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We invite developers to help with the next maintenance release of DSpace. Contributors are strongly encouraged to obtain the source code using SubVersion. This is very straightforward, and we've published a guide to doing so here: http://wiki.dspace.org/ContributionGuidelines^{Image Removed} Code Contribution Guidelines

Installation Documentation

The DSpace System Documentation is available from our list of DSpace Resources.

Organizational

Release Coordination

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Now, that the Testathon is finished and 1.6.0 released there are public test instances availabe at:

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available at:

• http://eldorado2demo.uni-dortmund.de:8080/dspace160xmlui^{Image Removed}
  Note these test instances are completely seperate, so you got to register on both. Feel free to use the feedback function if you want admin rights.dspace.org

Release Process needs to proceed according to the following Maven release process ReleaseProcedure: Release Procedure

New Features/Changes

A more detailed description for each of the below features is available on Stuart Lewis's blog entry entitled DSpace + 1.6 - What will be in it for me?

These major new features are available in DSpace + 1.6:

• Enhanced statistics
• Embargo facility
• Batch metadata editing
• Improved documentation
• Authority control lists
• Community administration

Other minor or backend features available in DSpace + 1.6:

• DSpace service locator
• Command line script launcher ('dspace') for all operating systems
• OpenSearch (ATOM feed of search results)
• Security Improvements
• SWORD Improvements (more flexible, better performance)
• Updated Handle server
• Numerous smaller bug/issue fixes

Known Issues

See: http://jira.dspace.org/^{Image Removed}

Also: Known bugs affecting 1.6.0 final

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Last updated 3 March 2010. Up to date list also available at http://scm.dspace.org/trac/dspace/browser/dspace/tags/dspace-1.6.0/dspace/CHANGES^{Image Removed}

Changes listed below are referenced by their issue number in DSpace Jira.

(Alexey Maslov)

(Kim Shepherd)

• [DS-118

• ]

• File

• preview

• link

• during

• submission

• leads

• to

• page

• not

• found

• [DS-121

• ]

• XMLUI

• Feedback

• form

• breaks

• with

• multiple

• hostnames

• [DS-156

• ]

• File

• description

• not

• available

• in

• XMLUI

• [DS-198

• ]

• File

• descriptions

• can

• not

• be

• removed/cleared

• in

• XMLUI

• [DS-240

• ]

• Item

• validityKey

• not

• complete

• [DS-251

• ]

• Bulk

• Metadata

• Editing:

• XMLUI

• aspect

• and

• forms

• [DS-363

• ]

• JSPUI

• statistics

• views

• [DS-406

• ]

• View

• Statistics

• button

• does

• not

• work

• in

• item

• page

• [DS-409

• ]

• JSPUI

• stats

• display

• ignores

• 'statistics.item.authorization.admin'

• [DS-414

• ]

• File

• downloads

• listed

• in

• collections

• and

• communities

• statistics

• [DS-438

• ]

• JSPUI

• stats

• -

• filenames

• incorrect

• [DS-418

• ]

• I18n

• broken

• in

• JSPUI

• [DS-474

• ]

• handle.canonical.prefix

• undocumented

(Claudia Juergen)

• [DS-188

• ]

• Misspell

• exclude.type=indentifier

• in

• dstat.cfg

• [DS-197

• ]

• Deleting

• a

• primary

• bitstream

• does

• not

• clear

• the

• primary_bitstream_id

• on

• the

• bundle

• table

• [DS-222

• ]

• Email

• alerts

• due

• to

• internal

• errors

• are

• not

• sent,

• if

• context is missing
• [DS-231

• ]

• Missig

• file

• (just

• some

• obsolete

• use

• of

• index-all

• in

• the

• current

• documentation,

• corrected

• the

• docs)

• [DS-248

• ]

• Missing

• admin

• column

• in

• community

• table

• in

• database-schema.sql

• and

• update

• -

• community

• admin

• patch
• Item Importer - documented the use of non-dc metadata during item import

• [DS-269

• ]

• Oracle

• JDBC

• connection

• string

• wrong

• in

• dspace.cfg

• -

• ID:

• 2722093
• Removed superfluous statistics configuration parameters from dspace.cfg

(Andreas Schwander / Claudia Juergen)

• [DS-337

• ]

• A

• bug

• related

• with

• adding

• new

• -EPersons

(Andreas Schwander / Kim Shepherd)

• [DS-331

• ]

• Config

• property

• mismatch

• between

• dspace.cfg

• and

• DSpaceLocaleAction

• (XMLUI)

