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Version 1.7.0
We invite developers to help with the next major release of DSpace , version 1.7.0 , which is planned for release in December 2010.
Contributors are strongly encouraged to obtain the source code using Subversion (SVN). This is very straightforward, and we've published a guide to doing so here: ContributionGuidelines
was officially released to the public on December 17, 2010.
Anyone wishing to try out Repository managers and others wishing to test the new features can visit http://demo.dspace.org during Testathon (Nov 8-19) or any time after then to provide feedback. You can also provide immediate feedback from that demonstration site.
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DSpace 1.7.0 is a scheduled, "time-based" release. In order to decrease delays in releasing new features and increase transparency, the DSpace Developers have decided to schedule scheduled 1.7.0 in advance and base based its features on what we are were able to complete within that timeframe. So, Despite the fact that 1.7.0 will be a departure from 1.6.0 in that it may include fewer new features overall, but will be completed in a much tighter timeframehad a much tighter timeframe than previous major releases, the developers have managed to include some significant new features, numerous bug fixes and performance improvements. Scheduling releases will benefit benefits us all as it should decrease the delays in releasing new features, and increase the transparency of the development process. The DSpace Developers feel that these benefits will far outweigh the cost of potentially having fewer major features in a given DSpace release. We hope the DSpace Community will also realize the immediate benefits, which should allow them to receive new features more quickly, rather than potentially waiting years for the next major release of the software. The DSpace Developers hope to continue this trend of "time based" releases with all future releases. |
New features in DSpace 1.7
| Mirage, a clean and professional looking theme for XMLUI. |
| Discover, a faceted browsing and searching interface that gives a deeper and more intuitive look at repository contents. |
| 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). DuraCloud is an extention of this as one could then backup the AIP to the cloud storage. |
| Curation System , a framework for building and running tasks to help a Curator preserve and improve your repository contents.
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| Automated Unit Testing of core code -- helps the developers ensure that DSpace is as bug free and stable as possible. Unit Testing coupled with continuous integration on our bamboo server allows us to validate every change to the DSpace code base. Thus letting us know immediately if something changed broke another feature. |
| Improved Google Scholar metadata exposure. Additional citation_ tags have been exposed to allow the Google Scholar crawler to find better associate repository metadata and PDF content. |
| PowerPoint text extraction, for searching within PowerPoint slides |
| Top 10 Most Visited items list, available for the overall site. |
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