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7.4 Release Notes (DRAFT)

DSpace 7.4 provides new features & bug fixes to the 7.x platform.

New and improved features include:

• Recent Submissions are now listed on the homepage. (donated by DSpaceDirect, developed by DSquare Technologies) 
• Batch export (to Zip) of Collections or Items available in the Admin UI
• Batch import (from Zip) available in the Admin UI.
• Thumbnails are now displayed in all search/browse screens (donated by Michael Spalti, Willamette University)
• Support for Captcha on user registration pages (donated by 4Science)
• Support for Google Analytics 4 (older “Universal Analytics” is still also supported)
• Support for line breaks, markdown and MathJax in Item abstracts
• Support for Remote Handle Resolver now included, allowing for Handle Server to be run remotely.
• Enhanced support for Amazon S3 as a storage location
• Add configurations for page sizes to many browse/search pages (donated by several developers)
• Allow for deletion of old Processes from the Admin UI.  Bulk deletion script also available.
• Request a Copy can now be sent to multiple recipients at once (donated by Mark Wood, IUPUI)
• Privacy statement and end user agreement can now be disabled.
• OpenSearch API support

Major bug fixes / improvements include:

• Fixed issue where “start-handle-server” command line tool wasn’t working properly
• MyDSpace: Entities are now displayed properly, workflow tasks now refresh after state change
• Submission: After drag & drop of a file, sends user directly to submission form.  
• Statistics: fixed issue where file names were sometimes missing or replaced by UUID.
• Thumbnails: restricted thumbnails are now supported and are displayed if you have access
• Search: admins were seeing private/withdrawn items in normal searches. Those now are only visible in the “Admin Search” page.
• Browse by pages: fixed issue where pagination was not working properly on all browse by pages and diacritics were not working properly in filter boxes
• Curation tasks: the output of the task is now visible from the Admin UI.
• Password authentication security enhancements: user must provide current password when changing their password. Password minimum requirements are now configurable, allowing for you to require users to create more secure passwords.
• Shibboleth authentication: Admin menu now reloads automatically after login
• Numerous caching & performance fixes to ensure various pages will now automatically refresh whenever underlying objects change.
• See the 7.4 milestone for frontend and backend for a list of all changes applied in 7.4.

New/Updated Language support:

• Finnish (Suomi) language updates donated by Reeta Kuuskoski (reetagithub)
• French (Français)language updates donated by Pierre Lasou (pilasou)
• German (Deutsch) language updates donated by Sascha Szott (saschaszott) 
• Greek (Ελληνικά) language added & donated by Kostis Alexandris (kostisalex)
• Hindi (हिंदी) language added & donated by DSquare Technologies
• Kazakh (Қазақ) language added & donated by myrza1
• Brazilian Portuguese (Português do Brasil) updates donated by João Fernandes (joao-uefrom), lucaszc and Danilo Felicio Jr (danilofjr)
• Spanish (Español) language updates donated by Arvo Consultores y Tecnología. S.L
• Swedish (Svenska) language added & donated by Urban Andersson (jokermanse). Updates later donated by Reeta Kuuskoski (reetagithub)

7.4 Acknowledgments

The DSpace application would not exist without the hard work and support of its community. Thank you to the many developers who have worked very hard to deliver all the new features and improvements. We deeply appreciate the financial contributions by those institutions that have contributed to the DSpace Development Fund. Also, thanks to the users who provided input and feedback on the development, those who contributed documentation as well those who participated in the testathons. 

Development Acknowledgments

A total of __ unique individuals contributed to 7.4, with major institutional contributions coming from 4Science and Atmire. 

Frontend / User Interface Acknowledgments 

The following __ individuals have contributed directly to the new DSpace (Angular) User Interface in this release (ordered by number of GitHub commits): 

The above contributor lists were determined based on contributions to the "dspace-angular" project in GitHub between 7.2 (after Feb 3, 2022) and 7.3: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/graphs/contributors?from=2022-02-03&to=2022-06-24&type=c

Backend / REST API Acknowledgments 

The following __ individuals have contributed directly to the DSpace backend (REST API, Java API, OAI-PMH, etc.) in this release (ordered by number of GitHub commits): 

The above contributor list was determined based on contributions to the "DSpace" project in GitHub between 7.2 (after Feb 3, 2022) and 7.3: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/graphs/contributors?from=2022-02-03&to=2022-06-24&type=c

Financial Acknowledgments

We gratefully recognize those institutionswho have generously pledged to financially support one or more 7.x releases via the DSpace Development Fund.  A list of those funders can be found on the DSpace Development Fund page.

