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This documentation was produced with Confluence software. A PDF version was generated directly from Confluence. An online, updated version of this 7.x Documentation is also available at: https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x

 
Welcome to Release 7.0, the next major release of the DSpace platform.  Any previous version of DSpace may be upgraded to DSpace 7 directly. For more information, please see Upgrading DSpace.

7.0 Beta 5 Release Notes

Join the DSpace 7.0 Testathon & Try Out Beta 5!

From April 19 - May 7, 2021, we are running a Community Testathon of the DSpace 7.0 Beta 5 Release.  As this is the final Beta before the 7.0 release, Testathon is an opportunity for anyone to test the Beta 5 release, and report their feedback.

To try out DSpace 7.0 Beta 5 immediately, see Try out DSpace 7

Full (manual) installation instructions are also available at Installing DSpace.

For more information on the upcoming Beta and Final release schedule see DSpace 7 Release Goals.

Do not install a Beta release in Production!

DSpace 7 is still under active development. As a Beta release, we do not recommend installing this in production. Rather, we ask that you consider installing it in a test environment, try it out, and report back any issues or bugs you notice via GitHub (UI issues, Backend/API issues)

Included in Beta 5

    • Support for custom theme(s) in UI & accessibility cleanup of base theme. See early information at DSpace UI Design principles and guidelines and the "themes" section of the environment.common.ts
      • Updated the "base" theme (default Bootstrap look & feel) for consistency and better accessibility.  (Additional accessibility analysis will be performed during Testathon)
      • Added a simple "dspace" theme (this is the new default theme, and primarily shows an example of customizing color scheme & homepage)
      • Added a "custom" theme folder with all necessary files. These files can be directly modified to create a completely custom theme.
    • Major performance improvements to UI by making better use of caching & smart reloading
    • Video/Image Content Streaming (Kindly donated by Zoltán Kanász-Nagy and Dániel Péter Sipos of Qulto):  When enabled, DSpace can now stream videos & view images full screen, using an embedded viewer.
    • New Administrative Features
      • Add ability to modify Community/Collection resource policies (i.e. permissions).  Edit a Community or Collection and look at the "Authorizations" tab.
      • Add ability to edit/delete user Groups.
      • Add private/withdrawn item badges for Administrators to quickly see which Items are private or withdrawn. These are viewable throughout the browse/search when logged in as an Administrative user.
    • Configurable Entities Improvements
      • Entities now report their Entity type in the URL path (e.g. Person entities use URL path /entities/person/[uuid] and Publication entities use the URL path /entities/publication/[uuid])
      • Each Entity type now has a custom Submission form.
        • These can be most easily seen in the Demo site.  Submitting to the "People" collection uses the "Person" Entity Form.  Submitting to the "Articles" collection uses the "Publication" Entity Form.  The full list of Entity-specific Collection submission mappings can be found in the example in item-submission.xml (this example is enabled on our Demo Site)
      • General performance improvements for Entities. Introduction of "tilted" relationships for Configurable Entities that may have hundreds or thousands of relationships.
    • Improvements to Upgrade process
    • Security fixes
      • Added CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) protection to REST API.  UI (and any other clients) now must be trusted to login to the REST API.
      • Improved permissions checks/validation in UI for Administrator, Community/Collection Administrator and Submitter roles.
      • Fixed several other security issues auto-reported by LGTM
    • Many bug fixes
      • Fixed issue where mapped items were not appearing
      • Fixed issue where Handles were not redirecting
      • Fixed issues with Sherpa and ORCID integrations
      • Fixed several small issues with OpenAIRE v4 support in OAI-PMH
      • Fixed many bugs in MyDSpace and Submission UI
      • Fixed several bugs in CSV import/export process.
      • Fixes to search/browse pagination & breadcrumb trail
      • Improved performance of Browse by Community/Collection hierarchy
      • LDAP Authentication support is working again
    • Many dependency upgrades
      • Upgrade UI to Angular v10
      • Upgrade UI to Node v12 or v14 support
      • Upgrade Backend to Solr v8 support
      • Upgrade to ORCID v3 support
      • Upgrade to SHERPA v2 support
    • Removal of obsolete features
      • Removal of the old BTE framework in favor of Live Import Framework (features of BTE have been ported to Live Import)
      • Removal of Traditional/Basic workflow in favor of Configurable Workflow (default workflow is still the same as in DSpace 6)

