Product RoadMap

Versioning & support model

Starting from DSpace-CRIS 7 the project has adopted its own versioning model to ensure accurate tagging and tracking of changes across the different releases. Version numbers use the following schema year.major.minor. The major number will reset to 01 each year, minor numbers start from 00, for example 2021.01.00, 2021.01.01, 2021.02.00, 2022.01.00, etc.

• Minor versions are expected to be easier to upgrade to, REST API is guaranteed to be backward compatible;
• Major versions are used to highlight important functional or breaking changes. The changelog highlights new features and configurations, REST API changes and the version of the plain DSpace that is used as basis;
• Year versions are assumed to be major. Minor versions related to the previous year can still occur for security and bug fixes.

The latest version is actively maintained by 4Science and community members as volunteer work. Support for past versions will be based on availability of resources and funding from the community. Security fixes will be brought to the current version and the previous major if the current version is a new one (i.e. minor = 00). For example if version 2021.02.00 is the current one, security fixes will be released for both 2021 major 01 and 02, i.e. version 2021.01.01 and 2021.02.01 will be released. Once version 2021.02.01 will be out, further fixes will come as 2021.02.02.

DSpace-CRIS and DSpace releases are independent. The plain DSpace version used as basis for a DSpace-CRIS version will be noted in the changelog but, whenever appropriate, it will be possible to release an official DSpace-CRIS version based on a DSpace unreleased version (as it was the case for the first DSpace-CRIS 7.0 release). In such situations, the DSpace-CRIS development team will have reviewed the known issues in DSpace and provided custom remediation, workarounds or alternative functionalities to support the relevant use cases. Some limitations can also be acceptable and just noted in the release notes as they may impact edge scenarios or a limited users' base.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Releases

The first production-ready DSpace-CRIS 7.0 was released on 2nd June 2021. The version supports the key use cases and the most demanded features of DSpace-CRIS according to the priorities defined by the community of users (DSpace-CRIS User Group).  The first version of DSpace-CRIS 7.0 addressed priorities 1 and 2 with contributions from supporting institutions (resource effort and/or funding) and volunteer work by 4Science (more than 3,000 hours in 2020 and 2021 on top of what 4Science provided for the plain DSpace 7). The original development plan is available here but it is not longer used to track progress and future plan that are instead described in the Product RoadMap and agreed within the DSpace-CRIS User Group.

Current development

The roadmaps of DSpace and DSpace-CRIS are still separated due to the significant number of extra functionalities of DSpace-CRIS that it is not possible to quickly give back to plain DSpace yet. From time to time, features are contributed back / ported to DSpace, and the DSpace-CRIS community aims to keep the two projects as close as possible, eventually rejoining them. 

DSpace-CRIS is developed in the branches named main-cris in the REST, Angular, and RestContract repositories maintained by 4Science. Its development closely follows the releases of the official DSpace, and new developments from the mainstream are generally merged into DSpace-CRIS within 1-2 weeks. The code is now very stable, and many projects are already running this codebase in production.

DSpace-CRIS since version 7 moves the CRIS objects to the DSpace items with the extended concept of Configurable Entities, maintaining the Authority Framework as an efficient, flexible, performant way to manage relations among objects, successfully used in hundreds of real installations around the world since more than 10 years.

DSpace-CRIS has many additional features and tailored procedures that enhance the UX and are not available in DSpace, some key points are:

The following features will be considered only once the recommendation of the merger Planning groups have been finalized and according to their recommendation. In case the merger project will proceed such development would not occur in DSpace-CRIS and would only occur in the merged solution once  in agreement with the

• Collecting the contributor Roles (CredIT support)​

• Improve the handling of hierarchical metadata allowing repeatable values for nested metadata
• Support for multilanguage hierarchical metadata: currently metadata within a nested (i.e. Orgunit name of an affiliation, role, etc.) are not shown according to the current UI language

• Enforce validation and management of hierarchical metadata via an application profile also in the administer mode and over the API (PUT)​

2025

DSpace-CRIS 8 2024.02.03 October, 10^th

This version, released on the 10^th October 2025, provides alignment with DSpace 8.2 tag with improvements and bug fixing.
Key Enhancements

