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In order to prepare for the next release, you obviously need to begin Unreleased Documentation early. The easiest way to do this is to generate a new Documentation Space for that unreleased version, and copy the latest Documentation over to that space. Luckily, the "Copy Partial Space" plugin for Confluence makes this relatively easy to do. 

Here's the steps:

1. First, you need to login as an Administrative user
2. Visit the Confluence Dashboard, and create a new Space for this new release
   1. Select "Documentation Space" option
   2. Space Name: DSpace #.x Documentation (e.g. "DSpace 6.x Documentation")
   3. Space ID: DSDOC#x (e.g. DSDOC6x for DSpace 6.x documentation) Make sure to follow our recommended Space ID naming conventions as described above.
3. Copy the latest release documentation into this new Space
   1. Go to the latest release documentation homepage (e.g. DSDOC6x)
   2. Select "..."  → → "Copy Page Tree" option
   3. Select Destination "Space" to be the newly created Space
   4. For "Parent Page" option, select default homepage (as a parent page is required)
   5. Ensure "Copy Attachments", "Copy Permissions" and "Copy Comments" are all checked.
   6. Update all "Page Title" options to be blank.
   7. Start Copy
   8. (from step 2 above)
   9. Select BOTH "Include attached files and images" AND "Include child pages" options.
   10. Click "Next"
   11. Make sure the Preview looks correct (You may need to move the homepage later).  Make sure all options are checked to include labels, attached files & restrictions.
   12. Click "Copy".  This may take a minute or two! The DSpace Documentation is very large.
4. Once the content has been copied to the new Space, visit the new Space.
   1. Delete the default homepage.
   2. In the "Space Tools" select "Reorder Pages". 
   3. Make sure the layout looks correct.  Likely the homepage of the old space will be under the (default) homepage of the new space.  If so, drag it out.
      1. E.g. it may look like "New Space Home" > "DSpace 7.x Documentation".  You want to drag the "DSpace 7.x Documentation" to the top level in order to make it the new homepage.
   4. Delete the default homepage of the new space. It is no longer needed once it has no childrenGo to "Space Tools" → "Overview".  Change the "Home page" to be the newly copied content homepage.
   5. Edit new homepage to match the new version number (e.g. "DSpace 7.x Documentation").  Also make any other necessary minor updates to the homepage
   6. Go to "Space Tools" → "Overview".  Change the "Home page" to be the newly copied content homepage.
   7. The various sections may end up resorted alphabetically. Check the last version and reorder the sections to the proper order (Using "View in Hierarchy" option).
5. Next you'll need to tweak several Space settings to get it formatted similar to the rest of our Documentation. We'll start simple by tweaking the "Space Description"
   • Go to "Space Tools -> Overview" and change the "Description" to have the correct version number (e.g. "Official docs for DSpace 3.x") and click "Save".
6. Now, change the logo for the space
   1. Go to "Space Tools → Configure Sidebar".  Click the edit icon next to the logo, and upload our DSpace logo
7. Now, change the "Documentation Space Header" so that we have the "Unreleased Documentation Header" in place. The full instructions can be found below in the #Documentation Space Headers section.
8. Now, change the Left Sidebar to load up the _DocLeftSidebar shared content (this displays the DSpace logo and list of recent versions). The full instructions can be found below in the #Documentation Shared Sidebar section.
9. Modify the All Documentation wiki page to list this version of the Documentation, and make sure to note that it is UNRELEASED.
10. Let's check/update the Space permissions / access rights
    • Go to "Browse -> Space Admin" and click on "Permissions"
    • On the Permissions page, assign these permissions to these groups:
      • 'confluence-users' group -> "View" and "Add Comments" permissions only
      • 'dspace-committer' group -> Full permissions (select all options, including Admin)
      • 'dspace-docgardener' group -> Full permissions (select all options, including Admin)
11. Finally, to ensure everything was copied properly (and no links were "broken" in the process), you may want to look at these reports:
    • "Orphaned Pages" Report (Go to "Space Tools → Content Tools → Orphaned Pages") : This is a list of all pages in the space which are not being linked to from another page (no incoming links)
    • "Undefined Pages" Report (Go to "Space Tools → Content Tools → Undefined Pages") : This is a list of all broken internal wiki links within the space (and the page the link appears on). Confluence sees a broken link as leading to an "undefined page". Therefore you can use this report to determine if any links are now broken in the Documentation, and fix them appropriately.

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