Preface

Welcome to Release 1.7.01! The committers have volunteered many hours to fix, re-write and contribute new software code for this release. Documentation has also been updated. The 1.7.1 bug fix release includes all the new features of 1.7.0 but fixes many known issues discovered since the release of 1.7.0.

Bug Fixes in 1.7.1 include (but not exhaustive):

• DS-858 Multicore SOLR needs to prevent remote access to solr cores
• DS-785 SWORD deposits fail when ingest events are fired if Discovery event consumer is configured
• DS-806 Item.match() incorrect logic for schema testing
• DS-823 DatabaseManager is no longer Oracle compliant
• DS-821 AbstractMETSIngester creates an item before adding descriptive metadata
• DS-776 Collection admin cannot add bitstreams unless there is at least one bundle
• DS-853 MetadataExposure settings for dc.description.provenance are ignored/overridden by XMLUI templates
• DS-435 "My Exports" displayed in navigation bar, when no user is logged in
• DS-789 HTTPS renders with errors due to hardcoded HTTP link in xmlui theme
• DS-620 Exceeding maximum file size limit while uploading files to lead to friendly error page

Improvements in 1.7.1 include (but not exhaustive):

• DS-840 Add Ability to create Top Level Community at the home page
• DS-839 Adding Field to Choice Authority to allow Authorities to be able to know field being required
• DS-828 Enable "restore mode" ingestion via sword

The following is a list of the new features included for release 1.7.0 (not an exhaustive list):

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