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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

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

• http://demo.dspace.org^{Image Removed}

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

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• 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-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-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)

(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-161

• ]

• Bulk

• metadata

• editing

• [DS-194

• ]

• Give

• METS

• ingester

• configuration

• option

• to

• make

• use

• of

• collection

• templates

• [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-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-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

(Flavio Botelho)

• [DS-246

• ]

• Fix

• configurable

• browse

• parameter

• encoding

• (XMLUI)

• [DS-320

• ]

• java.util.NoSuchElementException:

• Timeout

• waiting

• for

• idle

• object

• [DS-353

• ]

• Missing

• commits