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Request for Libraries using Koha to participate in the 2024 Library Automation Perceptions survey
by Marshall Breeding 14 Nov '24

14 Nov '24

To all libraries using Koha: I'm collecting data for the 2024 edition of the International Library Automation Perceptions survey. This survey, conducted annually since 2007, provides an opportunity for libraries to register their perceptions of the strategic automation products they use, organizations that provide these products, and the quality of support delivered. The survey also probes at considerations for migrating to new systems and the level of interest in open source products. As open source software supported both by the general community and by a variety of different service organizations, some special considerations apply to Koha. In the libraries.org directory, Koha is represented by a combination of the name Koha and the primary support organization involved. (For example Koha - Catalyst IT, Koha -- ByWater Solutions). Libraries relying entirely on community support or internal resources are represented as Koha - Independent. If there are any special support arrangements not covered by these conventions, just mention that in the comments area of the survey. In this way the survey will be able to reflect both the functionality of the Koha software and the quality of support provided. This model of representing libraries using Koha isn't perfect, but is a pragmatic approach that aggregates all users of Koha while also segregating the different support scenarios. Participation in this survey will help amplify the visibility of Koha among those interested in library automation. While the numeric rating scales support the statistical results of the study, it's the comments offered that provide the most insight into the current state of library automation satisfaction. Comments will be published in the survey results, redacted to conceal text that might identify the individual or organization responding. The raw data for the survey will not be shared, but reports are available that provide a variety of ways to view results. Please help your fellow librarians who might be in the process of evaluating library automation options by responding to the survey. Any information regarding vendor performance and product quality can be helpful when making strategic decisions regarding automation alternatives. A large number of responses strengthen the impact of the survey and the subsequent report. If you have responded in previous years, please respond again this year to help identify any trends regarding improvement or worsening of the products or support services. For more information about the survey, for instructions on how to participate, and to see results of previous year's survey reports, see: https://librarytechnology.org/perceptions/2024/invite/ I hope that all libraries using Koha will respond. Feel free to forward this request to any other library-related list. You can view the report summarizing the results of last year's survey, including data from all previous editions, here: https://librarytechnology.org/perceptions/2023/ Please let me know if there are any questions regarding the survey. Marshall Breeding Editor, Library Technology Guides www.librarytechnology.org Marshall.breeding(a)librarytechnology.org

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Call for news - Newsletter November 2024
by Koha Newsletter 13 Nov '24

13 Nov '24

Hi I'm collecting news for the November 2024 Koha Community Newsletter. Please send anything noteworthy to: kohanews (at) gmail (dot) com 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 13 November 2024
by Paul Derscheid 12 Nov '24

12 Nov '24

Hi all, We have a Development Jitsi meeting scheduled for tomorrow: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Development_IRC_meeting_13_November_20… Important: We are going to vote on the roles for 25.05, so it would be nice if many people (including the candidates) were present. 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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Koha November security release
by Fridolin SOMERS 12 Nov '24

12 Nov '24

The Koha community is proud to announce the following releases 🤗 : - 24.05.05 - 23.11.10 - 23.05.16 - 22.11.22 These are bugfix/maintenance releases including some important security fixes. It is highly recommended to upgrade 🚀 The full release notes will soon be available here: - https://koha-community.org/koha-24-05-05-released - https://koha-community.org/koha-23-11-10-released - https://koha-community.org/koha-23-05-16-released - https://koha-community.org/koha-22-11-22-released Debian packages are already available 📦 Tarballs will be available soon. Best regards 🤓

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REMINDER: Development Jitsi meeting 30 October 2024
by Paul Derscheid 29 Oct '24

29 Oct '24

Hi all, We have a Development Jitsi meeting scheduled for tomorrow: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Development_IRC_meeting_30_October_2024 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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Koha Community Newsletter: October 2024
by Koha Newsletter 28 Oct '24

28 Oct '24

The Koha Community Newsletter for October 2024 is here: https://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-october-2024/ Many thanks to everyone who submitted articles and news to this newsletter! Please feel free to email me (kohanews(a)gmail.com) with any corrections or suggestions. Michael Kuhn Editor, Koha Community Newsletter

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Community positions for 25.05 cycle
by Renvoize, Martin 25 Oct '24

