Preface

Welcome to Release 1.7.0.  The ! The committers have volunteered many hours to fix, re-write and contribute new software code for this release. Documentation has also been updated.  

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The following is a list of the new features included (not an exhaustive list) for release 1.7.0 .(not an exhaustive list):

• Mirage: a new clean, professional looking theme for XMLUI that eases theme development
• DSpace Discovery: a faceted browse/search interface for XMLUI that gives a deeper and more intuitive look at repository content
• Archival Information Package (AIP) Backup & Restore process: allows for a backup of DSpace into a generic METS-based structure, that can be used to migrate DSpace content to another system that supports AIP's (DSpace or non-DSpace)
• Curation System User Interface: allows for a series of curation tasks (profile bitstream formats, virus scan, check for required metadata) to be performed on objects in DSpace
• PowerPoint text extraction, for searching within PowerPoint slides
• Improved Google Scholar indexing on metadata and PDF content
• Improved performance and scalability of DSpace: the code has been thoroughly analyzed to provide major performance gains with regard to item ingestion and indexing speed to support larger repositories
• Automated Unit Testing of core code: helps the developers ensure the core code of DSpace is as bug free and stable as possible

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