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| Feature(s) | Notes / Tickets | Priority | Volunteer(s) |
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| COAR Notify support | High | 4Science and Harvard University | |
 Correction service to enhance data quality (via OpenAIRE Graph) | https://4science.github.io/oaire-eld/ and https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/8184 (This is required to support COAR Notify, see above) | High | 4Science |
| Migrate "REST-Based Quality Control Reports" to new REST API | https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/7641 (see linked PRs) | High | Université Laval, Canada |
| Duplicate Detection in Submission (ported from DSpace-CRIS) | High | The Library Code | |
| Any new features which empower users in the Admin User Interface | Various tickets, based on volunteers. The exact tickets which will be completed will be based on what volunteers wish to claim for 8.0. Any tickets on the 8.0 board which "empower admins" fall into this category. Get in touch with Tim Donohue if you have questions or wish to volunteer for a ticket. | High | (Various institutions or volunteers) |
| Any features which existed in 6.x but missed the 7.x series of releases | Various tickets, based on volunteers. Any community volunteer is welcome to "port" any feature that existed in the 6.x XMLUI or JSPUI 6.x to the 8.0 release. Get in touch with Tim Donohue if you have questions or wish to volunteer for a ticket. | High | (Various institutions or volunteers) |
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| Date | Milestone | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, January 19, 2024 | Deadline for feature pull requests | If you wish to contribute features to DSpace 8.0, you must submit a pull request by this date. |
| Friday, February 9, 2024 | Feature PR Review/Test Deadline | Initial reviews/testing of PRs should be completed by all assigned reviewers. |
| Friday, February 23, 2024 | Feature PR Merge Deadline (Feature Freeze) | DSpace 8.0 is considered feature-complete on this date. All Feature PRs should be merged. Only bug fixes will be pulled between this date and final release. |
| February 26- March 15 | Major dependency updates | This is a period where the codebase will undergo major updates to support latest versions of Spring (supporting Jakarta EE) and Angular. |
| March 18-22 | Early documentation / bug fixes | Code cleanup prior to Release candidate. |
| By Friday, March 1, 202429 | Release Candidate 1 tagged | A DSpace 8.0 Release Candidate will be available for wider testing. |
| April 1-12March 4-15, 2024 | Testathon | Intensive public testing of the 8.0 Release Candidate is invited. The Release Team will focus on getting problems resolved. |
| Friday, March 29, 2024April 26 | Deadline for bug-fix pull requests | Bug fixes should ideally be submitted by this date. |
| Friday, April 12, 2024May 3 | Bug-Fix PR Merge Deadline (Code Freeze) | Ideally all bug fixes are merged by this date. Code is "frozen", with exceptions only made if major issues are discovered. |
| April 15-19, 2024May 6-10 | Final Cleanup / Documentation | This week is set aside for any final cleanup (or very late bug fixes) that need to be applied to the code. Also used to finalize Documentation, Release Notes, etc. |
| Monday, April 22, 2024 (tentative)May 13, 2024 | DSpace 8.0 is publicly released | DSpace 8.0 is released for download and general use. |
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