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Support for DSpace 5 will be ending on January 1, 2023.  See Support for DSpace 5 and 6 is ending in 2023

Welcome to Release 5.11, a bug-fix release for the DSpace 5.x platform. For information on upgrading to DSpace 5, please see Upgrading DSpace.

5.11 Release Notes

DSpace 5.11 contains security and bug fixes for both the JSPUI and XMLUI. To ensure your 5.x site is secure, we highly recommend ALL DSpace 5.x users upgrade to DSpace 5.11.

DSpace 5.11 upgrade instructions are available at: Upgrading DSpace

Summary

DSpace 5.11 is a bug fix release to resolve several issues located in previous 5.x releases. As it only provides only security and bug fixes, DSpace 5.11 should constitute an easy upgrade from DSpace 5.x for most users. No database changes should be necessary when upgrading from DSpace 5.x to 5.11.

Security fixes include:

Major bug fixes include:

Minor improvements include:

View the full list of changes for DSpace 5.11 on GitHub.

5.11 Acknowledgments

The 5.11 release was led by Alan Orth, Kim Shepherd, Nicholas Woodward and Hrafn Malmquist (of Cottage Labs)

The following individuals provided tests, code or bug fixes or review to the 5.11 release (in alphabetical order by given name): Andrea Bollini, Andrea Jenis Saroni, Andrew Bennet, Bram Luyten, Hrafn Malmquist, Iordanis Kostelidis, Jonas Van Goolen, Kim Shepherd, Kristof De Langhe, Lotte Hofstede, Luigi Andrea Pascarelli, Mark H. Wood, Pascal-Nicolas Becker, Philip Vissenaekens, samuel, Terry Brady, Tim Donohue.

5.10 Release Notes 

Unfortunately, bug fixes in the DSpace 5.9 release resulted in issues running DSpace 5.9 on Java 7, and with running the REST API and RDF interfaces. These issues are being resolved in an upcoming 5.10 release (see below for more details). Sites which are dependent on one of these features should consider upgrading directly from DSpace 5.8 to 5.10.

Summary

DSpace 5.10 is a bug fix release to resolve JAR dependency issues found in DSpace 5.9 for users running Java 7 (regardless of Tomcat version).

This release also addresses a bug in the DSpace 5.9 release that prevented VIEW statistics from being logged by DSpace.

Other minor bug fixes have been included in the release.

Major bug fixes include

Other fixes include

In addition, this release fixes a variety of minor bugs in the 5.x releases. For more information, see the Changes section below.

Upgrade Instructions

No new features in DSpace 5.10

5.10 is a bug-fix release. This means it includes no new features and only includes the above listed fixes.

For a list of all new 5.x Features, please visit the 5.x Release Notes.

5.10 Acknowledgments 

The 5.10 release was led by Terrence W Brady.

The following individuals provided code or bug fixes to the 5.10 release: Terrence W Brady , Alexander Sulfrian , Philip Vissenaekens (Atmire) , Jozsef Marton.

5.9 Release Notes 

DSpace 5.9 contains security fixes for the JSPUI (only). To ensure your 5.x JSPUI site is secure, we highly recommend ALL JSPUI DSpace 4.x users upgrade to DSpace 5.9.

DSpace 5.x XMLUI users may also wish to upgrade as several major bugs have been fixed in the XMLUI as well.

DSpace 5.9 upgrade instructions are available at: Upgrading DSpace

DSpace 5.9 is a security & bug fix release to resolve several issues located in previous 5.x releases. As it only provides bug/security fixes, DSpace 5.9 should constitute an easy upgrade from DSpace 5.x for most users. No database changes or additional configuration changes should be necessary when upgrading from DSpace 5.x to 5.9.

JSPUI security fixes include

Major bug fixes include

In addition, this release fixes minor bugs in the 5.x releases. For more information, see the Changes in 5.x page.

5.9 Acknowledgments 

The 5.9 release was led by the DSpace Committers.

The following individuals provided code or bug fixes to the 5.9 release: Pascal-Nicolas Becker, Ben Bosman, Terry Brady, Tim Donohue, Alex Magaz Graça, Lotte Hofstede, Ivan Masár, Hardy Pottinger, Kim Shepherd, Jonas Van Goolen and Mark H. Wood.