Changelog

7.0 Beta 4 Release Notes

Included in Beta 4

  • Live Import framework (video) support has been added to the Submission Form (and REST API /api/integration/externalsources endpoint)
    • Search an external site for works to import (From your MyDSpace page, click the "Import metadata from external source" button in upper right).  Currently supports Library of Congress Names, ORCID, PubMed, Sherpa Journals or Sherpa Publishers.
    • Drag and drop a bibliographic file into Submission form or MyDSpace page to prepopulate metadata. Supported formats include ArXiv, CSV (or TSV), Endnote, PubMed, or RIS.
  • Controlled Vocabulary support (video) in Submission Form. Depending on the field configuration, this can include autocomplete of known terms (see default "Subject Keywords" field), dropdown support (see default "Type" field) and hierarchical tree views
    • Includes support for Controlled Vocabs, Authority Control and "Value-Pairs" (from submission configs)
  • Curation Tasks are now supported via the Admin UI and the Processes UI. (Login as an Admin, select "Curation Tasks")
  • Import / Export metadata from/to CSV (i.e. Batch Metadata Editing) is now available from the Admin UI. (Login as an Admin, select "Export" > "Metadata", select "Import" > "Metadata")
  • Basic Usage Statistics (video) are available for the entire site (See "Statistics" menu at top of homepage), or specific Communities, Collections or Items (Click on that same "Statistics" menu after browsing to a specific object).
    • Support for exchanging usage data to IRUS was added.  See new "irus-statistics.cfg" and DS-626
  • Improved GDPR Alignment (video)
    • User Agreement required for all authenticated users to read and agree to. (Login for first time, and sample user agreement will display. After agreeing to it, it will not appear again.)
    • Cookie Preferences are now available for all users (anonymous or authenticated). A cookie preference popup appears when first accessing the site. Users are given information on what cookies added by DSpace, including a Privacy Statement which can be used to describe how their data is used.
    • User Accounts can be deleted even if they've submitted content in the past.
      • When a user is deleted, their past submissions are kept but the submitter field is set to empty (null).
      • Users cannot be deleted if they are the only member of a workflow approval group. Admins must either delete that group first, or assign another member to the group. This ensures Workflows are kept even if a user account needs to be deleted.
  • Language preferences are now kept for all users (anonymous or logged in). By default, DSpace will try to use your browser's preferred language (if found in Accept-Language header and a translation in that language exists).  Users can override it by either saving a preferred language in their user profile, or by manually selecting a different language from the globe icon (upper right).
  • IP-based authorization lets you restrict (or provide access to) objects based on the user's IP address.  This uses the same "authentication-ip.cfg" configuration as DSpace 6, allowing you to map IP ranges to specific DSpace Groups. Users within that IP range are added to the mapped DSpace Group for the remainder of their session.
  • Search Engine Optimization: Addition of robots.txt, Sitemaps and Google Scholar "citation" tags. These optimizations are being tested by the Google Scholar team and may be improved further in the upcoming beta 5 release.
    • For improved SEO, Sitemaps are now enabled by default and automatically update once per day.
  • Security Fixes and Dependency upgrades
    • Enhancements to new /api/authz/features endpoint in REST API to provide additional feature-specific permission checks
    • Flyway database engine was upgraded to version 6.5.5
    • Indexing enhancements (some objects were being indexed twice, see PR#2960)
    • Fixes to Shibboleth login
    • Additional bug fixes to both UI and REST API

Coming Soon

Additional Resources

At this time, the DSpace 7 documentation is still in progress, but has begun at https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/

That said, we have a number of recorded presentations and workshops available which provide an overview of all the new 7.0 features. 

