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Call for news: June 2020 Koha Newsletter
by Koha Newsletter 15 Jun '20

15 Jun '20

I'm collecting news for the June newsletter. Send anything noteworthy to: k o h a news AT gmail dot com News criteria: --------------------------- ** For events **: - Please include dates for past events. If I can't find dates I may not add it. - Announcements for future events with dates T.B.A. are fine ...Eg., Kohacon - For past events , **** one month back is the cut-off ****. * News items can be of any length. * Images are fine * Anything and everything Koha. * Submit by the 26th of the month. If you are working on an interesting project or development related to Koha, please let me know and I'll include it in the development section. Thank you! -- Chad Roseburg Editor, Koha Community Newsletter

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Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] Koha 20.05.00 Released
by Jonathan Druart 15 Jun '20

15 Jun '20

Hello Quynh, Try to install libcpan-meta-requirements-perl as well (this should only be done on Ubuntu 16.04). Regards, Jonathan Le lun. 15 juin 2020 à 03:57, Quỳnh Vũ Đỗ <quynhvd(a)thanglong.edu.vn> a écrit : > > Hello Jonathan > > I was using Koha 19.11.06 on Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS. After doing an upgrade, Koha upgraded to 20.05.00 Alpha release. > After logging in the staff client and going to "About Koha", I got the following error: > > Software error: > > Can't locate object method "structured_requirements_for_module" via package "CPAN::Meta::Requirements" at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Installer/PerlModules.pm line 66. > > For help, please send mail to the webmaster ([no address given]), giving this error message and the time and date of the error. > > So I did the following in a terminal, as recommanded: > koha@kohaServer:~$ sudo apt install libcpan-meta-perl > [sudo] password for koha: > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > libcpan-meta-perl is already the newest version (2.150010-1). > The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: > libpdf-api2-simple-perl snapd-login-service tinymce > Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. > koha@kohaServer:~$ > > Thus there might be another problem elsewhere. > > Of course, I should upgrade Ubuntu to 18.04 which I eventually will do but I met other problems with fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS because when installing koha-common I got 2 dependencies problems flagged as not resolvable and, thus was not able to install koha. I met that problem twice on installation to 2 different computers. > > Best regards > Quynh > ================= > M. Vũ Đỗ Quỳnh (Ph.D) > Trường Đại học Thăng Long - Université de Thang Long - Thang Long University (Hanoi, Vietnam) > Phó Hiệu Trưởng, phụ trách HTQT - Vice-recteur chargé de la coopération internationale - Vice-Rector in charge of International Cooperation > Web: http://thanglong.edu.vn/ > > > Vào Th 3, 9 thg 6, 2020 vào lúc 19:35 Jonathan Druart <jonathan.druart(a)bugs.koha-community.org> đã viết: >> >> Hi everybody, >> >> IMPORTANTE NOTE >> >> If you want to upgrade to 20.05.00 you should know that we have 2 >> major bugs that you may hit. >> >> 1. There was a change in 20.05. Before we silently ignored wrong >> permissions, now we force the logging system to be setup correctly >> (bug 25172) >> You must give permission to your koha user by changing the owner of >> the Koha log directory: >> $ chown -R USER:USER /var/log/koha/INSTANCE >> This one will be addressed in the next release. >> >> 2. If you are upgrading with an OS that is not supported (like Ubuntu >> 16.04) you may see: >> >> Can't locate object method "structured_requirements_for_module" via >> package "CPAN::Meta::Requirements" at >> /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Installer/PerlModules.pm line 66. >> or >> Can't locate object method "phases" via package "CPAN::Meta::Prereqs" >> at /home/vagrant/kohaclone/C4/Installer/PerlModules.pm line 55 >> >> => libcpan-meta-perl must be version 2.150010. If not you can try >> `sudo apt install libcpan-meta-perl`. Better would be to upgrade the >> system of course. >> >> Regards, >> Jonathan >> >> >> Le dim. 31 mai 2020 à 23:31, Renvoize, Martin >> <martin.renvoize(a)ptfs-europe.com> a écrit : >> > >> > Hello Everyone, >> > >> > It is with great pleasure I am able to announce the release of Koha 20.05, a major release of the Koha open source integrated library system. >> > >> > This release includes 13 new features, 275 enhancements, 592 bugfixes. Please see the release notes for further details: https://koha-community.org/koha-20-05-released/ >> > >> > It is the work of many librarians, developers and community members who have donated a huge number of hours to keep the project moving forward. My thanks go out to all who contributed. >> > >> > This is my final release as a release manager and I'd like to extend my personal thanks to a fantastic team. >> > >> > Special thanks go out to Mason James, Tomas Cohen and Jonathan Druart, all who stepped in during the final weeks of the cycle to ensure the packaging would work as expected for Debian 10 as well as finding and fixing bugs right up to the very end of the cycle. I cannot overstate what a great team I've had behind me this cycle and I feel we have achieved a huge amount. >> > >> > Debian packages, will be available on the standard community repositories soon having been tested via our beta channels for the past two weeks. >> > >> > Many thanks, >> > >> > Martin Renvoize >> > >> > Development Team Manager >> > >> > Community Release Manager (19.11, 20.05) >> > >> > >> > >> > Phone: +44 (0) 1483 378728 >> > >> > Mobile: +44 (0) 7725 985 636 >> > >> > Email: martin.renvoize(a)ptfs-europe.com >> > >> > Fax: +44 (0) 800 756 6384 >> > >> > >> > www.ptfs-europe.com >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > Registered in the United Kingdom No. 06416372 VAT Reg No. 925 7211 30 >> > >> > >> > The information contained in this email message may be privileged, confidential and protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying is strictly prohibited. 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String freeze for 19.11.x
by Aleisha Amohia 15 Jun '20

