[Koha] Community positions for the 24.11 cycle

Hi everyone, We need your help! I'd like to advertise that we have a vote upcoming in the community for the roles for the next release cycle, 24.11. Please see the roles page at https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roles_for_24.11 and add your name to a role if you would like to propose

Re: [Koha] support newer Linux version

As Michael correctly highlighted, we support latest releases as well as maintaining a level of backwards compatibility too. Could you let us know where you got your information so we can ensure it's updated.. it sounds like your looking at something that's outdated. Martin Renvoize, MPhys

Re: [Koha] Libraries, template toolkit and notices

This is an interesting requirement and actually reminds me of the development work I did for accounts notices/receipts. In that piece I set up code to look for more specific versions of notice prior to defaulting to the existing ones.. so for example we look for a notice with code "

[Koha] Koha 22.11.05 released

Hello, Bonjour, Kia ora, The Koha community is pleased to announce the release of version 22.11.05. This is a security and bugfix maintenance release, including 160 bugfixes! Full release notes are available here: https://koha-community.org/koha-22-11-06-released/ This is our last release as

[Koha] 22.11.x String Freeze

I can happily report that we are now in string freeze for 22.11.06. Happy translating. Martin Renvoize, MPhys (Hons) Head of Development and Community Engagement E: martin.renvo...@ptfs-europe.com P: +44 (0) 1483 378728 M: +44 (0) 7725 985636 www.ptfs-europe.com

[Koha] 22.11.05 released

The Koha Community is proud to announce the release of Koha 22.11.05. This is a maintenance release for the 22.11.x branch, including 152 bugfixes. For the full details please see the release notes at https://koha-community.org/koha-22-11-05-released/. My apologies for the delay in this cycle,

[Koha] Koha 22.11.03 release

Hello, Bonjour, Ola, Kia ora, 今日は, The Koha community is pleased to announce the release of version 22.11.03. This release is a bugfix/maintenance release with a small number of minor architectural enhancements to aid in the continued maintenance of this version. It includes 40 enhancements and

[Koha] Koha versions 22.11.01, 22.05.08, 21.11.15 and 21.05.22 released

The Koha community is proud to announce the latest releases of the current stable, oldstable, oldoldstable and lts versions of the software. This is a security and maintenance release on all branches, so please update at the earliest opportunity. As always, you can download the release from

[Koha] Have you ever wondered how to get your mention in the release notes and about page?

Hello Community! If you've ever wondered how all those people get their names in lights on the Koha About page, or in the release notes each release now is a great time for you to have a go. All it takes is for just one patch to be accepted, and as luck would have it there's a whole list of easy

Re: [Koha] search patron not working

Hi Giuseppe, I think wires have been crossed a little here, you didn't need to switch to oldoldstable.. that's the Koha codename. you have two codenames in there.. one for the OS you're running on and one for the Koha version you wish to follow. I'd stick to 'stable' for the Koha version and

Re: [Koha] Analytical cataloguing causing a searching warning

022 at 07:57, Renvoize, Martin < martin.renvo...@ptfs-europe.com> wrote: > What version of Koha are we talking about? > > A couple of changes in this area happened in 21.05 and 21.11. > > I'm envisaging it's something around here: > https://git.koha-community.org/Koha-community/K

Re: [Koha] Analytical cataloguing causing a searching warning

What version of Koha are we talking about? A couple of changes in this area happened in 21.05 and 21.11. I'm envisaging it's something around here: https://git.koha-community.org/Koha-community/Koha/src/branch/master/Koha/Biblio.pm#L561 in 21.11 or around

[Koha] PTFS Europe are Hiring!

I'm happy to say that PTFS Europe has a happy growing customer base and we're in need of some new staff. We're currently advertising for two vacancies, A new Infrastructure Manager to manage our infrastructure team, and a new Developer to join my team working on Koha alongside other OSS library

[Koha] KohaAdvent - Call for idea's

Hi all, We're looking to organise another Koha advent calendar series this year and I'm trying to be a bit more organised than last year. ( https://koha-community.gitlab.io/KohaAdvent/) Last years calendar was themed around building a plugin. This year I'd like to suggest a broader community

[Koha] Monthly Community Meeting

Hi all, We had our monthly general meeting today, as usual, hosted on IRC. Attendance has been very low for a while now and we mooted the idea of dropping it from our schedule and instead just having perhaps two meetings a year, one for Kohacon votes and a second for a broader annual general

Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] Upgrading bugzilla server

Hi Chris, We seem to be having a few performance issues this morning ( EU morning at least :P ). Bugzilla appears to be struggling with attachments (viewing and uploading) and is generally going a bit slow. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help, *Martin Renvoize, MPhys (Hons)*

Re: [Koha] Shibboleth-only authentication

Hi Andy, In the sites I worked with when developing this feature the 'no login link at all if already logged in' was indeed the intended behaviour. I imagine that could be fairly easily resolved to a further system preference if you wanted to submit a bug for it? Regards the logout.. this does

[Koha] Sandboxes now support translations

Hi All, I spent a few minutes adding a new feature to the ptfs-e sandboxes today - http://sandboxes.ptfs-europe.co.uk/ You can now install a limited number of translations onto your test sandbox. Once you have a sandbox set up, you can now pick 'Install translation' from the "Actions" menu in

[Koha] Happy Advent

Hi All, As a long term follower of the perl advent calendar series, it's been on my mind for a few years now to emulate it for the Koha world.. As such, I've badgered a few devs for a bit of help and low and behold.. I'm proud to announce our very own:

Re: [Koha] koha script wiki

By all means feel free to add a page to the wiki... I do wonder, however, why don't you submit useful scripts to the project via bugzilla instead..? That way they would benefit from the many eyes of our signoff and quality assurance process, get documented as part of the standard documentation

[Koha] Roles for 21.05

Hi All, Last call for submissions to take on a role for the 21.05 release cycle before the vote at this evenings general meeting. It came to our attention that the release maintainer roles were looking sparse in the community developers meeting this afternoon. Victor has graciously offered to

[Koha] Koha 20.05.00 Released

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:

Re: [Koha] 20.05.00 Alpha release

email the sender at i...@ptfs-europe.com On Fri, 22 May 2020 at 13:45, Renvoize, Martin < martin.renvo...@ptfs-europe.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > As we've got a number of improvements in the translations and packaging > processes in this release I have built an alpha to test p

[Koha] 20.05.00 Alpha release

Hi all, As we've got a number of improvements in the translations and packaging processes in this release I have built an alpha to test prior to a full release in the coming days. If you have time to work through any test upgrades/installs using the nightly Debian repository it would be greatly

[Koha] 20.05 Release Dates

Hi Everyone, Time is marching on and I felt it pertinent to set the structure for end of the 20.05 cycle. I've now added my intended date to the community calendar, 1st May - Feature Freeze 8th May - String Freeze 22nd May - Release Thanks to everyone for their diligent efforts this release,

[Koha] Roles for 20.11 now open

Hi everyone, The role proposals page for the upcoming 20.11 development cycle is now available at https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roles_for_20.11 and we'd love to see some new names on the volunteers' list. The vote on roles will be

[Koha] Virtual Hackathon

Hi All, As many of you are already aware we had to cancel the annual community Hackfest in Marseille this year due to COVID-19. However, we are intending to run an open to all virtual Hackathon as an alternative. Some ideas have been added to the Wiki

[Koha] Saying farewell to QueryParser

Hi All, As discussed at the development meeting on the 19th February we have decided to remove the QueryParser option and code from Koha. This decision was not taken lightly, but with the

[Koha] GBSD - Global Bug Squashing Day Tomorrow

Hi All, Just a little reminder we have a global bug squashing day scheduled for tomorrow. I look forward to seeing lots of you on IRC and in the bug mails.. Have a great day :) *Martin Renvoize* Development Team Manager Community Release Manager (19.11, 20.05)

Re: [Koha] Checkout page - Can't locate object method "search" via package "Koha::Account::DebitTypes"

Thanks for the quick patch Jonathan and my apologies this bug managed to make it through in the first place Caitlin. The patch in question has now been pushed to master and the release maintainers will soon pick it up for their next maintenance releases. *Martin Renvoize*

[Koha] Global Bug Squashing Day - February 14th 2020

Hi All, At the last Koha Developers Meeting, it was proposed that we bring back regular Global Bug Squashing Day events to help keep the bug queue moving along and encourage more people to get involved. As such, we are arranging such a day to take place on the 14th of February. We hope to see

Re: [Koha] Difference Between MariaDB and MySQL

Interesting to have this conversation come up at this time, We've been fighting recently to maintain compatability with both MySQL and MariaDB as in recent times they have started to diverge. On a personal note, I don't feel agnosticism is the best route, I'd like to see us pick a DB as a

Re: [Koha] Warning about patron relationship problems?

bution or copying is strictly prohibited. If you think that you have received this email message in error, please email the sender at i...@ptfs-europe.com On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 at 10:43, Renvoize, Martin < martin.renvo...@ptfs-europe.com> wrote: > This looks like a bug to me, you shoul

Re: [Koha] Warning about patron relationship problems?

