RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 21.11.15
23 Dec 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 21.11.15 can be downloaded from:
Installation instructions can be found at:
- Koha Wiki
- OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball
Koha 21.11.15 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 3 enhancements, 38 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
Enhancements
Acquisitions
- [31459] Make order receive page faster on systems with many budgets
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
- [31776] Typo in cleanup_database.pl cron's help/usage
Notices
Critical bugs fixed
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
- [31785] Adding or editing library does not respect public flag
OPAC
- [32114] Template error in OPAC search results RSS
Packaging
- [31588] Update cpanfile for new OpenAPI versions
Other bugs fixed
Acquisitions
- [29554] neworderempty.pl may create records with biblioitems.itemtype NULL
[30359] GetBudgetHierarchy is slow on order receive page
Sponsored by Koha-Suomi Oy
[31587] Basket not accessible from ACQORDER notice
This makes sure that the basket object is passed to the ACQORDER notice in order to allow adding information about the basket and the order lines within it.
- [31649] Acquisition basket CSV export fails if biblio does not exist
Architecture, internals, and plumbing
- [20457] Overdue and pre-overdue cronjobs not skipping phone notices
- [31196] Key "default_value_for_mod_marc-" cleared from cache but not set anymore
- [31441] Koha::Item::as_marc_field ignores subfields where kohafield is an empty string
- [31469] log4perl.conf: Plack logfiles need %n in conversionpattern
- [31920] Unit test t/db_dependent/Holds.t leaves behind database cruft
Cataloging
Circulation
- [31903] Article requests: Edit URLs link missing in the New tab
Documentation
- [27315] The man pages for the command line utilities do not display properly
Fines and fees
Hold requests
- [31540] Holds reminder cronjob should consider expiration date of holds, and not send notices if hold expired
- [31575] Missing warning for holds where AllowHoldPolicyOverride can be used to force a hold to be placed
I18N/L10N
- [30517] Translation breaks editing parent type circulation rule
MARC Authority data support
- [19693] Update of an authority record creates inconsistency when the heading tag is changed
OPAC
- [31685] Article request count in table caption of opac-user missing
Plugin architecture
- [31684] Plugin versions starting with a "v" cause unnecessary warnings
Reports
- [28967] Patrons with no checkouts report shows patrons from other libraries with IndependentBranches
SIP2
- [31552] SIP2 option format_due_date not honored for AH field in item information response
Searching
- [15048] Genre/Form (655) searches fail on searches with $x 'General subdivision' subfield values
Searching - Elasticsearch
Searching - Zebra
- [31532] Zebra search results including 880 with original script incorrect because of Bug 15187
Staff interface
- [18556] Message "Patron's address in doubt" is confusing
System Administration
- [31976] Incorrect default category selected by authorized values page
Templates
- [29671] Dropbox mode is unchecked after check in confirm on item with Materials specified
- [31412] Set focus for cursor to Name when adding a new SMTP server
- [31420] Managing funds: Labels of statistic fields overlap with pull downs
- [31559] Staff results page doesn't always use up full available screen width
Test Suite
- [31593] Remove Test::DBIx::Class from Context.t
- [31883] Filter trim causes false warnings
- [31595] Import patrons tool should not process extended attributes if no attributes are being imported
- [31644] MARCModification template fails to copy to/from subfield 0
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 (86.6%)
- Armenian (100%)
- Armenian (Classical) (89%)
- Bulgarian (100%)
- Chinese (Taiwan) (78.8%)
- Czech (76.8%)
- English (New Zealand) (60.3%)
- English (USA)
- Finnish (98.8%)
- French (95.5%)
- French (Canada) (92%)
- German (100%)
- German (Switzerland) (58.3%)
- Greek (60.4%)
- Hindi (100%)
- Italian (100%)
- Nederlands-Nederland (Dutch-The Netherlands) (86.5%)
- Norwegian Bokmål (62.7%)
- Polish (100%)
- Portuguese (91%)
- Portuguese (Brazil) (83%)
- Russian (84.2%)
- Slovak (74.7%)
- Spanish (100%)
- Swedish (81.6%)
- Telugu (94.3%)
- Turkish (100%)
- Ukrainian (75.2%)
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 21.11.15 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 libraries, companies, and other institutions who are known to have sponsored
new features in Koha 21.11.15
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 21.11.15
- Aleisha Amohia (1)
- Tomás Cohen Arazi (1)
- Nick Clemens (15)
- David Cook (1)
- Jonathan Druart (1)
- Katrin Fischer (1)
- Isobel Graham (1)
- Kyle M Hall (9)
- Mason James (1)
- Janusz Kaczmarek (2)
- Owen Leonard (4)
- The Minh Luong (1)
- Julian Maurice (1)
- Johanna Raisa (1)
- Martin Renvoize (4)
- Marcel de Rooy (9)
- Andreas Roussos (1)
- Fridolin Somers (3)
- Arthur Suzuki (3)
- Christophe Torin (1)
- Koha translators (1)
- Petro Vashchuk (1)
- Shi Yao Wang (1)
We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 21.11.15
- Athens County Public Libraries (4)
- BibLibre (7)
- Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg (BSZ) (1)
- ByWater-Solutions (24)
- Catalyst Open Source Academy (1)
- Dataly Tech (1)
- Independant Individuals (5)
- Koha Community Developers (1)
- KohaAloha (1)
- Prosentient Systems (1)
- PTFS-Europe (4)
- Rijksmuseum (9)
- Solutions inLibro inc (2)
- Theke Solutions (1)
- Université Rennes 2 (1)
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha
- Tomás Cohen Arazi (60)
- Emmanuel Bétemps (1)
- Catrina (1)
- Nick Clemens (1)
- Chris Cormack (1)
- Katrin Fischer (30)
- Andrew Fuerste-Henry (1)
- Lucas Gass (61)
- Géraud (1)
- Kyle M Hall (4)
- Barbara Johnson (1)
- Joonas Kylmälä (4)
- Owen Leonard (1)
- David Nind (25)
- Martin Renvoize (8)
- Marcel de Rooy (16)
- Caroline Cyr La Rose (1)
- Arthur Suzuki (60)
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.
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 23 Dec 2022 12:07:24.