| Achievement | More details |
|---|
 (2014-15) Governance creates a Strategic Plan for modernizing & refreshing DSpace for the future. A key goal of this plan is a "single, out of the box user interface" to replace the aging XMLUI and JSPUI. | DSpace 2015-18 Strategic Plan |
(2015-16) Community competition for different UI prototypes. Nine were reviewed / analyzed for inclusion as the single, future DSpace UI. | DSpace UI Prototype Challenge |
| (2016) Formal selection of Angular as new UI framework, replacing both the XMLUI and JSPUI. New Angular UI that is modern, responsive, and built using a Bootstrap theme for easy customization. | "Introducing the new DSpace User Interface" talk at OR2016 DSpace 7 UI Project Plain Language Summary |
| (2017) Adoption of a standards based REST API to maximize exposure of all DSpace features for integration purposes: A completely redesigned REST API that is self-documenting and human browsable. | "On the Road to DSpace 7 : Angular UI + REST" at OR2017 DSpace 7 UI Project Plain Language Summary |
| (2017-19) Redesigned submissions and workflows featuring a one page submission process with a drag-and-drop interface & a searchable MyDSpace. | Configuration changes in the submission process |
| (2017-19) Configurable entities, an optional new item type inspired by the DSpace-CRIS project that allows for complex linked relationships between items. For example, Items can now represent a Person (Entity) to provide a way to support "researcher profiles", and link that person to the works they authored. | |
| (May 2019) Preview release, including Entity demonstrator and associated data set | DSpace 7 Preview Release |
| (2019-20) Docker installation and deployment procedures | Try out DSpace 7 ("Install via Docker" section) |
| (Jan 2020) Established a new Staged Beta Release Process for 7.0, spacing out major features over a series of smaller Beta releases & delaying some low priority features for 7.1 or 7.2. Paid/funded development began. | DSpace Release 7.0 Status |
(March 2020) Beta 1 released | Beta 1 Release Notes |
| (April 2020) Beta 2 released | Beta 2 Release Notes |
| (July 2020) Beta 3 released | Beta 3 Release Notes |
| (Oct 2020) Beta 4 released | Beta 4 Release Notes |
| (April 2021) Beta 5 released | Beta 5 Release Notes |
| Testathon (Going on now, for 3 weeks) | April 19 - May 7, 2021 |
| 7.0 release (see "What will be included in DSpace 7.0?") | TBA (After Testathon) |
| 7.1 release (see "What will be included in DSpace 7.1?") | TBA (After 7.0 release) |
| 7.2 release (see "What will be included in DSpace 7.2?") | TBA (After 7.1 release) |