7.3 Release Notes

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The DSpace application would not exist without the hard work and support of its community. Thank you to the many developers who have worked very hard to deliver all the new features and improvements. We deeply appreciate the financial contributions by those institutions that have contributed to the DSpace Development Fund. Also, thanks to the users who provided input and feedback on the development, those who contributed documentation as well those who participated in the testathons. 

Development Acknowledgments

A total of 37 unique individuals contributed to 7.3, with major institutional contributions coming from 4Science and Atmire. 

Frontend / User Interface Acknowledgments 

The following 28 individuals have contributed directly to the new DSpace (Angular) User Interface in this release (ordered by number of GitHub commits): Giuseppe Digilio (atarix83), Yury Bondarenko (ybnd), Davide Negretti (davidenegretti-4science), Kim Shepherd (kshepherd), Tim Donohue (tdonohue), Sascha Szott (saschaszott), Luca Giamminonni (LucaGiamminonni), Alexandre Vryghem (alexandrevryghem), Art Lowel (artlowel), Yana De Pauw (YanaDePauw), Lotte Hofstede (LotteHofstede), Marie Verdonck (MarieVerdonck), Bruno Roemers (bruno-atmire), Michael Spalti (mspalti), İstanbul Technical University IT Office (itudevops), Sufiyan Shaikh (SufiyanShaikhPeerbits), William Welling (wwelling), Michele Boychuk (Micheleboychuk), nikunj59, Kristof De Langhe (Atmire-Kristof), louiserumpf, Pierre Lasou (pilasou), Marie-Hélène Vézina (mhvenzina), Reeta Kuuskoski (reetagithub), pratik-peerbits, Md. Topu Raihan (raihantopu), Pascal-Nicolas Becker (pnbecker), Rezart Vata (rezartatis)

The above contributor lists were determined based on contributions to the "dspace-angular" project in GitHub between 7.2 (after Feb 3, 2022) and 7.3: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/graphs/contributors?from=2022-02-03&to=2022-06-24&type=c

Backend / REST API Acknowledgments 

The following 20 individuals have contributed directly to the DSpace backend (REST API, Java API, OAI-PMH, etc.) in this release (ordered by number of GitHub commits): Luca Giamminonni (LucaGiamminonni), Bruno Roemers (bruno-atmire), Michele Boychuk (Micheleboychuk), Tim Donohue (tdonohue), ballarinie, Andrea Bollini (abollini), Mark Wood (mwoodiupui), Kristof De Langhe (Atmire-Kristof), Kim Shepherd (kshepherd), Antoine Snyers (antoine-atmire), Ben Bosman (benbosman), Marie Verdonck (MarieVerdonck), Corrado Lombardi (corrad82-4s), Yana De Pauw (YanaDePauw), eskander17, Michael Spalti (mspalti), Toni Prieto (toniprieto), Giuseppe Digilio (atarix83), Pascal-Nicolas Becker (pnbecker), Samuel Cambien (samuelcambien)

The above contributor list was determined based on contributions to the "DSpace" project in GitHub between 7.2 (after Feb 3, 2022) and 7.3: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/graphs/contributors?from=2022-02-03&to=2022-06-24&type=c

Financial Acknowledgments

We gratefully recognize the following institutionswho have generously pledged financially to support the 7.3 release via the DSpace Development Fund. 

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A total of 28 unique individuals contributed to 7.2, with major institutional contributions coming from 4Science and Atmire.

Frontend / User Interface Acknowledgments

The following 15 individuals have contributed directly to the new DSpace (Angular) User Interface in this release (ordered by number of GitHub commits): Giuseppe Digilio (atarix83), William Welling (wwelling), Tim Donohue (tdonohue), Davide Negretti (davidenegretti-4science), Michael Spalti (mspalti), Rezart Vata (rezartatis), Bruno Roemers (bruno-atmire), Lotte Hofstede (LotteHofstede), Art Lowel (artlowel), Yury Bondarenko (ybnd), Corrado Lombardi (corrad82-4s), Kristof De Langhe (Atmire-Kristof), Hardy Pottinger (hardyoyo), Donald I Macdonald (donaldi), Santiago Tettamanti (santit96)

The above contributor lists were determined based on contributions to the "dspace-angular" project in GitHub between 7.1 (after Oct 28, 2021) and 7.2: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/graphs/contributors?from=2021-10-28&to=2022-02-03&type=c