5.8 Release Notes 

DSpace 5.8 contains a fix to the ImageMagick thumbnail creation process. We highly recommend ALL DSpace 5.x users upgrade to DSpace 5.8.

DSpace 5.8 upgrade instructions are available at: Upgrading DSpace

DSpace 5.8 contains a fix for a bug introduced in DSpace 5.7. As it only provides bug fixes, DSpace 5.8 should constitute an easy upgrade from DSpace 5.x for most users. No database changes or additional configuration changes should be necessary when upgrading from DSpace 5.x to 5.8.
 

Major bug fixes include:

Other fixes

5.8 Acknowledgments 

The 5.8 release was led by the DSpace Committers.

The following individuals provided code or bug fixes to the 5.8 release: Terry Brady (terrywbrady), Tim Donohue (tdonohue), Hardy Pottinger (hardyoyo).  Release support provided by Mark Wood (mwood).

5.7 Release Notes 

DSpace 5.7 contains security fixes for the XMLUI and JSPUI and REST. To ensure your 5.x site is secure, we highly recommend ALL DSpace 5.x users upgrade to DSpace 5.7.

DSpace 5.7 upgrade instructions are available at: Upgrading DSpace

DSpace 5.7 is a security & bug fix release to resolve several issues located in previous 5.x releases. As it only provides bug/security fixes, DSpace 5.7 should constitute an easy upgrade from DSpace 5.x for most users. No database changes or additional configuration changes should be necessary when upgrading from DSpace 5.x to 5.7.
 

Major bug fixes include:

5.7 Acknowledgments 

The 5.7 release was led by the DSpace Committers.

The following individuals provided code or bug fixes to the 5.7 release: Pascal-Nicolas Becker (pnbecker), Andrea Bollini (abollini), Terry Brady (terrywbrady), Samuel Cambien (samuelcambien), Yana De Pauw, Tom Desair (tomdesair), Peter Dietz (peterdietz), Tim Donohue (tdonohue), Claudia Juergen (cjuergen), Bram Luyten (bram-atmire), Ivan Masar (helix84), Alan Orth (alanorth), Andrea Pascarelli (lap82), Kim Shepherd (kshepherd), Mark Wood (mwoodiupui), Jonas Van Goolen (jonas-atmire), Philip Vissenaekens (PhilipVis), and Arvo Consultores y Tecnología. S.L (arvoConsultores)

5.6 Release Notes

DSpace 5.6 contains security fixes for the XMLUI and JSPUI and REST. To ensure your 5.x site is secure, we highly recommend ALL DSpace 5.x users upgrade to DSpace 5.6.

DSpace 5.6 upgrade instructions are available at: Upgrading DSpace

DSpace 5.6 is a security & bug fix release to resolve several issues located in previous 5.x releases. As it only provides bug/security fixes, DSpace 5.6 should constitute an easy upgrade from DSpace 5.x for most users. No database changes or additional configuration changes should be necessary when upgrading from DSpace 5.x to 5.6.
 

Major bug fixes include:

In addition, this release fixes minor bugs in the 5.x releases. For more information, see the Changes in 5.x page.

5.6 Acknowledgments 

The 5.6 release was led by Andrea Pascarelli (4Science) and the Committers.

The following individuals provided code or bug fixes to the 5.6 release: Andrea Bollini (abollini), Tim Donohue (tdonohue), Claudia Juergen (cjuergen), Bram Luyten (bram-atmire), Ivan Masar (helix84), oooriii, Andrea Pascarelli (lap82), Hardy Pottinger (hardyoyo), Roeland Dillen (rradillen), Andrea Schweer (aschweer), William Tantzen (wilee53), Mark Wood (mwoodiupui), Bruno Nocera Zanette

5.5 Release Notes

DSpace 5.5 contains security fixes for the XMLUI and JSPUI. To ensure your 5.x site is secure, we highly recommend ALL DSpace 5.x users upgrade to DSpace 5.5.

DSpace 5.5 upgrade instructions are available at: Upgrading DSpace

DSpace 5.5 is a security & bug fix release to resolve several issues located in previous 5.x releases. As it only provides bug/security fixes, DSpace 5.5 should constitute an easy upgrade from DSpace 5.x for most users. No database changes or additional configuration changes should be necessary when upgrading from DSpace 5.x to 5.5.

