October 2025 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

Hackfest 2026 in Marseille
by Paul Poulain 30 Dec '25

30 Dec '25

Hello all, Some are asking for the dates of the 2026 hackfest. What is sure: * no hackfest on Week 14 or 15 (march 30th > april 10th, holy week then easter monday) * school holidays apr 10th > May 4th (France is splitted in 3 parts for spring holiday), so not a good idea to have hackfest here So, the most probable week is W13, March 23th > March 27th See you in Wellington ! -- Paul Poulain, Associé-gérant / CEO BibLibre, Services et logiciels libres pour votre bibliothèque BibLibre, Open Source software and services for your library

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Koha Community Newsletter: October 2025
by Michael Kuhn 27 Oct '25

27 Oct '25

The Koha Community Newsletter for October 2025 is here: https://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-october-2025/ Many thanks to everyone who submitted articles and news to this newsletter! Please feel free to e-mail me (mik(a)adminkuhn.ch) with any corrections or suggestions. Michael Kuhn Editor, Koha Community Newsletter

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REMINDER: Development Jitsi meeting 22 October 2025
by Paul Derscheid 21 Oct '25

21 Oct '25

Hi all, We have a Development Jitsi meeting scheduled for tomorrow: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Development_IRC_meeting_22_October_2025 Time converter: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Koha+Developers+M… Please feel free to add any topics you’d like to discuss to the agenda or let me know and I am happy to add them for you. If you are lead or supporter of a roadmap project, we will be happy to get an update on progress. See you there! Paul

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Call for news - Newsletter October 2025
by Michael Kuhn 13 Oct '25

13 Oct '25

Hi I'm collecting news for the October 2025 Koha Community Newsletter. Please send anything noteworthy to: mik (at) adminkuhn (dot) ch News criteria: * Relevant news items can be of any length. * Images are fine. * Anything and everything Koha. * Submit by the 26th of the month. Text format criteria: * Just structured plain text, or * HTML text to include tables or similar For events: * Consider adding your event to the Koha Community calendar at https://koha-community.org/calendar/ Thank you! Michael Kuhn Editor, Koha Community Newsletter

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REMINDER: Development Jitsi meeting 8 October 2025 (today)
by Paul Derscheid 08 Oct '25

08 Oct '25

Hi all, We have a Development Jitsi meeting scheduled for today at 14:00 UTC: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Development_IRC_meeting_8_October_2025 Time converter: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Koha+Developers+M… Please feel free to add any topics you’d like to discuss to the agenda or let me know and I am happy to add them for you. If you are lead or supporter of a roadmap project, we will be happy to get an update on progress. Note: forgot to send the reminder email yesterday since I am attending the Koha-DACH-Hackfest, so sorry for short notice. See you there! Paul

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Assistance, please
by Paul A 02 Oct '25

02 Oct '25

Kia ora, greetings -- from the past, some of you will remember me. Nut shell : we have been running (charitable library, non lending) Koha catalogue since 2011 (v. 3.08.24 since July 2015). Rock solid until we got overwhelmed by DDoS and/or AI bots. Thermal protection on the Koha server (apache2 proxied from nginx) failed, literal meltdown. Built a new server (12 core intel CPU, 64G memory, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS security mods - I know, please don't flame me), reinstalled from tar and backup. Apparently a dead-ringer copy of what we had for over a decade. Public server perfect <https://opac.navalmarinearchive.com>. Mysql, Zebra, Pazpar have reconstituted over a hundred thousand biblios and items - no discernible errors, all public users happy (except hackers and AI bots mitigated at front end nginx.) But ... Koha admin (intranet) works fine for everything (items, reports, logs, "about"...) EXCEPT Biblios won't edit nor write new (manual input, nor z3950) records. ERROR : Can't call method "fields" on an undefined value at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Biblio.pm line 2483. 2482 # traverse through record 2483 MARCFIELD: foreach my $field ( $record->fields() ) { 2484 my $tag = $field->tag(); if elsif .... We've spent nearly a week, finding minor variations in backups of Biblio.pm (occasional line renumbering and developers' signatures), nothing from a Perl logic perspective. We've done the obvious "diff's", permissions, ownerships, restarts, reboots, koha_perl_deps.pl, SAX parser, perl modules, environment. It's got to be something blazingly simple, after a decade of superb Koha service. Any and all assistance in saving my sanity would be truly appreciated, Thanks and warmest regards, Paul

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