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Version 1.6.0

We invite developers to help with the next maintenance release of DSpace. Contributors are strongly encouraged to obtain the source code using SubVersion. This is very straightforward, and we've published a guide to doing so here: http://wiki.dspace.org/ContributionGuidelines

Organizational

Release Coordination

  • Stuart Lewis, The University of Auckland Library
  • (Backup Release Coordinator) Tim Donohue, DuraSpace

Timeline and Proceeding

Release Timeline:

  • December 4, 2009 : 1.6.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) released
  • December 7-11, 2009 : Testathon for 1.6.0 RC1
  • February 10, 2010 : 1.6.0 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) released
  • February 15-19, 2010 : Testathon for 1.6.0 RC2
  • March 2, 2010 : 1.6.0 Final Release

Testathon details available at DSpace+Release+1.6.0+Testathon+Page

Now, that the Testathon is finished and 1.6.0 released there are public test instances availabe at:

Release Process needs to proceed according to the following Maven release process ReleaseProcedure

New Features/Changes

A more detailed description for each of the below features is available on Stuart Lewis's blog entry entitled DSpace+1.6 - What will be in it for me?

These major new features are available in DSpace+1.6:

  • Enhanced statistics
  • Embargo facility
  • Batch metadata editing
  • Improved documentation
  • Authority control lists
  • Community administration

Other minor or backend features available in DSpace+1.6:

  • DSpace service locator
  • Command line script launcher ('dspace') for all operating systems
  • OpenSearch (ATOM feed of search results)
  • Security Improvements
  • SWORD Improvements (more flexible, better performance)
  • Updated Handle server
  • Numerous smaller bug/issue fixes

Known Issues

See: http://jira.dspace.org/

Also: Known bugs affecting 1.6.0 final

Changes

Last updated 3 March 2010. Up to date list also available at http://scm.dspace.org/trac/dspace/browser/dspace/tags/dspace-1.6.0/dspace/CHANGES

Changes listed below are referenced by their issue number in DSpace Jira.

(Alexey Maslov)

  • DS-289 OAI-PMH + OAI-ORE harvesting support

(Kim Shepherd)

  • DS-118 File preview link during submission leads to page not found
  • DS-121 XMLUI Feedback form breaks with multiple hostnames
  • DS-156 File description not available in XMLUI
  • DS-198 File descriptions can not be removed/cleared in XMLUI
  • DS-240 Item validityKey not complete
  • DS-251 Bulk Metadata Editing: XMLUI aspect and forms
  • DS-363 JSPUI statistics views
  • DS-406 View Statistics button does not work in item page
  • DS-409 JSPUI stats display ignores 'statistics.item.authorization.admin'
  • DS-414 File downloads listed in collections and communities statistics
  • DS-438 JSPUI stats - filenames incorrect
  • DS-418 I18n broken in JSPUI
  • DS-474 handle.canonical.prefix undocumented

(Claudia Juergen)

  • DS-114 Links not working due to trailing white space in dspace.url
  • DS-188 Misspell exclude.type=indentifier in dstat.cfg
  • DS-197 Deleting a primary bitstream does not clear the primary_bitstream_id on the bundle table
  • DS-222 Email alerts due to internal errors are not sent, if context is missing
  • DS-231 Missig file (just some obsolete use of index-all in the current documentation, corrected the docs)
  • DS-248 Missing admin column in community table in database-schema.sql and update - community admin patch
  • Item Importer - documented the use of non-dc metadata during item import
  • DS-269 Oracle JDBC connection string wrong in dspace.cfg - ID: 2722093
  • Removed superfluous statistics configuration parameters from dspace.cfg

(Andreas Schwander / Claudia Juergen)

  • DS-337 A bug related with adding new -EPersons

(Andreas Schwander / Kim Shepherd)

  • DS-331 Config property mismatch between dspace.cfg and DSpaceLocaleAction (XMLUI)

(Bram Luyten)

  • DS-425 JSPUI cosmetics - horizontal scroll bar

(Ricardo Saraiva)

  • DS-190 Portuguese (pt_PT) translation Messages.properties JSP-UI v1.5.2

(Stuart Lewis)

