Koha 21.11.26 released

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RELEASE NOTES FOR KOHA 21.11.26

01 déc. 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 21.11.26 can be downloaded from:

Installation instructions can be found at:

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

Koha 21.11.26 is a bugfix/maintenance release.

It includes 6 enhancements, 2 bugfixes.

System requirements

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

Security bugs

  • 35290 SQL Injection vulnerability in ysearch.pl
  • 35291 File Upload vulnerability in upload-cover-image.pl

Bugfixes

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Other bugs fixed

  • 32978 ‘npm install’ fails in ktd on aarch64, giving unsupported architecture error for node-sass

Enhancements

Architecture, internals, and plumbing

Enhancements

  • 35079 Add option to gulp tasks po:update and po:create to control if POT should be built
  • 35103 Add option to gulp tasks to pass a list of tasks
  • 35174 Remove .po files from the codebase

I18N/L10N

Enhancements

  • 30373 Rewrite UNIMARC installer data to YAML
  • 30476 Remove NORMARC translation files

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 (ar_ARAB) (88%)
– Armenian (hy_ARMN) (100%)
– Bulgarian (bg_CYRL) (100%)
– Dutch (100%)
– English (100%)
– English (New Zealand) (99%)
– English (USA)
– Finnish (94%)
– French (100%)
– French (Canada) (89%)
– German (100%)
– Hindi (100%)
– Italian (100%)
– Polish (100%)
– Portuguese (Brazil) (90%)
– Spanish (100%)
– Telugu (89%)
– Turkish (100%)
– hyw_ARMN (generated) (hyw_ARMN) (82%)

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 21.11.26 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: Mason James

  • Documentation Manager: David Nind

  • Documentation Team:

    • David Nind
    • Lucy Vaux-Harvey

  • Translation Manager: 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 21.11.26

– Aleisha Amohia (1)
– David Cook (3)
– Jonathan Druart (9)
– Mason James (1)
– Bernardo González Kriegel (2)
– Owen Leonard (2)
– Julian Maurice (2)
– Danyon Sewell (4)
– Koha translators (1)

We thank the following libraries, companies, and other institutions who contributed
patches to Koha 21.11.26

– Athens County Public Libraries (2)
– BibLibre (2)
– Catalyst (4)
– Catalyst Open Source Academy (1)
– Koha Community Developers (9)
– KohaAloha (1)
– Prosentient Systems (3)
– Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (2)

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

– Aleisha Amohia (3)
– Tomás Cohen Arazi (6)
– Nick Clemens (5)
– David Cook (1)
– Paul Derscheid (1)
– Jonathan Druart (9)
– Owen Leonard (1)
– Martin Renvoize (1)
– Fridolin Somers (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.

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 déc. 2023 07:07:27.