Koha 21.05.12 released, ⚠ security release
The Koha community is pleased to announce the release of version 21.05.12.
This release contains 2 security fixes.
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 of this release.
RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 21.05.12
10 Mar 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 21.05.12 can be downloaded from:
Installation instructions can be found at:
- Koha Wiki
- OR in the INSTALL files that come in the tarball
Koha 21.05.12 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: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/System_requirements_and_recommendations
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) (58.8%)
- Czech (27.6%)
- English (USA)
- French (59.6%)
- French (Canada) (25.5%)
- German (73.5%)
- Hindi (100%)
- Italian (48.1%)
- 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 (89.8%)
- Armenian (100%)
- Armenian (Classical) (89%)
- Chinese (Taiwan) (83.1%)
- Czech (71.3%)
- English (New Zealand) (61.5%)
- English (USA)
- Finnish (82.4%)
- French (93%)
- French (Canada) (99.1%)
- German (100%)
- German (Switzerland) (60.7%)
- Greek (55.4%)
- Hindi (100%)
- Italian (94.6%)
- Nederlands-Nederland (Dutch-The Netherlands) (61.7%)
- Norwegian Bokmål (65.8%)
- Polish (100%)
- Portuguese (91.4%)
- Portuguese (Brazil) (87.1%)
- Russian (86.5%)
- Slovak (72.9%)
- Spanish (100%)
- Swedish (76.9%)
- Telugu (99.6%)
- Turkish (100%)
- Ukrainian (77.3%)
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 21.05.12 is
- Release Manager: Fridolin Somers
- Release Manager assistants:
- Jonathan Druart
- Martin Renvoize
- Tomás Cohen Arazi
- QA Manager: Katrin Fischer
- QA Team:
- Andrew Nugged
- Jonathan Druart
- Joonas Kylmälä
- 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
- Zebra — Fridolin Somers
- Accounts — Martin Renvoize
- Bug Wranglers:
- Indranil Das Gupta
- Erica Rohlfs
- Packaging Manager:
- Documentation Manager: David Nind
- Documentation Team:
- Aude Charillon
- Caroline Cyr La Rose
- Kelly McElligott
- Lucy Vaux-Harvey
- Martin Renvoize
- Rocio Lopez
- Translation Managers:
- Bernardo González Kriegel
- Wiki curators:
- Thomas Dukleth
- Release Maintainers:
- 21.11 — Kyle M Hall
- 21.05 — Andrew Fuerste-Henry
- 20.11 — Victor Grousset
- 19.11 — Wainui Witika-Park
Credits
We thank the following individuals who contributed patches to Koha 21.05.12
- Jonathan Druart (1)
- Andrew Fuerste-Henry (1)
- Marcel de Rooy (1)
We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 21.05.12
- ByWater-Solutions (1)
- Koha Community Developers (1)
- Rijksmuseum (1)
We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches
for Koha
- Nick Clemens (1)
- Jonathan Druart (4)
- Andrew Fuerste-Henry (1)
- Marcel de Rooy (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 210512sec.
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 10 Mar 2022 20:22:20.