25 Oct '24

Hi everyone, It's that time again, we're coming up to release time for 24.11 and that means picking the team for the 25.05 cycle! Please see the roles page at https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roles_for_25.05 and add your name to a role if you would like to propose volunteering for it. The team vote will take place on November 13th at the next community general meeting. We'd love to see some new faces on the team, and it's just as important to have non-developers helping to guide the ship as it is the developers. Some roles I'd like to draw your attention to: * Bug Wranglers <https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Project_roles#Bug_wrangler> - We can always do with more bug wranglers! These people love to keep things tidy and Bugzilla is always in need of your help. We need people to help manage 'the list', identify the duplicates, promote bugs to specialists and find people to do signoffs and testing. Everyone is invited to this party, we need you! This is a great first-time role to take on and it makes a real difference to active community contributors' lives! * Documentation Team <https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Project_roles#Documentation_team> - The documentation team is a growing team that's made great inroads into bringing Koha's documentation up to date and ensuring we have a well-documented piece of software. There's plenty more to do and they're always on the lookout for new contributors. The documentation team are a super-friendly group and would love to see you join them; Aude is happy to have a chat <https://chat.koha-community.org/> should you want to talk about the role before applying. * Wiki Curators <https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Project_roles#Wiki_team> - Koha's wiki is bursting at the seams with good information, but we need your help to bring order to the chaos and keep improving the content. If you've got an interest in maintaining an area of the Wiki, helping identify out-of-date information or categorizing data then this is a job for you. * Meeting facilitators <https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Project_roles#Meeting_facilitators> - We have regular meetings in the community to discuss development progress, documentation tasks and general community needs. It would be really helpful to have someone to help promote those meetings, keep them on track and work on the minutes. Right now these meetings tend to be run, recorded, minuted and promoted all by the team managers and that's a difficult task. We'd really like some help here, please. * Accessibility advocate <https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Project_roles#Accessibility_advocate> - In Koha, we really want to be open and accessible to all but accessibility is an area that many of us are not as aware of as we should be. We'd like to have some people helping to promote best practices and report accessibility issues we might not be aware of. There are lots of other roles and I'm more than happy to try and mentor anyone interested in taking any of them on. If it's not something I've personally taken on in the past, I'm confident I can find the right person to help you out. Personal push: I'd love to see some more people on the QA team, we need help there as it's often a blocking point in our queues. There's lots of small QA work that people could use to get up to speed so do please feel free to offer your assistance and I'm happy to mentor. Looking forward to seeing some new names on the list and your active engagement. Martin Renvoize, MPhys (Hons) Head of Development & Community Engagement PTFS Europe [image: Phone icon] M: +44 7725985636 <+447725985636> | T: +44 1483 378728 <+441483378728> [image: Email icon] martin.renvoize(a)ptfs-europe.com [image: Link icon] www.ptfs-europe.com Sign up for our Newsletter. <http://eepurl.com/dPjjkn> <http://www.linkedin.com/company/ptfs-europe-limited> <http://youtube.com/@PTFSEurope> [image: Click to open PTFS Europe webpage] <https://www.ptfs-europe.com>

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Discussion around Koha ILS-DI endpoints expecting a CSRF token from third-party integrations
by Alex Buckley 22 Oct '24

22 Oct '24

Kia ora koutou/Hello everyone, We have several Koha integrations that require third-party systems to call Koha ILS-DI endpoints. For example, Bolinda (BorrowBox) which calls the GetPatronInfo ILS-DI endpoint for authenticating users. Or the EBSCO EDS integration, which can use Koha ILS-DI endpoints for fetching RTAC (Real-Time Availability Check) data - alternatively, it can also integrate via Koha Z39.50. Since Koha 24.05, ILS-DI requests for these integrations do not work, because the Koha CSRF.pm <https://git.koha-community.org/Koha-community/Koha/src/branch/main/Koha/Mid…> file expects a CSRF token for all stateful methods (POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH requests), including ILS-DI endpoints. As ILS-DI is designed to be used cross site, we would be interested to hear the communities thoughts on what could, or should, be done to get ILS-DI requests from third-party systems working again - given these integrations do not pass through CSRF tokens. To that end we have logged a bug report for having this conversation: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=37899 I will also link this bug report from the community Mattermost Development channel. We would be interested to hear your thoughts on the bug report. Thanks so much, as always, Alex

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24.11 Release deadlines
by Fischer, Katrin 16 Oct '24

16 Oct '24

Hi all, these are the deadlines for the 24.11 release: - 29 October: Soft feature freeze - 11 November: Hard feature freeze and string warning - 20 November: Bug freeze and string freeze - 26 November: 24.11 Release Please remember: there is still a lot we can achieve by helping each other to get over the finish line! Soft feature freeze: Nothing big or with a high risk of side-effects will be pushed after this date. Everything currently in Passed QA will be reviewed for this release. Please pay attention to your bugs for questions or follow-up work that might be required. Hard feature freeze: Nothing categorized as 'enhancement' or 'new feature' will be pushed after this date if not already marked as Passed QA. If you haven't written up nice release notes for your features and enhancements yet, now is the time! String warning/freeze: Since our move to Weblate as translation platform strings are continuously updated, so you can begin your translations at any time. But we will try to be done with all heavy string changes by the 'String warning' date and not to change any strings after 'String freeze'. Bug freeze: Only bug fixes considered major, critical or blocker will be pushed after this date! Getting close to the finish line - let's make 24.11 shine! Katrin PS: Please consider putting your name down for one of the many roles in the release team of Koha 25.05! (https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roles_for_25.05)

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REMINDER: Development Jitsi meeting 8 October 2024
by Paul Derscheid 15 Oct '24

15 Oct '24

Hi all, We have a Development Jitsi meeting scheduled for tomorrow: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Development_IRC_meeting_16_October_2024 Time converter: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Koha+Developers+M… <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Koha+Developers+I…> 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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