May 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 15 Jan '23

15 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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Gitlab policy changes
by Tomas Cohen Arazi 29 Jun '22

29 Jun '22

Hi, we need to take a look at the upcoming changes and make a decision on enrolling as an Open Source project: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/02/04/ultimate-perks-for-open-source-pro… Please read carefully so we can make a decision eventually. -- Tomás Cohen Arazi Theke Solutions (http://theke.io) ✆ +54 9351 3513384 GPG: B2F3C15F

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Embed see-from headings (authorities) into bibliographic records at OAI repository level
by Julien Sicot 26 Jun '22

26 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 22.05.00 released
by Fridolin SOMERS 07 Jun '22

07 Jun '22

Hello everyone 🤗 The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 22.05.00. It is a major release, that comes with 6 new features, 239 enhancements, 360 bugfixes 🪲 The full release notes are available here: https://koha-community.org/koha-22-05-released/ Debian packages should be available soon 🎁 It has been a great pleasure to be your captain for this 6 months journey. Best regards 🤓 -- Fridolin SOMERS <fridolin.somers(a)biblibre.com> Software and system maintainer 🦄 BibLibre, France

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String patch needing review to clean a lot the translations
by Victor Grousset/tuxayo 01 Jun '22

01 Jun '22

Hi :) It's Bug 30733 - Simplify translatable strings https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=30733 The sooner this can be merged, the more work it will spare for translators that are currently working on 22.05 because it's still early enough to be backportable. We have an opportunity to clean a lot of the strings that are an absolute pain to translate. The long ones with tons of %s %s %s %s %s part of which must be retranslated over and over each version when one thing has changed. They can be fixed with the same simple method as Bug 29602 - We must be nicer with translators That is adding <span> tags around the strings to have nice broken down approach. So if anyone can take a look at 30733 even for a partial review of the code that would be awesome. Because this patch would be a huge help for translators as it gets rid of most of the terrible to translate strings. Cheers, -- Victor Grousset/tuxayo

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Koha Community Newsletter: May 2022
by Koha Newsletter 30 May '22

30 May '22

The Koha Community Newsletter for May 2022 is here: https://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-may-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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Problem in creating new authority types
by Ms. Naveen Ali 30 May '22

30 May '22

Dear All, I am trying to create new authority types in KOHA 21.11 on Ubuntu 20.04. I am following this documentation Create new authority type - Koha Wiki ( https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Create_new_authority_type ) In the section on Zebra, * I cannot understand how the att numbers are defined * I cannot follow the next two steps, which require record.abs file. I cannot find the file. Neither the one in biblios nor in authorities folder. I need to create two authorities, namely, publisher and place of publication to accommodate my existing data which I will be migrating to KOHA. Support will be greatly appreciated With best regards, Naveen Ali ITM-JE (EAKL) Inst Representative for HEC Digital Library Resources. NEDUET, Karachi.

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User-defined variables in MySQL
by dcook＠prosentient.com.au 30 May '22

30 May '22

Hi all, In the Koha SQL Library we talk about "Runtime Variables" which are MySQL "User-defined Variables": https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/SQL_Reports_Library#Runtime_Variables Well today I noticed that MySQL might be removing that functionality in the future: "Previous releases of MySQL made it possible to assign a value to a user variable in statements other than SET. This functionality is supported in MySQL 8.0 for backward compatibility but is subject to removal in a future release of MySQL." https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/user-variables.html I didn't see any reference to this in the MariaDB KB and I can't recall how far the two databases have diverged at this point but could be worth keeping in mind: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/user-defined-variables/. Of course, as noted in the Koha wiki, it looks like user-defined variables aren't really needed post 18.05 anyway. 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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