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Included in Beta 5

• • Video/Image Content Streaming (Kindly donated by Zoltán Kanász-Nagy and @dsipos-dev):  When enabled, DSpace can now stream videos & view images full screen, using a third-party viewer.
    • See the new "mediaViewer" settings in the environment.common.ts to enable. Sample screenshots of the feature can also be found at https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/885
  • Support for custom theme(s) in UI. See early information at DSpace UI Design principles and guidelines and the "themes" section of the environment.common.ts
    • Added a basic "dspace" theme (this is the new default theme)
    • Added a "custom" theme folder with all necessary files. These files can be directly modified to create a completely custom theme.
  • Major performance improvements to UI by making better use of caching & smart reloading
  • New Administrative Features
    • Add ability to modify Community/Collection resource policies (i.e. permissions).  Edit a Community or Collection and look at the "Authorizations" tab.
    • Add ability to edit/delete user Groups.
    • Add private/withdrawn item badges for Administrators to quickly see which Items are private or withdrawn. These are viewable throughout the browse/search when logged in as an Administrative user.
  • Configurable Entities Improvements
    • Entities now report their Entity type in the URL path (e.g. Person entities use URL path /entities/person/[uuid] and Publication entities use the URL path /entities/publication/[uuid])
    • General performance improvements for Entities. Introduction of "tilted" relationships for Configurable Entities that may have hundreds or thousands of relationships.
  • Improvements to Upgrade process
    • Added a new Submission form migration script to help DSpace 5/6 institutions migrate their old Submission configuration files to the new/updated format for v7.
  • Security fixes
    • Added CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) protection to REST API.  UI (and any other clients) now must be trusted to login to the REST API.
    • Improved permissions checks/validation in UI for Administrator, Community/Collection Administrator and Submitter roles.
    • Fixed several other security issues auto-reported by LGTM
  • Many bug fixes
    • Fixed issue where mapped items were not appearing
    • Fixed issue where Handles were not redirecting
    • Fixed issues with Sherpa and ORCID integrations
    • Fixed several small issues with OpenAIRE v4 support in OAI-PMH
    • Fixed many bugs in MyDSpace and Submission UI
    • Fixed several bugs in CSV import/export process.
    • Fixes to search/browse pagination & breadcrumb trail
    • Improved performance of Browse by Community/Collection hierarchy
    • LDAP Authentication support is working again
  • Many dependency upgrades
    • Upgrade UI to Angular v10
    • Upgrade UI to Node v12 or v14 support
    • Upgrade Backend to Solr v8 support
    • Upgrade to ORCID v3 support
    • Upgrade to SHERPA v2 support
  • Removal of obsolete features
    • Removal of the old BTE framework in favor of Live Import Framework (features of BTE have been ported to Live Import)
    • Removal of Traditional/Basic workflow in favor of Configurable Workflow (default workflow is still the same as in DSpace 6
    (COMING SOON, prior to Testathon
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Changelog

• All User Interface changes: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues?q=is%3Aclosed+milestone%3A7.0beta5
• All Backend changes: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues?q=is%3Aclosed+milestone%3A7.0beta5

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