August 2026 - Koha-devel - lists.koha-community.org

Resolution: Securing OPAC Search
by Naveen Ali 24 Aug '26

24 Aug '26

Greetings all, I wanted to share a solution I recently identified to resolve the low latency attacks on OPAC. I had fail2ban rules, robots.txt in place, but had been getting more and more bots of late switching IPs before bans can take place. Perhaps they could be ddos, either way it was grinding koha to a halt. I had also installed nginx for rate and connection limiting with no success. I had to remove OPAC from public interaction to restricted IPs. I recently identified this *apache-shared-opac-antibot.conf *in Koha 24.11 which is disabled by default. I enabled it for my OPAC virtual host and it worked like a charm. It has been 5 days now of successful working. I believe this is an effort by Mr. David Cook I wanted to share this information because I had not been able to find this as a formal solution to this problem. Maybe because it has not been applied by many people. Thanks a lot and best regards. Naveen Ali, I T Manager Engr Abul Kalam Library, NED University of Engg & Technology, Karachi, Pakistan.

2 1

REMINDER: Development Jitsi meeting 19 August 2026
by Paul Derscheid 18 Aug '26

18 Aug '26

Hi all, We have a Development Jitsi meeting scheduled for tomorrow: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Development_IRC_meeting_19_August_2026 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

1 0

Call for news - Newsletter August 2026
by Michael Kuhn 13 Aug '26

13 Aug '26

Hi I'm collecting news for the August 2026 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

1 0

REMINDER: Development Jitsi meeting 5 August 2026
by Paul Derscheid 04 Aug '26

04 Aug '26

Hi all, We have a Development Jitsi meeting scheduled for tomorrow: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Development_IRC_meeting_5_August_2026 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

1 0