Major bug fixes include:

In addition, this release fixes minor bugs in the 5.x releases. For more information, see the Changes in 5.x page.

5.5 Acknowledgments 

The 5.5 release was led by Tim Donohue (DuraSpace) and the Committers.

The following individuals provided code or bug fixes to the 5.5 release: Pascal-Nicolas Becker (pnbecker), Andrea Bollini (abollini), Tim Donohue (tdonohue), Claudia Juergen (cjuergen), Bram Luyten (bram-atmire), Ivan Masar (helix84), Dylan Meeus (DylanMeeus), AmberPoo1, Christian Scheible (christian-scheible), Tim Van de Langenbergh (tim-atmire), Mark Wood (mwoodiupui)

5.4 Release Notes

DSpace 5.4 contains security fixes for the JSPUI only. To ensure your 5.x site is secure, we highly recommend JSPUI DSpace 5.x users upgrade to DSpace 5.4.

DSpace 5.4 is a bug fix release to resolve several issues found in DSpace 5.x. As it only provides bug fixes, DSpace 5.4 should constitute an easy upgrade from any other DSpace 5.x version for most users. Beginning with DSpace 5.x, we also provide an easier upgrade process from any prior version of DSpace (1.x.x, 3.x or 4.x).

Major bug fixes include:

In addition, this release fixes a variety of minor bugs in the 5.x releases. For more information, see the Changes in 5.x page.

5.4 Acknowledgments 

The 5.4 release was led by Andrea Schweer (University of Waikato ITS), Tim Donohue and the Committers.

The following individuals provided code or bug fixes to the 5.4 release: Pascal-Nicolas Becker (pnbecker), Arnaud de Bossoreille (arnodb), Brad Dewar (bdewar), Peter Dietz (peterdietz), Tim Donohue (tdonohue), Ondrej Košarko (kosarko), Aleksander Kotynski-Buryla (akotynski), Ivan Masar (helix84), Hardy Pottinger (hardyoyo), Christian Scheible (christian-scheible), Andrea Schweer (aschweer), Bill Tantzen (wilee53), Jonas Van Goolen, Chris Wilper (cwilper), Mark H Wood (mwoodiupui), Jun Won Jung (RomanticCat)

5.3 Release Notes

DSpace 5.3 is a bug fix release to resolve several issues found in DSpace 5.2. As it only provides bug fixes, DSpace 5.3 should constitute an easy upgrade from DSpace 5.0, 5.1 or 5.2 for most users. Beginning with DSpace 5.x, we also provide an easier upgrade process from any prior version of DSpace (1.x.x, 3.x or 4.x).

Major bug fixes include:

In addition, this release fixes a variety of minor bugs in the 5.x releases. For more information, see the Changes in 5.x page.

5.3 Acknowledgments 

The 5.3 release was led by Kim Shepherd (University of Auckland Library) and the Committers.

The following individuals provided code or bug fixes to the 5.3 release: Roeland Dillen (rradillen), Tim Donohue (tdonohue), Ondřej Košarko (kosarko), Bram Luyten (bram-atmire), Pascal-Nicolas Becker (pnbecker), Pablo Buenaposada (pablobuenaposada), Nicolas Schwab (nicolasschwab), Andrea Schweer (aschweer), Àlex Magaz Graça (rivaldi8), junwei1229, and Claudia Juergen (cjuergen).

5.2 Release Notes

DSpace 5.2 is a bug fix release to resolve several issues found in DSpace 5.1.  As it only provides bug fixes, DSpace 5.2 should constitute an easy upgrade from DSpace 5.0 or 5.1 for most users. Beginning with DSpace 5.x, we also provide an easier upgrade process from any prior version of DSpace (1.x.x, 3.x or 4.x).

Major bug fixes include:

In addition, this release fixes a variety of minor bugs in the 5.x releases. For more information, see the Changes in 5.x page.

5.2 Acknowledgments 

The 5.2 release was led by Hardy Pottinger (University of Missouri Library Systems) and the Committers.

