Koha 21.05.07 released

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The Koha community is proud to announce the release of version 21.05.07.
This is a maintenance release and contains many bug fixes and enhancements.

As always you can download the release from:
https://download.koha-community.org

Thank you very much to everyone involved in this release.

Please continue reading for the details this release.

RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 21.05.07

30 Nov 2021

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 21.05.07 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 21.05.07 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 1 bugfix.

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

Critical bugs fixed

SIP2

  • [29564] Use List::MoreUtils so SIP U16/Xenial does not break

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 (90%)
  • Armenian (100%)
  • Armenian (Classical) (89%)
  • Chinese (Taiwan) (82.4%)
  • Czech (71.4%)
  • English (New Zealand) (61.5%)
  • English (USA)
  • Finnish (82.6%)
  • French (91.9%)
  • French (Canada) (87.6%)
  • German (100%)
  • German (Switzerland) (60.8%)
  • Greek (55%)
  • Hindi (100%)
  • Italian (93.5%)
  • Nederlands-Nederland (Dutch-The Netherlands) (61.7%)
  • Norwegian Bokmål (65.9%)
  • Polish (100%)
  • Portuguese (91.4%)
  • Portuguese (Brazil) (87.2%)
  • Russian (86.7%)
  • Slovak (72.8%)
  • Spanish (100%)
  • Swedish (77.1%)
  • Telugu (99.8%)
  • Turkish (99.8%)
  • Ukrainian (68.4%)

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 21.05.07 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:

    • Sally Healey

  • Packaging Manager:

  • Documentation Manager: David Nind

  • Documentation Team:

    • David Nind
    • Lucy Vaux-Harvey

  • Translation Managers:

    • Bernardo González Kriegel

  • Wiki curators:

    • Thomas Dukleth

  • Release Maintainers:

    • 21.05 — Kyle M Hall
    • 20.11 — Fridolin Somers
    • 20.05 — Victor Grousset
    • 19.11 — Wainui Witika-Park

  • Release Maintainer assistants:

    • 21.05 — Nick Clemens

  • Release Maintainer mentors:

    • 19.11 — Aleisha Amohia

Credits

We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 21.05.07

  • Kyle M Hall (1)
  • Mason James (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 21.05.07

  • ByWater-Solutions (1)
  • KohaAloha (1)

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

  • Jonathan Druart (1)
  • Victor Grousset (1)
  • Kyle M Hall (1)
  • David Nind (1)

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 2021 16:32:49.