What’s on our mind: Hold groups (hyperholds) in Koha LMS

In this week’s ‘What’s on our mind’ video, Pedro Amorim (Software Engineer) takes us through the new hold groups feature in Koha LMS, as well as improvements made to the patron holds table.

For Open Fifth customers, you can expect to see this new functionality in your upgrade to 25.11.

• Bug tree
• Bug 15516 – Allow to place a hold on first available item from a group of titles
• Bug 40395 – Allow selecting multiple holds in patron detail page to perform actions on
• Bug 40517 – Allow grouping existing holds
• Bug 40529 – Update how hold groups work
• Bug 40552 – Allow selecting all holds from a group
• Bug 40550 – Add /holds/cancellation_bulk endpoint
• Bug 40551 – Make patron page holds table use API endpoint for cancellation
• Bug 40613 – Allow ungrouping holds

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