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RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 21.11.25

01 Nov 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 21.11.25 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

  • Koha Wiki
  • OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball

Koha 21.11.25 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 1 enhancements, 4 bugfixes.

System requirements

You can learn about the system components (like OS and database) needed for running Koha on the community wiki.

Bugfixes

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Critical bugs fixed

  • 34959 Translator tool generates too many changes

Other bugs fixed

  • 35024 Do not wrap PO files

Installation and upgrade (command-line installer)

Critical bugs fixed

  • 35146 Missing db_revs file for Koha 21.11.24

Tools

Critical bugs fixed

  • 35009 [21.11] tools/scheduler.pl contains merge markers

    Sponsored by Catalyst

Enhancements

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Enhancements

  • 35043 Handling of \t in PO files is confusing

Documentation

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

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 (77.3%)
  • English (New Zealand) (60%)
  • English (USA)
  • Finnish (98.8%)
  • French (100%)
  • French (Canada) (91.6%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (58.1%)
  • Greek (61.8%)
  • Hindi (100%)
  • Italian (99.9%)
  • Nederlands-Nederland (Dutch-The Netherlands) (87%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (62.4%)
  • Polish (100%)
  • Portuguese (91.1%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (83.4%)
  • Russian (83.9%)
  • Slovak (74.8%)
  • Spanish (100%)
  • Swedish (87.2%)
  • Telugu (93.9%)
  • Turkish (100%)
  • Ukrainian (75%)

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 21.11.25 is

  • Release Manager: Tomás Cohen Arazi

  • Release Manager assistants:

    • Jonathan Druart
    • Martin Renvoize
  • QA Manager: Katrin Fischer

  • QA Team:

    • Aleisha Amohia
    • Nick Clemens
    • David Cook
    • Jonathan Druart
    • Lucas Gass
    • Victor Grousset
    • Kyle M Hall
    • Andrii Nugged
    • Martin Renvoize
    • Marcel de Rooy
    • Petro Vashchuk
  • Topic Experts:

    • UI Design -- Owen Leonard
    • Zebra -- Fridolin Somers
    • REST API -- Martin Renvoize
    • ERM -- Pedro Amorim
    • ILL -- Pedro Amorim
  • Bug Wranglers:

    • Aleisha Amohia
  • Packaging Manager: Mason James

  • Documentation Manager: Aude Charillon

  • Documentation Team:

    • Caroline Cyr La Rose
    • Lucy Vaux-Harvey
  • Translation Manager: Bernardo González Kriegel

  • Wiki curators:

    • Thomas Dukleth
    • Katrin Fischer
  • Release Maintainers:

    • 23.05 -- Fridolin Somers
    • 22.11 -- PTFS Europe (Matt Blenkinsop, Pedro Amorim)
    • 22.05 -- Lucas Gass
    • 21.11 -- Danyon Sewell
  • Release Maintainer assistants:

    • 21.11 -- Wainui Witika-Park

Credits

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who are known to have sponsored new features in Koha 21.11.25

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 21.11.25

  • Aleisha Amohia (1)
  • Tomás Cohen Arazi (1)
  • danyonsewell (1)
  • Jonathan Druart (6)
  • Danyon Sewell (2)
  • Koha translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed patches to Koha 21.11.25

  • Catalyst (3)
  • Catalyst Open Source Academy (1)
  • Koha Community Developers (6)
  • Theke Solutions (1)

We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches for Koha

  • danyonsewell (5)
  • Jonathan Druart (1)
  • Katrin Fischer (1)
  • Kyle M Hall (2)
  • Owen Leonard (2)
  • David Nind (3)
  • Martin Renvoize (1)
  • Marcel de Rooy (2)

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-rmaint.

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 01 Nov 2023 04:09:36.