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Koha Community Newsletter: December 2019
by kohanews 28 Dec '19

28 Dec '19

The Koha Community Newsletter for December 2019 is here: https://koha-community.org/koha-community-newsletter-december-2019/ Many thanks to the folks who submitted articles and news to this month's newsletter. Please feel free to email me with any corrections or suggestions. -- Chad Roseburg Editor, Koha Community Newsletter

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Koha 19.11.01 release
by Joy Nelson 24 Dec '19

24 Dec '19

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 19.11.01. This is a maintenance release containing 30 bugfixes The full release notes are available at https://koha-community.org/koha-19-11-01-release/ Debian packages will be updated within a few days That just leaves me to wish everyone Happy Holidays and express my thanks to everyone involved in this release. Particularly Nick Clemens, Lucas Gass, and Martin Renvoize for stepping me through the various hoops in getting this done. Joy Nelson -- Joy Nelson President, Koha Division ByWater Solutions <http://bywatersolutions.com> Support and Consulting for Open Source Software Phone/Fax (888)900-8944 What is Koha? <http://bywatersolutions.com/what-is-koha/>

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Upgrade db to v19.11
by Paul A 17 Dec '19

17 Dec '19

I have the possibility over the next month or two of examining the upgrading Koha from 3.8.24 to 19.11 (latest stable release.) We have the hardware available, but have a couple of questions before I plan the workflow: a) database migration? I have looked at the schemas, and am worried that there are substantial changes. Our production servers contain some 250,000 items. We are not a lending library, so have no concerns with that side of library management -- only with pure cataloguing, for which we use over 100 custom reports, 900 "sources", ten customized biblio frameworks, etc -- how best to proceed? Is there a script (or multiple scripts) that would do it? b) server software? does "pure" Debian (which we have never used in production) have advantages over Ubuntu LTS (with which we are extremely comfortable)? c) We normally build from tarballs, but have received some criticism in the past. The reason is that once we have a server locked into production, we never (major security excepted) touch it; our 3.8.24 has now been running for 1,467 days without rebooting, and "if it ain't broken, leave it alone." Is the final installation package/tarball identical using the different methods? Thanks in advance for your advice. Season's greetings, Paul

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KOCT expected behaviors
by Jonathan Druart 16 Dec '19

16 Dec '19

Hi devs, Two similar reports about the KOCT plugin: * Bug 21494 - No checkin notice created for offline circulation checkins * Bug 15751 - Koha offline circulation Firefox addon does not update last seen date for check-ins When a checkin is done, MarkIssueReturned will be called (not AddReturn) which has some side-effects, like what is described in those 2 bug reports. But, using AddReturn will change behaviors, which may be unexpected. For instance, do we want the checkin to be forced, without doing the usual checks (current behavior), or we want it to be blocked? There is a lot of things that is not done when an item is checked in via KOCT, no idea what we expect or not. Any ideas? Cheers, Jonathan https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21494 https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15751

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Call for news: December 2019
by kohanews 14 Dec '19

14 Dec '19

I'm collecting news for the December 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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Update misc4dev (Fix cannot login in Koha/master)
by Jonathan Druart 10 Dec '19

10 Dec '19

Hi devs, A new patch breaks the creation of a superlibrarian (actually its password) in the misc4dev repo. If you are using a kohadevbox you should update the koha-misc4dev repo. If you are using a docker container, you can update it as well or wait for the new images to be generated, then pull them. Cheers, Jonathan * Koha bug 21761 * https://gitlab.com/koha-community/koha-misc4dev/merge_requests/35

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Hackfest in Marseille, the dates
by Paul Poulain 06 Dec '19

06 Dec '19

Hello everybody, Some already know, some are asking, so I'm publicly announcing that the 2020 hackfest in Marseille will be march, 23rd-27th You can book your flight, your train, your horse or your bike. Or just reserve the dates on your agenda ;) -- Paul Poulain, Associé-gérant / co-owner BibLibre, Services en logiciels libres pour les bibliothèques BibLibre, Open Source software and services for libraries

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Docker Registry for Koha Community for koha-testing-docker?
by dcook＠prosentient.com.au 05 Dec '19

05 Dec '19

Hi all (and especially Tomas), What would people think about the Koha Community hosting its own Docker Registry rather than relying on Docker Hub? I have no issues with Docker Hub, but as a community we like to run our own infrastructure and I was thinking this might be a nice one to in-house? GitLab added its own container registry, so we could turn that on for https://gitlab.com/koha-community/koha-testing-docker. Then it would just be a case of updating the docker-compose.yml to point to the Gitlab based Registry. I've started using the Gitlab container registry for a separate Docker project, and it seems decent so far. Anyway, just a thought I had that I thought I'd share. Cheers, David Cook Systems Librarian Prosentient Systems 72/330 Wattle St Ultimo, NSW 2007 Australia Office: 02 9212 0899 Direct: 02 8005 0595

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Koha Opac gamification features
by Arthur Suzuki 05 Dec '19

05 Dec '19

Hey there, We're trying out some new gamifications features on the OPAC. Try them out if you dare! https://demo.biblibre.com ^^ Arthur

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Koha 19.11.00 Released
by Renvoize, Martin 03 Dec '19

03 Dec '19

Hello everyone, It is my great pleasure to be able to announce the release and immediate availability of Koha 19.11, a major release of the Koha open source integrated library system. The release includes 7 security fixes, 20 new features, 146 enhancements and 367 bugfixes. Please see the release notes for further details: https://koha-community.org/koha-19-11-release/ 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 first release as a release manager and I'd like to extend my personal thanks to those who preceded me and helped guide me. I am hugely grateful to have had the support of such a team. Special thanks go out to Mason James, for stepping in at the last minute and taking on the packaging of the release for the community repositories. As noted above, this release includes 7 security fixes, which have all also been included in the stable and old-stable branches and so it would be wise to upgrade as soon as possible to your respective versions. Debian packages, for both this version and the prior versions, are available now. If you are following a suite you will automatically upgrade to the next branch with this release, more info here: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_Debian#Follow_a_suite:_stable.… Many thanks to you all, *Martin Renvoize* <https://www.ptfs-europe.com> Development Team Manager *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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