Changelog


7.0 Beta 3 Release Notes

Included in Beta 3

  • Processes Admin UI (video) allows Administrators to run backend scripts/processes while monitoring their progress & completion. (Login as an Admin, select "Processes" in sidebar)
    • Currently supported processes include "index-discovery" (reindex site), "metadata-export" (batch metadata editing CSV export), and "metadata-import" (batch metadata editing CSV import).
  • Manage Account Profile allows logged in users to update their name, language or password. (Login, click on the account icon, and select "Profile")
  • New User Registration (video) and password reset on the Login Screen 
  • Login As (Impersonate) another account allows Administrators to debug issues that a specific user is seeing, or do some work on behalf of that user.  (Login as an Admin, Click "Access Control" in sidebar, Click "People".  Search for the user account & edit it. Click the "Impersonate EPerson" button.  You will be authenticated as that user until you click "Stop Impersonating EPerson" in the upper right.)
    • Requires "webui.user.assumelogin=true" to be set in your local.cfg on backend.  Also be aware that you can only "impersonate" a user who is not a member of the Administrator group.
  • Manage Authorization Policies of an Item allows Administrators to directly change/update the access policies of an Item, its Bundles or Bitstreams.  (Login as an Admin, Click "Edit" → "Item" in sidebar, and search for the Item.  Click the "Authorization.." button on its "Status" tab.
  • Manage Item Templates of a Collection allows Administrators to create/manage template metadata that all new Items will start with when submitted to that Collection. (Login as an Admin, Click "Edit" → "Collection" in sidebar and search for the Collection.  Click the "Add" button under "Template Item" to get started.)
  • Administer Active Workflows (video) allows Administrators to see every submission that is currently in the workflow approval process.  From there, they have the option to delete Items (if they are no longer needed), or send them back to the workflow pool (to allow another user to review them).  (Login as an Admin, Click "Administer Workflow" in sidebar)
  • CC License step allows your users to select a Creative Commons License as part of their submission.  Once enabled in the "item-submission.xml" (on the backend) it appears as part of the submission form.
  • Angular CLI compatibility was added to the User Interface.  This allows developers to easily update the User Interface using standard Angular commandline tools.  More information (including tutorials) is available at https://cli.angular.io/
  • English, Latvian, Dutch, German, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Finnish language catalogs
  • Numerous bugs were fixed based on early user testing. (Thanks to all who've tested Beta 1 or Beta 2 and reported your feedback!)  Some bugs fixed include:
    • Login/Logout session fixes (including compatibility with Firefox and Safari browsers)
    • Improved Community/Collection tree browsing performance
    • Fixes to editing Communities, Collections and Items.  This includes improved drag & drop reordering of bitstreams in an Item.
    • Improved performance of Collection dropdown in submission
    • Ability to download restricted bitstreams (previously these would error out)
    • Authorization & security improvements in both REST API and UI
  • Upgraded all REST API dependencies (Spring, Spring Boot, HAL Browser) and enhanced our automated testing via additional Integration Tests.
  • All features previous mentioned in 7.0 Beta 2 Release Notes and 7.0 Beta 1 Release Notes below

Learn More: New videos are available highlighting features of the MyDSpace area:

  • Manage Submissions in MyDSpace (video)
  • Manage Tasks in MyDSpace (video)

Coming Soon

Additional Resources

At this time, the DSpace 7 documentation is still in progress, but has begun at https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/

That said, we have a number of recorded presentations and workshops available which provide an overview of all the new 7.0 features. 

Changelog

7.0 Beta 2 Release Notes

Included in Beta 2

  • Administrative Search (video) combines retrieval of withdrawn items and private items, together with a series of quick action buttons.
  • EPeople, Groups and Roles can now be viewed, created and updated.
    • Manage Groups (Login as an Admin → Access Control → Groups)
    • Manage EPeople (Login as an Admin → Access Control → EPeople)
    • Manage Community/Collection Roles (Login as an Admin → Edit Community/Collection → Assign Roles).  Note: this feature is Admin-only in beta 2, but will be extended to Community/Collection Admins in beta 3.
  • Bitstream Editing (video) has a drag-and-drop interface for re-ordering bitstreams and makes adding and editing bitstreams more intuitive.
  • Metadata Editing (video) introduces suggest-as-you-type for field name selection of new metadata.
  • Update Profile / Change Password (Login → Select user menu in upper right → Profile)
  • Shibboleth Authentication
  • Viewing Item Version History (requires upgrading from a 6.x site that includes Item Versioning)
  • Collection and Community (video) creation and edit pages.
  • English, Latvian, Dutch, German, French, Portuguese and Spanish language catalogs
  • Security and authorization improvements, including REST API support hiding specific metadata fields (metadata.hide property) and upgrades of different software packages on which DSpace 7 depends.
  • All features previous mentioned in 7.0 Beta 1 Release Notes below

