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Improvement of our upgrade process
by Jonathan Druart 20 Aug '21

20 Aug '21

Hi devs, Bug 25078 was pushed yesterday and it modifies how we deal with our upgrade process. I adjusted the wiki page - https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Database_updates The different things to know about it: * The skeleton for atomic updates is modified [1] * On push the atomic updates are no longer appended to updatedatabase.pl but moved to a new db_revs directory (named by version, like 210600016.pl for the entry 21.06.00.016) * Versions from 21.06.00.000 have been migrated to use this new mechanism, older are still in updatabase.pl * updatabase.pl is still the script to call if you want to upgrade the DB * Each DB rev (and atomic update) is executed in a transaction that rollbacks and stop the upgrade process if something went wrong * Old atomicupdate format will still work (but require more work for the RM) * Better error handling and better warnings possible * Nicer UI during the upgrade step (step3) Let me know if you have any questions! Cheers, Jonathan [1] https://git.koha-community.org/Koha-community/Koha/src/commit/85c395460687f…

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systemd version of koha-plack-ctl.sh ?
by Philippe Blouin 19 Aug '21

19 Aug '21

Hello all! Has anyone been through the effort of coding a systemd unit file for Koha's plack ? I'm currently using an override.conf to specify some timeout values, and that got me wondering (or wanting) about one. Curiosity.... Thanks! -- Philippe Blouin, Directeur de la technologie Tél. : (833) 465-4276, poste 230 philippe.blouin(a)inLibro.com <mailto:philippe.blouin@inLibro.com> inLibro | pour esprit libre | www.inLibro.com <http://www.inLibro.com>

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Time to translate: string freeze to prepare Koha 19.11.21 has begun
by Wainui Witika-Park 19 Aug '21

19 Aug '21

Hello, String freeze is into effect as of now for the 19.11.x maintenance branch in preparation for the 19.11.21 release. The minor release is scheduled for around the 23rd. This means it's the right time to head over to the translation platform: https://translate.koha-community.org/projects/ Reminder: if you add or change a translation in version 19.11, then you must also copy it to 20.05, 20.11 and 21.05. Otherwise your work will be lost for future versions. Happy translating! Wainui Witika-Park (she/her)

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Call for news - Newsletter August 2021
by Koha Newsletter 18 Aug '21

18 Aug '21

Hi I'm collecting news for the August 2021 Koha Community Newsletter. Please send anything noteworthy to: kohanews (at) gmail (dot) com News criteria: * 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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Time to translate: string freeze to prepare Koha 20.05.15 has begun
by Victor Grousset/tuxayo 17 Aug '21

17 Aug '21

Hi, saluton, hola, bonjour, String freeze is into effect as of now for the 20.05.x maintenance branch. The minor release is scheduled for around the 23th. This means it's the right time to head over to the translation platform: https://translate.koha-community.org/projects/ Reminder: if you add or change a translation in version 20.05, then you must also copy it to 20.11 and 21.05. Otherwise your work will be lost for future versions. Happy translating :) -- Victor Grousset/tuxayo

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Time to translate: string freeze to prepare 20.11.09 release
by Fridolin SOMERS 16 Aug '21

16 Aug '21

Hi, String freeze is into effect 🥶 The 20.11.x maintenance branch is preparing for 20.11.09 release 📦 The release is scheduled for around the 23. This means it's the right time to head over to the translation platform: https://translate.koha-community.org/projects/ Keep in mind that translations must be done with priority on higher version 21.05 🔥 Happy translating 🌎🌍🌏 -- Fridolin SOMERS <fridolin.somers(a)biblibre.com> Software and system maintainer 🦄 BibLibre, France

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Previewing editor content in "News"
by dcook＠prosentient.com.au 12 Aug '21

12 Aug '21

Hi all, Lately, I've been thinking that it would be great if we could preview content from WYSIWYG editors in context before saving and showing it live. Content Management Systems and Wikis usually let you do that, and I think it would be really useful. I know that I've had at least a few librarians complain about how their News content looks different in the OPAC than it does in the News function, and I don't really have an answer except "sorry" at the moment. This would actually be useful for OpacUserCSS and OpacUserJS as well. Looking at Media Wiki, it looks like it uses a "wpEditToken" value, so the data must be saved, and then fetched using the token. I think it would be harder for Koha than Media Wiki (especially for system preferences and News for specific libraries), but I think it would be useful. Unfortunately, I don't have the resources to work on this, but maybe someone else does. 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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Replacing jQueryUI autocomplete
by Owen Leonard 12 Aug '21

12 Aug '21

We're making progress towards a replacement for the jQueryUI datepicker component: Bug 28376, "Replace obsolete jquery-ui-timepicker-addon" https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=28376 I think it would be a good idea to look at replacing the rest of the jQueryUI components we use, since jQueryUI appears to be a dead project. I've been looking at this as a replacement for jQueryUI's autocomplete: https://tarekraafat.github.io/autoComplete.js/ It's small, seems fast, and has been around for several years, with its last release happening last month. I'm still testing whether it's missing any functionality we need, but I thought before I get too far I would ask: Does anyone have any experience with this project? Does anyone have any other autocomplete libraries they've used and would recommend? Thanks, Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries (740) 737-6006 https://www.myacpl.org

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Bug 17600 (Standardize the EXPORT) is pushed
by Jonathan Druart 11 Aug '21

11 Aug '21

Hi, I've just pushed bug 17600, it's a massive patch (1311 files changed, 4077 insertions(+), 4362 deletions(-)) that will cause conflicts with a lot of other patches in the queue. I've described in the commit message what it is doing, please read it. Most of the time the changes it brings are trivial but be careful when you resolve the conflicts. Ping me if you need help. Enjoy your weekend! Jonathan

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Zebra Trivia
by dcook＠prosentient.com.au 11 Aug '21

11 Aug '21

Hi all, Today I learned (or maybe re-learned) something about Zebra CCL syntax: "Identifier-standard,phr" does not do a phrase search. It does a word list search. Now you might this this is impossible, but it's not, because Identifier-standard is hard-coded with 4=6 in ccl.properties: Identifier-standard 1=1007 4=6 Since Identifier-standard has already set the "4" structure attribute, "phr" does nothing. However, if you write "phr,Identifier-standard", it will do a phrase search. That's because the "phr" sets the "4" structure attribute before the "Identifier-standard" gets converted into PQF/RPN. Cool, n'est-ce pas? 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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