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Major Updates and Improvements

  • (This section is still being filled out and is INCOMPLETE.)
  • General user enhancements and fixes
    • Search filters now include "Access Type" filter which allows you to filter by open access, metadata only, etc. #10434 (Donated by Paulo Graça)
    • RSS/Atom feeds are now available for search results, allowing you to subscribe to a search via RSS. #2489 (Donated by Atmire)
    • Added ability for users to reject the "Correlation ID" cookie, tracked in the backend's logs for debugging purposes. #3889 (Donated by 4Science)
    • Fixed search bug where stale data could sometimes be returned. #3888 (Donated by Atmire)
    • Fixed bug where access restricted thumbnails were not shown to users who have proper access rights. #4165 (Donated by Atmire)
    • Fixed statistics bug where "view" events could be sent twice when using scoped themes. #4099 (Donated by Atmire)
    • Fixed bug where sorting in descending order on Browse by Author may result in an error. #10519 (Donated by Toni Prieto)
  • Submission / Workflow enhancements and fixes
    • Project Entities can now be imported from DataCite #9636 (Donated by Florian Gantner)
    • Fixed caching issues that could occur on MyDspace page when switching between views. #4205 (Donated by 4Science)
    • Fixed issue where search filters could disappear from MyDSpace page. #4097 (Donated by Arvo Consultores)
    • Fixed infinite loading issue that could occur on submission forms. #4060 (Donated by Atmire)
    • Fixed bug where an admin could not upload a bitstream to an item in workflow when impersonating a user. #4288 (Donated by 4Science)
    • Fixed bug where fields of type "name" in submission forms could not be deleted properly. #4073 (Donated by Atmire)
    • Improved proxy support for all external sources/APIs. All external connections should now use the DSpace Proxy Configuration. See also #10639 (Donated by 4Science)
  • Administrative enhancements and fixes
    • Edit menus on all community, collection, item pages are now dropdowns. #3994 (Donated by Atmire)
    • Fixed bug where CSV import (Batch Metadata Import) was not compatible with Controlled Vocabularies. #9749 (Donated by Atmire)
    • Fixed bug where Processes page wasn't properly supporting integer parameters. #4273 (Donated by 4Science)
    • Fixed bug where list of bitstreams on "Edit Item > Bitstreams" tab would be duplicated when using pagination. #4015 (Donated by Atmire)
    • COAR Notify was not fully adhering to the "Request Endorsement" pattern supported by PCI (https://peercommunityin.org/). #10053 (Donated by Agustina Martinez)
    • Fixed issued where Collection Admins could not add new policies to bitstreams. #10688 (Donated by 4Science)
    • Fixed issued where Collection Admins could not view metadata of withdrawn items. #10668 (Donated by 4Science)
    • Fixed pagination issue with Bulk Access Control script/page which could cause duplicate policies to be created. #10697 (Donated by 4Science)
    • Fixed issue where Handles were not stored for communities & collections when `VersionedHandleIdentifierProviderWithCanonicalHandles` provider was enabled. #10240 (Donated by Atmire)
  • Performance/stability improvements:
    • Limited the number of Items that can be exported at once to 500.  This limit is configurable on backend via "metadataexport.max.items" #10030 (Donated by Atmire)
    • Fixed issue where login endpoints to REST API didn't always close their database connection after login action was completed. #10598 (Donated by Atmire)
    • OpenSearch now limits its results per page to 100, though it is configurable via "websvc.opensearch.max_num_of_items_per_request" setting. #10549 (Donated by Sascha Szott)
    • Fixed performance issue with "import-loader-suggestions" script when run on a large repository. #10719 (Donated by 4Science)
    • Indexing improvements to the "index-discovery" script when your site has a larger number of relationships (between entities). #10351 (Donated by Atmire)
    • Fix bug when DSpace could fail to startup when ORCID connections failed (if ORCID is enabled). #9876 (Donated by The Library Code)
  • Accessibility improvements:
    • Truncated abstracts now use ellipsis for truncation instead of fading out. #4341 (Donated by 4Science)
    • Improved screen reader accessibility for header and recent submissions. #4335 (Donated by Atmire)
    • Enhanced keyboard navigation on several pages. #4244 (Donated by eScire)
    • Fixed small screen display issues in footer and full item page. #4218 (Donated by Jesiel Viana)
  • OpenAIRE v4 compliance improvements to both the OpenAIRE submission forms and the OAI-PMH "oai_openaire" metadata format. #10128 (Built by Atmire, funded from Ireland's National Open Research Forum (NORF) under the 2022 Open Research Fund))
  • Klaro cookie settings popup was replaced with Orejime.  Orejime provides better accessibility and is better maintained. #2718 (Donated by 4Science)
  • OAI-PMH templating has moved from using JTwig to Thymeleaf.  This also fixes errors thrown by the root page (/server/oai) since 8.x. See #10563 (Donated by The Library Code)
  • Includes all bug fixes and accessibility fixes also included in the 8.1 release.
  • Fixed a large number of other small bugs.  See Changes in 9.x for a list of all changes.
  • Major dependency updates: Frontend updated to Angular 18 and Bootstrap 5. (Both donated by Atmire)

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