• Based on DSpace 8.2 tag. See DSpace 8.2 release notes for further information

Improvements to existing features

• Added support for explicit Apache Tika configuration via the TIKA_CONFIG env variable or -Dtika.config JVM argument; default file is config/tika-config.xml.
• Set the iiifuploader.machinetoken by default to dspace.cli.jwt.
• Improved Italian translations in Browse by pages.
• Enhanced performance of the metadata-import process by increasing the bulkedit.change.commit.count limit to 20 items.
• Improved login pop-up behavior when standard login is disabled.
• Metadata enrichment from authorities can now be configured to enrich related metadata with all values from the selected vocabulary entry.
• Introduced a background batch deletion script (dspace-object-deletion) to avoid blocking the UI/API. Supports deletion of Communities, Collections, or Items via UUID or handle.
• Changed the label of the bulk-import start button on the item page.
• Improved bulk execution of curation tasks to avoid reprocessing already handled items, enhancing performance on large repositories.
  • Introduced metadata markers (cris.curation.process, cris.curation.history), paginated Solr queries, and runtime flags (--force, --recent) to control execution.
  • Enhanced and tested multiple curation tasks across addons (OCR, IIIF, DocViewer).
• Upgraded citeproc-java to version 3.3.0 and added full support for APA v. 7.
• Handled NullPointerException when XML parsing for OAI fails.

Bug fixes

• Fixed REST pipeline failure caused by an integration test checking DSpace demo availability.
• Fixed visibility of the "Request a correction" feature in the dropdown item menu.
• Fixed import and admin search for community/collection administrators.
• Fixed configuration for login backdoor.
• Fixed “Show more” button on search result elements.
• Fixed broken read-only form field mechanism in submission forms (donated by kskaiser).
• Fixed issue accessing the item’s administrative page when cris.customurl is defined.
• Fixed end-to-end tests.
• Fixed metadata with underscores not being properly indexed.
• Fixed NULL mimetype issues affecting file download and management.
• Fixed an issue causing tables in item pages to display with incorrect proportions.
• bulk-item-export process launched from the search page now correctly filters results when an end date is set.
• Fixed and updated Docker scripts for DSpace-CRIS (donated by tdonohue).
• Fixed duplication of rows during the cris-layout-export script execution.
• Fixed a NPE during Drag and Drop submission in MyDSpace, and allowed drag-and-dropped files to be uploaded (co-funded by BFH - Berner Fachhochschule).

DSpace-CRIS 8 2024.02.02 August, 1^st

This version, released on the 1^st August 2025, provides alignment with DSpace 8.2 tag with improvements and bug fixing.
Key Enhancements

• Alignment with DSpace 8.2 tag. See DSpace 8.2 release notes for further information

Improvements to existing features

• Added proper configuration for CrossRef import using new property mappings
• Improved ITs related to the LDNMessage feature
• Changed the ROR API setting to force the use of ROR API version 1
• Added loading feedback when navigating to administrative item page
• Added a configuration setting to disable the standard email+password login method
• Added the Authority label and refined the visualization of the table in Template item page
• Updated the server configurations so that the health page now shows the status for all cores used by DSpace-CRIS
• Implemented new option to run bulk access control on a bundle level
• Improved fallback mechanism for avatar image in pop-over so that placeholder image depends on the entity type of the item
• BulkAccessControl now updates policies on all bitstreams and bundles derived from those in the ORIGINAL bundle
• Optimized SQL queries for metadata enhancer updates
• Improved the Submission related PATCH request
• Added JAVA_HOME to the PATH environment variables in the setenv.sh
• Refactored Bitbucket pipeline configuration to introduce a reusable environment variable block, updated Maven execution commands with parallel build options and environment arguments, and consolidated parallel pipeline steps for various branches and pull requests
• Added two new options to the filter-media process:
  • the -b repeatable option enhances item processing control. This option allows users to specify one or more bundle names whose presence should exclude the corresponding item from being selected for processing.
    Please note that this is a best-effort mechanism. Items without the specified bundles may still be retrieved inadvertently. Items with one or more of the specified bundles may still be processed if required by other filters or processing logic (e.g., for newly added bitstreams).
  • The -t option enables filtering items based on how recently they were updated. By specifying a number of days, users can control the recency window for processing (-t 1 will include only items updated within the last 24 hours)