This looks like a bug to me, you should not see ARRAY but rather see a relationship name that exists in your database table but does not yet exist in the system preference. I'll take a look and file a bug for it. *Martin Renvoize* Development Team Manager

[Koha] Security Releases 19.05.05 and 18.11.11

Hello everyone, I would like to announce the immediate availability of the latest versions of Koha 19.05 and 18.11 respectively. These are combined bugfix and security releases and should be upgraded to at your earliest convenience. Release notes are available on the website at:

[Koha] Koha 19.11.00 Released

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

[Koha] 19.11 String Freeze

Hi All, We are now officially in the string freeze period for Koha 19.11. The strings should be available for translation on translate.koha-community.org, please go forth and commence translating. Thanks for everyone's efforts this release. Martin ___

Re: [Koha] Roles for Koha 20.05 Release Team now open

Hi All, Just a little reminder that the 20.05 release teams roles page is ready and waiting for people to sign up and we'de love to see a few more names on the list: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roles_for_20.05 Roles to draw your attention to: * Bug Wranglers - We can always do with

[Koha] Community Day Reminder

Hi all, Just a quick tinder that it's the Koha community Day this coming Friday whatever your timezone. We'd love to see you join the IRC channels and tick off some tasks. Testing and Signoffs are always welcome and there will be county members on hand to help out. Please see the wiki for a

Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] Updatedatabase and use module

bution or copying is strictly prohibited. If you think that you have received this email message in error, please email the sender at i...@ptfs-europe.com On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 at 10:10, Renvoize, Martin < martin.renvo...@ptfs-europe.com> wrote: > Yikes, > > This is a fun 'chicken be

Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] Updatedatabase and use module

Yikes, This is a fun 'chicken before the egg' problem. I'll take a look this afternoon. *Martin Renvoize* Development Team Manager *Phone:* +44 (0) 1483 378728 *Mobile:* +44 (0) 7725 985 636 *Email:* martin.renvo...@ptfs-europe.com *Fax:* +44 (0) 800 756

Re: [Koha] [EXTERNAL] Re: Order of display of 246 $i and $a fields

Congratulations on your first bug submission, it's a slippery slope to your first code submission next . Lovely to have you aboard Heather, Martin On Thu, 13 Jun 2019, 9:46 pm Hernandez, Heather, wrote: > Hi! > > I filed a bug for this! My shiny, new, cute, adorable, darling bug is > here:

[Koha] Koha 18.11.06 release

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 18.11.06. This is a maintenance release and is my last release as the 18.11.x series maintainer. The series is however in good hands going forward with Fridolin Somers taking it on for the next cycle. I'm sure he'll do a great job! Many

Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] Koha 19.05.00 Released

Thanks Nick, It's looking like a great release and I'm looking forward to taking on the batton from you for the next. It's been a great experience working as a release maintainer under your reign and I feel I've got a big pair of boots to fill stepping into the role of the release manager.

Re: [Koha] Shibboleth implementation

Thanks for updating the wiki, sorry to hear it was out of date.. it's been on my list to take a look at for a while and make sure it all still made sense. As an alternative to editing the templates and maintaining a local patch yourself indefinitely.. it would be great to see a signoff on bug

Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] Koha 18.11.05, 18.05.12 and 17.11.18 release

t;> Thanks a lot Martin and other for this release. > >> > >> Note that this aim to be 17.11.x last release. > >> I applyed for 19.05.x maintaining. > >> > >> Best regards, > >> > >> Le 02/05/2019 à 15:15, Renvoize, Martin a écrit

Re: [Koha] double fines

gt; > Arturo Longoria > Reference Librarian/Web Manager > Texas State Law Library > www.sll.texas.gov > > -Original Message----- > From: Arturo Longoria > Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 15:37 > To: Margo Duncan ; Renvoize, Martin < > martin.renvo...@ptfs-europe.