Coming Soon

Additional Resources

At this time, the DSpace 7 documentation is still in progress, but has begun at https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/

That said, we have a number of recorded presentations and workshops available which provide an overview of all the new 7.0 features. 

A full list of all changes / bug fixes in 7.x is available in the Changes in 7.x section.


7.0 Beta 1 Release Notes

New features to look for

  • A completely new User Interface (demo site). This is the new Javascript-based frontend, built on Angular.io (with support for SEO provided by Angular Universal). This new interface is also via HTML and CSS (SCSS). For early theme building training, see the “Getting Started with DSpace 7 Workshop” from the North American User Group meeting: slides or video recording.
  • A completely new, fully featured REST API (demo site), provided via a single "server" webapp backend. This new backend is not only a REST API, but also still supports OAI-PMH, SWORD (v1 or v2) and RDF. See the REST API's documentation / contract at https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/blob/master/README.md
  • A newly designed search box. Search from the header of any page (click the magnifying glass). The search results page now features automatic search highlight, expandable & searchable filters, and optional thumbnail-based results (click on the “grid” view).
  • A new MyDSpace area, including a new, one-page, drag & drop submission form, a new workflow approval process, and searchable past submissions. (Login, click on your user profile icon, click “MyDSpace”). Find workflow tasks to claim by selecting “All tasks” in the “Show” dropdown.
  • Dynamic user interface translations (Click the globe, and select a language).  Anyone interested in adding more translations?  See DSpace 7 Translation - Internationalization (i18n) - Localization (l10n).
  • A new Admin sidebar. Login as an Administrator, and an administrative sidebar appears. Use this to create a new Community/Collection/Item, edit existing ones, and manage registries. (NOTE: A number of Administrative tools are still missing or greyed out. They will be coming in future Beta releases.)
  • Optional, new Configurable Entities feature. DSpace now supports “entities”, which are DSpace Items of a specific ‘type’ which may have relationships to other entities. These entity types and relationships are configurable, with two examples coming out-of-the-box: a set of Journal hierarchy entities (Journal, Volume, Issue, Publication) and a set of Research entities (Publication, Project, Person, OrgUnit). For more information see “The Power of Configurable Entities” from OR2019: slides or video recording. Additionally, a test data set featuring both out-of-the-box examples can be used when trying out DSpace 7 via Docker.  Early documentation is available at Configurable Entities.
  • Support for OpenAIREv4 Guidelines for Literature Repositories in OAI-PMH (See the new “openaire4” context in OAI-PMH).

Additional major changes to be aware of in the 7.x platform (not an exhaustive list):

