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Notes

Reminders and Updates

  • Open Repositors will be happening June 15-18, 2025
    • DSpace Developers workshop will happen on June 15; please sign up if you'd like to share your work or suggest a topic for discussion
    • See DSpace at OR2025 for all DSpace related presentations, workshops, etc. at OR25; slide decks will be gathered on this page for those who cannot attend OR
  • Merger discussion is ongoing 
    • No decision made as of yet 
    • Technology group will meet today
    • Current discussions revolve around DSpace-CRIS and DSpace Differences
    • If you have any questions or notice that something is missing from this list, please feel free to edit the wiki page or reach out to Tim/Holger

9.0 Release

  • Tim is still working on a final count of contributors, probably in 80-100 range
  • Release notes are close to being finalized; please look through them to double check them if you (or your client) is recognized correctly 
  • Documentation is in good state; please take a look and double check things (esp. committers)
  • Acknowledgment section is not yet up to date; backend section still needs to be updated; once this list is fully ready for review, Tim will ping the dev channel on slack; please review this as well
  • Release will go out either today or tomorrow; announcement will happen next Tuesday (Monday is a national Holiday in the US); Tim will send updates on the dev channel in slack
  • If there are any other final tasks, please contact Tim as soon as possible
  • A huge thank you to everyone who has contributed!

Maintenance releases

  • Even after 9.0 goes out the door, DSpace 7 is still under maintenance
  • Tim has updated our maintenance board to include 9.x maintenance, has moved over all bug tickets off the old 9.0 board on GitHub (other than things in the "done" category) into the maintenance board; the old 9.0 board will be closed out once the release has been officially completed
  • There is a new 10.0 board, where all the new features that didn't make 9.0 have been moved to
  • Please review the boards, esp. the maintenance board, since we want to get maintenance releases out for 8.2 and 7.6.4 relatively soon (after OR); anything in 9.0 flagged to be backported and is still outstanding will be backported into these
    • There's no deadline for these as of yet, we will set one in the coming weeks
    • There are some bug fixes on the 9.0 board that have the "port to" label; some have not yet been ported; please take a look to see what hasn't been backported yet

10.0 Release

  • There is a 10.0 board that has not yet been organized or cleaned up; everything feature related left over from 9.0 is now on that board
  • There is already a big backlog on the "under review" and "needs reviewer assigned" columns (~130)
    • A lot of these PRs have been opened for some time
    • Would be great if we could come up with a strategy, ideas on how to speed up this process; please pass any ideas Tim's way
      • Steering will be discussing speeding up code reviews in the coming weeks and try to come up with ideas and solutions
    • If you'd like to see them in 10.0 release, please test these, review these
  • Some bug tickets found their way on to this board and need to be cleaned up
  • Tentative plan: have 10.0 out roughly a year after 9.0's release; no date as of yet, but roughly May 2026
  • 10.0 priorities will heavily depend on the outcome of the merger planning work
    • Hopefully in the next month or two, we will have more clarity around a potential merger
    • Until there is more clarity, we will proceed similar to 9.0 release
      • Priorities for 9.0 were purposefully vague
      • As always, there is a ticket open related to any major work you'd like to do; if the ticket doesn't already exist, please make one
      • Please let Tim know if you'd like to claim something that is currently not on the board
    • As soon as there are more official guidelines, we can shift as necessary what we will do for 10.0
  • Discussion: Do you have any brainstorms, features, or improvements you'd like to see coming to DSpace?
    • We will have this discussion throughout the next weeks; please think about this 
    • Refactor of JUnit 4 to 5; upgrading dependencies related to testing, which would allow us to move to JDK 21
    • More advanced audit trail functionality 
    • Enhanced Statistics
    • Explore Springshell in order to replace the current CLI tools: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/10054
    • New guidelines for accessibility that will be coming into effect in the US in 2026; not just platform, but content-related
      • Is there a way to make content uploaded to DSpace more accessibility compliant?

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