Version 1.5.0

Installation Documentation

The DSpace System Documentation is available from our list of DSpace Resources.

Release Notes

• Major code reorganisation: See Simple add-on mechanism
  • Componentisation
  • Apache Maven-based build system
• sitemaps.org and HTML SiteMap support
• Event publish/subscribe system: See prototype
• Manakin, Cocoon-based UI framework
• 'Lightweight' Network Interface (LNI)

Organizational

Release Coordination

• Scott Phillips
• Richard Jones
• Mark Diggory

Timeline and Proceeding

Please assign yourself to the trackers on SF and put anything you want to get done in the wiki.

Projected timeline:

• 13th Feb - Release Beta 1 (Completed)
• 18th to 22nd Feb - DSpace 1.5 DSpace Release 1.5.0 Testathon Page (Completed)
• 10th March - Release Beta 2 (Completed)
• 24th March - Release DSpace 1.5 (Completed)

Test instances

If you want to provide a test instance for 1.5 development, check out code from the 1.5x branch:

 svn co https://dspace.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/dspace/branches/dspace-1_5_x/ /path/to/your/src

General Major Changes

• Code Reorganization (including new Maven based build system)
• Manakin
• Addon/Event Mechanism
• New Browse System
• Configurable Submission System

Release Critical Bugs

These are the bugs that must be fixed before we can release the next version of DSpace.

• SF #1899958 User appears logged in when not logged in
• SF #1899793 Windows install documentation
• SF #1898575 Maven build for language packs
• SF #1897804 non-administrator unable to create subcommunity
• SF #1896266 Upgrade 1.4.2->1.5 Oracle errors database_schema_142-15.sql
• SF #1896183 Special characters in xmlui
• SF #1903932 language-packs native2ascii

Known Issues

1.5.0 Has the following issues that will/should be corrected in 1.5.1

• the generated dspace/modules/sword webapp is missing lib files (show stopper)
• Some of the dspace/modules/<projects> need to have dependencies added to their poms to ease customization of java classes (not a show stopper)
• DSpace Statistics system does not work with Manakin UI (should it? Not sure...)

Documentation

• Documentation is being updated to reflect this version. A word/pdf manual is being created and should be available by Mid May. We are searching for ways to post this document in on the wiki, for editing and re-assembly into a printable format. The documentation coordination is being driven by the foundation.

Next Release

See DSpace Release 1.5.1 Notes for the next minor release cycle...