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DSpace 7.0 | Estimated Release ScheduleDSpace 7.0 is under active development . The next major milestone is:
(see milestones below). If you or your institution would like to contribute to and accelerate this release process, we welcome contributors to the DSpace 7 Working Group. We also welcome developers to simply help us review & test new features/improvements (pull requests) as they are developed. Contributing testing and/or code reviews can help us speed up the development feedback loop & get features into the release more quickly. Get in touch with Tim Donohue if you'd like to contribute! |
Milestones
DSpace 7.0 will be the largest release in the history of DSpace. It is the culmination of strategic planning by DSpace Governance in response to community feedback, use cases and needs. (see Strategic Planning)
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 (2015) Governance creates a Strategic Plan for modernizing & refreshing DSpace for the future. A key goal of this plan is a "single, out of the box user interface" to replace the aging XMLUI and JSPUI. | DSpace 2015-18 Strategic Plan | ||
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| (2016) Formal selection of Angular as new front end framework - XMLUI and JSPUI removed from dspace "master" branch on Github: new Angular UI UI framework, replacing both the XMLUI and JSPUI. New Angular UI that is modern, responsive, and built using a Bootstrap theme for easy customization. | 7 - Angular UI Development | ||
| (2017) Adoption of a HAL, HATEOAS, ALPS standards based REST API to maximize exposure of all DSpace features for integration purposes: A A completely redesigned REST API that that is self-documenting and human browsable (2017- development ongoing) | REST API | ||
| (2017-19) Redesigned submissions and workflows featuring a one page submission process with a drag-and-drop interface , and automatic metadata extraction from common formats like PDFs& a searchable MyDSpace. | Configuration changes in the submission process | ||
| Configurable (2018-19) Configurable entities, an optional new item type inspired by the DSpace-CRIS project that allows for complex linked relationships between items | |||
| Single built-in Statistical Engine, upgraded to v7 and moved to separate webapp | SOLR Statistics | (May 2019) Preview release, including Entity demonstrator and associated data set | DSpace 7 Preview Release |
| (2019-20) Docker installation and deployment procedures | Try out DSpace 7 ("Install via Docker" section) | ||
| Beta 1 Release Notes | ||
| (April 2020) Beta 2 released | Beta 2 Release Notes | ||
| (July 2020) Beta 3 released | Beta 3 Release Notes | ||
| (Oct 2020) Beta 4 released | Beta 4 Release Notes | ||
| Beta 5 is under development. It will be the final Beta before Testathon. | See DSpace 7 Release Goals | ||
| Testathon | TBA | ||
| 7.0 release | TBA |
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