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The newly established DSpace Development Fund supports the development of new features prioritized by DSpace Governance. For a list of planned features see the fund wiki page.

Version 1.4.2

Organisational

Release Coordination

Timeline and Proceeding

  • 06/04/2007: deadline for new patches
  • 23/04/2007: beta release
  • 10/05/2007: final release

Patches

Done

  • #1655583 Avoid index lock with filter-media (Improvements to DSIndexer etc)
  • #1689150 improvement of ControlledVocabulary
  • #1528142 Malformed OAI-PMH response: illegal bytes in UTF-8 for SF Bug #1490162
  • #1582754 CreateAdministrator for dummies
  • #1591969 for SF Bug #1583372 DCDate.toString returns invalid string
  • #1606719 for feature request #1145371 Link to admin area
  • #1610030 for SF Bug #1076506 Item import command line option for application of template
  • #1619455 for SF bug #1606789MyDSpace Group Membership Special Groups
  • #1621889 for SF bug #1619439When collection is deleted, mapped item remains in community
  • #1623599 for SF Bug #1217068 Failed to complete review in workflow
  • #1624212 for SF Bug #1606449 Improve usability of bitstream list in item display
  • #1624323 for SF feature request #1549297 Refinement of enable suggest feature
  • #1636954 for SF feature request #1636817 MyDSpace make group display configurable
  • #1660752 Workaround Numeric/Integer handling in Oracle
  • #1665400 Oracle schema changes for CLOB columns
  • #1670110 for SF Bug #1670106 Onebox and textarea fail when visibility set to workflow
  • #1676370 for SF Bug #1648070 Statistics does not use navbar="admin"
  • Added link to controlled vocabulary configuration as for SF Bug #1456593 links to controlled vocab docs required
  • Fix for SF Bug #1653151 Checker file shows filter-media (just a typo in header)
  • #1688523 Bug fix - OAI harvest and Oracle
  • #1694943 Specify subdirectory limit in ItemExport
  • #1654469 stat scripts always return exit code 1
  • #1628889 Improve file size descriptions in ItemTag
  • #1702177 For bug #1638605 bin/cleanup fails on deleted primary bitstream
  • #1711982 For bug #1711982 Updates to short_description (null) field when editing/creat

UnDone

The following patches still exist in trunk, but have been removed from the 1.4.x branch

  • #1654466 dsprop convenience script
  • #1659796 Create administrator wtih command line options
  • #1659841 Add option to clear context object cache
  • #1587225 Google and html sitemap generator (updated so it will work with jdk 1.4)
  • #1659868 Improved database level debugging
  • #1659901 Import community and collection structure
  • #1642336 Restrict domains of self-registered users
  • #1641678 dspace/bin scripts for import and export (very simple convenience script)
  • #1557948 Link subjects and authors on item pages
  • #1659837 ItemIterator now deals with item ids also
  • #1687815 Search function for select eperson JSPUI

Bug Fixes

Done

  • #1638605 bin/cleanup fails on deleted primary bitstreams
  • #1601946 Makes javascript independent to form position (in group/eperson selection)
  • #1695692 make-release-package still uses CVS commands
  • #1490162 dspace-admin, edit item trailing white spaces
  • #1583372 DCDate.toString returns invalid string
  • #1076506 Item import command line option for application of template
  • #1606789 MyDSpace Group Membership Special Groups
  • #1619439 When collection is deleted, mapped item remains in community
  • #1217068 Failed to complete review in workflow
  • #1606449 Improve usability of bitstream list in item display
  • #1670106 Onebox and textarea fail when visibility set to workflow
  • #1648070 Statistics does not use navbar="admin"
  • #1456593 links to controlled vocab docs required
  • #1653151 Checker file shows filter-media (just a typo in header)
  • #1506556 Textareas in Oracle (VARCHAR datatype)
  • #1460754 Problems with Long Java datatype and Oracle
  • #1445573 Stats not working on Oracle

Feature Requests

Done

Note that because these are feature requests, they may not be eligible for inclusion in 1.4.2. This doesn't really apply to the ext3 workaround feature request (#1691277), since that is essentially a bug report.

  • #1145371 Link to admin area
  • #1549297 Refinement of enable suggest feature
  • #1636817 MyDSpace make group display configurable
  • #1691277 Importing: Workaround for ext3 subdirectory limitation

Libs

Done

  • bouncycastle lib for text extraction of encrypted pdfs
    • bcmail-jdk14-135.jar
    • bcprov-jdk14-135.jar

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