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7.0 Beta 4 Release Notes

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To try out DSpace 7.0 Beta 4 immediately, see Try out DSpace 7

Full (manual) installation instructions are also available at Installing DSpace.

Changelog

• All User Interface changes

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• : https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/

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• All Backend changes

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• : https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/

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7.0

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Beta 4 Release Notes

Included in Beta 4

• Live Import framework (video) support has been added to the Submission Form (and REST API /api/integration/externalsources endpoint)
  • Search an external site for works to import (From your MyDSpace page, click the "Import metadata from external source" button in upper right).  Currently supports Library of Congress Names, ORCID, PubMed, Sherpa Journals or Sherpa Publishers.
  • Drag and drop a bibliographic file into Submission form or MyDSpace page to prepopulate metadata. Supported formats include ArXiv, CSV (or TSV), Endnote, PubMed, or RIS.
• Controlled Vocabulary support (video) in Submission Form. Depending on the field configuration, this can include autocomplete of known terms (see default "Subject Keywords" field), dropdown support (see default "Type" field) and hierarchical tree views
  • Includes support for Controlled Vocabs, Authority Control and "Value-Pairs" (from submission configs)
• Curation Tasks are now supported via the Admin UI and the Processes UI. (Login as an Admin, select "Curation Tasks")
• Import / Export metadata from/to CSV (i.e. Batch Metadata Editing) is now available from the Admin UI. (Login as an Admin, select "Export" > "Metadata", select "Import" > "Metadata")
• Basic Usage Statistics (video) are available for the entire site (See "Statistics" menu at top of homepage), or specific Communities, Collections or Items (Click on that same "Statistics" menu after browsing to a specific object).
  • Support for exchanging usage data to IRUS was added.  See new "irus-statistics.cfg" and DS-626
• Improved GDPR Alignment (video)
  • User Agreement required for all authenticated users to read and agree to. (Login for first time, and sample user agreement will display. After agreeing to it, it will not appear again.)
  • Cookie Preferences are now available for all users (anonymous or authenticated). A cookie preference popup appears when first accessing the site. Users are given information on what cookies added by DSpace, including a Privacy Statement which can be used to describe how their data is used.
  • User Accounts can be deleted even if they've submitted content in the past.
    • When a user is deleted, their past submissions are kept but the submitter field is set to empty (null).
    • Users cannot be deleted if they are the only member of a workflow approval group. Admins must either delete that group first, or assign another member to the group. This ensures Workflows are kept even if a user account needs to be deleted.
• Language preferences are now kept for all users (anonymous or logged in). By default, DSpace will try to use your browser's preferred language (if found in Accept-Language header and a translation in that language exists).  Users can override it by either saving a preferred language in their user profile, or by manually selecting a different language from the globe icon (upper right).
• IP-based authorization lets you restrict (or provide access to) objects based on the user's IP address.  This uses the same "authentication-ip.cfg" configuration as DSpace 6, allowing you to map IP ranges to specific DSpace Groups. Users within that IP range are added to the mapped DSpace Group for the remainder of their session.
• Search Engine Optimization: Addition of robots.txt, Sitemaps and Google Scholar "citation" tags. These optimizations are being tested by the Google Scholar team and may be improved further in the upcoming beta 5 release.
  • For improved SEO, Sitemaps are now enabled by default and automatically update once per day.
• Security Fixes and Dependency upgrades
  • Enhancements to new /api/authz/features endpoint in REST API to provide additional feature-specific permission checks
  • Flyway database engine was upgraded to version 6.5.5
  • Indexing enhancements (some objects were being indexed twice, see PR#2960)
  • Fixes to Shibboleth login
  • Additional bug fixes to both UI and REST API

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