[Koha] Koha 18.11.05, 18.05.12 and 17.11.18 release

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha versions 18.11.05, 18.05.12 and 17.11.18. These are combined security and maintenance releases and we recommend you update your systems at your earliest convenience. Debian packages have been uploaded and are available as of now, and

Re: [Koha] double fines

For those experiencing this issue, how often are you running fines.pl and what sort of overdues numbers are we talking about, does the job take minutes or hours to run to completion? It feels like we may have a race condition somewhere here. We do have a number of customers here with the fines

[Koha] Roles for 19.11 now open

Hi everyone, The role proposals page for the upcoming 19.11 development cycle is now available at https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roles_for_19.11 and we'd love to see some new names on the volunteers' list. The vote on roles will be held at the next irc general meeting and descriptions of

[Koha] Koha 18.11.04 release

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 18.11.04. This is a maintenance release. The full release notes are available at https://koha-community.org/koha-18-11-04-release/ Debian packages will be uploaded in a few days. Best regards and thanks to all those who have

Re: [Koha] String Freeze (Maintenance Branches)

f 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 i...@ptfs-europe.com On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 at 11:45, Renvoize, Martin < martin.renvo...@ptfs-europe.co

[Koha] String Freeze (Maintenance Branches)

Hi All, Just a quick notification that we're not in string freeze for the maintenance branches, with the series of maintenance releases due on the 18th. Go forth and update your translations, Many thanks, *Martin Renvoize* Development Team Manager *Phone:*

[Koha] Koha 18.11.03 release

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 18.11.03. This is a maintenance release. The full release notes are available at https://koha-community.org/koha-18-11-03-release/ Debian packages will be uploaded in a few days. Best regards and thanks to all those who have

Re: [Koha] Upgrade to Koha 18.11 on Ubuntu 16.04

Hmm, how did you setup your debian repositories; to follow suit or codename (https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Debian#Set_up_package_sources) ?. Either way I'm surprised by your results.. If your tracking by codename and it's set to 17.11 I would have expected a significantly more recent 17.11

[Koha] Koha 18.11.02 release

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 18.11.02. This is a maintenance release. The full release notes are available at https://koha-community.org/koha-18-11-02-release/ Debian packages will be uploaded in a few days. Best regards and happy new year ;) *Martin Renvoize*

Re: [Koha] 18.05.07 Released

Congratulations on your first release guys, that first one is always the hardest :) *Martin Renvoize* Development Team Manager *Phone:* +44 (0) 1483 378728 *Mobile:* +44 (0) 7725 985 636 *Email:* martin.renvo...@ptfs-europe.com *Fax:* +44 (0) 800 756 6384

[Koha] Koha 18.11.01 release

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 18.11.01. Please note, this release removes support for using Cache::Memory as your caching strategy due to unresolvable bugs with its implementation which cause issues in plack environments. memcached has been the recommended caching

[Koha] 18.11.01 String Freeze

Hi All, Welcome to the 19.05 cycle! I'm announcing string freeze as of this evening (7pm UST - https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/?qm=1=100,2643743,2179537,2988507=100=2018-12-13=19-19.5) for the 18.11.01 release which is scheduled for release on 20th December. 18.05.x and 17.11.x branches will

[Koha] Koha 18.05.06 release

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 18.05.06. This is my final release as the 18.05.x maintainer, but I will be returning next cycle as the next stable (18.11) maintainer. The 18.05.x series will live on in the capable hands of Lucas Gass and Jesse Maseto. This is a

Re: [Koha] Use and possible removal of Keyword to MARC mapping config

+1 from here too, it would be a nice cleanup. On Fri, 9 Nov 2018, 1:26 pm Owen Leonard > What I've done so far builds on the idea that we could get rid of > > "Keyword to MARC mapping" (fieldmapping table) and rely solely on the > > framework and stored fields like is done for all the other

Re: [Koha] Error in "Libraries and groups"

The `get_categories` accessor was removed with bug 16735 which was released with 18.05.00. I'm unable to replicate it on my testing environment at your version. Do you have some customisation perhaps? *Martin Renvoize* Development Team Manager *Phone:* +44

[Koha] Permission to remove /misc/cronjobs/staticfines.pl

Hi Everyone, In a quest to clean up an unused database field in the issuingrules table (Bug 21753 - issuingrules.chargename is unused and should be removed) I found a fines script which I've never seen before. It looks like a good candidate for removal after a quick query to the irc channels but

[Koha] Handling for items lost in transit

Hi all, I'm seeking some thoughts regarding 'Bug 21732 - If an item is marked as lost, any outstanding transfers should be cancelled '. Currently, there is no thought given to transfers when an item is marked as lost, an as such

Re: [Koha] Bug 9775 - Unitprice should be hidden when creating an order

d users that >> "Actual cost will be set when the item is received and invoice processed". >> Whether I actually made that point or not I don't recall--there was a LOT >> to cover in 30 short minutes! >> >> We don't use subscriptions here so I cannot com

