Koha 21.05.21 released

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The Koha community is proud to announce the release of version 21.05.21.

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.

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:

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:

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

  • Release Manager: Tomás Cohen Arazi

  • Release Manager assistants:

    • Jonathan Druart
    • Martin Renvoize

  • QA Manager: Katrin Fischer

  • 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

  • Topic Experts:

    • UI Design — Owen Leonard
    • Zebra — Fridolin Somers

  • Bug Wranglers:

    • Aleisha Amohia
    • Jake Deery
    • Lucas Gass
    • Séverine Queune

  • Packaging Manager: Mason James

  • Documentation Manager: David Nind

  • Documentation Team:

    • Donna Bachowski
    • Aude Charillon
    • Martin Renvoize
    • Lucy Vaux-Harvey

  • Translation Managers:

    • Bernardo González Kriegel

  • Wiki curators:

    • Thomas Dukleth
    • Katrin Fischer

  • 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.