Bug fixes

• Fixed the autoload of first levels in the tree views
• Resolved an issue causing inconsistent rendering of bitstream attachments due to external caching behavior
• Fixed an issue that caused the list of processes not to load completely when the browser was zoomed-in
• Updated endpoint /api/system/processes/search/own adding new parameter processStatus to prevent loading issues of MyProcesses section
• Fixed error on file upload for bulk import
• Fixed titles of export modals that were not displaying the Community/Collection name
• Processes launched on the orchestrator are no longer marked as “failed” if the Tomcat is restarted while they are running or scheduled
• Fixed an error preventing the /server/oai page from responding
• Fixed the positioning of facet checkboxes when the facet description spans multiple lines
• Prevented CORS error when a bitstream is embedded in an external page via its download/html page
• Fixed findByItemHandle redirect sending wrong parameter
• Fixed subscription bug causing the method to return a wrong value when the subscription for the user is checked
  • Added crispatent-types.xml, iiif-bitstream-formats.xml, and ocr-bitstream-formats.xml now auto-load via Flyway or ./dspace registry-loader -all.
  • Removed duplicate loading of openaire4-types.xml.
• Fixed format to support PNG files in IIIF and OCR

DSpace-CRIS 7 2023.02.07.01 July, 22^nd

This version, released on July 22nd, 2025, provides an updated version of the DSpace-CRIS 2023.02.07 release, which includes the following security fixes:

• Fix for CVE-2025-53621 (moderate severity). XML External Entity (XXE) injection possible in import via Simple Archive Format (SAF) or import from external sources. See security advisory or mailing list “security notice” for details.

• Fix for CVE-2025-53622 (moderate severity). Path traversal vulnerability in Simple Archive Format (SAF) package import via “contents” file. See security advisory or mailing list “security notice” for details.

• Fix possible "Zip Slip" in SWORDv2 ingest process. This potential issue was found via an automated code scan and no exploit has been confirmed. See #10725

DSpace-CRIS 8 2024.02.01 May, 13^th

This version, released on the 13^th May 2025, provides alignment with DSpace 8.1 tag with improvements and bug fixing.
This version also includes all the improvements and fixes developed for version 2023.02.07. Check the complete list at Version 2023.02.07 - Release notes.
Key Enhancements

• Alignment with DSpace 8.1 tag. See DSpace 8.1 release notes for further information

Bug fixes

• Removed async functions calls from HTML of cris layout pages to improve performance and avoid the page to get stuck

• Fixed the authority display in the filter facets, now showing the label instead of the authority value when a facet value with authority

• Fixed an issue where charts could not be shown

• Added the missing title prefix label in full view on the Event item page

• Applied fix for the ConfirmationModalComponent that uses getName method to retrieve the dsoName of the item selected

• Fixed an issue that caused wrong positioning of elements in the myDSpace page

• Fixed template of primary bitsteam button

• Fixed the duplication of tags after deposit (Bug fixing paid by TUWIEN)

• Fixed a bug that caused the Statistic voice on the navbar to not be clickable.

• Fixes two bugs in metadata form handling:

  • If you change the value of a metadata field associated with a security configuration, the security level of the metadata field is lost

  • If you change the security level of a metadata field, the confidence value of the metadata field is lost. (Donated by saschaszott)

• Various Translations, SCSS and code cleanUp from DSpace-CRIS Community contribution (Donated by saschaszott)

• Fixed an issue where the download link for an exported item was not being shown

• Corrected navigation link for authority controlled metadata in items result lists

• Added a missing label for the deduplication section in submission form

• Fix issue when sorting chips in relation group component

• Fixed select/unselect buttons not showing

• Fixed Community page Tabs, which had inconsistencies from the default DSpace version

• Fixed the error of application.properties loaded from the server-8.1 jar of DSpace

• Configured the system-wide alert to retrieve messages during client-side rendering (CSR), bypassing the application cache

• Removed the wrong configuration for the title display field when using ROR to import from external sources

• Fixed the Manage Projects functionality on Person page, improving its stability

DSpace-CRIS 7 2023.02.07 April, 14^th

This version, released on the 14^th April 2025, provides alignment with DSpace 7.6.2 tag. with improvements and bug fixing.

