April 2022 - 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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Koha releases are available 🎁
by Mason James 16 Jan '23

16 Jan '23

kia ora community, the latest Koha packages and tarballs are ready release notes are here... https://koha-community.org/koha-21-11-03-released https://koha-community.org/koha-21-05-11-released https://koha-community.org/koha-20-11-15-released https://koha-community.org/koha-19-11-26-released cheers, Mason

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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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Embed see-from headings (authorities) into bibliographic records at OAI repository level
by Julien Sicot 27 Jun '22

27 Jun '22

Hi all, An enhancement idea : It could be interesting to enrich the bibliographic records exposed in OAI with see-from headings, this would allow users who use koha with a discovery tool to be able to manage, normalize and index some authorities data ? This is something that could be done directly in C4::Biblio::GetMarcBiblio following the same method used for embedding items. We could use an optional parameter like embed_items (embed_seefromheading) and a function similar to C4::Biblio::EmbedItemsInMarcBiblio by reusing what was made for zebra with EmbedSeeFromHeadings (bug #7417 <https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=7417>). What do you think about this? Thanks for feedback, Best -- Julien Sicot Systems Librarian Université Rennes 2 02 22 51 44 41

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Koha 22.05 release dates
by Fridolin SOMERS 11 May '22

11 May '22

Hi dear community, Here is the timeline for the 22.05 major release: * April 29 - "Soft" feature freeze : nothing big or with high risk of side-effects will be included into the final release if not marked as Passed QA * Mai 6 - "Hard" feature freeze : nothing considered as an improvement will be pushed if not marked as Passed QA * Mai 11 - String freeze : draft of release notes published * Mai 18 - Beta : Only bug fixes considered major, critical or blocker will be pushed * Mai 26 - Final release Let me know if you have any request ;) -- Fridolin SOMERS <fridolin.somers(a)biblibre.com> Software and system maintainer 🦄 BibLibre, France

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Adding recent (current/past year) statistics to the items table
by Nick Clemens 29 Apr '22

29 Apr '22

Hi All, We have had several requests recently for an easy way to access current/last year's circulation stats for items, without having to create reports totalling these numbers. The numbers here are used for weeding, state reporting, etc. Other systems have fields: 'Year to date circ' and 'last year circ' We have discussed several possible developments: - a new table to track these - adding a new field, or altering 'issues' to use JSON and storing circ/renewal counts by year - adding two new fields to the items table and use a cronjob to move 'current year' circ to 'last years circ' at the end of the year. We wanted to check in with the community to see if this is a request that others have or have seen, and how they handle these. Thanks for any info. Nick (kidclamp) -- Nick Clemens ByWater Solutions bywatersolutions.com Phone: (888) 900-8944 Pronouns: (he/him/his) Timezone: Eastern Follow us: <https://www.facebook.com/ByWaterSolutions/> <https://www.instagram.com/bywatersolutions/> <https://www.youtube.com/user/bywatersolutions> <https://twitter.com/ByWaterSolution>

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Koha releases are available 🎁
by Mason James 29 Apr '22

29 Apr '22

kia ora community, the latest Koha packages are available an installation guide is below... https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_Debian cheers, Mason

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Roles for 22.11 open
by Fridolin SOMERS 28 Apr '22

28 Apr '22

Hi dear community. 22.05 cycle comes to an end, time to think of next cycle. The roles for the 22.11 release cycle are now opened : https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roles_for_22.11 The vote will take place during next general IRC meeting on May 4th. The description of the roles can be found at this wiki page : https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Project_roles << Join us in the dark side, we have cookies >> Best regards, -- Fridolin SOMERS <fridolin.somers(a)biblibre.com> Software and system maintainer 🦄 BibLibre, France

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Koha::Item->is_notforloan (see Bug 30636)
by dcook＠prosentient.com.au 28 Apr '22

28 Apr '22

Hi all, While working on https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=30636, I noticed that our usage of Koha::Item->notforloan is problematic. Sometimes we use it as a Boolean and sometimes we use it for descriptive information. When we use it as a Boolean, we really should be taking into account the "Not for loan" status by "Item Type" as well. I'm noticing there are places in Koha which show an item as "Available" if the item is "Not for loan" by item type and that's a problem. (It looks like the new recalls feature from Bug 19532 has this same problem.) Anyway, I'm thinking a new method like Koha::Item->is_notforloan might be a good idea for covering the Boolean condition rather than trying to remember to implement Koha::Item->notforloan and Koha::Item->notforloan_per_itemtype (this method doesn't even exist) for all relevant use cases. One way or another, I'll be fixing the ILS-DI API locally, but I'd like to get people's input first, so that it's easier for me to upstream and benefit everyone else too. 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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Koha Community Newsletter: April 2022
by Koha Newsletter 28 Apr '22

28 Apr '22

The Koha Community Newsletter for April 2022 is here: https://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-april-2022/ Many thanks to everyone who submitted articles and news to this newsletter! Please feel free to email me with any corrections or suggestions. -- Michael Kuhn Editor, Koha Community Newsletter

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