15 Jun '20

Hi all, String freeze will go into effect on Monday 15 June 2020 for the 19.11.x maintenance branch. 19.11.07 release scheduled for Monday 22 June 2020. Thanks -- *Aleisha Amohia* Koha Developer Catalyst IT - Expert Open Source Solutions She/her | Mob: +64 21 024 04004 | Tel: +64 4 499 2267 | www.catalyst.net.nz <http://www.catalyst.net.nz> Catalyst Logo CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email is intended for the named recipients only. It may contain privileged, confidential or copyright information. If you are not the named recipient, any use, reliance upon, disclosure or copying of this email or its attachments is unauthorised. If you have received this email in error, please reply via email or call +64 4 499 2267.

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Deploying Koha at scale
by dcook＠prosentient.com.au 12 Jun '20

12 Jun '20

Hi all, For a long time, I've been thinking about how Koha could scale better, and I'm wondering what other people are thinking about this topic. I think Mengu is probably the best expert on this topic that we have on Earth, so especially curious about his input. It's relatively easy to add more Apache web servers, more MySQL nodes, and more Elasticsearch nodes. but the same might not be said for other parts of Koha like the following: 1. Zebra a. In theory, you could load balance queries to a cluster of Zebra listeners b. But indexing updates to many Zebra databases could be tricky (I don't know if Zebra's database can support many readers). I suppose you could alter rebuild_zebra.pl to update multiple databases in a variety of different ways. I imagine Mengu could speak to this, as I recall him talking once about needing to do work to make Zebra scale? 2. I'm not familiar enough with the SIP server to say a. Off the top of my head, I think a TCP load balancer would be good enough here 3. Z3950 Responder? a. I'm not familiar with this daemon 4. What about cronjobs? Only 1 instance should execute the cronjobs. a. I suppose a person could disable cronjobs on all Koha nodes except for 1? It wouldn't be very robust in terms of availability but it would technically work most of the time. Any other thoughts? 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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Improving Koha Templating
by dcook＠prosentient.com.au 11 Jun '20

11 Jun '20

Hi all, I was looking at a conversation between Martin and Owen about Martin's accessibility work and Owen's upgrade to Bootstrap 4 work, and I'm wondering if this would be a good opportunity to use Template::Toolkit's WRAPPER directive: http://template-toolkit.org/docs/manual/Directives.html#section_WRAPPER Rather than using INCLUDE for headers and footers in each OPAC template, we could handle all that in a WRAPPER. I've used the WRAPPER directive in other projects, and it makes things much simpler. I'm assuming that the "main content" (for Martin's accessibility work) should be whatever is wrapped by the WRAPPER, although perhaps I don't 100% understand what is required there. Even if it's not useful for Martin, I imagine it could make things easier for Owen when working on the Bootstrap 4 upgrade? The WRAPPER directive should reduce boilerplate, which should make it easier to make whole of Koha changes. 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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Feedback on Bug 25705 - Viewing all serials issues should not require serials permissions
by dcook＠prosentient.com.au 10 Jun '20