Key Enhancements

• Implemented the possibility for editors to execute workflow actions in bulk

• Added the HTML and Longhtml rendering types for Cris Layout

• Added support for AWS S3 Environment credentials for S3 Assetstore

• Introduced a shell script named dspacerestprocess to invoke a dspace process via the REST API using the jwt machine token available in the configuration via the property dspace.cli.jwt

  This allows to schedule in the server crontab process that will appear in the DSpace UI as they were requested from the UI

• Added new Data Quality addon configurations

• Added dspace.workflow.startDateTime metadata to the Metadata registry schema. The metadata counts the time since the workflow started

Improvements to existing features

• Exposed the mandatory ‘description’ metadata to be compliant with Google Dataset Search Dataset Search

• The search graphs section is now fully collapsible, with a dedicated toggle button for expanding or minimizing it, ensuring an optimized use of space when not actively needed.

• Installation of fonts locally in order to be compliant with the GDPR.

• Activated the impersonate function by default in settings

• Added Disallow rules in robots.txt file to improve indexing (e.g. Scholar) and reduce unnecessary traffic

• Improved the filter label badge on the search page when results are filtered by criteria under authority, such as authors. The label now shows the name or title instead of the authority UUID.

• The property to limit the characters in the breadcrumb in the DSpace-CRIS code was discarded in favour of the DSpace solution

• Improvements for the Audit feature:

  • Fixed issue with status code

  • Fixed issue with unprovided observable

  • Adopted UI guard to check for collection and community admins

  • Modified pre-authorization feature so that audits are accessible also to users with write permissions for the community or for the collection to which the item belongs

• Set max-http-header-size to 64k by default in the application.properties

• Implement health indicators for DSpace components to enable automated query validation for epersongroup and site.

• Improved the performance of the index-discovery script when a uuid/handle is provided with the -i parameter

• Added preventMetadataSecurity as default projection in search manager.

• In the submission form, added a setting to specify a minimum number of characters required before performing a lookup.

• Prevented NPE in browse if no value-pairs has been found (file controlled vocabularies with authority)

• Improved margins for metrics boxes in item pages

• Added a new parameter for handling the bundle name in the LuckySearch functionality to use a query parameter value

• Added support for setting the item accessConditions step as mandatory by introducing the required property in the configuration bean

• Refactored Bitbucket pipeline configurations to improve build efficiency and cleaned up Maven project structure by removing redundant groupId tags and refining pom.xml dependencies. Updated Maven configuration in pom.xml to replace the <includeClassifiers> entries and modify <includeTypes> to include jar,test-jar

• Triggered a MODIFY event on collections when a parent Community Administrator group is created, ensuring Solr documents update the submit field to reflect new permissions

• Added new access header configuration and inclusion for the REST process script

• Excluded the bot's activity in the item count for metrics as done on the statistics page, fixing the discrepancy in the displayed numbers

• Updated the MetadataService to correctly handle adding multiple <meta> tags with the same name by allowing the addition of tags instead of replacing existing ones and limit the number of metadata tags to improve page rendering

• Handled language for qualdrop metadata

• Cleaned code and removed unused lines

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue with pagination not updating after clicking on pages

• Fixed Orgunits entities which are always displayed as untitled

• Fixed reliability of RorOrgUnitAuthorityIT with mock data and service.

• Fixed workflow curation execution. The workflow framework raised errors after the execution of a curate due to a commit operation in the curation flow

• Fixed bug that leads to retrieval of undiscoverable or withdrawn items in the ItemAuthority lookup

• Clicking on a “Downloads” item metric now opens the Statistics page on the correct graph.

• Resolved issue with multi-row drag-and-drop functionality for metadata fields featuring chip buttons in submissions, implementing a custom fix for Angular versions prior to 18 to ensure smooth item reordering across rows.

• Fixed the error red border in inline group in the form to show the red border around the entire grey form box

• Fixed an issue where the search button, the language selector and the login button disappeared from the header and used a second row.

