The first open-source release of DSpace-CRIS was based on DSpace 1.8.2. Current releases of DSpace-CRIS are based on current DSpace 7 snapshot, DSpace 5.11 and DSpace 6.4 versions.
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The latest release is DSpace-CRIS 7 2022.03.01 dated December, 30th 2022 April, 21st 2023 This version, released on the 21st April 2023, provides alignment with DSpace 7.4 tag, and includes improvements in advanced attachment, item presentation, workspace item management and many bug fixes |
For previous DSpace versions the latest available tags are 5.11 and 6.4 both released on the August, 30th 2022 just after the release of the corresponding DSpace 6.4 and/or 5.11. Please note that all the DSpace-CRIS versions based on DSpace versions older than 7.0 are End of Life (EOL) according to the corresponding DSpace announcement: Support for DSpace 5 and 6 is ending in 2023
Below there is a detailed release plan covering all the known features contributed by 4Science and other community members who support the enhancement of this open-source extension of DSpace (see: DSpace-CRIS Working Group).
A visit to the community page maintained by DSpace-CRIS users is also recommended: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACECRIS/New+Features.
New functionalities are preferably developed for DSpace-CRIS 7 but support for all versions accepted by the DSpace Community is provided. Institutions interested in enhancements for DSpace-CRIS 6.x and DSpace-CRIS 5.x are still welcome to contribute but a plan to implement or support the same use case with version 7 should be provided.
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- COAR Notify
- ORCID Login Improvements from the GPF project
- Item Claim (looking for funders / contributors)
- Resourcesync (looking for funders / contributors)
2023
This version, released on the 21st April 2023, provides alignment with DSpace 7.4 tag. See DSpace 7.4 release notes.
Key Enhancements
- Support for the viewer framework: to allow developer to plug viewer specialized in rendering of specific file types
- Configurable item brief view
- Increased flexibility for the Edit item configuration: support for multiple security policies, link the edit modes to the original submission form name to differenciate edit inside the same entity (i.e. edit options for a publication, a thesis, etc could be different)
- Scopus live import update
- Use the Sherpa Romeo database as an authority for journal relationship
- Automatic guessing of linked entities during import
- Advanced Attachment: cleaner visualization of the bitstreams, possibility to configure which bitstream's metadata are shown in the item page
Major improvements areas / bug fixes
- General improvements on Angular side
- Google Scholar cannot index PDF
- Fixed migration steps from DSpace CRIS 5
- Fixed errors in metadata extraction step
- LDAP Authentication box not displayed when Password Authentication is disabled
Based on DSpace tag 7.4 (backend) and 7.4 (front-end)
2022
DSpace-CRIS 7 2022.03.00 December, 30th
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