RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 21.11.21
25 May 2023
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 21.11.21 can be downloaded from:
Installation instructions can be found at:
- Koha Wiki
- OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball
Koha 21.11.21 is a bugfix/maintenance release with security fixes.
It includes 1 security fixes, 1 enhancements, 23 bugfixes.
System requirements
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
Security bugs
Koha
- [33702] Patrons should only see their own ILLs in the OPAC
Enhancements
Templates
- [33077] Improve ease of translating template title tags
Critical bugs fixed
Cataloging
- [33375] Advanced editor crashes when using MySQL 8 due to reserved rank keyword
Command-line Utilities
- [33603] misc/maintenance/search_for_data_inconsistencies.pl fails if biblio.biblionumber on control field
I18N/L10N
- [30352] "Not for loan" in result list doesn't translate in OPAC
Packaging
- [33629] allow pbuilder to use network via build-git-snapshot
SIP2
- [33216] SIP fee paid messages explode if payment registers are enabled and the SIP account has no register
Other bugs fixed
Acquisitions
- [33238] Error adding suggestion to basket as non-superlibrarian (Bug 29886 follow-up)
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
Cataloging
- [32253] Advanced cataloging editor doesn't load every line initially
MARC Bibliographic data support
- [31432] MARC21: Make 245 n and p subfields visible in frameworks by default
OPAC
- [29311] Do not allow editing of bibliographic information when entering suggestion from existing bibs
Reports
- [27513] Add description to reports page
Searching
- [33506] Series has wrong index name on scan index page and search option selection is not retained
Searching - Elasticsearch
- [31695] Type standard number is missing field ci_raw in field_config.yaml
Self checkout
- [32921] SelfCheckTimeout doesn't logout if SelfCheckReceiptPrompt modal is open
Serials
- [33040] Add "Date published (text)" to serials tab on record view (detail.pl)
Staff interface
- [32301] Show correct defaultSortField in staff interface advanced search
- [33505] Improve styling of scan index page
System Administration
- [33509] Staff search result list shows "other holdings" with AlternateHoldingsField when there are no alternate holdings
- [33634] Sidebar navigation links in system preferences not taking user to the clicked section
Templates
- [32642] Loading spinner always visible when cover image is short (OPAC)
- [33597] Get rid of few SameSite warnings
Documentation
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
Translations
Complete or near-complete translations of the OPAC and staff
interface are available in this release for the following languages:
- Arabic (86.3%)
- Armenian (100%)
- Armenian (Classical) (76%)
- Bulgarian (100%)
- Chinese (Taiwan) (78.5%)
- Czech (76.9%)
- English (New Zealand) (60.1%)
- English (USA)
- Finnish (98.9%)
- French (100%)
- French (Canada) (91.7%)
- German (100%)
- German (Switzerland) (58.1%)
- Greek (61.1%)
- Hindi (100%)
- Italian (99.9%)
- Nederlands-Nederland (Dutch-The Netherlands) (86.2%)
- Norwegian Bokmål (62.4%)
- Polish (100%)
- Portuguese (91.1%)
- Portuguese (Brazil) (83.4%)
- Russian (83.9%)
- Slovak (74.8%)
- Spanish (100%)
- Swedish (81.3%)
- Telugu (94%)
- Turkish (99.8%)
- Ukrainian (75.1%)
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:
Release Team
The release team for Koha 21.11.21 is
Release Manager: Jonathan Druart
Release Manager assistants:
- Martin Renvoize
- Tomás Cohen Arazi
QA Manager: Katrin Fischer
QA Team:
- Agustín Moyano
- Andrew Nugged
- David Cook
- Joonas Kylmälä
- Julian Maurice
- Kyle M Hall
- Marcel de Rooy
- Martin Renvoize
- Nick Clemens
- Petro Vashchuk
- Tomás Cohen Arazi
- Victor Grousset
Topic Experts:
- UI Design -- Owen Leonard
- REST API -- Tomás Cohen Arazi
- Elasticsearch -- Fridolin Somers
- Zebra -- Fridolin Somers
- Accounts -- Martin Renvoize
Bug Wranglers:
Packaging Manager:
Documentation Manager: David Nind
Documentation Team:
- David Nind
- Lucy Vaux-Harvey
Translation Managers:
- Bernardo González Kriegel
Wiki curators:
Release Maintainers:
- 21.05 -- Kyle M Hall
- 20.11 -- Fridolin Somers
- 20.05 -- Victor Grousset
- 19.11 -- Wainui Witika-Park
Release Maintainer assistants:
Release Maintainer mentors:
Credits
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 21.11.21
- jeremy breuillard (1)
- Galen Charlton (1)
- Nick Clemens (3)
- David Cook (1)
- Jonathan Druart (2)
- Magnus Enger (1)
- Katrin Fischer (6)
- Lucas Gass (3)
- Kyle M Hall (2)
- Mason James (3)
- Janusz Kaczmarek (1)
- Owen Leonard (1)
- Philip Orr (1)
- Marcel de Rooy (7)
- Fridolin Somers (3)
- Arthur Suzuki (2)
- Koha translators (1)
- Hammat Wele (1)
We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 21.11.21
- Athens County Public Libraries (1)
- BibLibre (6)
- Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg (BSZ) (6)
- ByWater-Solutions (8)
- Equinox Open Library Initiative (1)
- Independant Individuals (1)
- Koha Community Developers (2)
- KohaAloha (3)
- Libriotech (1)
- lmscloud.de (1)
- Prosentient Systems (1)
- Rijksmuseum (7)
- Solutions inLibro inc (1)
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha
- Aleisha Amohia (1)
- Tomás Cohen Arazi (30)
- Matt Blenkinsop (10)
- Kevin Carnes (1)
- Nick Clemens (7)
- Jonathan Druart (5)
- Laura Escamilla (1)
- Katrin Fischer (7)
- Brendan Gallagher (1)
- Lucas Gass (30)
- Victor Grousset (1)
- Kyle M Hall (1)
- Barbara Johnson (1)
- Owen Leonard (1)
- Marius Mandrescu (1)
- David Nind (10)
- Jacob O'Mara (11)
- Séverine Queune (1)
- Martin Renvoize (13)
- Phil Ringnalda (1)
- Marcel de Rooy (8)
- Caroline Cyr La Rose (1)
- Michaela Sieber (1)
- Arthur Suzuki (32)
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.
Revision control notes
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-security.
Bugs and feature requests
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 25 May 2023 13:50:45.