(Bram Luyten)

(Ricardo Saraiva)

• [DS-190

• ]

• Portuguese

• (pt_PT)

• translation

• Messages.properties

• JSP-UI

• v1.5.2

(Stuart Lewis)

• [DS-195

• ]

• Allow

• the

• primary

• bitstream

• to

• be

• set

• in

• the

• item

• importer

• /

• exporter

• [DS-196

• ]

• METS

• exposed

• via

• OAI-PMH

• includes

• description.provenance

• information

• [DS-200

• ]

• SWORD

• module

• requires

• the

• X-Packaging

• header

• [DS-204

• ]

• New

• -zip

• option

• for

• item

• exporter

• and

• importer

• [DS-209

• ]

• Context.java

• turnOffAuthorisationSystem()

• can

• throw

• a

• NPE

• [DS-212

• ]

• NPE

• thrown

• during

• Harvest

• of

• non-items

• when

• visibility

• restriction

• is

• enabled

• [DS-213

• ]

• IPAuthentication

• extended

• to

• allow

• negative

• matching

• [DS-216

• ]

• Migrating

• items

• that

• use

• additional

• metadata

• schemas

• causes

• an

• NPE

• [DS-219

• ]

• Internal

• Server

• error

• -

• include

• login

• details

• of

• user

• [DS-221

• ]

• XMLUI

• 'current

• activity'

• recognises

• Google

• Chrome

• as

• Safari

• [DS-234

• ]

• Configurable

• passing

• of

• Javamail

• parameter

• settings

• [DS-242

• ]

• Special

• groups

• shown

• for

• logged

• in

• user

• rather

• than

• for

• user

• being

• examined

• [DS-250

• ]

• Invalid

• identifiers

• are

• not

• escaped

• [DS-256

• ]

• Item

• Export

• ignores

• metadata

• language

• qualifier

• [DS-279

• ]

• XMLUI

• Item

• Mapper

• will

• map

• the

• same

• item

• more

• than

• one

• time

• [DS-290

• ]

• [dspace

• ]/exports

• is

• not

• created

• during

• fresh

• install

• [DS-303

• ]

• Export

• migrate

• option

• incorrectly

• removes

• non-handle

• identifier.uris

• [DS-315

• ]

• Enhance

• readability

• of

• embedded

• metadata

• in

• html

• head

• [DS-316

• ]

• Make

• SWORD

• app:accepts

• configurable

• [DS-318

• ]

• JSPUI:

• Left

• over

• text

• in

• edit

• item

• about

• format

• [DS-319

• ]

• Replace

• '/dspace/bin/dsrun

• org.dspace.browse.ItemCounter'

• with

• /dspace/bin/itemcounter

• [DS-321

• ]

• DSpace

• command

• launcher

• [DS-327

• ]

• SWORD

• temp

• upload

• directory

• missing

• trailling

• slash

• [DS-328

• ]

• SWORD

• service

• documents

• do

• not

• include

• atom:generator

• element

• [DS-333

• ]

• Adjust

• SWORD

• ingest

• crosswalk

• to

• store

• bibliographic

• citation

• [DS-364

• ]

• Script

• to

• convert

• legacy

• dspace.log

• stats

• into

• solr

• stats

• records

• [DS-372

• ]

• New

• verbose

• option

• for

• [dspace

• ]/bin/dspace

• cleanup

• script

• [DS-388

• ]

• Item

• importer

• -

• new

• option

• to

• enable

• workflow

• notification

• emails

• [DS-389

• ]

• Misleading

• label:

• "Submit

• to

• This

• Collection"

• [DS-424

• ]

• Export

• metadata

• button

• displayed

• in

• JSPUI

• Administration

• List

• of

• withdrawn

• items

• [DS-442

• ]

• Enable

• RSS

• feeds

• by

• default

• [DS-445

• ]

• New

• Bitstream.findAll()

• method

• [DS-446

• ]

• New

• ant

• step

• -

• test_database

• [DS-447

• ]

• Email

• test

• script

(Larry Stone)

• [DS-400

• ]

• Fix

• DCDate

• date

• formatting

• for

• display

• in

• JSPUI

• (thanks

• also

• to

• Stuart

• Lewis

• for

• testing

• and

• final

• adjustment)

• [DS-284

• ]

• alternate

• odd

• and

• even

• styles

• correctly

• on

• table

• rows

• in

• Item

• Summary

• view

• [DS-393

• ]

