October 2021 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

Koha packages are available 🎁
by Mason James 30 Oct '21

30 Oct '21

kia ora community, the latest Koha packages are available cheers, Mason

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Release of Koha 20.11.11
by Fridolin SOMERS 29 Oct '21

29 Oct '21

Hi everyone 🤗 The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 20.11.11 🚀 It is a maintenance release 🛠️ The full release notes are available here 📜 https://koha-community.org/koha-20-11-11-released/ The Debian packages will soon be available 🌼 Next month is end of cycle and begin of new one. 20.11.12 will be my last release because I upgrade to Release Manager, see https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roles_for_22.05 Best regards 🌊 -- Fridolin SOMERS <fridolin.somers(a)biblibre.com> Software and system maintainer 🦄 BibLibre, France

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Koha 19.11.23 released
by Wainui Witika-Park 29 Oct '21

29 Oct '21

Hello everyone! The Koha community is proud to announce the release of version 19.11.23. The full release notes can be found at: https://koha-community.org/koha-19-11-23-released/ Thank you to everyone involved! Cheers, Wainui Witika-Park (she/her)

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Any support provider doing yearly major upgrades on XX.05 versions?
by Victor Grousset/tuxayo 25 Oct '21

25 Oct '21

Hi :) I know about people upgrading every 6 month, so every major version. And others upgrading yearly on XX.11 version to do the upgrade before summer when the version has had a lot user feedback. And I'm wondering if there are some people doing the same but with XX.05 ? And at which moment of the year? Cheers, -- Victor Grousset/tuxayo

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Koha Improvement idea for the Task scheduler feature
by Ola Andersson 23 Oct '21

23 Oct '21

Kia ora Everyone, I had a look at the Task scheduler in our version of Koha (20.11) and have a few improvements in mind: [cid:image001.png@01D78F90.E83EC790] By Adding a "when to send" dimension it would become possible to use the Task scheduler for repetitive (cron) reports.. E.g. We use our local task scheduler to send picking lists to staff to have books picked that have reservations/holds and that are to be transferred from the library to another branch. These below are the main "when to send" values available to pick from in our local service doing similar job as Task scheduler: case "OnRequest": case "OnContentChange": case "OnContentChangeOnceDaily": case "OnContentChangeEveryHour": case "WDOnContentChangeEveryHour": (WD = Week days - Mon-Fri) case "WDOnContentChangeEveryHour0717": case "OnContentChangeEveryHour0720": case "OnContentChangeEveryMonday": case "FirstDayEveryMonth": case "FirstDayEveryQuarter": case "EveryMonday": case "EveryTuesday": case "EveryWednesday": case "EveryThursday": case "EveryFriday": case "EverySaturday": case "EverySunday": case "EveryWorkDay": case "EveryDay": The options using "OnContentChange" all uses crc32 checksums of the report content to validate if the report content has changed from last run or not. These are the database field we use for our local version of "Task scheduler": [cid:image003.png@01D78F91.39FCFCF0] It would be great if we could extend the task scheduler in line with this above.! I am here mainly submitting an idea and will not be able to develop the features.. Ola Andersson

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Translation platform sync delay: 2nd call to translators to prepare this month's minor release
by Victor Grousset/tuxayo 22 Oct '21

22 Oct '21

Hi, Due to a delay in getting the platform in sync with the to-be-released code, the new strings came Wednesday. So translators are advised to take another look to translate these: https://translate.koha-community.org/ The minor releases of 21.05.x 20.11.x 20.05.x 19.11.x will be around the 27th. Happy translating :) -- Victor Grousset/tuxayo

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Automatic Renewal Digests not working in 21.05.03
by dcook＠prosentient.com.au 22 Oct '21

22 Oct '21

Hi all, Has anyone got Automatic Renewal Digests to work? I've looked at the code and at a glance it looks fine in 21.05.03, but emails aren't going out when Digests are selected. Emails go out fine without the Digests selected. Before I dig into the guts of it, I figured I'd ask if anyone else has had this problem. Cheers, David Cook Senior Software Engineer Prosentient Systems Suite 7.03 6a Glen St Milsons Point NSW 2061 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Online: 02 8005 0595

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Workflow improvement suggestions for security releases
by Jonathan Druart 20 Oct '21

20 Oct '21

Hello devs, As you must know we had two hard months, several very bad bugs hit us. The release team had to coordinate and it was not an easy task. We noticed some flaws in the workflow and I would like to suggest some improvements to discuss. The main problematic issue is to backport patch series to different stable branches. 1. LTS I think it's time to have a Long Term Support release. We noticed that some people are still using very old versions, having a version that is maintained several years could help them. We could backport critical security bugs only. 4 (5?) years would be great. 2. Communication Once the issues have been reported and fixed, I've alerted the first cycle of people around me. Their job was to alert a second cycle. Should we have a list of people we trust? Ask the (general) mailing list who wants to be in the loop? That means adding them to the security group on bugzilla (or at least adding them when the bug has a fix) and CC them when private discussions take place. 3. Synchronisation Release maintainers are spread around the world (and timezones suck). Getting feedback can take time, several days (like: "try", "don't work", "try again", it's 3 days!). Then when you plan to release on Wednesday, and things are only ready on Thursday you need to wait until Monday as part of the world is still enjoying the weekend! I don't have a solution for that, apart from the Monday postpone or... more anticipation. Same problem for the time of the release, I've picked 12 UTC as the "most convenient" slot for a release, but it won't (ofc) fit everybody's needs. My point was that if we communicated enough beforehand (but not publicly) it should not be a problem. Let me know if you have ideas to improve that! 4. Infrastructure improvement We don't have CI/Jenkins for the security repository. We need one! That must be a top priority of the next cycle. We need to help RMaints and make the security release process easier and less stressful. 5. Apply patches We need a script to apply the patches on the different branches, automatically. That's an easy bit to develop and it will help us a lot. 6. More visibility on the status of the patches RM and RMaints must put their progress on the bug report itself. A comment "Will be pushed, RM had a look at this" or "Backported for..." should be added. That must be added to the "Release process" wiki page. Let us know if you have any questions or remarks. Cheers, Jonathan

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Roles for 22.05 open
by Jonathan Druart 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

Hello everybody, The roles for the 22.05 release cycle are now opened. The vote will take place during one of the dev meetings in October. https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roles_for_22.05 The description of the roles can be found at this wiki page https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Project_roles Regards, Jonathan

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Built-in offline circulation interface
by Owen Leonard 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

Does anyone use it? The one enabled by the AllowOfflineCirculation system preference. I don't think the core functionality of the feature has been touched since its original introduction and I'm concerned that it either doesn't work or is too fragile to be used in production. I'm not asking because I'm thinking of using it but because I'm concerned about us promising users that it works. Thanks, Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries (740) 737-6006 https://www.myacpl.org

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