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  • 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

A full list of all changes / bug fixes in 1.7.0 is available in the History section.

The following people have contributed directly to this release of DSpace: @mire, Andrea Bollini, Andrea Schweer, Andreas Schwander, Andrew Hankinson, Andrew Taylor, Antero Neto, Ben Bosman, Bill Hays, BioMed Central, Caryn Neiswender, Christophe Dupriez, Claudia Jürgen, Enovation Solutions, Erick Rocha Fonseca, Flávio Botelho, Gabriela Mircea, Gareth Waller, Graham Triggs, Hardy Pottinger, Ivan Masár, Jason Stirnaman, Jeffrey Trimble, Keiji Suzuki, Keith Gilbertson, Kevin Van de Velde, Kim Shepherd, Mark Diggory, Mark H. Wood, Marvin Pollard, Michael B. Klein, Nicholas Riley, Nick Nicholas, OhioLINK, Oleksandr Sytnyk, Pere Villega, Peter Dietz, Reinhard Engels, Richard Rodgers, Robin Taylor, Sands Fish, Sarah Shreeves, Scott Phillips, Simon Brown, Stuart Lewis, Tim Donohue, Vladislav Zhivkov, Yin Yin Latt. Many of them could not do this work without the support (release time and financial) of their associated institutions. We offer thanks to those institutions for supporting their staff to take time to contribute to the DSpace project.

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