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7.0 Beta 5 Release Notes
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DSpace 7 is still under active development. As a Beta release, we do not recommend installing this in production. Rather, we ask that you consider installing it in a test environment, try it out, and report back any issues or bugs you notice via GitHub (UI issues, Backend/API issues) |
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From April 19 - May 7, 2021, we are running a Community Testathon of the DSpace 7.0 Beta 5 Release. As this is the final Beta before the 7.0 release, Testathon is an opportunity for anyone to test the Beta 5 release, and report their feedback. To try out DSpace 7.0 Beta 5 immediately, see also Try out DSpace 7 Full (manual) installation instructions are also available at Installing DSpace.
For more information on the upcoming Beta and Final release schedule see DSpace 7 Release Goals. |
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DSpace 7 is still under active development. As a Beta release, we do not recommend installing this in production. Rather, we ask that you consider installing it in a test environment, try it out, and report back any issues or bugs you notice via GitHub (UI issues, Backend/API issues) |
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- Add private/withdrawn item badges for Administrators to quickly see which Items are private or withdrawn.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)
- 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.
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