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  • ORCID Authentication and synchronization to a DSpace Researcher Profile(ported from the DSpace-CRIS project, partially donated and developed by 4Science)
  • Import content directly from many new external systems including CrossRef, Scopus CiNii, NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS), Web of Science, VuFind.org, PubMed Europe, SciELO.org, and the European Paten Office (EPO) (ported from the DSpace-CRIS project, partially donated and developed by 4Science)
  • Configurable Entities now support Item Versioning.
  • Admin Control Panel
  • Validate a Batch Metadata CSV during upload
  • Export search results to a CSV
  • Submission forms support display of SHERPA/RoMEO publisher policies when an ISSN is entered.
  • Submission forms support type-based fields (ported from the DSpace-CRIS project by Kim Shepherd of The Library Code, with support from Technische Universität Berlin): Based on the selected Type (dc.type), the form may dynamically add/change metadata fields available.
  • Preview items during workflow approval.
  • Withdrawn Item tombstone support
  • RSS/Atom feeds for Site, Community & Collection pages (Donated by Atmire)
  • Optionally, a new welcome email can be sent to all newly registered users (Donated by Mark Wood).  This can be enabled using the new "mail.welcome.enabled" backend configuration in your local.cfg.
  • Frontend has been upgraded to Angular 13.
  • Backend has been updated to Spring Boot 2.6

Major bug fixes / improvements include:

  • Major frontend performance improvements: initial page load is much quicker.  All assets are now zipped/minified.
  • Frontend can be easily run from a subpath (e.g. https://my.university.edu/dspace)
  • "custom" theme was throwing TypeErrors in 7.2. That has been fixed.
  • Renamed "private/public" status to be "non-discoverable/discoverable", which is more accurate.  A "private" item may or may not be access restricted.  Private status just meant the item was not findable/discoverable through DSpace search/browse.
  • Added "Now Showing..." informational counts to all Browse By pages (similar to in 6.x)
  • Changed Browse "jump to" boxes to act as a filter, rather than jumping to a specific page. Updated display to make this clearer.
  • Fixed several bugs related to resource policies (couldn't Fixed bug where you couldn't set an end date on a resource policy, couldn't edit group/person, etc)
  • Fixed bug where resubmitting an Item move could result in Item deletion.
  • Fixed several bugs in submission form
    • Improved form validation and error display
    • Occasionally, null metadata values were being saved
    • In some scenarios, submissions could be completed without agreeing to license.
    • Fixed bug where Creative Commons step wasn't loading properly when configured
    • Fixed several bugs in bitstream editing form
  • Fixed bug with browse by issue date wouldn't work if it encountered an invalid date in the first item.
  • Numerous dependency updates

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