The following individuals provided code or bug fixes to the 5.2 release: Pascal-Nicolas Becker (pnbecker),  CTU Developers (ctu-developers), Roeland Dillen (rradillen), Tim Donohue (tdonohue), Àlex Magaz Graça (rivaldi8), Claudia Juergen (cjuergen), Ondřej Košarko (kosarko), Panagiotis Koutsourakis (kutsurak), Bram Luyten (bram-atmire), Ivan Masar (helix84), minusdavid, Hardy Pottinger (hardyoyo), Christian Scheible (christian-scheible), Andrea Schweer (aschweer), Antoine Snyers (antoine-atmire), Kevin Van de Velde (KevinVdV), Tim Van den Langenbergh (TimothyXL), Chris Wilper (cwilper), Mark Wood (mwoodiupui)

5.1 Release Notes

DSpace 5.1 contains security fixes for both the XMLUI and JSPUI. To ensure your 5.x site is secure, we highly recommend all DSpace 5.x users upgrade to DSpace 5.1.

We also highly recommend removing any  "allowLinking=true" settings from your Tomcat's <Context> configuration. Previously our installation documentation erroneously listed examples which included "allowLinking=true", while the Tomcat documentation lists it as a possible security concern. The XMLUI Directory Traversal Vulnerability (see below) is also exacerbated by this setting.


Several of the security vulnerabilities patched in DSpace 5.1 (and backported to 4.3 and 3.4) also affect sites running unsupported DSpace 1.x.x releases. In order to ensure your site is patched, we highly recommend upgrading to DSpace 3.4, DSpace 4.3 or DSpace 5.1.

If you are considering an upgrade from DSpace 1.x.x, note that, as of DSpace 5, your existing data (i.e. database contents, search/browse indexes) will now be automatically upgraded from ANY prior version of DSpace. Therefore, you may wish to consider upgrading directly to DSpace 5.1, as the 5.x upgrade process is simplified.

DSpace 5.1 is a security and bug fix release to resolve several issues located in DSpace 5.0. As it only provides bug fixes, DSpace 5.1 should constitute an easy upgrade from DSpace 5.0 for most users. No database changes or additional configuration changes should be necessary when upgrading from DSpace 5.0 to 5.1.

This release addresses the following security issues discovered in DSpace 5.x and below:

In addition, this release fixes a variety of minor bugs in the 5.0 release. For more information, see the Changes in 5.x page.

5.1 Acknowledgments 

The 5.1 release was led by Tim Donohue (DuraSpace) and the Committers.

The following individuals provided code or bug fixes to the 5.1 release: CTU Developers (ctu-developers), Tim Donohue (tdonohue), Ondřej Košarko (kosarko), Pascal-Nicolas Becker (pnbecker), Claudia Juergen (cjuergen), Ivan Masar (helix84), Andrea Pascarelli (lap82), Hardy Pottinger (hardyoyo), Christian Scheible (christian-scheible), William Tantzen (wilee53), Mark Wood (mwoodiupui),

5.0 Release Notes

The following is a list of the new features included for the 5.x platform (not an exhaustive list):

Acknowledgments

A big thank you also goes out to the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT), who helped the developers to prioritize and plan out several of the new features that made it into this release. The current DCAT members include: Augustine Gitonga, Bram Luyten, Bharat Chaudhari, Claire Bundy, Dibyendra Hyoju, Elin Stangeland, Felicity A Dykas, Iryna Kuchma, James Evans, Jim Ottaviani, Kate Dohe, Kathleen Schweitzberger, Leonie Hayes, Lilly Li, Maureen Walsh, Pauline Ward, Roger Weaver, Sarah Molloy, Sarah Potvin, Sarah Shreeves, Steve Van Tuyl, Terry Brady, Valorie Hollister and Yan Han.

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.

Want to see your name appear in our list of contributors? All you have to do is report an issue, fix a bug, improve our documentation or help us determine the necessary requirements for a new feature! Visit our Issue Tracker to report a bug, or join dspace-devel mailing list to take part in development work. If you'd like to help improve our current documentation, please get in touch with one of our Committers with your ideas. You don't even need to be a developer! Repository managers can also get involved by volunteering to join the DSpace Community Advisory Team and helping our developers to plan new features.

The 5.0 Release Team consisted of:

Additional thanks to Tim Donohue from DuraSpace for keeping all of us focused on the work at hand, for calming us when we got excited, and for the general support for the DSpace project.