Backend / REST API Acknowledgments

The following 23 individuals have contributed directly to the DSpace backend (REST API, Java API, OAI-PMH, etc) in this release (ordered by number of GitHub commits): Tim Donohue (tdonohue), Michele Boychuk (Micheleboychuk), Michael Spalti (mspalti), Hardy Pottinger (hardyoyo), Yana De Pauw (YanaDePauw), Joost Fock (joost-atmire), Kevin Van de Velde (KevinVdV), Corrado Lombardi (corrad82-4s), Jose Vicente Ribelles Aguilar (jvribell), Davide Negretti (davidenegretti-4science), Luca Giamminonni (LucaGiamminonni), Yury Bondarenko (ybnd), Ben Bosman (benbosman), Marie Verdonck (MarieVerdonck), Bruno Roemers (bruno-atmire), Mark Wood (mwoodiupui), Hrafn Malmquist (J4bbi), Paulo Graça (paulo-graca), Andrea Bollini (abollini), Giuseppe Digilio (atarix83), William Welling (wwelling), Kristof De Langhe (Atmire-Kristof), Samuel Cambien (samuelcambien)

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A total of 27 unique individuals contributed to 7.1, with major institutional contributions coming from 4Science and Atmire.

Frontend / User Interface Acknowledgments

The following 18 individuals have contributed directly to the new DSpace (Angular) User Interface in this release (ordered by number of GitHub commits): Davide Negretti (davidenegretti-4science), Giuseppe Digilio (atarix83), Yury Bondarenko (ybnd), Tim Donohue (tdonohue), Michael Spalti (mspalti), Rezart Vata (rezartatis), Kristof De Langhe (Atmire-Kristof), Yana De Pauw (YanaDePauw), Lotte Hofstede (LotteHofstede), Alessandro Martelli (alemarte), Bill Branan (bbranan), Art Lowel (artlowel), Corrado Lombardi (corrad82-4s), Marie Verdonck (MarieVerdonck), Bruno Roemers (bruno-atmire), Yannick Paulsen (YPaulsen-TLC), Pascal-Nicolas Becker (pnbecker), Gustavo S Ferreyro (gsferreyro)

The above contributor lists were determined based on contributions to the "dspace-angular" project in GitHub between 7.0 (after July 29, 2021) and 7.1: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/graphs/contributors?from=2021-07-29&to=2021-10-27&type=c

Backend / REST API Acknowledgments

The following 16 individuals have contributed directly to the DSpace backend (REST API, Java API, OAI-PMH, etc) in this release (ordered by number of GitHub commits): Michele Boychuk (Micheleboychuk), Michael Spalti (mspalti), Mark Wood (mwoodiupui), Paulo Graça (paulo-graca), Tim Donohue (tdonohue), Andrea Bollini (abollini), tysonlt, Yury Bondarenko (ybnd), Corrado Lombardi (corrad82-4s), Yana De Pauw (YanaDePauw), Nicholas Woodward (nwoodward), Alan Orth (alanorth), Davide Negretti (davidenegretti-4science), Marie Verdonck (MarieVerdonck), Andrew Wood (AndrewZWood), Ben Bosman (benbosman).

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• Auburn University 
• Cornell University 
• Pascal Becker 
• Dalhousie University 
• Duke University 
• ETH Zurich, ETH Library 
• Fraunhofer Gesellschaft  
• Imperial College London 
• Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis 
• LYRASIS 
• National Library of Finland 
• Beate Rajski 
• Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg – Carl von Ossietzky  
• Technische Universität Berlin 
• Technische Universität Hamburg (TUHH) 
• The DSpace-Konsortium Deutschland 
• The Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg  
• The Library Code GmbH 
• The Ohio State University 
• Texas Digital Library 
• University of Arizona 
• University of Edinburgh 
• University of Kansas 
• University of Minnesota 
• University of Missouri 
• University of Toronto 
• World Bank 
• ZHAW 

