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Welcome to Release 7.0, the next major release of the DSpace platform.  Any previous version of DSpace may be upgraded to DSpace 7 directly. For more information, please see Upgrading DSpace.

7.0 Beta

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3 Release Notes

Included in Beta 3

• Processes Admin UI allows Administrators to run backend scripts/processes while monitoring their progress & completion. (Login as an Admin, select "Processes" in sidebar)
  • Currently supported processes include "index-discovery" (reindex site), "metadata-export" (batch metadata editing CSV export), and "metadata-import" (batch metadata editing CSV import).
• Manage Account Profile allows logged in users to update their name, language or password. (Login, click on the account icon, and select "Profile")
  • Includes "Register for a new account" and "Reset Password", both available on the Login screen.
• Login As (Impersonate) another account allows Administrators to debug issues that a specific user is seeing, or do some work on behalf of that user.  (Login as an Admin, Click "Access Control" in sidebar, Click "People".  Search for the user account & edit it. Click the "Impersonate EPerson" button.  You will be authenticated as that user until you click "Stop Impersonating EPerson" in the upper right.)
• Manage Authorization Policies of an Item allows Administrators to directly change/update the access policies of an Item, its Bundles or Bitstreams.  (Login as an Admin, Click "Edit" → "Item" in sidebar, and search for the Item.  Click the "Authorization.." button on its "Status" tab.
• Manage Item Templates of a Collection allows Administrators to create/manage template metadata that all new Items will start with when submitted to that Collection. (Login as an Admin, Click "Edit" → "Collection" in sidebar and search for the Collection.  Click the "Add" button under "Template Item" to get started.)
  • NOTE: unfortunately there's a known bug that while you can create these templates, the submission process is not yet using them. See https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/748
• Administer Active Workflows allows Administrators to see every submission that is currently in the workflow approval process.  From there, they have the option to delete Items (if they are no longer needed), or send them back to the workflow pool (to allow another user to review them).  (Login as an Admin, Click "Administer Workflow" in sidebar)
• CC License step allows your users to select a Creative Commons License as part of their submission.  Once enabled in the "item-submission.xml" (on the backend) it appears as part of the submission form.
• Angular CLI compatibility was added to the User Interface.  This allows developers to easily update the User Interface using standard Angular commandline tools.  More information (including tutorials) is available at https://cli.angular.io/
• English, Latvian, Dutch, German, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Finnish language catalogs
• Numerous bugs were fixed based on early user testing. (Thanks to all who've tested Beta 1 or Beta 2 and reported your feedback!)  Some bugs fixed include:
  • Login/Logout session fixes (including compatibility with Firefox and Safari browsers)
  • Improved Community/Collection tree browsing performance
  • Fixes to editing Communities, Collections and Items.  This includes improved drag & drop reordering of bitstreams in an Item.
  • Improved performance of Collection dropdown in submission
  • Ability to download restricted bitstreams (previously these would error out)
  • Authorization & security improvements in both REST API and UI
• Upgraded all REST API dependencies (Spring, Spring Boot, HAL Browser) and enhanced our automated testing via additional Integration Tests.
• All features previous mentioned in 7.0 Beta 2 Release Notes and 7.0 Beta 1 Release Notes below

Coming Soon

• For the upcoming Beta release schedule see DSpace 7 Release Goals

Additional Resources

At this time, the DSpace 7 documentation is still in progress, but has begun at https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/

That said, we have a number of recorded presentations and workshops available which provide an overview of all the new 7.0 features. 

• Presentations / Workshops from OR2019 (June 2019). Some video recordings exist https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+7+at+OR2019
• Getting Started with DSpace 7 Workshop at the North American User Group Meeting (Sept 2019). Includes slides, workshop materials & a video recording. https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSPACE/2019+DSpace+North+American+User+Group+Meeting
• Additional DSpace 7 presentations/workshops/webinars are planned for 2020 as we get closer to the 7.0 final release.

7.0 Beta 2 Release Notes

Included in Beta 2

• Administrative Search (video) combines retrieval of withdrawn items and private items, together with a series of quick action buttons.
• EPeople, Groups and Roles can now be viewed, created and updated.
  • Manage Groups (Login as an Admin → Access Control → Groups)
  • Manage EPeople (Login as an Admin → Access Control → EPeople)
  • Manage Community/Collection Roles (Login as an Admin → Edit Community/Collection → Assign Roles).  Note: this feature is Admin-only in beta 2, but will be extended to Community/Collection Admins in beta 3.
• Bitstream Editing (video) has a drag-and-drop interface for re-ordering bitstreams and makes adding and editing bitstreams more intuitive.
• Metadata Editing (video) introduces suggest-as-you-type for field name selection of new metadata.
• Update Profile / Change Password (Login → Select user menu in upper right → Profile)
• Shibboleth Authentication
• Viewing Item Version History (requires upgrading from a 6.x site that includes Item Versioning)
• Collection and Community (video) creation and edit pages.
• English, Latvian, Dutch, German, French, Portuguese and Spanish language catalogs
• Security and authorization improvements, including REST API support hiding specific metadata fields (metadata.hide property) and upgrades of different software packages on which DSpace 7 depends.
• All features previous mentioned in 7.0 Beta 1 Release Notes 104566901 below

Coming Soon

• For the upcoming Beta release schedule see DSpace 7 Release Goals

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• Presentations / Workshops from OR2019 (June 2019). Some video recordings exist https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+7+at+OR2019
• Getting Started with DSpace 7 Workshop at the North American User Group Meeting (Sept 2019). Includes slides, workshop materials & a video recording. https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSPACE/2019+DSpace+North+American+User+Group+Meeting
• Additional DSpace 7 presentations/workshops/webinars are planned for 2020, including at the OR2020 conference

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