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titleGet Started / Try it out!

To try out DSpace 7.0 Beta 2 immediately, see Try out DSpace 7

Full installation instructions are also available at Installing DSpace.

For more information on the upcoming Beta and Final release schedule see DSpace 7 Release Goals.

Included in Beta 2

  • Administrative Search (video) combines retrieval of withdrawn items and private items, together with a series of quick action buttons.
  • EPeople, Groups and Roles can now be viewed, created and updated.
    • Manage Groups (Login as an Admin → Access Control → Groups)
    • Manage EPeople (Login as an Admin → Access Control → EPeople)
    • Manage Community/Collection Roles (Login as an Admin → Edit Community/Collection → Assign Roles).  Note: this feature is Admin-only in beta 2, but will be extended to Community/Collection Admins in beta 3.
  • Bitstream Editing (video) has a drag-and-drop interface for re-ordering bitstreams and makes adding and editing bitstreams more intuitive.
  • Metadata Editing (video) introduces suggest-as-you-type for field name selection of new metadata.
  • Update Profile / Change Password (Login → Select user menu in upper right → Profile)
  • Shibboleth Authentication
  • Viewing Item Version History (requires upgrading from a 6.x site that includes Item Versioning)
  • Collection and Community (video) creation and edit pages.
  • English, Latvian, Dutch, German, French, Portuguese and Spanish language catalogs
  • Security and authorization improvements, including REST API support hiding specific metadata fields (metadata.hide property) and upgrades of different software packages on which DSpace 7 depends.
  • All features previous mentioned in 7.0 Beta 1 Release Notes below

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