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RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 21.05.21
30 Nov 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 21.05.21 can be downloaded from:
Installation instructions can be found at:
- Koha Wiki
- OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball
Koha 21.05.21 is a bugfix/maintenance release.
It includes 2 bugfixes.
System requirements
You can learn about the system components (like OS and database) needed for running Koha here.
Critical bugs fixed
Circulation
- [28553] Patrons can be set to receive auto_renew notices as SMS, but Koha does not generate them
Other bugs fixed
OPAC
- [29603] Fix responsive behavior of facets menu in OPAC search results
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:
- Arabic (34.3%)
- Chinese (Taiwan) (59.9%)
- Czech (27.6%)
- English (USA)
- French (68.3%)
- French (Canada) (26.1%)
- German (75%)
- Hindi (100%)
- Italian (48.9%)
- Spanish (37%)
- Turkish (40.3%)
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 (89.3%)
- Armenian (100%)
- Armenian (Classical) (89%)
- Chinese (Taiwan) (94%)
- Czech (70.9%)
- English (New Zealand) (61.1%)
- English (USA)
- Finnish (82%)
- French (94%)
- French (Canada) (98.8%)
- German (100%)
- German (Switzerland) (60.5%)
- Greek (55.6%)
- Hindi (100%)
- Italian (100%)
- Nederlands-Nederland (Dutch-The Netherlands) (61.3%)
- Norwegian Bokmål (65.4%)
- Polish (100%)
- Portuguese (91.2%)
- Portuguese (Brazil) (86.6%)
- Russian (86%)
- Slovak (72.7%)
- Spanish (100%)
- Swedish (76.5%)
- Telugu (99%)
- Turkish (100%)
- Ukrainian (82.9%)
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 21.05.21 is
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Release Manager: Tomás Cohen Arazi
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Release Manager assistants:
- Jonathan Druart
- Martin Renvoize
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QA Manager: Katrin Fischer
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QA Team:
- Aleisha Amohia
- Nick Clemens
- Jonathan Druart
- Lucas Gass
- Victor Grousset
- Kyle M Hall
- Joonas Kylmälä
- Andrew Nugged
- Martin Renvoize
- Marcel de Rooy
- Fridolin Somers
- Petro Vashchuk
- David Cook
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Topic Experts:
- UI Design -- Owen Leonard
- Zebra -- Fridolin Somers
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Bug Wranglers:
- Aleisha Amohia
- Jake Deery
- Lucas Gass
- Séverine Queune
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Packaging Manager: Mason James
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Documentation Manager: David Nind
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Documentation Team:
- Donna Bachowski
- Aude Charillon
- Martin Renvoize
- Lucy Vaux-Harvey
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Translation Managers:
- Bernardo González Kriegel
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Wiki curators:
- Thomas Dukleth
- Katrin Fischer
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Release Maintainers:
- 22.05 -- Lucas Gass
- 21.11 -- Arthur Suzuki
- 21.05 -- Victor Grousset
Credits
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 21.05.21
- David Cook (1)
- Victor Grousset (4)
- Kyle M Hall (1)
- Owen Leonard (1)
- Koha translators (1)
We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 21.05.21
- Athens County Public Libraries (1)
- ByWater-Solutions (1)
- Koha Community Developers (4)
- Prosentient Systems (1)
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches for Koha
- Tomás Cohen Arazi (2)
- David Cook (1)
- Katrin Fischer (1)
- Lucas Gass (2)
- Victor Grousset (3)
- David Nind (2)
- Fridolin Somers (1)
- Arthur Suzuki (3)
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 21.05.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 30 Nov 2022 23:59:35.