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• Subscribe to email updates from a Community or Collection. See Email Subscriptions for more information.
  • NOTE: This feature requires new scheduled cron settings to enable sending of emails. See Scheduled Tasks via Cron
• Supervision orders now available. Administrators can now assign Group(s) to supervise other user's (in-progress) submissions. See Supervision Orders documentation for more details.
• Ability to disable self-registration or restrict to specific email domains. See Authentication by Password documentation for more details.
• System wide alerts which allow you to display a site-wide banner to announce scheduled downtime or maintenance. (Login as an Admin and visit the "System-wide Alert" menu option)
• Ability to disable self-registration or restrict to specific email domains. See Authentication by Password documentation for more details.
• Search interface supports filtering by controlled vocabularies. (See the new "vocabularies" option in config.*.yml. By default, only the SRSC vocabulary is available in DSpace, but additional ones may be added as described in Authority Control of Metadata Values
• Support for custom Configurable Workflow steps, including "Select Single Reviewer Workflow" and "Score Review Workflow" (which were both available in v6.x). See Additional workflow steps documentation for more details.
• Ability to add Contextual Help Tooltips on any page. Currently, only a basic example is provided, with more likely to be added in future DSpace releases. In the meantime, additional tooltips may be added manually on a page-by-page basis.  See Contextual Help Tooltips for more details.
• Basic MediaViewer now supports captioning for audio/video files. (Donated by yingjin) The caption file must be provided alongside the video/audio file. See documentation at Media Viewer Settings
• On Item pages, the "Edit Item > Metadata" tab has been redesigned to allow for easier reordering of metadata values, etc.
• On Item pages, metadata values can automatically link to "Browse By" results for that value. (Donated by The Library Code) The existing "webui.browse.links.<n>" settings in dspace.cfg are now supported in version 7.x. See Links to Other Browse Contexts section of the Configuration documentation.
• "Show identifiers" submission step now available. (Donated by The Library Code) When enabled, this new submission step allows you to optionally pre-register Handles or DOIs for all new submissions.
• New DataCite plugin for importing metadata from DataCite when starting a new submission. (Donated by @johannastaudinger, @floriangantner and @philipprumpf)
  
• New "dspace database skip" command can be used to skip problematic database migrations during upgrade to 7.x.  See this common migration error that has impacted some older DSpace sites during their upgrade to 7.x.

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• Performance improvements to User Interface
  • Optional page caching (of server-side rendered pages) for bots and/or anonymous users. Page caching for bots is enabled by default, while page caching for anonymous users is disabled.  Enabling page caching for anonymous users can drastically speed up your site, but anonymous users may see slightly outdated content. See Cache Settings - Server Side Rendering(SSR) for details.
  • Decreased the initial download size of the UI application. Between 7.4 and 7.5, we've decreased the initial download from 877KB to ~600KB (gzipped sizes), even while adding new features.
• Performance improvements for the "metadata-import" and "cleanup" command-line scripts. (Fixes to "cleanup" donated by Agustina Martinez)
• "Request a Copy" now supports the "helpdesk" strategy, where all requests go to the Helpdesk email to respond. (Donated by Mark Wood, IUPUI)
• Number of bitstreams displayed on the Item page is now configurable (see "item > bitstream > pageSize" configuration). (Donated by Arvo Consultores y Tecnología. S.L)
• Updated Submission forms "<regex>" tag to use a common extended regular expression format.
• "Back to Results" button appears on Item pages when browsing/searching and clicking on an Item. This allows you to easily return to your prior browse/search. (Donated by Michael Spalti)
• Fixed issue where opening a restricted bitstream in a different window or tab did not work properly.
• Fixed issue where items with thousands of bitstreams caused the Item page to load extremely slowly or crash entirely.
• Fixed robots.txt to include fully qualified URLs in Sitemap (necessary for search engine optimization)
• breadcrumbs to display full object names on hover over (Donated by eScire)
• Facet search box on the main search interface can now search all words in a phrase facet value (previously it only searched the first word)
• Fixed issue where homepage hits could trigger 2 views in Google Analytics
• Fixed issues with Syndication Feed buttons on Community/Collection pages (Donated by Nicholas Woodward)
• Fixed issue where "Browse By Title" didn't allow you to filter results by multiple words (Donated by Toni Prieto)
• Fixed issue where opening a restricted bitstream in a different window or tab did not work properly.
• Fixed issue where items with thousands of bitstreams caused the Item page to load extremely slowly or crash entirely.
• Fixed robots.txt to include fully qualified URLs in Sitemap (necessary for search engine optimization)
• Fixed issue where "Browse By" Fixed issue where "Browse By" menus were not working properly for Community/Collection Admins.
• Fixed issue where Collection Admins could not version Items.
• Fixed issue where Group descriptions could not be edited from the Admin UI.
• Fixed issue where sidebar options were displayed for authenticated users with read-only access.  Sidebar has been enhanced to check user permissions more carefully.
• Fixed issue where thumbnails were sometimes generated with no permissions, making them not able to be displayed in the UI.
• Fixed issue where submission forms listed Collections in the Collection dropdown in a random order. They are now ordered by Title (Donated by Arvo Consultores y Tecnología. S.L)
• Fixed breadcrumbs to display full object names on hover over (Donated by eScire)
• Facet search box on the main search interface can now search all words in a phrase facet value (previously it only searched the first word)
• Fixed issue where homepage hits could trigger 2 views in Google Analytics
• Fixed issues with Syndication Feed buttons on Community/Collection pages (Donated by Nicholas Woodward)
• Fixed issue where "Browse By Title" didn't allow you to filter results by multiple words (Donated by Toni Prietonow ordered by Title (Donated by Arvo Consultores y Tecnología. S.L)
• Fixed issues where configured Creative Commons jurisdiction was being ignored & locale wasn't returning translated questions (Donated by Toni Prieto)
• Fixed issues where OAI Harvesting "last harvested" date wasn't being updated or reported properly. (Donated by Nicholas Woodword)
• Fixed issue where title highlighting was not working in search results.
• Fixed issue where an Item could not be deleted if it had a "Request for Copy".
• Allow users to enhance ImageMagick generated PDF thumbnails via a new "density" setting & fixed layout issues with some PDF thumbnails. (Donated by Alan Orth)
• CSS variables can now be used in all HTML templates.  See https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/1853
• Accessibility bug fixes for several pages (Donated by eScire)
• Support for Node v18 in the User Interface
• Numerous other small bug fixes and dependency updates

New/Updated Language support:

• Brazilian Portugese (Português do Brasil) language updates donated by Lucas Zinato Carraro (lucaszc)
• Catalan (Català) language added & donated by Toni Prieto
• French (Français)language updates donated by Pierre Lasou (pilasou)
• Greek (Ελληνικά) language updates donated by LisAtUP
• Kazakh (Қазақ) language updates donated by myrza1
• Polish (Polski) language added & donated by PCG Academia & Michał Dykas (michdyk)
• Spanish (Español) language updates donated by Toni Prieto & Cristian Emanuelle Guzmán Suárez (CrisGuzmanS)
• Ukrainian (Yкраї́нська) language added & donated by AndrukhivAndriy

7.4 Release Notes

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