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• 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. (Developed and co-funded by 4Science with the Support of University of Cambridge)
• Support for selecting Primary Bitstream for archived Items, similar to version 6.x.The existing "primary bitstream" selector now functions properly when editing a Bitstream.
• Item counts can now be displayed for all Communities/Collections similar to version 6.x. (Donated by damian-joz)
• Browse Hierarchical Controlled Vocabularies (Donated by Atmire).  This new feature allows users to browse/search for items quickly using the same controlled vocabularies you've configured in your submission forms.
• Signposting support for items and bitstreams. (Developed and donated by 4Science) This new feature embeds signposting links/metadata into pages and responses, to better support FAIR guiding principles.
• Import Simple Archive Format Zip files from a remote URL (Developed and donated by 4Science). This feature enhances the existing batch import feature to allow you to specify the URL of the ZIP file to import, instead of using the drag & drop upload.
• ImageMagick Thumbnails for Video files (MP4). (Donated by Abel Gómez)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 (Donated by Paulo Graça). This enhancement allows you to easily configure a submission form for all Collections of the same Entity Type. See the Configurable Entities documentation.
• New default Privacy Statement and End User Agreement (Donated by DSpaceDirect). The new default text of these policies can be found by visiting the links in the footer of our demo site.
• Oracle support has been removed as was previously announced in March 2022 on our mailing lists.

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• User interface upgraded to Angular 15
• Performance improvements for Items with many bitstreams (Donated by Michael Spalti)
• Browse by fixes
  • Allow browse by to properly filter for numerical values. (Donated by eScire)
  • Added upper limit for year in Browse by Date (Donated by Michael Spalti)
  • Fixed issue with clicking on items when filtering by year in Browse by Date (Donated by Michael Spalti)
  • Fixed issue where non-existent browse could cause page loading issues
  • Fixed issue where special characters in UUID could cause  page loading issues
• Search fixes
  • Fixed issue with scope-based searching in Discovery/Solr (Donated by Atmire)
  • Fixed issue where deselecting a filter could return an invalid query. (Donated by eScire)
  • Ensured Collections/Communities are now listed alphabetically in all search/selection popups (and sort order is configurable in config.yml) (Donated by Arvo Consultores)
  • Fixed issues with "-i" and "-r" params to index-discovery script (Donated by Agustina Martinez)
• 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 formform (Donated by Atmire)
  • Date picker was not always respecting start/end dates for access options (Donated by Mark Wood)
  • Hint was missing from subject keywords field, and "list" and "tag" input types (Donated by Atmire)
  • Fixed several issues with imports from external sources to avoid cached errors and double submissions (Donated by Atmire and 4Science)
  • Fixed issues where a required, hidden field could make it impossible to complete submission
  • Disabled collection box once submission is in workflow state. Collection cannot be changed during workflow.workflow. (Donated by eScire)
  • Fixed visibility of read-only fields and sections
  • Fixed issue where CC0 was displayed twice in Creative Commons section
  Search fixes
  • Fixed issue with scope-based searching in Discovery/Solr
  • Fixed issue where deselecting a filter could return an invalid query.
  • Ensured Collections/Communities are now listed alphabetically in all search/selection popups (and sort order is configurable in config.yml)
• Statistics fixes
  • Fixed issue where Solr statistics were not loading after sharding (Donated by Nicholas Woodward)
  • Fixed issue where restricted objects appeared in Solr statistics with an empty name
  • Fixed issue where the referrer for a "view" event was almost always incorrect (Donated by Atmire)
  • Fixed issue where "search_result" events were not being captured in statistics. (Donated by Atmire)
• Permission inheritance fixes
  • When moving an Item to a new Collection (Donated by Agustina Martinez)
  • Where Bundles were accidentally inheriting access permissions for Bitstreams
• Administrative fixes
  • Enhanced functionality for deleting multiple bitstreams (of the same Item) at once. Fixed issue where sometimes only the first bitstream would be deleted. (Donated by Atmire)
  • Fixed issue where only one thumbnail was deleted when running media-filter in force mode. (Developed and donated by 4Science)
  • Fixed issue where an Admin couldn't reset another user's password if Captcha was enabled. (Donated by @Ma-Tador)
  • Fixed issues with checksum reporter/checker no longer working properly. (Developed and donated by 4Science)
  • Fixed issue where Collection Admin could not edit an Item Template
  • Fixed issue where EPerson deletion could result in page loading issues
  • Fixed bug where edit form for a Commuity/Collection/Item would not always update if you selected a different object immediately
  • Improved validation of input fields when creating new Metadata schema or fields. (Donated by Atmire)
  • Fixed issue where workflow actions (from "Administer workflow" page) were not working
  • Fixed issue where curation tasks could not be performed by Community or Collection Admins
• Request a Copy fixes
  • Fixed issue with response page not loading
  • Fixed issue where "helpdesk" strategy required authentication in order to respond. (Donated by Arvo Consultores)
  • Moved text of approval/rejection emails to backend along with other email templates (Donated by Mark Wood)
• Added Multipart upload support to Amazon S3 Bitstore plugin (allows for larger uploads). (Developed and donated by 4Science)
• Added "webui.content_disposition_format" configuration to support always downloading (as an attachment) specific file formats.
• Fixed issue where page could fail to load if browse cookie language code was invalid (Donated by Atmire)
• Fixed issue where Shibboleth authentication would not reload the current page after authentication (Donated by Michael Spalti)
• 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).
• Fixed issue where you could not enable the video viewer without also enabling the image viewer. (Donated by Atmire)
• Fixed issue where Batch import (Zip) would throw a confusing error if the file size was too large (Donated by Nicholas Woodward)
• Fixed issue where Batch import (Zip) was not cleaning up temporary files after an error occurred (Donated by Nicholas Woodward)
• GDPR compliance fix. An unnecessary external font was being loaded into the UI. (Donated by Nicholas Woodward)
• Made many more user interface components themeable
• Updated numerous dependencies of front and backend.
• Numerous user interface accessibility and usability enhancements (Donated by Adam Doan and eScire and Atmire)
• Docker script build enhancements (Donated by DSpaceDirect)
• Numerous other small bug fixes and dependency updates

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