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

How to make self-referential URLs in Koha
by dcook＠prosentient.com.au 30 Jan '23

30 Jan '23

Hi all, With some recent code, I've been using creating self-referential URL in Koha using CGI->url(), and passing it as a value. With CGI, the URL is correct (ie starting with /cgi-bin/koha). With Plack, it's not, because the OPAC is mounted as "/opac". I worked around this by rewriting the self-referential URL in my code, but I was wondering if anyone else had any thoughts on this. I've noticed there are a few places in Koha where we use CGI->url() and I'm guessing we may have unexpected bugs in Plack-enabled Koha as a result. Of course, one workaround would be to have /opac and /intranet aliases or URL rewriting in Apache, so that the self-referential URLs created by Plack still end up resolving. I wonder if that's the easiest path forward. In the past, I have wondered if we could get rid of "/cgi-bin/koha" as a path prefix all together (especially as cgi-bin scares security tools), but it's so deeply embedded in Koha at this point that it seems a huge task to replace it. Anyway, just throwing that out there. 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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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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Z39.50 daemon with ElasticSearch
by Zeno Tajoli 24 Jun '21

24 Jun '21

Hi to, I'm trying to use ElasticSearch everywhere with Koha 20.11 I'm working on Debian 10, EleasticSearch 6.8.13, Java openjdk 11 (Debian package) The search on Opac and Intranet is OK. Problems are on z39.50 server. With bug 13937 a z39.50/SRU server is ready also with ES as search back-end. But now the demonization of the script doesn't work. If i do: sudo koha-z3950-responder --start lib and I do a check with: yaz-client Z> open 127.0.0.1:2100/biblios Connecting...OK. Sent initrequest. Target closed connection Z> The result is 'closed connection', ZOOM error: 1004 But if do: sudo koha-z3950-responder --stop lib sudo koha-shell lib /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/koha/bin/z3950_responder.pl -c /etc/koha/sites/lib/z3950 -l /var/log/koha/lib/z3950.log koha@deb:~$ yaz-client Z> open 127.0.0.1:2100/biblios Connecting...OK. Sent initrequest. Connection accepted by v3 target. ID : 81 Name : Koha/GFS/YAZ Version: 20.11.00.000/5.30.3 2af59bc45cf4508d5c84f350ee99804c4354b3b3 Options: search present triggerResourceCtrl namedResultSets Elapsed: 0.012131 Z> f css3 Sent searchRequest. Received SearchResponse. Search was a success. Number of hits: 1, setno 1 records returned: 0 Elapsed: 0.915224 Z> show 1 Sent presentRequest (1+1). Records: 1 []Record type: USmarc 00357nam a22001217a 4500 005 20201208204443.0 008 201208b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 040 $c IFLA 100 $a Tajoli, Zeno 245 $a Node.js e CSS3 ... So the script 'z3950_responder.pl' is working, the transformation into daemon not. Do you have any suggestion/check to fix this situation ? Cheers Zeno Tajoli -- Zeno Tajoli System Librarian

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Koha Community Newsletter: May 2021
by Koha Newsletter 30 May '21

30 May '21

The Koha Community Newsletter for May 2021 is here: * https://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-may-2021/ Many thanks to everyone who submitted articles and news to last month's newsletter! Please feel free to email me with any corrections or suggestions. -- Michael Kuhn Editor, Koha Community Newsletter

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Deadlock issues when running the tests in parallel, and maybe not only in the tests?
by Victor Grousset/tuxayo 29 May '21

29 May '21

Hi :) IIUC this is where the CI calls "prove" to run the tests https://gitlab.com/koha-community/koha-testing-docker/-/blob/master/files/r… And this is the place where KOHA_PROVE_CPUS is set. https://gitlab.com/koha-community/koha-testing-docker/-/blob/master/files/r… It's not set in ".env" file so it should use "nproc" and this calls "prove" with more than one thread. Is that really the case? I tried locally use to "prove -j 4" and I'm getting deadlocks with the database after a few minutes. And do these deadlock in tests mean that Koha can hit them while running in production? I expect the tests to fail due to messing up with each other data but a deadlock is something else. Cheers, -- Victor Grousset/tuxayo

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Looking for feedback on approach to Bug 28457 cleanup_database.pl
by dcook＠prosentient.com.au 27 May '21

27 May '21

Hi all, I was wondering if someone could give me some feedback on "Bug 28457 - cleanup_database.pl self-registration options are not configurable" (https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=28457) I like the patch I wrote there, but I wanted to see what other people thought before running it locally. David Cook 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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Thoughts on reloading Koha plugins
by dcook＠prosentient.com.au 27 May '21

27 May '21

Hi all, It seems to me that installing Koha plugins is easy enough. Each Starman process will load the plugin into memory because it hasn't seen it before. However, if you're updating/upgrading a plugin, each Starman process has already loaded it, so it won't know that it needs to reload it. I think most of us work around this at the moment either by restarting Plack or just letting the Starman workers die and be replaced by new ones that use the updated code. But that doesn't seem optimal for an environment that allows user plugins. That said, https://advent.plackperl.org/2009/12/day-4-reloading-applications.html and https://metacpan.org/pod/Module::Reload have a few points on how reloading code in a persistent process is a good way to get bugs. I recall Kyle saying Wordpress was his inspiration for the plugins. I'm curious how Wordpress handles plugin upgrades. David Cook 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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Release of Koha 20.11.06
by Fridolin SOMERS 26 May '21

26 May '21

Hello everyone 🤗 The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 20.11.06. It is a maintenance release with 3 security fixes. The full release notes are available here: https://koha-community.org/koha-20-11-06-released/ Debian packages should be available in a few days. PS : 🌼 This is last release of 21.05 cycle. I'll continue maintaining 20.11.x that will switch to 'oldstable'. In 20.11.1889 was born Mr. Hubble https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hubble So 20.11 is going to infinity ... and beyond 🚀 Best regards 🤓 -- Fridolin SOMERS <fridolin.somers(a)biblibre.com> Software and system maintainer 🦄 BibLibre, France

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Koha 19.11.18 released, ⚠ security release
by Victor Grousset/tuxayo 25 May '21

25 May '21

Hello! The Koha Community is happy to announce the release of Koha 19.11.18 The full release notes can be found at: https://koha-community.org/koha-19-11-18-released/ Debian packages should be available shortly. Thanks to everyone involved :) Cheers, -- Victor Grousset/tuxayo

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Release of Koha 20.05.12
by Andrew Fuerste-Henry 25 May '21

25 May '21

Hi all! The Koha community is pleased to announce the release of Koha 20.05.12! The full release notes can be found here: https://koha-community.org/koha-20-05-12-released/ Thanks! Andrew -- Andrew Fuerste-Henry Educator (he/him/his) ByWater Solutions bywatersolutions.com Phone:(888)900-8944 <(888)%20900-8944> What is Koha? <http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/>

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