DSpace 7.5 - Due Feb 20, 2023. Some new features coming soon:
Major performance improvements to initial page load (via additional User Interface caching & minimization)
Subscribe to email updates from a Community or Collection (similar to 6.x, but now includes Communities too)
Supervision orders allow Admins to assign a supervisor to new submissions (similar to 6.x JSPUI)
Ability to display user registrations or restrict them to specific email domains (similar in 6.x)
Support for custom Configurable Workflow steps, including "Select Single Reviewer Workflow" and "Score Review Workflow" (which both existed in 6.x)
Search interface supports filtering by controlled vocabularies (similar to 6.x)
Support for Contextual Help Tooltips (similar to 6.x)
With 7.5, we have completed porting all 6.x features that are listed in Tiers 1 - 3 in the prioritized list of features.
NOTE: There are a handful of brand new features (never implemented in DSpace before) still open in those Tiers as we've been concentrating on porting features from 6.x to 7.x.
Tim
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15 min
Development Cycle
Development Cycle and Announcement Approved by Steering
A community announcement will be sent following Leadership meeting
Development cycle details
DSpace 7
Steering will determine feature 6.x parity
DSpace 7 development will end when we hit feature parity milestone
Bug and security fixes for DSpace 7 will continue with minor 7.x releases following our software support policy, but no new features will be added
DSpace 8 and after
Return to one major release with new features per year and minor releases for bug fixes/security updates