Frontend / User Interface Acknowledgments

The following 55 individuals have contributed directly to the new DSpace (Angular) User Interface in this release (ordered by number of GitHub commits): Giuseppe Digilio (atarix83), Kristof De Langhe (Atmire-Kristof), Lotte Hofstede (LotteHofstede), Art Lowel (artlowel), Marie Verdonck (MarieVerdonck), Julius Gruber (Flusspferd123), Yury Bondarenko (ybnd), William Welling (wwelling and wellingWilliam), Yana De Pauw (YanaDePauw), Tim Donohue (tdonohue), Alessandro Martelli (alemarte), Michael Spalti (mspalti), Jonas Van Goolen (jonas-atmire), Laura Henze (lhenze), Dániel Péter Sipos (dsipos-dev), Samuel Cambien (samuelcambien), Bruno Roemers (bruno-atmire), Matteo Perelli (sourcedump), Bram Luyten (bram-atmire), Ben Bosman (benbosman), Terry Brady (terrywbrady), Raf Ponsaerts (Raf-atmire), Danilo Di Nuzzo (ddinuzzo), Andrea Chiapparelli (andreachiapparelli), Antoine Snyers (antoine-atmire), Corrado Lombardi (corrad82-4s), Courtney Pattison (courtneypattison), Àlex Magaz Graça (rivaldi8), Chris Wilper (cwilper), Christian Scheible (christian-scheible), Andrew Wood (AndrewZWood), Reeta Kuuskoski (reetagithub), Vítor Silvério Rodrigues (vitorsilverio), Alexander Sulfrian (AlexanderS), muiltje, José Carvalho (josekarvalho), Claudia Jürgen (cjuergen), fernandaruizm, Ivan Masar (helix84), Paulo Graça (paulo-graca), Philip Vissenaekens (PhilipVis), Nagy Akos (akoscomp), Kevin Van de Velde (KevinVdV), Sascha Szott (saschaszott), Mohamed Mohideen Abdul Rasheed (mohideen), David Cavrenne (davidatmire), Hardy Pottinger (hardyoyo), Luca Giamminonni (LucaGiamminonni), Mateus Mercer (MatMercer), Denijs Balodis (Denijsb), Pascal-Nicolas Becker (pnbecker), Mikus Zarins (MixonZ), marciofoz, Andrea Bollini (abollini), Martin Walk (MW3000). 

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The above contributor lists were determined based on historical contributions to the "dspace-angular" project in GitHub until 7.0: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/graphs/contributors?from=2016-11-27&to=2021-07-29&type=c

Backend / REST API Acknowledgments

The following 55 individuals have contributed directly to the DSpace backend (REST API, Java API, OAI-PMH, etc) in this release (ordered by number of GitHub commits): Raf Ponsaerts (Raf-atmire), Tim Donohue (tdonohue), Andrea Bollini (abollini), Michele Boychuk (Micheleboychuk), Mark Wood (mwoodiupui), Marie Verdonck (MarieVerdonck), Ben Bosman (benbosman), Luigi Andrea Pascarelli (lap82), Terry Brady (terrywbrady), Tom Desair (tomdesair), Yana De Pauw (YanaDePauw), Chris Wilper (cwilper), Peter Nijs (peter-atmire), Kevin Van de Velde (KevinVdV), Bruno Roemers (bruno-atmire), Giuseppe Digilio (atarix83), Pasquale Cavallo (pasqualecvl), Jelle Pelgrims (jpelgrims-atmire), Andrew Wood (AndrewZWood), Samuel Cambien (samuelcambien), Antoine Snyers (antoine-atmire), Kim Shepherd (kshepherd), Yury Bondarenko (ybnd), Michael Spalti (mspalti), Alessandro Martelli (alemarte), Oliver Goldschmidt (olli-gold), Jonas Van Goolen (jonas-atmire), Kristof De Langhe (Atmire-Kristof), Alexander Sulfrian (AlexanderS), Patrick Trottier (PTrottier), Pablo Prieto (ppmdo), Hardy Pottinger (hardyoyo), Pascal-Nicolas Becker (pnbecker), William Tantzen (tantz001), Paulo Graça (paulo-graca), Luca Giamminonni (LucaGiamminonni), Ivan Masar (helix84), Hrafn Malmquist (J4bbi), Ian Little (ilittle-cnri), Anis Moubarik (anis-moubarik), Claudia Jürgen (cjuergen), Alan Orth (alanorth), xuejiangtao, Danilo Di Nuzzo (ddinuzzo), James Creel (jcreel), Marsa Haoua (marsaoua), Philip Vissenaekens (PhilipVis), Miika Nurminen (minurmin), Bram Luyten (bram-atmire), Christian Scheible (christian-scheible), Nicholas Woodward (nwoodward), József Marton (jmarton), Mohamed Mohideen Abdul Rasheed (mohideen), Saiful Amin (saiful-semantic), Àlex Magaz Graça (rivaldi8)

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