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RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 21.05.22
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 21.05.22 can be downloaded from:
Installation instructions can be found at:
- Koha Wiki
- OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball
Koha 21.05.22 is a security release.
It includes 2 security fixes.
System requirements
You can learn about the system components (like OS and database) needed for running Koha here.
Security bugs
Koha
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[31908] New login fails while having cookie from previous session
This patch introduces more thorough cleanup of user sessions when logging after a privilege escalation request.
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[32208] Relogin without enough permissions needs attention
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 (68.4%)
- 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 (94.1%)
- 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 (76.7%)
- Telugu (99%)
- Turkish (100%)
- Ukrainian (83%)
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 21.05.22 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
- David Cook
- Jonathan Druart
- Lucas Gass
- Victor Grousset
- Kyle M Hall
- Martin Renvoize
- Marcel de Rooy
- Fridolin Somers
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Topic Experts:
- UI Design -- Owen Leonard
- Zebra -- Fridolin Somers
- REST API -- Martin Renvoize
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Bug Wranglers:
- Aleisha Amohia
- Indranil Das Gupta
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Packaging Manager: Mason James
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Documentation Manager: Caroline Cyr La Rose
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Documentation Team:
- Aude Charillon
- David Nind
- Lucy Vaux-Harvey
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Translation Manager: Bernardo González Kriegel
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Wiki curators:
- Thomas Dukleth
- Katrin Fischer
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Release Maintainers:
- 22.11 -- PTFS Europe (Martin Renvoize, Matt Blenkinsop, Jacob O'Mara)
- 22.05 -- Lucas Gass
- 21.11 -- Arthur Suzuki
- 21.05 -- Wainui Witika-Park
Credits
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 21.05.22
- Tomás Cohen Arazi (1)
- Nick Clemens (2)
- Jonathan Druart (1)
- Isobel Graham (1)
- Kyle M Hall (2)
- Owen Leonard (1)
- Marcel de Rooy (7)
- Christophe Torin (1)
- Koha translators (1)
- Shi Yao Wang (1)
- Wainui Witika-Park (3)
We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 21.05.22
- Athens County Public Libraries (1)
- ByWater-Solutions (4)
- Catalyst (3)
- Independant Individuals (1)
- Koha Community Developers (1)
- Rijksmuseum (7)
- Solutions inLibro inc (1)
- Theke Solutions (1)
- Université Rennes 2 (1)
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches for Koha
- Tomás Cohen Arazi (11)
- Emmanuel Bétemps (1)
- Catrina (1)
- Nick Clemens (3)
- David Cook (4)
- Chris Cormack (2)
- Katrin Fischer (9)
- Lucas Gass (12)
- Géraud (1)
- Joonas Kylmälä (2)
- Owen Leonard (1)
- David Nind (1)
- Martin Renvoize (6)
- Marcel de Rooy (1)
- Arthur Suzuki (11)
- Wainui Witika-Park (17)
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 20 Dec 2022 20:56:35.