  • DS-44 Monthly statistics skip first and last of month - SF ID: 2541435
  • DS-161 Bulk metadata editing
  • DS-194 Give METS ingester configuration option to make use of collection templates
  • DS-195 Allow the primary bitstream to be set in the item importer / exporter
  • DS-196 METS exposed via OAI-PMH includes description.provenance information
  • DS-200 SWORD module requires the X-Packaging header
  • DS-204 New -zip option for item exporter and importer
  • DS-209 Context.java turnOffAuthorisationSystem() can throw a NPE
  • DS-212 NPE thrown during Harvest of non-items when visibility restriction is enabled
  • DS-213 IPAuthentication extended to allow negative matching
  • DS-216 Migrating items that use additional metadata schemas causes an NPE
  • DS-219 Internal Server error - include login details of user
  • DS-221 XMLUI 'current activity' recognises Google Chrome as Safari
  • DS-234 Configurable passing of Javamail parameter settings
  • DS-242 Special groups shown for logged in user rather than for user being examined
  • DS-250 Invalid identifiers are not escaped
  • DS-256 Item Export ignores metadata language qualifier
  • DS-279 XMLUI Item Mapper will map the same item more than one time
  • DS-290 dspace/exports is not created during fresh install
  • DS-303 Export migrate option incorrectly removes non-handle identifier.uris
  • DS-315 Enhance readability of embedded metadata in html head
  • DS-316 Make SWORD app:accepts configurable
  • DS-318 JSPUI: Left over text in edit item about format
  • DS-319 Replace '/dspace/bin/dsrun org.dspace.browse.ItemCounter' with /dspace/bin/itemcounter
  • DS-321 DSpace command launcher
  • DS-327 SWORD temp upload directory missing trailling slash
  • DS-328 SWORD service documents do not include atom:generator element
  • DS-333 Adjust SWORD ingest crosswalk to store bibliographic citation
  • DS-364 Script to convert legacy dspace.log stats into solr stats records
  • DS-372 New verbose option for dspace/bin/dspace cleanup script
  • DS-388 Item importer - new option to enable workflow notification emails
  • DS-389 Misleading label: "Submit to This Collection"
  • DS-424 Export metadata button displayed in JSPUI Administration List of withdrawn items
  • DS-442 Enable RSS feeds by default
  • DS-445 New Bitstream.findAll() method
  • DS-446 New ant step - test_database
  • DS-447 Email test script

(Larry Stone)

  • DS-400 Fix DCDate date formatting for display in JSPUI (thanks also to Stuart Lewis for testing and final adjustment)
  • DS-284 alternate odd and even styles correctly on table rows in Item Summary view
  • DS-393 Fix DCDate and submission timezone bugs that changed date on page reload
  • DS-377 Add META tags identifying DSpace source version
  • DS-373 Fix "Letter" link URLs in 2nd-stage Browse
  • DS-294 Add preferred language setting to Edit Profile page in XMLUI
  • DS-361 Syndication Feeds refactoring, support all RSS/Atom formats for both feed and OpenSearch
  • DS-369 Follow harvest.includerestricted.rss in XMLUI
  • DS-349 Admins can choose Internal BitstreamFormats in XMLUI
  • DS-347 Add --quiet option to filter-media (MediaFilterManager) to disable progress messages
  • DS-297 Move PostgreSQL-specific SQL into etc/postgres for greater clarity
  • DS-338 Disable cache advice (Expires header) on Bitstream download that requires authorization (XMLUI)
  • DS-285 Respond to If-Modified-Since request header in XMLUI, also provide Last-Modified response header for Bitstreams
  • DS-288 Configurable option to hide metadata fields in public UIs and OAI-PMH
  • DS-128 Fix repositioning on submission pages after add button is clicked (XMLUI)
  • DS-255 Protect submission from being lost if exception occurs in CompleteStep
  • DS-254 Fix response for authorization failure on Bitstream when user is logged-in
  • DS-232 Parse personal names correctly if there is no space after the last name
  • DS-191 metadataschemaregistry_seq is not initialized correctly under Oracle
  • DS-193 OAI RDF crosswalk fails when DC value is null
  • DS-249 sub-daily utility script does not pass arguments to Java
  • DS-252 Interpolate variables in the Subject: line of email templates as well
  • DS-262 Bug in DS-118, new patch included
  • DS-274 Typo in XSL breaks rendering of dri:xref with class
  • DS-275 License files not listed on Item Summary page
  • DS-276 Patch to fix spelling error in Exception page
  • DS-280 build.xml fails for ant versions below 1.7

(Larry Stone / Andrea Bollini)

  • DS-236 Authority control for metadata fields and Choice Authority plugin framework

(Mark Diggory / Stuart Lewis)

  • DS-201 handle.jar upgraded to version 6.2

(Mark Diggory / Ben Bosman / Kevin Van de velde)

