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• Optionally, you can also run and test DSpace 8 locally.
  • Download and install 8.0-rc1 (See Installing DSpace or Upgrading DSpace)
    
    • Frontend/UI download: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/releases/tag/dspace-8.0-rc1
    • Backend/REST API download: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/releases/tag/dspace-8.0-rc1 
  • Or,use Docker to quickly install DSpace 8 locally (see Try out DSpace 8)

WHERE: The test plan to record test results for https://sandbox.dspace.org/ is available at (link forthcoming) https://bit.ly/dspace-8-test-plan

Questions?  Ask them on our DSpace Tech Support list (https://groups.google.com/d/forum/dspace-tech) or Slack

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Test Plan and Instructions

This section is in development and content will be added the week of April 1, 2024.

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The test plan for the DSpace 8.0 testathon is available at https://bit.ly/dspace-8-test-plan. 

Instructions are available at https://bit.ly/testathon-instructions.

Co-working sessions

New to testing? Want to test with others? We're offering testathon coworking sessions on Zoom at the following dates/times:

• Tuesday, April 9th, 1 pm ET. 
• Wednesday, April 10th, 1 pm ET.
• Thursday, April 11th, 1 pm ET
• Friday, April 12th, 1 pm ET
• Monday, April 15th, 1 pm ET
• Tuesday, April 16th, 1 pm ET
• Wednesday April 17th, 1 pm ET
• Thursday, April 18th, 1 pm ET

The above sessions will be held at this Zoom link: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/82004507292 (Meeting ID 820 0450 7292) (Passcode: dspace)

Reporting Bugs that you find

If you find something that looks like unexpected behavior, or a definite bug, we encourage you to report it in a new bug ticket in our GitHub Issues:

1. Visit https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues while logged in via GitHub
2. Click on "New Issue" button
3. Click on "Get started" in the "Bug report" section
4. Describe the bug you found and the steps that a developer can take to reproduce the bug. (It is VERY important that a developer can reproduce the bug, otherwise it will be more difficult for us to solve it.)
   1. If you cannot reliably reproduce the bug, ask someone else on Slack or our Mailing Lists to see if they have seen similar behavior.  If multiple people see the same behavior, please report it!
5. Don't worry if you accidentally report the same bug as someone else.  In that scenario we'll just close one of the tickets & link everyone to a single ticket.

Reporting Security issues

Even though DSpace 8 is still in beta, it cannot be excluded that institutions are already running it on publicly accessible (test) servers right now.

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