10 Jun '20

Hi all, I'm hoping some folk can provide some feedback on https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25705. Basically, an OPAC user can see more serials issue data than a Staff Client user (without serials permissions), and that doesn't seem right and should be remedied. I suppose it's debatable whether this is a bug or an enhancement, as I think the solution is probably to refactor a serials template and create a new serials-issues script in the catalogue module. That said, an alternative could be to change the serial issue table in the "Subscriptions" page on the detail page to use AJAX. We could show the X latest issues, but then allow users to recall the full history while staying on the detail page. We could add a REST API endpoint for this. which could actually be used by both the Staff Client and the OPAC. Actually, I'm now inclined to go with that latter option. Anyway, curious to hear what other people think. 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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Bugzilla: no "pushed to oldoldstable" status
by Victor Grousset/tuxayo 09 Jun '20

09 Jun '20

Hi, I suppose there is a reason to not have this status now? Since oldoldstable is used since a long time. -- Victor Grousset/tuxayo

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No translation updates on 19.11.x since 19.11.03?
by Alexander Borkowski 09 Jun '20

09 Jun '20

Hi, Just wondering why there were no translation updates since the 19.11.03 release of the 19.11.x branch while there were updates on 19.05.x for every release including 19.05.11? The latest commit on 19.11.x regarding this appears to be commit b1b9777f3fea114bf71e24c30245ee6e7a13a924 Author: Koha translators <> Date: Fri Feb 21 13:46:25 2020 -0300 Translation updates for Koha 19.11.03 while the latest commit on 19.05.x appears to be commit 983c95db2a9ad5032526a937d83b81e8d71e0b1f Author: Koha translators <> Date: Fri May 22 16:58:06 2020 -0300 Translation updates for Koha 19.05.11 With best regards, Alex -- Alexander Borkowski Systems technician Karlstad University library Sweden

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Koha 20.05.00 Released
by Renvoize, Martin 09 Jun '20

09 Jun '20

Hello Everyone, It is with great pleasure I am able to announce the release of Koha 20.05, a major release of the Koha open source integrated library system. This release includes 13 new features, 275 enhancements, 592 bugfixes. Please see the release notes for further details: https://koha-community.org/koha-20-05-released/ It is the work of many librarians, developers and community members who have donated a huge number of hours to keep the project moving forward. My thanks go out to all who contributed. This is my final release as a release manager and I'd like to extend my personal thanks to a fantastic team. Special thanks go out to Mason James, Tomas Cohen and Jonathan Druart, all who stepped in during the final weeks of the cycle to ensure the packaging would work as expected for Debian 10 as well as finding and fixing bugs right up to the very end of the cycle. I cannot overstate what a great team I've had behind me this cycle and I feel we have achieved a huge amount. Debian packages, will be available on the standard community repositories soon having been tested via our beta channels for the past two weeks. Many thanks, *Martin Renvoize* <https://www.ptfs-europe.com> Development Team Manager Community Release Manager (19.11, 20.05) *Phone:* +44 (0) 1483 378728 *Mobile:* +44 (0) 7725 985 636 *Email:* martin.renvoize(a)ptfs-europe.com *Fax:* +44 (0) 800 756 6384 www.ptfs-europe.com Registered in the United Kingdom No. 06416372 VAT Reg No. 925 7211 30 The information contained in this email message may be privileged, confidential and protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying is strictly prohibited. If you think that you have received this email message in error, please email the sender at info(a)ptfs-europe.com

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Error updating database
by Adrian Hilt 09 Jun '20

09 Jun '20

Today I could not get into my koha, and sended me to the installer. Found out that the database needed updating. Database update needed, redirecting to to Installer. Database is 19.1106000 and Koha is 20.0500000 When trying to run the installer got this message Software error: Can't locate object method "structured_requirements_for_module" via package "CPAN::Meta::Requirements" at /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Installer/PerlModules.pm line 66. Any help? *Adrian Hilt* IT Department, Middle East University +961 1 685800 x 151 Ferdous Street, Sabtieh, Lebanon PO Box 90-481, Metn 1202-2040 adrian.hilt(a)meu.edu.lb <sylvia.kiraz(a)meu.edu.lb> http://meu.edu.lb

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