  • DS-335 DatabaseManager additions from Minho statistics addon.
  • DS-247 Contribution of @MIRE Solr Based Statistics Engine to DSpace.
  • DS-336 DSpace+2.0 Services Support / including fix for System.out lines.
  • DS-241 DSpace Assembly Improvement

(Andrea Bollini)

  • DS-206 Input form visibility restriction doesn't work properly
  • DS-199 SWORD module doesn't accept X-No-Op header (dry run)
  • DS-223 Submission process show previous button in JSPUI also if the step is the first "visible" step
  • DS-227 Values with double apos doesn't work in dropdown and list input type
  • DS-259 Community/collection admin should not to be able to delete their admin group
  • DS-261 Community Admin JSPUI: porting of the DS-228 patch
  • DS-271 Make the OAI DC crosswalk configurable
  • DS-260 Template item some times has owningCollection filled and some times not
  • DS-309 Shiboleth default roles are applied also to anonymous user and user logged-in with other methods
  • DS-270 Make delegate admin permissions configurable
  • DS-436 SWORD Authenticator doesn't support the special groups infrastructure
  • DS-415 Create groups via admin UI authorization denied
  • DS-217 Hardcoded String in the license bitstream

(Tim Donohue)

  • DS-218 Cannot add/remove email subscriptions from Profile page in XMLUI
  • DS-238 Move item function in xmlui
  • DS-281 Invalid Link to "Go to DSpace Home" on Page Not Found (XMLUI)
  • DS-378 XMLUI Submission Interface messes up in IE7 after an empty <hint> in input_forms.xml
  • DS-382 Proposal: Add 'dc.creator' to Author browse index by default
  • DS-385 Packager script is unable to import the same METS + DIM package that was exported
  • DS-386 Allow user to specify which <dmdSec> is used by the METS Ingester when importing METS from Packager script
  • DS-398 Submission license displayed on collection and item homepage (XMLUI)
  • DS-399 Special characters in collection license lead to parse error (XMLUI)

(Tim Donohue / Claudia Juergen)

  • DS-423 Ant target 'clean_database' doesn't drop all tables.

(Tim Donohue / Andrea Bollini)

  • DS-228 Community Admin XMLUI: Delegated Admins Patch

(Ben Bosman)

  • DS-483 statistics.item.authorization.admin ignored by xmlui
  • DS-365 support for OAI gateways that do not use sets in harvester
  • DS-392 Error messages in the submission do not disappear if e.g. one of the two errors are solved
  • DS-381 community and collection homepage
  • DS-310 UTF-8 encoding in community and collection text
  • DS-307 Offer access in AbstractSearch to QueryResults for subclasses
  • DS-306 Option to disable mailserver
  • DS-226 confirmation page of edit profile has an invalid link
  • DS-247 Update of contribution of @MIRE Solr Based Statistics Engine to DSpace.

(OhioLINK)

  • DS-225 dc.description.provenance - public display

(Yin Yin Latt / Stuart Lewis)

  • DS-205 Creative Commons - option to set legal jurisdiction

(Fabio Kepler / Steve Williams)

  • DS-258 Item View Thumbnails not displaying in XMLUI

(Van Ly)

  • DS-291 README update for top level of dspace 1.6.0 package directory

(Graham Triggs)

  • DS-299 Allow long values to be specified for the max upload request (> 2GB uploads)
  • DS-344 Fix problem where apostrophe in email address would stop EPerson being selected
  • DS-359 Add alternate file appender for log4j

(Mark Wood)

  • DS-52 Factor out common webapp installation - ID: 2042160
  • DS-455 Remove dspace/config/log4j.xml

(Ekaterina Pechekhonova)

  • DS-330 Create new session on login / invalidate sessions on logout

(Richard Rodgers)

  • DS-324 Add OpenSearch support

(Toni Prieto)

(Flavio Botelho)

  • DS-246 Fix configurable browse parameter encoding (XMLUI)
  • DS-320 java.util.NoSuchElementException: Timeout waiting for idle object
  • DS-353 Missing commits in XMLUI server-side javascript code.

(Flavio Botelho / Kim Shepherd)

  • DS-468 Fixed "foreign characters broken in group names (XMLUI)"

(Hardik Mishra)

  • DS-370 E Mail Sent On Item Export Error Message

(Keller)

  • DS-375 Dspace 1.5.2 Russian translation

(Steven Williams / Ladd Hanson / Stuart Lewis)

  • DS-295 CC License being assigned incorrect Mime Type during submission.

(Stuart Lewis / Graham Triggs)

  • DS-460 Change logging from RollingFileAppender to DailyFileAppender

Todo

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