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| Mirage, a clean and professional looking theme for XMLUI. 
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| Discover, a faceted browsing and searching interface that gives a deeper and more intuitive look at repository contents. |
| Archival Information Package (AIP) Backup & Restore process. Allows for a backup of DSpace into a generic METS-based structure, that can be used to migrate DSpace content to another system that supports AIP's (DSpace or non-DSpace). This backup and restore functionality also allows one to backup to cloud storage services like DuraCloud, though it could just as easily be used to backup to tape or a hard drive. |
| Curation System , a framework for building and running tasks to help a Curator preserve and improve your repository contents.
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| Automated Unit Testing of core code -- helps the developers ensure that DSpace is as bug free and stable as possible. Unit Testing coupled with continuous integration on our bamboo server allows us to validate every change to the DSpace code base. Thus letting us know immediately if something changed broke another feature. |
| Improved Google Scholar metadata exposure. Additional citation_ tags have been exposed to allow the Google Scholar crawler to find better associate repository metadata and PDF content. |
| PowerPoint text extraction, for searching within PowerPoint slides |
| Top 10 Most Visited items list, available for the overall site. |
Performance Improvements
Performance and Scalability improvements. The code has been thoroughly analyzed by a suite of code quality tools to find blatant errors and omissions, more efficient ways of doing things, and implementing general best practices in the code. Additionally, numerous immeasurable performance gains have been made with regard to item ingestion and indexing speed. This was tested by adding a sample-data-generator, in which 400,000 items were added to a repository already containing 100,000 items, where by the total length of time to ingest items reduced to items per second, as opposed to seconds per item. Adding so many items would previously taken weeks or more, but the latest performance feat was done in 10 hours on a laptop. See more at DS-707.
Many thanks go out to Graham Triggs (BioMed Central) for many sleepless weeks to vastly overhaul many weak links.
In addition to that, many other general improvements are:
- Reducing the cost of browse prunes
- SOLR is using autoCommit to reduce resource exhaustion
- SOLR has an optimization function runnable from the command-line for crontasks to essentially "defragment" the solr index.
- Item bitstream sorting/ordering can be specified according to sequence or name
- Moving the documentation into the Confluence wiki so that workload can be divided, and that the documentation is improved.
Bug Fixes
Major Bug Fixes include:
- Batch Metadata Import will now validate metadata fields in CSV's
- Restricted items / metadata is better protected from exposure via web services: OAI
- File handle leak in ItemImporter closed. Fixes issues when max_files_open exceeded on some systems.
- Database connections released when no longer needed in xmlui BitstreamReader. Fixes problem getting connections from the database pool while simultaneously downloading multiple large files.
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For a full list of all changes (new features, improvements, and bug fixes), please visit the Changes in DSpace 1.7.0 section of the new wiki-based DSpace Documentation.
Additionally, several bugs that were reported during Testathon have been fixed.
Removed / Deprecated
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Most command line scripts that have historically resided in {{\[dspace\]/bin/}} were deprecated in 1.6.x, and are now removed in 1.7.0. They have been replaced with the [configurable command launcher|DSDOC:Application Layer#DSpace Command Launcher], which eases the cross platform development of scripts. DiscussionFull details of the discussion are at: [http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-646 |http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-646]. |
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The functionality is all performed by the centralized DSpace launcher, e.g.:
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[dspace]/bin/dspace create-administrator |
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[dspace]/bin/dspace dsrun org.dspace.administer.CreateAdministrator |
In Progress
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- *New localization - *We have made localization for Serbian language, need several days to finish quality evaluation..
- Bojan Suzic 10/27 -- according to documentation in Release Procedure it can be accepted before final release?
- Peter Dietz 11/07 -- Correct, language packs can be updated between releases, it is best to get it finished before the final release in December though.
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Organizational Details
Release Coordination
- Release Coordinator: Peter Dietz, Ohio State University Libraries
- Release Coordinator: Tim Donohue, DuraSpace
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Release Process needs to proceed according to the following Maven release process: Release Procedure
Postponed for
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a Future Release
The following projects were considered for 1.7, but were not stable enough to be included. They need further review and development from the stakeholders before they are suitable for widespread use, they may be considered for a future release of DSpace. The next release they will be reconsidered for is 1.8
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