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7.6 Release Notes

DSpace 7.6 provides new features & bug fixes to the 7.x platform.

New features include:

• Bulk Access Management allows someone with administrative privileges (site wide or over a single object) to perform bulk modifications to the permissions of objects they administer.  This allows for the ability to add/remove embargoes or other access restrictions to many objects at once. 
• Item counts can now be displayed for all Communities/Collections
  • Uses the same "webui.strengths.show = true" configuration as in DSpace 6.x
• Signposting support for all objects
• Browse Hierarchical Controlled Vocabularies
• Support for Primary Bitstreams in archived Items
• Import Simple Archive Format Zip files from a remote URL
• ImageMagick Thumbnails for Video files (MP4). A new "ImageMagick Video Thumbnail" plugin can be used to generate thumbnails from Video files using FFmpeg.
• Ability to map Item submission forms via Entity Type in item-submission.xml

Major bug fixes / improvements include:

• User interface upgraded to Angular 15
• Enhanced functionality for deleting multiple bitstreams (of the same Item) at once. Fixed issue where sometimes only the first bitstream would be deleted.
• Added Multipart upload support to Amazon S3 Bitstore plugin (allows for larger uploads)
• Browse by fixes
  • Allow browse by to properly filter for numerical values
  • Added upper limit for year in Browse by Date
• Submission form fixes
  • Fixed issue where "list" input type would not work properly when set to required
  • Adding/removing new relationships (between Entities) would sometimes not update on the form
• Ensured Collections/Communities are now listed alphabetically in all selection windows (and sort order is configurable in config.yml)
• Fixed issue where page could fail to load if browse cookie language code was invalid
• Fixed issue where only one thumbnail was deleted when running media-filter in force mode
• Fixed issue where Solr statistics were not loading after sharding
• Fixed issue where restricted objects appeared in Solr statistics with an empty name
• Fixed issues with permission inheritance
  • When moving an Item to a new Collection
  • Where Bundles were accidentally inheriting access permissions for Bitstreams
• Fixed issue where Shibboleth authentication would not reload the current page after authentication
• Fixed issue where an Admin couldn't reset another user's password if Captcha was enabled.
• Fixed issue with scope-based searching in Discovery/Solr
• Fixed issues with checksum reporter/checker no longer working properly
• Fixed several bugs with the ORCID Authority Control plugin and added more detailed documentation on enabling it.
• Fixed issue where RSS feed was wrongly sorting alphabetically. Corrected to sort by date (like recent submissions).
• Made many more user interface components themeable
• Updated numerous dependencies of front and backend.
• Numerous user interface accessibility and usability enhancements
• Numerous other small bug fixes and dependency updates

New/Updated Language support:

• (coming soon)

7.5 Release Notes

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