April 2020 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

String Freeze Notice
by Joy Nelson 12 Aug '22

12 Aug '22

Greetings! Just a quick note that string freeze will go into effect at the end of day 12/16/2019 for the maintenance branches. Maintenance releases scheduled for the 23rd. Translations can begin on the 17th. Thanks! -- Joy Nelson President, Koha Division ByWater Solutions <http://bywatersolutions.com> Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? <http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/>

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update MARC::Transform in debian.koha-community.org
by Stéphane Delaune 08 Jun '20

08 Jun '20

Hello, I'm Stéphane Delaune (aka reiveune) from BibLibre I am the developer of the Perl module MARC::Transform ( https://metacpan.org/pod/MARC::Transform ), this module is in version 0.003008 since april but, in debian.koha-community.org, the version is only 0.003006 that is 5 years old (2 versions late, including a bugfix) I would like to know if someone is able to update this package in debian.koha-community.org (and in https://packages.qa.debian.org/libm/libmarc-transform-perl.html on which the version is 0.003007) thank you in advance Stéphane Delaune

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issues with chrome and printing
by Hugo Agud Andreu 30 Apr '20

30 Apr '20

good morning we have realized that chrome is not printing (I think safari neither) any more list or carts from koha, anybody knows what's happening? or how it can be fixed? kindest regards Hugo Hugo Agud - Orex Digital www.orex.es<http://www.orex.es> [https://ci5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/C-agH5ES4uFINyKtzS6Vi0eMPO5THtLduFo…]<http://www.orex.es/> [www.orex.es/koha] <http://www.orex.es/koha> [www.orex.es/vufind] <http://www.orex.es/vufind> [https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/C6hOrdX9x-GTwsYAkhaZuvnN1nu86gksJE_…] [https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/YZRfjNcbmWALitdE6EGrlrGhllub8TL_6V6…] Director Passeig Comte Vilardaga, 118 3-3 08980 -Sant Feliu de Llobregat - Tel: 933 856 138 hagud(a)orex.es<mailto:hagud@orex.es> · http://www.orex.es/ No imprima este mensaje a no ser que sea necesario. Una tonelada de papel implica la tala de 15 árboles y el consumo de 250.000 litros de agua. Aviso de confidencialidad Este mensaje contiene información que puede ser CONFIDENCIAL y/o de USO RESTRINGIDO. Si usted no es el receptor deseado del mensaje (ni está autorizado a recibirlo por el remitente), no está autorizado a copiar, reenviar o divulgar el mensaje o su contenido. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, por favor, notifíquenoslo inmediatamente y bórrelo de su sistema.

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Plugins should support simple signing for security/verifiability
by dcook＠prosentient.com.au 30 Apr '20

30 Apr '20

Hi all, I've just written a patch that adds simple signing for security/verifiability to Koha plugins: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=24632. By default, it doesn't really do anything, but if you enable the "RequirePluginSignatures" system preference, you will only be able to upload Koha plugins which have been signed by a trusted Koha plugin author. When uploading a plugin, you'll also be prompted for a signature file, which you'll need to upload in order to successfully upload the plugin. Koha plugin authors can be trusted by uploading/importing their RSA signing public key into Koha. I've included all the possible information Koha users and Koha (plugin) developers could need into my test plan(s). Let me know how you go! I'd love to get feedback. I've been wanting to write this code for a long time, so I finally sat down for about 5 hours and just banged it all out. It's probably far from perfect, but it's functional and hopefully shouldn't add too much of a burden to users or developers. Cheers, David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Online: 02 8005 0595

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OS-specific Debian packages
by dcook＠prosentient.com.au 30 Apr '20

30 Apr '20

Hi all (and especially Mirko), I know there was some talk about how some Debian packages need to be stored in OS-specific Apt repos. Do we have a list of those? I think I have one to add. http://debian.koha-community.org/koha/pool/main/libc/libcryptx-perl/current. 19.11 says that it's removed the versioning of Perl so it'll work on Jessie and Stretch, but I'm on Stretch now and it's definitely still stuck on perl 5.20 for libcryptx-perl (0.059-1~koha2). Just an FYI. I was hoping to use Crypt::PK::RSA for 24632 but couldn't load the module due to its file path, so will look at Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA instead. David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Online: 02 8005 0595

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Koha Community Newsletter: April 2020
by Koha Newsletter 30 Apr '20

30 Apr '20

The Koha Community Newsletter for April 2020 is here: https://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-april-2020/ <https://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-april-2020/> Many thanks to the folks who submitted articles and news to this month's newsletter. Please feel free to email me with any corrections or suggestions. -- Chad Roseburg Editor, Koha Community Newsletter

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Repack git repo
by Jonathan Druart 28 Apr '20

28 Apr '20

Hi devs, Some of you may know, we got an issue with our Koha gitlab repo, it was not syncing because of too big (no detail here, but that did not really make sense anyway). It seems that it is syncing now but we removed all the branches that are not protected (so only master) I had a new try at splitting our repo, removing the po files from the core repo (https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Git_Splitting_and_Shrinking) It's not a trivial process as it requires several changes, but I noticed that: After a git clone: `git count-objects -vH` returns 3.67/4.23 GiB (cannot remember the correct number, but high!) After a repack [1]: ~755 MiB The command I used: `git gc --aggressive --prune=now` I think we should schedule that command on the git server (it took around 3 hours on a small VPS) to reduce its size. I am available if you need any helps for that task. Cheers, Jonathan PS: you may need to increase the windowMemory value with: `git config --global pack.windowMemory 256m` [1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-repack Spoiler: After removing the po file, and a repack, the repo index size is 127MiB

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Koha release 19.11.05
by Joy Nelson 24 Apr '20

24 Apr '20

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 19.11.05. It includes 15 enhancements, 77 bug fixes and 3 security patches. The full release notes are available at https://koha-community.org/koha-19-11-05-released/ Debian packages will be updated within a few days -- Joy Nelson President, Koha Division ByWater Solutions <http://bywatersolutions.com> Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? <http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/>

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New technical changes for 20.05?
by Jonathan Druart 24 Apr '20

24 Apr '20

Hi devs, During the last dev meeting (yesterday) we decided to add a new "technical" part to the release notes. In the last release cycle some significant changes have been pushed, and it would be good to highlight them and tell the developers what they can expect for 20.05. I have created a pad to allow us collaborate and write what you think should be there. If you have worked on something that will be part of 20.05 and that needs special attention, let us know. https://hebdo.framapad.org/p/9ga9-koha-tech-release-notes (no login needed, just click and write!) Cheers, Jonathan

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problem with sudo a2enmod mpm_itk
by Christian Calle Jahuira 23 Apr '20

23 Apr '20

Hello Friends, I encountered the following error while executing: # sudo koha-create --create-db biblio I execute #sudo a2enmod mpm_itk ERROR: Module mpm_itk does not exist! Can anybody help me. Thank you.. -- Christian Jhonny Calle Jahuira Consultor de Sistemas de Informacion Ingeniero de Sistemas - Bibliotecologia Email: christianjcj(a)gmail.com Cel: 61131611

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