list contents into notices tool
Add 'Report a concern' feature for patrons to report concerns about catalogue records
Elasticsearch - Add ability to view the ES indexed record
Patrons should be able to delete their patron messages
Add option to mark items returned in batch modification

Receiving multiple order lines at once [8179]

Use the checkboxes to receive several orders once

Receiving multiple order lines at once [8179]

Using the new 'Next order' and 'Previous order' buttons on the receival page libraries can now receive and process multiple orders simultaneously.

Add auto-completion to our SQL reports editor [32613]

An auto-complete dropdown suggests database table names when using the SQL editor in the Reports module.

Add a simple way to add ‘Harmful content warnings’ to catalogue records [31123]

The new ContentWarningField system preference enables librarians to choose a MARC field (a 59x field is recommended) to store and display content warnings about bibliographic records.

Strip leading/trailing whitespace characters from input fields when cataloguing [30358]

Enabled by a new system preference StripWhitespaceChars

Sponsored by Educational Services Australia SCIS

Ability to change authority type while editing record [30930]

Sponsored by Education Services Australia SCIS

Add permission and setting for public lists to allow staff with permission to edit contents [30418]

Allow changes to lists from 'permitted staff only'.

A permitted staff member requires the permissions catalogue and edit_public_list_contents to be enabled.

Show patron's 'savings' on the OPAC [31051]

The new OPACShowSavings system preference allows librarians to show OPAC users how much money they have saved by using a library instead of purchasing their own books.