• Fixed format to support PNG files in IIIF and OCR

• Fixed issue with displaying entity type before title in full item page for workflow & workspace items.

• Fixed the possibility for administrators to access data in the tabs and boxes restricted by custom security policy

• Fixed multilanguage for qualdrop inputs

• Fixed the context menu button in “Browse by” on collection pages.

• Updated breadcrumbs.component.html to enable HTML rendering in breadcrumb

• Fixed errors with view event on Solr

• Fixed labels for statistics in Publication reports & Project reports.

• Fixed bug that leads to retrieval of undiscoverable or withdrawn items in the ItemAuthority lookup

• Removes wrong exception reference in AuthorizeService

• Fixed filter’s skeleton loader issue that would result in filters hanging in loading state

• Fixed an issue where identifier links could contain whitespaces

• Fixed an issue with tree loading when a value is selected

• Fixed issue of metadata values that could overflow their rendering box in the item page view

• Fixed an issue with authority values on dynamic dropdowns in submission forms

• Fixed the store-metrics script to commit changes every 20 processed items

• Fixed the 404 error returned when clicking on nested tabs in item pages

• Fixed the export of items on a search result when a facet is filtering on more than one value

• Fixed error in metadata security evaluation, which led to a broken OAI page

• Fixed an issue in the signpostingLinksResolver to correctly resolve links for items with a custom URL

• Fixed text overflowing in search result items

• Fixed issue in the CrisSecurity check. When the user only belongs to special groups set and belongs to no real group, the specialgroups were not considered at all due to this bug

• Fixed community selector issue for non-admin users

• Fixed chart button not disappearing when no chart is available

• Fixed an issue where changing values of an ePerson that were previously not defined caused errors

• Fixed the generation of the APA citation, now the APA citation also includes the name of the journal retrieved using the dc.relation.ispartof metadata

• Prevent SSR error when setting signposting links in header

• Fixed the dynamic display issue of the Researcher Profile section, ensuring it is shown or hidden based on the correct configuration value

• Fixed tests failing in a non-deterministic fashion

• Fixed missing data reload after bulk import in MyDspace

• Fixed JS error on file upload

• Fixed the issue blocking direct downloads of bitstreams while logged in, refactored the logic for user redirection during direct downloads

• Fixed the issue of placeholder values not hidden

• Fixed BulkImport issues for external files.

• Fixed proper version retrieval for addon modules

• Fixed missing title information on error pages

• Removed unnecessary conditional logic within the getTypeBindModelUpdates method to streamline the retrieval of valueChanges from the type bind model to retrieve the value of the type bind field correctly when the type bind field is a checkbox

2024

DSpace-CRIS 8 2024.02.00 December, 31^st

This version, released on the 31^st December 2024,  provides alignment with DSpace 8.0

DSpace-CRIS 8 2024.01.00 July, 22^nd (not to use in production, only for test purpose)

This version, released on the 22^nd July 2024,  provides alignment with DSpace 8.0-snapshot
New User Features

• COAR Notify Protocol: DSpace now supports the COAR Notify Protocol for sending & receiving Linked Data Notifications (LDN) messages from external systems.
• OpenAIRE Data Correction: this feature provides a basic integration with the OpenAIRE Content Provider Dashboard via the Notification Broker.
• OpenAIRE Publication Claim: this feature provides a closer integration between DSpace and the OpenAIRE Publication REST API. 

DSpace-CRIS 7 2023.02.06 November, 7^th

This version, released on the 7^th November 2024, provides alignment with DSpace 7.6.2 tag. with improvements and bug fixing.

