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Version 6.2

Warning

Support for DSpace 6 will be ending on July 1, 2023.  See Support for DSpace 5 and 6 is ending in 2023


info is not yet released, but will be available for testing at http://demo.dspace.org the week of Aug 21-25. Assuming the testing goes well, we hope to release 6.2 in late August or very early September.
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DSpace 6.2
was officially released to the public on September 8, 2017.

DSpace 6.2 can be downloaded immediately from:

More information on the 6.2 release (and the 6.x platform in general) can be found in the 6.x Release Notes.

Upgrade instructions can be found at Upgrading DSpace


Note
titleWe highly recommend ALL users of DSpace 6.x upgrade to 6.2

DSpace 6.2 contains important performance improvements and database connection (Hibernate) enhancements which resolve several bugs in either 6.0 or 6.1. To ensure your 6.x site is performant, we highly recommend ALL DSpace 6.x users upgrade to DSpace 6.2.

DSpace 6.2 upgrade instructions are available at: Upgrading DSpace

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  • Important bug fixes to DSpace database connection/caching management
    • Indexing: Items failed to be reindexed after metadata changes were made: DS-3660
    • Batch processing: XMLUI Batch Import Failure: DS-3648
    • Group creation: Database migrations sometimes failed to create initial groups (Administrator and Anonymous) in fresh_installs: DS-3659
    • Cache management: DOIOrganiser CLI does not change the database anymore: DS-3656
    • Cache Management: Database changes of consumers aren't persisted anymore: DS-3680
    • Cache Management: Slow batch operations due to Hibernate caching: DS-3286
  • General bug fixes (to all UIs):
    • Pre-6.x Bitstream statistics were not being displayed: DS-3602
    • ImageMagick PDF thumbnail should always create sRGB JPEG files: DS-3517
    • ImageMagick PDF Processing Degraded with Changes in 5.7 release: DS-3661

For more information, see the Changes section below.

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