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• Recent Submissions are now listed on the homepage. (See "recentSubmissions" options)
• Thumbnails are now displayed in all search/browse screens. (See "showThumbnails" option)

DSpace 7.3 added many new features and improvements. See the Release Notes for all the details. These major features are most likely to impact your upgrade:

• Oracle Database support has been deprecated.  It will be removed in mid-2023 (likely in the 7.6 release, which is tentative for June 2023). All sites should plan to migrate to PostgreSQL. See https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/8214
• ORCID Authentication and synchronization to a DSpace Researcher Profile now exists (requires first enabling Configurable Entities). See ORCID Integration and Researcher Profiles
• Admin "Health" menu provides basic control panel functionality (based on 6.x Control Panel). When logged in as an Administrator, select "Health" from the side menu.  You'll see a "Status" tab which provides useful information about the status of the DSpace backend, and an "Info" tab which provides an overview of backend configurations and Java information.
• Media Filter updates to use Apache Tika.  There is now a single "Text Extractor" media filter which you should use (see updated settings in dspace.cfg and Mediafilters for Transforming DSpace Content for more details).

DSpace 7.2 made some major changes to the User Interface build process, including a new configuration file format. See the Release Notes for all the details. These major features are most likely to impact your upgrade:

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