Koha 21.11.23 released

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RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 21.11.23

04 Aug 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 21.11.23 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 21.11.23 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 1 enhancements, 9 bugfixes.

System requirements

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

Bugfixes

Command-line Utilities

Other bugs fixed

  • 33645 koha-foreach always returns 1 if –chdir not specified
  • 33677 Remove –verbose from koha-worker manpage

Hold requests

Other bugs fixed

  • 32993 Holds priority changed incorrectly with dropdown selector

OPAC

Other bugs fixed

  • 33233 OPAC advanced search inputs stay disabled when using browser’s back button

Staff interface

Other bugs fixed

  • 28315 PopupMARCFieldDoc is defined twice in addbiblio.tt
  • 33642 Typo: No log found .

System Administration

Other bugs fixed

  • 33196 Terminology: rephrase Pseudonymization system preference to be more general

Templates

Other bugs fixed

  • 31405 Set focus for cursor to setSpec input when adding a new OAI set
  • 31410 Set focus for cursor to Server name when adding a new Z39.50 or SRU server

Enhancements

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Enhancements

  • 29486 kohamarc_update_bib_ids no longer needed for GetMarcBiblio

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%)
– English (New Zealand) (60.1%)
– English (USA)
– Finnish (98.9%)
– French (100%)
– French (Canada) (91.7%)
– German (100%)
– German (Switzerland) (58.1%)
– Greek (61.8%)
– Hindi (100%)
– Italian (100%)
– Nederlands-Nederland (Dutch-The Netherlands) (86.5%)
– Norwegian Bokmål (62.4%)
– Polish (100%)
– Portuguese (91.1%)
– Portuguese (Brazil) (83.4%)
– Russian (83.9%)
– Slovak (74.8%)
– Spanish (100%)
– Swedish (85.1%)
– Telugu (94%)
– Turkish (99.8%)
– Ukrainian (75.1%)

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 21.11.23 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 individuals who contributed patches to Koha 21.11.23

– Tomás Cohen Arazi (1)
– David Cook (1)
– danyonsewell (4)
– Jonathan Druart (5)
– Katrin Fischer (3)
– Lucas Gass (2)
– Amit Gupta (1)
– Michał Górny (1)
– Kyle M Hall (1)
– Philip Orr (1)
– Martin Renvoize (3)
– Koha translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 21.11.23

– Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg (BSZ) (3)
– ByWater-Solutions (3)
– Catalyst (4)
– gentoo.org (1)
– Informatics Publishing Ltd (1)
– Koha Community Developers (5)
– lmscloud.de (1)
– Prosentient Systems (1)
– PTFS-Europe (3)
– Theke Solutions (1)

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

– Tomás Cohen Arazi (16)
– Matt Blenkinsop (4)
– Nick Clemens (3)
– David Cook (6)
– danyonsewell (13)
– Jonathan Druart (2)
– Magnus Enger (1)
– Katrin Fischer (1)
– Lucas Gass (10)
– Kyle M Hall (4)
– Barbara Johnson (1)
– Owen Leonard (3)
– David Nind (4)
– Martin Renvoize (8)
– Marcel de Rooy (19)
– Fridolin Somers (3)
– Emmi Takkinen (1)
– Hinemoea Viault (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 21.11.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 04 Aug 2023 03:08:10.