July 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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Who runs the koha-jenkins IRC bot?
by Victor Grousset/tuxayo 03 Aug '22

03 Aug '22

Hi :) It's about the move of automated output to #koha-bots Cheers, -- Victor Grousset/tuxayo

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Staff interface redesign is ready to be tested
by Julian Maurice 31 Jul '22

31 Jul '22

Hi all, After 5 months of work, the new staff interface is finally there! As it changes a lot of pages, we will need a lot of eyes to hunt down bugs. So if you want to help, you can go to bug 30952 right now and start testing! https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=30952 -- Julian Maurice BibLibre

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Koha Community Newsletter: July 2022
by Koha Newsletter 28 Jul '22

28 Jul '22

The Koha Community Newsletter for July 2022 is here: https://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-july-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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QA for Bug 30988 - Add generic OpenIDConnect client implementation
by dcook＠prosentient.com.au 28 Jul '22

28 Jul '22

Hi all, Just wondering if anyone has time to QA "Bug 30988 - Add generic OpenIDConnect client implementation". It would be great to get this additional authentication option into Koha as it would really round out Koha's AuthN offerings. I could do some testing for bugs of the QAer's choice if that helps. 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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Debian 9 LTS EOL
by dcook＠prosentient.com.au 28 Jul '22

28 Jul '22

Hi all, While commenting on Bug 28267, I decided to review what versions of Debian we support, and I noticed that Debian 9 (Stretch) actually met it's LTS EOL on 2022-06-30, so it probably makes sense for us to drop support for it at some point in the near future too. Debian 10 (Buster) will be regular EOL in the next couple of months, and then it will get a LTS period of another couple extra years. (Interesting to note that Debian LTS isn't actually handled by the Debian Security team but rather a separate group of volunteers.) It looks like Ubuntu 18.04 will end its "standard support" in April 2023, so we nearly have 1 more year on it. It looks like Debian 9 (Stretch) and Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) both have MariaDB 10.1.x, so I suppose we can't drop support for that DB version until both OSes are no longer supported. https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/System_requirements_and_recommendations https://wiki.debian.org/LTS https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases 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 packages are available 🎁
by Mason James 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '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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Thoughts on retiring libapache2-mpm-itk?
by dcook＠prosentient.com.au 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

Hi all, I was looking at BibLibre's ERM sandbox, and I noticed that the Nginx reverse proxy was using HTTP/2. It got me thinking about Apache httpd and HTTP/2. Apparently, Apache has an optional mod_http2 module, but it is said to work better with mpm_event and mpm_worker than mpm_prefork. But because we use mpm_itk (in order to declare "AssignUserID kohadev-koha kohadev-koha" per VirtualHost) we're tied to using mpm_prefork. Yet. Koha mostly runs in Starman these days. We don't necessarily get that much benefit from AssignUserID anymore. The main problem would be permissions for the CGI scripts that we don't proxy. So maybe we wait until after we're proxying everything through Apache and Apache is just a reverse proxy to Starman and a static asset server. Because at that point. there's no reason it couldn't just run under the "www-data" user. I mean we could try testing mod_http2 with mpm_prefork anyway I suppose. And there's always the old "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". I suppose I just think it's funny that HTTP/3 exists (although it's not widely supported on FOSS servers yet) but we haven't even moved from HTTP/1.1 to HTTP/2. Frido, curious if you have any comments on HTTP/2 since I'm guessing you set up that Nginx reverse proxy? 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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