• Fix

• DCDate

• and

• submission

• timezone

• bugs

• that

• changed

• date

• on

• page

• reload

• [DS-377

• ]

• Add

• META

• tags

• identifying

• DSpace

• source

• version

• [DS-373

• ]

• Fix

• "Letter"

• link

• URLs

• in

• 2nd-stage

• Browse

• [DS-294

• ]

• Add

• preferred

• language

• setting

• to

• Edit

• Profile

• page

• in

• XMLUI

• [DS-361

• ]

• Syndication

• Feeds

• refactoring,

• support

• all

• RSS/Atom

• formats

• for

• both

• feed

• and

• OpenSearch

• [DS-369

• ]

• Follow

• harvest.includerestricted.rss

• in

• XMLUI

• [DS-349

• ]

• Admins

• can

• choose

• Internal

• BitstreamFormats

• in

• XMLUI

• [DS-347

• ]

• Add

• --quiet

• option

• to

• filter-media

• (MediaFilterManager)

• to

• disable

• progress

• messages

• [DS-297

• ]

• Move

• PostgreSQL-specific

• SQL

• into

• etc/postgres

• for

• greater

• clarity

• [DS-338

• ]

• Disable

• cache

• advice

• (Expires

• header)

• on

• Bitstream

• download

• that

• requires

• authorization

• (XMLUI)

• [DS-285

• ]

• Respond

• to

• If-Modified-Since

• request

• header

• in

• XMLUI,

• also

• provide

• Last-Modified

• response

• header

• for

• Bitstreams

• [DS-288

• ]

• Configurable

• option

• to

• hide

• metadata

• fields

• in

• public

• UIs

• and

• OAI-PMH

• [DS-128

• ]

• Fix

• repositioning

• on

• submission

• pages

• after

• add

• button

• is

• clicked

• (XMLUI)

• [DS-255

• ]

• Protect

• submission

• from

• being

• lost

• if

• exception

• occurs

• in

• CompleteStep

• [DS-254

• ]

• Fix

• response

• for

• authorization

• failure

• on

• Bitstream

• when

• user

• is

• logged-in

• [DS-232

• ]

• Parse

• personal

• names

• correctly

• if

• there

• is

• no

• space

• after

• the

• last

• name

• [DS-191

• ]

• metadataschemaregistry_seq

• is

• not

• initialized

• correctly

• under

• Oracle

• [DS-193

• ]

• OAI

• RDF

• crosswalk

• fails

• when

• DC

• value

• is

• null

• [DS-249

• ]

• sub-daily

• utility

• script

• does

• not

• pass

• arguments

• to

• Java

• [DS-252

• ]

• Interpolate

• variables

• in

• the

• Subject:

• line

• of

• email

• templates

• as

• well

• [DS-262

• ]

• Bug

• in

• DS-118,

• new

• patch included
• [DS-274

• ]

• Typo

• in

• XSL

• breaks

• rendering

• of

• dri:xref

• with

• class

• [DS-275

• ]

• License

• files

• not

• listed

• on

• Item

• Summary

• page

• [DS-276

• ]

• Patch

• to

• fix

• spelling

• error

• in

• Exception

• page

• [DS-280

• ]

• build.xml

• fails

• for

• ant

• versions

• below

• 1.7

(Larry Stone / Andrea Bollini)

• [DS-236

• ]

• Authority

• control

• for

• metadata

• fields

• and

• Choice

• Authority

• plugin

• framework

(Mark Diggory / Stuart Lewis)

• [DS-201

• ]

• handle.jar

• upgraded

• to

• version

• 6.2

(Mark Diggory / Ben Bosman / Kevin Van de velde)

• DSpace.
• [DS-336

• ]

• DSpace

• 2.0

• Services

• Support

• /

• including

• fix

• for

• System.out

• lines.

• [DS-241

• ]

• DSpace

• Assembly

• Improvement

(Andrea Bollini)

• [DS-199

• ]

• SWORD

• module

• doesn't

• accept

• X-No-Op

• header

• (dry

• run)

• [DS-223

• ]

• Submission

• process

• show

• previous

• button

• in

• JSPUI

• also

• if

• the

• step

• is

• the

• first

• "visible"

• step

• [DS-227

• ]

• Values

• with

• double

• apos

• doesn't

• work

• in

• dropdown

• and

• list

• input

• type

• [DS-259

• ]

• Community/collection

• admin

• should

• not

• to

• be

• able

• to

• delete

• their

• admin

• group

• [DS-261

• ]

