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Release Notes

Welcome to Release 1.8.70. 1! The committers developers 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):

• Mirage: a new clean, professional looking theme for XMLUI that eases theme development
• DSpace Discovery: a faceted browse/search interface for XMLUI that gives a deeper and more intuitive look at repository content
• Archival Information Package (AIP) Backup & Restore process: allows for a backup of DSpace into a generic METS-based structure, that can be used to migrate DSpace content to another system that supports AIP's (DSpace or non-DSpace)
• Curation System User Interface: allows for a series of curation tasks (profile bitstream formats, virus scan, check for required metadata) to be performed on objects in DSpace
• PowerPoint text extraction, for searching within PowerPoint slides
• Improved Google Scholar indexing on metadata and PDF content
• Improved performance and scalability of DSpace: the code has been thoroughly analyzed to provide major performance gains with regard to item ingestion and indexing speed to support larger repositories
• Automated Unit Testing of core code: helps the developers ensure the core code of DSpace is as bug free and stable as possible

The following is a list of the new features included for release 1.8.0 (not an exhaustive list):

• Improvements to the upgrade and configuration process (sections of dspace.cfg have been split into separate configuration files).
• More Curation Tools/Plugins.
• Configurable Workflow.
• SWORD Client.
• SWORDv2 Server Module.
• RSS feeds now support richer features, such as iTunes podcast and publishing to iTunesU (see new "webui.feed.podcast.*" settings).
• Enhancements to Discovery.
• Rewrite of Creative Commons licensing for the XMLUI.
• Reordering of bitstreams.
• Enable virus checking during submission.
• Ability to Withdraw/Reinstate/Delete Items in Bulk, via Batch Metadata Editing.

A full list of all changes / bug fixes in 1.78.0 is available in the History section.

The following people have contributed directly to this release of DSpace: @mire, Andrea BolliniAlex Lemann, Álvaro López, Andrea Schweer, Andreas Schwander, Andrew Hankinson, Andrew Taylor, Antero Neto, Ben Bosman, Bill Hays, BioMed CentralBram De Schouwer, Bram Luyten, Caryn Neiswender, Christophe Dupriez, Brian Freels-Stendel, Claudia Jürgen, Enovation Solutions, Erick Rocha Fonseca, Flávio Botelho, Gabriela Mircea, David Chandek-Stark, Denys Slipetskyy, Fabio Bolognesi, Gareth Waller, Graham TriggsHardik Mishra, Hardy Pottinger, Ivan Masár, James Russell, Janne Pietarila, Jason Stirnaman, Jeffrey Trimble, Keiji Suzuki, Keith Gilbertson, Joonas Kesäniemi, Jordan Piščanc, Jose Blanco, Juan García, Kevin Van de Velde, Kim Shepherd, Konstantinos V. Paraskevopoulos 1, Lighton Phiri, Mark Diggory, Mark H. Wood, Marvin Pollard, Michael B. Klein, Nicholas Riley, Nick Nicholas, OhioLINK, Oleksandr Sytnyk, Pere Villega, Onivaldo Rosa Junior, Peter Dietz, Reinhard Engels, Richard Rodgers, Robin Taylor, Sands Fish, Sarah ShreevesRonee Francis, Samuel Ottenhoff, Scott Phillips, Simon BrownStuart Lewis, Stuart LewisYeates, Terry Burton, Tim Donohue, Timo Aalto, Vladislav Zhivkov, Yin Yin LattWendy Bossons. Many of them could not do this work without the support (release time and financial) of their associated institutions. We offer thanks to those institutions for supporting their staff to take time to contribute to the DSpace project.

A big thank you also goes out to the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT), who helped the developers to prioritize and plan out several of the new features that made it into this release. The current DCAT members include: Amy Lana, Augustine Gitonga, Bram Luyten, Ciarán Walsh, Claire Bundy, Dibyendra Hyoju, Elena Feinstein, Elin Stangeland, Imma Subirats, Iryna Kuchma, Jennifer Laherty, Jim Ottaviani, Leonie Hayes, Maureen Walsh, Michael Guthrie, Sarah Shreeves, Sue Kunda, and Valorie Hollister.

We apologize to any contributor accidentally left off this list. DSpace has such a large, active development community that we sometimes lose track of all our contributors. Our ongoing list of all known people/institutions that have contributed to DSpace software can be found on our DSpace Contributors page. Acknowledgements to those left off will be made in future releases.

Want to make sure you make it on the short see your name appear in our list of contributors? All you have to do is report an issue, fix a bug, improve our documentation or help us determine the necessary requirements for a new feature! Visit our Issue Tracker to report a bug, or join dspace-devel mailing list to take part and get your name on the list of DSpace Contributors!in development work. If you'd like to help improve our current documentation, please get in touch with one of our Committers with your ideas. You don't even need to be a developer! Repository managers can also get involved by volunteering to join the DSpace Community Advisory Team and helping our developers to plan new features.

The Documentation Gardener for this release was Jeffrey Trimble with input from everyone.  All typos are his fault.

Peter Dietz is Robin Taylor was the Release Coordinator of this release . Tim Donohue helped out with coordinating the final days of the releasewith immeasurable help from the DSpace Technical Lead Tim Donohue.

Additional thanks to Tim Donohue from DuraSpace on for keeping all of us focused on the work at hand, and calming us when we got excited and for the general support for the DSpace project.