  • XMLUI and JSPUI are no longer supported or distributed with DSpace. All users should immediately migrate to and utilize the new Angular User Interface.  There is no migration path from either the XMLUI or JSPUI to the new User interface.  However, the new user interface can be themed via HTML and CSS (SCSS).
  • The old REST API ("rest" webapp from DSpace v4.x-6.x) is deprecated and will be removed in v8.x. The new REST API (provided in the "server" webapp) replaces all functionality available in the older REST API. If you have tools that rely on the old REST API, you can still (optionally) build & deploy it alongside the "server" webapp via the "-Pdspace-rest" Maven flag.
  • The Submission Form configuration has changed. The "item-submission.xml" file has changed its structure, and the "input-forms.xml" has been replaced by a "submission-forms.xml".  For early documentation see Configuration changes in the submission process (FULL DOCUMENTATION COMING SOON)
  • ElasticSearch Usage Statistics have been removed.  Please use SOLR Statistics or DSpace Google Analytics Statistics.
  • The traditional, 3-step Workflow system has been removed in favor of the Configurable Workflow System. For most users, you should see no effect or difference.  The default setup for this Configurable Workflow System is identical to the traditional, 3-step workflow ("Approve/Reject", "Approve/Reject/Edit Metadata", "Edit Metadata")
  • Apache Solr is no longer embedded within the DSpace installer (and has been upgraded to Solr v7).  Solr now MUST be installed as a separate dependency alongside the DSpace backend.  See Installing DSpace.
  • Some command-line tools/scripts are enabled in the new REST API (e.g. index-discovery):  See new Scripts endpoint: https://github.com/DSpace/Rest7Contract/blob/master/scripts-endpoint.md
  • DSpace now has a single, backend "server" webapp to deploy in Tomcat (or similar). In DSpace 6.x and below, different machine interfaces (OAI-PMH, SWORD v1 or v2, RDF, REST API) were provided via separate deployable webapps.  Now, all those interfaces along with the new REST API are in a single, "server" webapp built on Spring Boot.  You can now control which interfaces are enabled, and what path they appear on via configuration (e.g. "oai.enabled=true" and "oai.path=oai"). See https://jira.lyrasis.org/browse/DS-4257 (FULL DOCUMENTATION COMING SOON)
  • Configuration has been upgraded to Apache Commons Configuration version 2. For most users, you should see no effect or difference. No DSpace configuration files were modified during this upgrade and no configurations or settings were renamed or changed. However, if you locally modified or customized the [dspace]/config/config-definition.xml (DSpace's Apache Commons Configuration settings), you will need to ensure those modifications are compatible with Apache Commons Configuration version 2.  See the Apache Commons Configuration's configuration definition file reference for more details.
  • Handle Server has been upgraded to version 9.x : https://jira.lyrasis.org/browse/DS-4205
  • DSpace now has sample Docker images (configurations) which can be used to try out DSpace quickly.  See Try out DSpace 7 ("Install via Docker" section).

Additional Resources

At this time, the DSpace 7 documentation is still in progress, but has begun at https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/

That said, we have a number of recorded presentations and workshops available which provide an overview of all the new 7.0 features. 

7.0 Configurations Removed

With the removal of the JSPUI and XMLUI, a large number of server-side (backend) configurations were made obsolete and were therefore removed between the 6.x and 7.0 release.  Those Configurations removed included:

  • Within the [dspace]/config/ directory, these are the configuration files which were deleted:
    • dc2mods.cfg
    • input-forms.xml / dtd (REPLACED BY submission-forms.xml, see Submission User Interface)
    • log4j.properties (REPLACED BY log4j2.xml)
    • log4j-console.properties (REPLACED BY log4j-console.xml)
    • log4j-solr.properties (no replacement as Solr now must be installed separately)
    • news-side.html
    • news-top.html
    • news-xmlui.xml
    • workflow.xml (REPLACED BY ./spring/api/workflow.xml)
    • xmlui.xconf / dtd
    • emails/bte_* (BTE import framework was removed in favor of Live Import from external sources)
    • modules/controlpanel.cfg
    • modules/elastic-search-statistics.cfg (Elastic Search support was removed in favor of Solr)
    • modules/fetchccdata.cfg
    • modules/publication-lookup.cfg
    • spring/api/bte.xml (BTE import framework was removed in favor of Live Import from external sources)
    • spring/oai/* (OAI is now part of the backend "server webapp" and needs no separate configurations)
    • spring/xmlui/*
  • Within the dspace.cfg main configuration file, the following settings were removed:
    • log.init.config (replaced by log4j2.xml)
    • webui.submit.blocktheses
    • webui.submit.upload.html5
    • webui.submission.restrictstep.enableAdvancedForm
    • webui.submission.restrictstep.groups
    • webui.submit.enable-cc
    • webui.browse.thumbnail.*
    • webui.item.thumbnail.*
    • webui.preview.enabled
    • webui.strengths.show
    • webui.browse.author-field
    • webui.browse.author-limit
    • webui.browse.render-scientific-formulas
    • recent.submissions.*
    • webui.collectionhome.*
    • plugin.sequence.org.dspace.plugin.SiteHomeProcessor
    • plugin.sequence.org.dspace.plugin.CommunityHomeProcessor
    • plugin.sequence.org.dspace.plugin.CollectionHomeProcessor
    • plugin.sequence.org.dspace.plugin.ItemHomeProcessor
    • plugin.single.org.dspace.app.webui.search.SearchRequestProcessor
    • plugin.single.org.dspace.app.xmlui.aspect.administrative.mapper.SearchRequestProcessor
    • plugin.named.org.dspace.app.webui.json.JSONRequest
    • plugin.single.org.dspace.app.webui.util.StyleSelection
    • webui.bitstream.order.*
    • webui.itemdisplay.*
    • webui.resolver.*
    • webui.preferred.identifier
    • webui.identifier.*
    • webui.mydspace.*
    • webui.suggest.*
    • webui.controlledvocabulary.enable
    • webui.session.invalidate
    • itemmap.*
    • jspui.*
    • xmlui.*
    • mirage2.*


