Koha Community Announces 22.11 Release

by Jessie Zairo on Dec 16, 2022

The Koha Community, home of the world's first free and open-source library system, announced last month that the Koha 22.11 release is available. Koha 22.11.00 is a major release, that comes with 13 new features, 351 enhancements, 3 security fixes, and 551 bugfixes.

Tomas, 22.11 Release Manager, and Software and System Maintainer, commented on the release.

It’s been a particularly busy release with several big challenges. I’m grateful for the chance I had to serve as Release Manager, and for this great community and its members, who invested their time to make this happen.

Special thanks to:

• Martin
• Nick, Kyle, and Lucas
• Katrina
• Owen
• the ByWater folks, for all the hugs and support

all of whom have been promptly available to tackle the different problems we faced through this vertiginous cycle.

Dedications

The Koha Community would like to dedicate the release of Koha 22.11 to Rosalie Blake.

Rosalie was the Head Librarian at Horowhenua Library Trust when Koha was started and without her, Koha would not exist. She was an inspiring leader and innovator and took the risk of her career entrusting Chris, Joanne, Rachel, and Simon to deliver the original project that became the international sensation we all know and love.

She was also a practicing Justice of the Peace, a stalwart of the Levin Pottery Club and much-loved mother of Simon and Jeremy, and a grandmother of Ben, Toby, Anna, Charlotte, and Billy.

Access the Release

Koha 22.11.00 can be downloaded from:

• Download

Installation instructions can be found at:

• Koha Wiki

Koha 22.11.00 Manual can be found at:

• Koha Manual

Koha Schema can be found at:

• Koha Schema

Release Team

The release team for Koha 22.11.00 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
• 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

Thank You to our Library Partners for the Sponsorship of New Features

• Arcadia Public Library

• Athens County Public Libraries

• Arlington Public Library

• CLiC Colorado Library Consortium

• Huntsville Madison Public Library

• koha-US

• Legislative Assembly of Nunavut Library

• Monterey County Free Libraries

• Montgomery County Public Libraries

• Round Rock Public Library

• Takoma Public Library

• Theke Solutions

• Virginia Tech Libraries

Thank You to our Library Partners and Staff who have Contributed Patches for Koha

• Tomás Cohen Arazi (388)
• Nick Clemens (236)
• Lucas Gass (74)
• Kyle M Hall (108)
• Owen Leonard (164)
• Michal Urban (2) (ByWater Solutions Intern)

Thank you to our Libraries Partners and Community Partners who contributed patches to Koha

• Athens County Public Libraries (164)
• ByWater-Solutions (418)
• Theke Solutions (405)

Thank you to our Library Partners and Staff who Tested Patches for Koha

• Michael Adamyk (1)
• Tomás Cohen Arazi (2160)
• Christopher Brannon (2)
• Catrina Berka (1)
• Nick Clemens (213)
• Rebecca Coert (8)
• Andrew Fuerste-Henry (73)
  
• Lucas Gass (56)
• Kyle M Hall (436)
• Barbara Johnson (19)
• Rhonda Kuiper (1)
• Owen Leonard (211)
• Kelly McElligott (2)
• Liz Rea (4)
• Jason Robb (1)
• Lisette Scheer (5)
• Myka Kennedy Stephens (1)
• Michal Urban (6)
• Cab Vinton (1)
• George Williams (2)

About Koha

Koha is the first open-source Integrated Library System (ILS). In use worldwide, its development is steered by a growing community of libraries collaborating to achieve their technology goals. Koha’s impressive feature set continues to evolve and expand to meet the needs of its user base. It includes modules for circulation, cataloging, acquisitions, serials, reserves, patron management, branch relationships, and more.

Koha’s OPAC, circulation, management, and self-checkout interfaces are all based on standards-compliant World Wide Web technologies, HTML5, CSS, and Javascript, making Koha a truly platform-independent solution. Koha is distributed under the open-source General Public License (GPL). For more information about Koha, please visit http://koha-community.org/.

About ByWater Solutions

ByWater Solutions is a full service, high-quality Open Source support and implementation company dedicated to providing libraries with a lower cost, more advanced level of support for their systems than a traditional proprietary solution can offer. ByWater Solutions has a proven track record in first-rate implementation and support services with library systems of all sizes for the Koha ILS, Aspen Discovery, Folio LSP, Coral ERM, and Libki PC Management.

Our highly ranked, comprehensive support is what sets our company apart from any other vendor in the industry. Partnering with ByWater Solutions not only lowers the cost of implementation and maintenance of OSS but more importantly empowers libraries by giving them the flexibility and freedom they deserve. For more information please visit https://bywatersolutions.com.

For More Information

Jessica Zairo
Director of Library Sales and Outreach
ByWater Solutions
bywatersolutions.com
Phone:(888)900-8944