27 Jun 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 21.11.09 can be downloaded from:
Installation instructions can be found at:
Koha 21.11.09 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 3 enhancements, 29 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
[28955] Add option to set default branch from Apache
Add support for OPAC_BRANCH_DEFAULT as an environment option. It allows setting a default branch for the anonymous OPAC session such that you can display the right OPAC content blocks prior to login if you have set up per branch website.
[30868] Modifying a patron - page not found error after fixing validation errors where the message is displayed at the top of the page
This fixes a page not found error message generated after fixing validation errors when editing a patron (where the validation/error message is shown at the top of the page - below the patron name, but before the Save and Cancel buttons). (This was introduced by bug 29684: Fix warn about js/locale_data.js in 22.05.)
[30893] Typo: update_patrons_category.pl fine(s)
This updates the help text for the update patrons category cronjob script (misc/cronjobs/update_patrons_category.pl). It changes the full option names and associated information for -fo (--fineover to --finesover) and -fu (--fineunder to --finesunder), as well as some minor formatting and text tidy ups.
[30844] The OPAC detail page's browser is limited to the current page of results when using Elasticsearch
Sponsored by Lund University Library
[30204] Add subtitle to serial subscription search
Adds the biblio.subtitle to the 'Title' column on serial-search.pl.
[30721] Markup error in detail page's component parts tab
This fixes the display of the component parts tab on the bibliographic detail page in the staff interface. A missing was causing content from later tabs to be incorrectly displayed at the end of the component parts tab.
The Koha manual is maintained in Sphinx. The home page for Koha documentation is
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 21.11.09 is
Release Manager: Jonathan Druart
Release Manager assistants:
QA Manager: Katrin Fischer
QA Team:
Topic Experts:
Bug Wranglers:
Packaging Manager:
Documentation Manager: David Nind
Documentation Team:
Translation Managers:
Wiki curators:
Release Maintainers:
Release Maintainer assistants:
Release Maintainer mentors:
We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 21.11.09
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 21.11.09
We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 21.11.09
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 21.11.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 27 Jun 2022 12:55:34.