Milestones

DSpace 7.0 will be the largest release in the history of DSpace. It is the culmination of strategic planning by DSpace Governance in response to community feedback, use cases and needs (for additional details see Strategic Planning)

AchievementMore details
(tick) (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

(tick) (2015-16) Community competition for different UI prototypes. Nine were reviewed / analyzed for inclusion as the single, future DSpace UI.

DSpace UI Prototype Challenge

(tick) (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

(tick) (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

(tick) (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
(tick) (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.

Initial Investigation WG: DSpace Entities Working Group (2017-18)

Implementation WG: DSpace 7 Entities Working Group (2018-19)

(tick) (May 2019) Preview release, including Entity demonstrator and associated data setDSpace 7 Preview Release 
(tick) (2019-20) Docker installation and deployment proceduresTry out DSpace 7 ("Install via Docker" section)
(tick) (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 later 7.x releases. Paid/funded development began.DSpace Release 7.0 Status

(tick) (March 2020) Beta 1 released

Beta 1 Release Notes
(tick) (April 2020) Beta 2 releasedBeta 2 Release Notes
(tick) (July 2020) Beta 3 releasedBeta 3 Release Notes
(tick) (Oct 2020) Beta 4 releasedBeta 4 Release Notes
(tick) (April 2021) Beta 5 releasedBeta 5 Release Notes
(tick) Testathon

April 19 - May 7, 2021

(tick) OR2021 Talks / WorkshopJune 7-10, 2021
(tick) Final bug & accessibility fixes prior to 7.0 releaseSee 7.0 work board
(tick) (Aug 2, 2021) 7.0 release

DSpace 7 Press Release

Release Notes

(tick) (Nov 1, 2021) 7.1 releaseRelease Notes
(tick) (Feb 7, 2022) 7.2 releaseRelease Notes
(tick) (June 27, 2022) 7.3 release

Release Notes

(tick) (October 10, 2022) 7.4 release

Release Notes

(tick) (February 20, 2023) 7.5 ReleaseRelease Notes
(tick) (June 26, 2023) 7.6 Release

Release Notes

(tick) (November 15, 2023) 7.6.1 Release

Release Notes

7.6.x Ongoing Maintenance: With the release of DSpace 7.6 in June 2023, the 7.x platform has moved into maintenance mode.

This means that all future 7.x releases will only include bug or security fixes and will adopt a "7.6.x" numbering scheme. 

RoadMap

A full list of all changes / bug fixes in 7.x is available in the Changes in 7.x section.

7.0 Acknowledgments 

Major Contributing Institutions

The following institutions have been major code contributors to the DSpace 7 release (in general)

