24 Mar 2022
Koha is the first free and open source software library automation package (ILS). Development is sponsored by libraries of varying types and sizes, volunteers, and support companies from around the world. The website for the Koha project is:
Koha 20.11.17 can be downloaded from:
Installation instructions can be found at:
Koha 20.11.17 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 8 bugfixes.
You can learn about the system components (like OS and database) needed for running Koha here: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/System_requirements_and_recommendations
[29596] Add Yiddish language
Sponsored by Universidad Nacional de San Martín
This enhancement adds the Yiddish (יידיש) language to Koha. Yiddish now appears as an option for refining search results in the staff interface advanced search (Search > Advanced search > More options > Language and Language of original) and the OPAC (Advanced search > More options > Language).
[29722] Add some diversity to sample quotes
Sponsored by Catalyst
This patch adds sample quotes from women, women of colour, trans women, Black and Indigenous women, and people who weren't US Presidents!
The Koha manual is maintained in Sphinx. The home page for Koha documentation is
As of the date of these release notes, the Koha manual is available in the following languages:
The Git repository for the Koha manual can be found at
Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff interface are available in this release for the following languages:
Partial translations are available for various other languages.
The Koha team welcomes additional translations; please see
For information about translating Koha, and join the koha-translate list to volunteer:
The most up-to-date translations can be found at:
The release team for Koha 20.11.17 is
Release Manager: Fridolin Somers
Release Manager assistants:
QA Manager: Katrin Fischer
QA Team:
Topic Experts:
Bug Wranglers:
Packaging Manager: Mason James
Documentation Manager: David Nind
Documentation Team:
Translation Managers:
Wiki curators:
Release Maintainers:
We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 20.11.17
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 20.11.17
We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 20.11.17
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches for Koha
We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertently missed, please send a patch against these release notes to koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org.
The Koha project uses Git for version control. The current development version of Koha can be retrieved by checking out the master branch of:
The branch for this version of Koha and future bugfixes in this release line is 20.11.x.
Bug reports and feature requests can be filed at the Koha bug tracker at:
He rau ringa e oti ai. (Many hands finish the work)
Autogenerated release notes updated last on 24 Mar 2022 02:05:13.