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UNRELEASED. These are draft release notes & may not be finalized. The latest production release of 7.x is 7.6.1 (see below). |
DSpace 7.6.1 2 provides bug fixes, accessibility & performance improvements to the 7.6.x platform. No new features are provided. As such this release should be an easier upgrade for sites already running 7.6.x.
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- Performance Improvements
- Disabled Angular "inlineCriticalCSS" in all Server Side Rendering (SSR). This provides a performance improvement to all SSR generated pages. See https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/2901 (Donated by 4Science)
- Media filter performance improvements when filtering a large number of bitstreams (for thumbnail creation or full text indexing). (Donated by 4Science)
- Submission form performance improvements. The submission form has been updated to ensure it no longer loads all related objects. (Donated by Atmire)
- Submission configuration reloading performance improvements. This also improves performance of creating a new Collection. (Donated by Toni Prieto)
- Updated robots.txt to stop crawlers from accessing search facets (Donated by Atmire)
- Accessibility improvements in User Interface
- Hidden "Skip to main content" button now exists on all pages. (Donated by Atmire)
- Header / Navbar / Admin Sidebar accessibility fixes (Donated by 4Science)
- Community list accessibility fixes (Donated by Hrafn Malmquist)
- Color contrast fixes to "dspace" theme (Donated by Maciej Kleban)
- Search results / MyDSpace / Item Edit / Browse by / Login menu accessibility fixes (Donated by Atmire)
- Community/Collection Homepage accessibility fixes (Donated by Atmire)
- Additional keyboard controls in Submission form (Donated by Atmire)
- Browse by Author accessibility fixes (Donated by Neki-it)
- "Loading" message accessibility improvements (Donated by Neki-it)
- Fixing issue with header menu being keyboard accessible on small screens (Donated by Eike Löhden)
- Fix color contrast issues with cookie settings popup (Donated by PCG Academia)
- Submission form fixes
- Fixed caching issues and instability of PATCH commands when editing date (Donated by 4Science)
- Fixed issue where some changes could be lost after a save but reappear after reloading page (Donated by Atmire)
- Fixed issue where metadata import (from external source) would only show first value for each metadata field instead of all values (Donated by Atmire)
- Fixed issue where vocabulary displayed value was not always appearing when editing an existing submission (Donated by Atmire)
- Provide a way to deselect a value from a metadata field dropdown (Donated by Atmire)
- Fixed bugs related to creating/deleting Entity relationships in the submission form (Donated by Atmire)
- Fixed bugs where type-bind wasn't working for radio buttons and checkboxes (Donated by Max Nuding)
- Fixed issues with CrossRef and Scopus metadata import (Donated by Sascha Szott)
- Fixed issue with display of no results from CrossRef search (Donated by Philipp Rumpf)
- Fixed issues with DataCite metadata import (Donated by Florian Gantner)
- Statistics fixes
- Solr Statistics: fixed issue where first visit to a repository was not always tracked because of a CSRF token mismatch.
- Google Analytics 4 updated to only count file downloads from ORIGINAL bundle. See https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/8944 (Donated by Atmire)
- Item Counts (webui.strengths) are now updating automatically again.
- SEO improvements
- Legacy bitstream URLs now return a 301 redirect (instead of a 302) (Donated by Atmire)
- Missing identifiers now return an HTTP code 404 (Donated by Atmire)
- Fixed bug where Amazon S3 data store would sometimes leave around temp files during download process. See https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/9477 (Donated by 4Science)
- Fixed issue where failing ZIP exports could sometimes leave around a work directory.
- Fixed issue where virtual metadata of Entities could cause failures during Item versioning & AIP import.
- Fixed issue where indexing may fail if Full Text extraction fails (Donated by 4Science)
- Fix several issues with editing Entity relationships (Donated by Atmire)
- Fix several pagination issues with Item Mapper (Donated by Atmire)
- Fixed issue where deleted admin users could cause the Processes page to no longer load properly. (Donated by Atmire)
- System alerts now support basic HTML. See https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/3044 (Donated by Abel Gomez)
- Fixed issue where batch imported bitstreams may be created without a resource policy type. (Donated by Agustina Martinez)
- Fixed issue where Items imported via SWORD may be created without a resource policy type. (Donated by Paulo Graça)
- Fixed display issue where Communities with diacritics were not sorted properly (Donated by Paulo Graça)
- OAI-PMH DataCite crosswalk updated to support DataCite version 4.5 (Sponsored by The Library Code)
- Minor updates to various dependencies for security purposes (both for user interface and backend)
- Many other minor bug fixes as listed in Changes in 7.x.
Updated Language support:
- (NEW) Arabic (العربية) translation added by KnowledgeWare Technologies Est.
- Czech (Čeština) translation updates donated by NTK
- German (Deutsch) language updates donated by Sascha Szott (saschaszott)
- Portuguese (Português) language updates donated by Ricardo Saraiva (rsaraivac)
7.6.2 Acknowledgments
The DSpace application would not exist without the hard work and support of its community. Thank you to the many developers who have worked very hard to deliver all the bug fixes and improvements. This release was entirely volunteer driven!
Development Acknowledgments
A total of __ unique individuals contributed to 7.6.2.
Frontend / User Interface Acknowledgments
The following __ individuals have contributed directly to the new DSpace (Angular) User Interface in this release (ordered by number of GitHub commits): Alexandre Vryghem (alexandrevryghem), Tim Donohue (tdonohue), Hugo Daniel Dominguez de la Cruz (hugo-escire), Davide Negretti (davide-negretti), Vladzislav Novski (vNovski), Eike Löhden (Leano1998), Hrafn Malmquist (J4bbi), Paulo Graça (paulo-graca), Art Lowel (artlowel), Michał Dykas (michdyk), Alan Orth (alanorth), Kristof De Langhe (Atmire-Kristof), Milos Ivanovic (imilos), Mirko Scherf (mirkoscherf), Sascha Szott (saschaszott), Mark Wood (mwoodiupui), William Welling (wwtamu), Lotte Hofstede (LotteHofstede), Flo (floriangantner), Hardy Pottinger (hardyoyo), Sergio Fernández Celorio (sergius02), Yury Bondarenko (ybnd), Agustina Martinez (amgciadev), Reeta Kuukoski (reetagithub), Nona Luypaert (nona-luypaert), Kim Shepherd (kshepherd), Yana De Pauw (YanaDePauw), Marie Verdonck (MarieVerdonck)
The above contributor lists were determined based on contributions to the "dspace-angular" project in GitHub between 7.6 (after June 23, 2023) and 7.6.1: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/graphs/contributors?from=2023-06-23&to=2023-11-15&type=c
Backend / REST API Acknowledgments
The following __ individuals have contributed directly to the DSpace backend (REST API, Java API, OAI-PMH, etc.) in this release (ordered by number of GitHub commits): Tim Donohue (tdonohue), Sascha Szott (saschaszott), Alan Orth (alanorth), Toni Prieto (toniprieto),
Agustina Martinez (amgciadev), Mark Wood (mwoodiupui), Paulo Graça (paulo-graca), Toni Prieto (toniprieto), Adán Román Ruiz (aroman-arvo), Christian Bethge (ChrisBethgster), Alan Orth (alanorth), Nicholas Woodward (nwoodward), Nona Luypaert (nona-luypaert), Alexandre Vryghem (alexandrevryghem), Hrafn Malmquist (J4bbi), Andrea Bollini (abollini), Luca Giamminonni (LucaGiamminonni), damian-joz, Michael Spalti (mspalti),