Frontend / New User Interface Acknowledgments

The following 29 individuals have contributed directly to the new DSpace (Angular) User Interface in this release (ordered by number of GitHub commits): Lotte Hofstede (LotteHofstede), Giuseppe Digilio (atarix83), Kristof De Langhe (Atmire-Kristof), Art Lowel (artlowel), William Welling (wwelling and wellingWilliam), Michael Spalti (mspalti), Laura Henze (lhenze), Jonas Van Goolen (jonas-atmire), Marie Verdonck (MarieVerdonck), Terry Brady (terrywbrady), Andrea Chiapparelli (andreachiapparelli), Ben Bosman (benbosman), Antoine Snyers (antoine-atmire), Matteo Perelli (sourcedump), Bram Luyten (bram-atmire), Courtney Pattison (courtneypattison), Àlex Magaz Graça (rivaldi8), Tim Donohue (tdonohue), Chris Wilper (cwilper), Christian Scheible (christian-scheible), Alexander Sulfrian (AlexanderS), Paulo Graça (paulo-graca), Mohamed Mohideen Abdul Rasheed (mohideen), Philip Vissenaekens (PhilipVis), Pascal-Nicolas Becker (pnbecker), Hardy Pottinger (hardyoyo), Mateus Mercer (MatMercer), Martin Walk (MW3000), Julius Gruber (Flusspferd123)

The following 5 individuals have contributed a translation of the new interface: Marina Muilwijk (Dutch), Claudia Jürgen (German), Maria Fernanda Ruiz (Spanish), Vítor Silvério Rodrigues (Brazilian Portuguese), Ivan Masar (Czech)

The above contributor lists were determined based on historical contributions to the "dspace-angular" project in GitHub: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/graphs/contributors

Backend / REST API Acknowledgments

The following 45 individuals have contributed directly to the DSpace backend (REST API, Java API, OAI-PMH, etc) in this release (ordered by number of GitHub commits): Raf Ponsaerts (Raf-atmire), Andrea Bollini (abollini), Mark Wood (mwoodiupui), Luigi Andrea Pascarelli (lap82), Terry Brady (terrywbrady), Tom Desair (tomdesair), Ben Bosman (benbosman), Tim Donohue (tdonohue), Marie Verdonck (MarieVerdonck), Chris Wilper (cwilper), Michele Boychuk (Micheleboychuk), Jelle Pelgrims (jpelgrims-atmire), Kevin Van de Velde (KevinVdV), Andrew Wood (AndrewZWood), Peter Nijs (peter-atmire), Michael Spalti (mspalti), Patrick Trottier (PTrottier), Pablo Prieto (ppmdo), Alexander Sulfrian (AlexanderS), Hardy Pottinger (hardyoyo), Kim Shepherd (kshepherd), William Tantzen (tantz001), Jonas Van Goolen (jonas-atmire), Pascal-Nicolas Becker (pnbecker), Ivan Masar (helix84), Kristof De Langhe (Atmire-Kristof), Paulo Graça (paulo-graca), James Creel (jcreel), Ian Little (ilittle-cnri), Alan Orth (alanorth), Claudia Jürgen (cjuergen), Miika Nurminen (minurmin), Colin Delacroix (cdelacroix), Giuseppe Digilio (atarix83), Hrafn Malmquist (J4bbi), Bram Luyten (bram-atmire), Christian Scheible (christian-scheible), Sven Soliman (ssolim), Santiago Tettamanti (santit96), Julius Gruber (Flusspferd123), Saiful Amin (saiful-semantic), Mohamed Mohideen Abdul Rasheed (mohideen), József Marton (jmarton), Marsa Haoua (marsaoua), Àlex Magaz Graça (rivaldi8)

The above contributor list was determined based on contributions to the "DSpace" project in GitHub since 6.0 (after Oct 24, 2016): https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/graphs/contributors?from=2016-10-24&to=2020-03-03&type=c  Therefore this list may include individuals who contributed to later 6.x releases, but only if their bug fix was also applied to 7.0.

Additional Thanks

Additional thanks to our DSpace Leadership Group and DSpace Steering Group for their ongoing DSpace support and advice.  Thanks also to LYRASIS for your leadership, collaboration & support in helping to speed up the development process of DSpace 7.

Thanks also to the various developer & community Working Groups who have worked diligently to help make DSpace 7 a reality. These include:

We apologize to any contributor accidentally left off this list. DSpace has such a large, active development community that we sometimes lose track of all our contributors. Our ongoing list of all known people/institutions that have contributed to DSpace software can be found on our DSpace Contributors page. Acknowledgments to those left off will be made in future releases.



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