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Batch import for Bibliographic formats

• Update to Biblio-transformation-engine 0.9
• Support for Endnote, BibTex, RIS, TSV, CSV, OAI-PMH
• Enhanced batch import routines

Kindly contributed by the Greek National Documentation Centre/EKT

Improvements to Authentication by Password

• now stores salted hashes
• old passwords will continue to work and will be automatically converted to salted hashes on next user login

Kindly contributed by Mark H. Wood with the support of IUPUI University Library

• some general bug fixes including: bitstream url construction, config options, context management and connection pool, ORIGINAL bundle problem (

  Jira
  server DuraSpace JIRA key DS-1149

  )
• proper METSDSpaceSIP support in both deposit and update
• proper authentication for accessing actionable bitstreams (i.e. those that can be replaced via sword), tightened security options around mediated actions, and add extra security to the access of descriptive documents (deposit receipts, statements)
• more configuration options: bundles to expose in Statements, DepositMO extensions (for individual files), and many more
• some general refactoring
• addition of 404 responses where necessary
• better support for add/replace of metadata, and how metadata updates are handled on archived items
• update to latest version of Java Server library
• new bitstream formats in the bitstream registry

Kindly contributed by Richard Jones with the support of ...

DOI Support

Kindly contributed by Pascal-Nicolas Becker & Mark Wood with the support of TU Berlin

Improved command line features

• Run commands in batch
• Display DSpace instance information including version and enabled modules
• Create users from command line

Kindly contributed by Mark H. Wood with the support of IUPUI University Library

Discovery: Search & Browse

Discovery is now enabled by default in both XMLUI and JSPUI.

The Lucene & DB search & browse backend is still supported, but is deprecated and might be removed in a future release.

Solr libraries were upgraded to version 4.4 (JSPUI, XMLUI and OAI modules).

• Discovery enhancements for XMLUI:
  
  • Spell checking

Kindly contributed by @mire with the support of (??? the World Bank)

• Discovery enhancements in JSPUI (example)
  • Spell checking
  • Solr-based item counter

Kindly contributed by CILEA

A new Bootstrap-based default look and feel for JSPUI

Kindly contributed by CILEA

JSPUI improvements

• AJAX progress bar for file upload the submission upload step
• Sherpa/Romeo integration in the submission upload step
• Advanced Embargo feature (originally contributed to XMLUI in DSpace 3.0)
• Item level versioning feature (originally contributed to XMLUI in DSpace 3.0)
• "Login as" feature

Kindly contributed by CILEA, Keiji Suzuki

Advanced Embargo

• Time based restrictions on both bitstreams and metadata
• Advanced mode for additional user group restrictions
• XMLUI only

Kindly contributed by @mire with the support of the University of Michigan Libraries

Mobile Theme for XMLUI matures from beta

• New feature:
• Documentation

Kindly contributed by Elias Tzoc and James Russell with the support of Miami University

Improvements to LDAP Authentication

• New option to map LDAP attribute-based group membership to internal DSpace groups 

Kindly contributed by Ivan Masár

A new REST API module based on Jersey (a JAX RS 1.0 implementation)

Provides:

• read-only access to communities, collections, items and bitstreams
• handle lookup
• XML and JSON output formats (?)

Kindly contributed by Peter Dietz with the support of Ohio State University Libraries

Curation Task for Consuming Web Services

Kindly contributed by Richard Rodgers with the support of Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Request Item Copy for JSPUI and XMLUI

• For items with restricted access, allows users to ask the original autor for a copy of the item

[original Minho addon docs: RequestCopy]

Original contribution of the University of Minho, improvements and porting to XMLUI by Andrea Bollini with the support of CILEA