[Koha] Bug 9775 - Unitprice should be hidden when creating an order

Hi all, There's a bit of contention going on over at bug 9775 and I wanted to ask the wider audience of librarians for their thoughts on acquisitions workflows in relation to this bug. Currently, the 'New order' page, whether it be via a suggestion, via an existing record or via another means,

[Koha] Koha 18.05.05 release

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 18.05.05. This is a maintenance release containing 67 bugfixes The full release notes are available at https://koha-community.org/koha-18-05-05-release/ Debian packages will be updated within a few days Many thanks to everyone

Re: [Koha] Koha version for new install

Also of note.. If you are using the Debian packages (which is the recommendation for running in production) then it may be worthwhile having a quick read of https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_Debian, paying particular attention to the section titled: 'Follow a suite: stable, oldstable

[Koha] Invitation to join the core team

Hi everyone, I just wanted to remind you all that the role proposals page for the upcoming 19.05 development cycle is available at https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Roles_for_19.05 and we'd love to see some new names on the volunteers' list. The vote on roles will be held at the next irc

[Koha] Koha 18.05.04 release

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of Koha 18.05.04. This is a maintenance release containing 27 bugfixes The full release notes are available at https://koha-community.org/koha-18-05-04-release/ Debian packages will be uploaded in a few days. Regards, *Martin Renvoize*

Re: [Koha] Plack plus shibboleth

pe.com On Mon, 17 Sep 2018 at 16:36, Renvoize, Martin < martin.renvo...@ptfs-europe.com> wrote: > Sorry I've not got to this earlier, > > I'm languishing on that bug due to lack of funding/interest. > > You are entirely correct that there is no way to use environment va

Re: [Koha] Plack plus shibboleth

Sorry I've not got to this earlier, I'm languishing on that bug due to lack of funding/interest. You are entirely correct that there is no way to use environment variables when using apache merely as a proxy to plack, and that any middlewares etc just obfuscate this further moving it up the

[Koha] Koha 18.05.01 released

The Koha community is proud to announce the release of 18.05.01. This is a maintenance release and contains many bugfixes and enhancements. As always you can download the release now and the packages will follow shortly: http://download.koha-community.org This is my first release as the

[Koha] 3.18.06 Package Warning

tl;dr Don't Upgrade Koha Packages to 3.18.06 yet! Hi All, Though I'd send a quick heads up that there's a nasty bug in the 3.18.06 package (available on the debian.koha-community.org repository). An upgrade will result in a couple of warning about unpacking some yui library files on the

Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] Koha development

Adding into the mixing pot, I agree with all the above comments and that is hard to measure. In the blunted of terms ptfs Europe has 2.5 FTE devs working on koha, plus 2 FTE in koha support who also sign off on patches so that's development time in you metric right? Outside of hours in sure our

[Koha] Koha General IRC Meeting 14 January 2015 at 10:00 UTC

General reminder, there is a Koha general meeting on IRC at 10:00 UTC today. Cheers Martin Renvoize Software Engineer, PTFS Europe Ltd Content Management and Library Solutions Skype: Landline: 0203 286 8685 Mobile: 07725985636 http://www.ptfs-europe.com

Re: [Koha] [Koha-devel] Any bugs you want worked on?

I attempted to tag up a few, but then cait brought to my attention that tagging is personal in bugzilla? I have however managed to save a search and make that public which cait can use to find my three tagged bugs.. does that help at all Chris? Martin Renvoize Software Engineer, PTFS Europe

Re: [Koha] Sandboxes

I can't be of much help with the biblibre sandboxes.. but your mail did spur me on to get the ptfs-europe ones back up and running. I've got them going again this morning (UK Time), and have updated the sandboxes wiki page accordingly again. Feel free to give them a go, they're pretty much a

Re: [Koha] ldap and extended patron attributes

Hi Heiko, This certainly worked in the past, but maybe a regression has crept in somewhere (if you do a git log C4/Auth_with_ldap.pm, there are plenty of patches related to the patron attributes code). If your sure it's still not working, you'de probably be well served by posting a bug on the

Re: [Koha] Removal of rss.pl

As I've said before, we use it quite prolifically with our customers; however I'm sure we will work around it should it disappear. We've never had the time to update it to TT and hadn't really found the inclination either to be honest. I'll try and get one of our trainers/configuration guys to

Re: [Koha] Access Koha without port number

IP based virtual hosts are a viable option, though of course that does mean getting additional IP's for the server. You may also want to try googling for NameVirtualHost and ServerName directives. They should explain what you want. ;-) Martin On 2 Apr 2014 18:07, Doug Dearden dear...@sarsf.org