• Community

• Admin

• JSPUI:

• porting

• of

• the

• DS-228

• patch

• [DS-271

• ]

• Make

• the

• OAI

• DC

• crosswalk

• configurable

• [DS-260

• ]

• Template

• item

• some

• times

• has

• owningCollection

• filled

• and

• some

• times

• not

• [DS-309

• ]

• Shiboleth

• default

• roles

• are

• applied

• also

• to

• anonymous

• user

• and

• user

• logged-in

• with other methods
• [DS-270

• ]

• Make

• delegate

• admin

• permissions

• configurable

• [DS-436

• ]

• SWORD

• Authenticator

• doesn't

• support

• the

• special

• groups

• infrastructure

• [DS-415

• ]

• Create

• groups

• via

• admin

• UI

• authorization

• denied

• [DS-217

• ]

• Hardcoded

• String

• in

• the

• license

• bitstream

(Tim Donohue)

• [DS-238

• ]

• Move

• item

• function

• in

• xmlui

• [DS-281

• ]

• Invalid

• Link

• to

• "Go

• to

• DSpace

• Home"

• on

• Page

• Not

• Found

• (XMLUI)

• [DS-378

• ]

• XMLUI

• Submission

• Interface

• messes

• up

• in

• IE7

• after

• an

• empty

• <hint>

• in

• input_forms.xml

• [DS-382

• ]

• Proposal:

• Add

• 'dc.creator'

• to

• Author

• browse

• index

• by

• default

• [DS-385

• ]

• Packager

• script

• is

• unable

• to

• import

• the

• same

• METS

• +

• DIM

• package

• that

• was

• exported

• [DS-386

• ]

• Allow

• user

• to

• specify

• which

• <dmdSec>

• is

• used

• by

• the

• METS

• Ingester

• when

• importing

• METS

• from

• Packager

• script

• [DS-398

• ]

• Submission

• license

• displayed

• on

• collection

• and

• item

• homepage

• (XMLUI)

• [DS-399

• ]

• Special

• characters

• in

• collection

• license

• lead

• to

• parse

• error

• (XMLUI)

(Tim Donohue / Claudia Juergen)

(Tim Donohue / Andrea Bollini)

• [DS-228

• ]

• Community

• Admin

• XMLUI:

• Delegated

• Admins

• Patch

(Ben Bosman)

• [DS-365

• ]

• support

• for

• OAI

• gateways

• that

• do

• not

• use

• sets

• in

• harvester

• [DS-392

• ]

• Error

• messages

• in

• the

• submission

• do

• not

• disappear

• if

• e.g.

• one

• of

• the

• two

• errors

• are

• solved

• [DS-381

• ]

• community

• and

• collection

• homepage

• [DS-310

• ]

• UTF-8

• encoding

• in

• community

• and

• collection

• text

• [DS-307

• ]

• Offer

• access

• in

• AbstractSearch

• to

• QueryResults

• for

• subclasses

• [DS-306

• ]

• Option

• to

• disable

• mailserver

• [DS-226

• ]

• confirmation

• page

• of

• edit

• profile

• has

• an

• invalid

• link

• [DS-247

• ]

• Update

• of

• contribution

• of

• @MIRE

• Solr

• Based

• Statistics

• Engine

• to

• DSpace.

(OhioLINK)

• [DS-225

• ]

• dc.description.provenance

• -

• public

• display

(Yin Yin Latt / Stuart Lewis)

(Fabio Kepler / Steve Williams)

• [DS-258

• ]

• Item

• View

• Thumbnails

• not

• displaying

• in

• XMLUI

(Van Ly)

(Graham Triggs)

• [DS-299

• ]

• Allow

• long

• values

• to

• be

• specified

• for

• the

• max

• upload

• request

• (>

• 2GB

• uploads)

• [DS-344

• ]

• Fix

• problem

• where

• apostrophe

• in

• email

• address

• would

• stop

• EPerson

• being

• selected

• [DS-359

• ]

• Add

• alternate

• file

• appender

• for

• log4j

(Mark Wood)

• [DS-455

• ]

• Remove

• dspace/config/log4j.xml

(Ekaterina Pechekhonova)

(Richard Rodgers)

• [DS-324

• ]

• Add

• OpenSearch

• support

(Toni Prieto)

• [DS-356

• ]

• Antispam

• for

• suggest item feature
• [DS-289

• Oracle

• Patch

• ]

• OAI-PMH

• +

• OAI-ORE

• harvesting

• support