Key Enhancements

• Alignment with DSpace 7.6.2 tag. See DSpace 7.6.2 release notes for further information.
• The administrator bar is enriched for Community and Collection admin with the following options:
  • New
    • for creating subcommunities, collections and item
  • Edit
    • for editing communities, subcommunities, collections and items
  • Import
  • Export
  • Admin Search
  • Processes
• The homepage top-section layout has been refactored to allow different configurable layouts. This includes options for an image-based layout, a slider with cards, or the existing default layout.
• The handling of translated metadata labels in the CRIS layout has been improved.
  • For plain metadata the first available label among the following ones is shown:
    • the i18n-label layout.field.label.<ENTITY_TYPE>.[] (new format, with square brackets)
    • the i18n-label layout.field.label.<ENTITY_TYPE>. (old format, without square brackets) as first fallback
    • the i18n-label layout.field.label.[] (new format, with square brackets) as second fallback
    • the i18n-label layout.field.label. as third fallback (where is the value in the LABEL column)
    • the label (this.field.label) value, not translated, as fourth fallback
  • For nested metadata the following label is used, if available, otherwise the label for the plain metadata is used as fallback:
    • the i18n-label layout.field.label.<ENTITY_TYPE>.NESTED[]
  • For bitstreams the following label is used:
    • the i18n-label layout.field.label.<ENTITY_TYPE>.BITSTREAM[] (where is the value in the VALUE column)
    • the i18n-label layout.field.label.<ENTITY_TYPE>.BITSTREAM
      The cris-layout-configuration.xls file has been updated accordingly.
• Added possibility to route network requests to different DSpace REST API URL during SSR
• Performance Improvements:
  • Prevents rendering of context-menu during SSR
  • Optimized menu resolver in order to not make metadata script requests if no necessary
  • Optimized search results by including follow links
  • Optimized search results by avoiding rendering On Server Side by default
  • Use preventMetadataSecurity projection as default for browse and search component. Before this update the projection was used only for the mydspace page
  • Improved search/mydspace page to better fetch data and follow authority for objects which are not item. Due to the bug the requests to fetch all the items related to metadata authority in a search result list are done only for item objects. Now it work also for all the objects shown by the mydspace (workspace, workflow, workflow tasks)

Minor changes

• The thumbnail component has been standardized to verify that the thumbnail format is valid (i.e., not unknown) and that the thumbnail does not exceed the predefined size. From now the configuration option cris.layout.thumbnail.maxsize and its logic is valid for every thumbnail.
• Improved the text in tool-tips for Workflow process buttons
• Improved the behavior of buttons in Supervision popup: the value can be introduced by Selecting/Deselecting the person to which assign the Supervision Order
• When creating a new policy for an item, the field The eperson or group that will be granted the permission is now non-editable and the value can be introduced by Selecting/Deselecting the person or group to which grant the permission
• Added feature to configure descriptive text for dropdown in the submission form, to allow a description to appear once the item in the dropdown is selected
• During the handling of an item, the entity Type metadata is copied from the owning collection if it is null
• The forgot password link on the log in screens is now removable. New property user.forgot-password added on REST settings
• Resolved the improper error occurring when editing the End User Agreement form UI
• Added a new environmental setting that allow to hide the item badges in the results list for browses and search
• Update the CMS template during editing to ensure that changes are visible in all languages after saving
• Corrected the typo in the path used for the OAI import script that caused an error on List Records for every Metadata Format page in OAI-PMH
• Improved the clarity of the button function on Template Item page by changing the Cancel button into Back
• Implemented metadata generator for template item which allow to fill a metadata with the submitter's profile name
• Add option to skip type binding for modal’s forms. Skip type bind in bitstream metadata editing in submission.
• Disable grobid in CI as we cannot update to the latest version - v0.8.0
• To resolve cache issues in visualizing edits, the behavior of the item resolver was changed by avoiding taking an existing cached response and fetching a new request for the item object during the CSR
• When an administrator user visits the page of a withdrawn item, the button “Take me to the home page" won’t be displayed
• Anonymous and bot Cache for SSR are now disabled by default
• Added a link in the user menu that leads to the processes page launched by the user itself
• Enable audit menu for Community and Collection Admins
• The button for top community creation becomes visible only to system administrators
• Restrict personal metadata information by default for Person entity
• In MyDSpace, the entity list of available submissions is now ordered alphabetically for all languages set up inside the default-app-config.ts
• Fix DOI templates for exporting the datacite XML
• Added a “Generator” meta tag with the CRIS version
• The IndexClient has been improved as follows
  • the -i option is now able to process also uuid related to item in workspace or workflow
  • a new -t option has been introduced to specify which indexable object type should be processed (ClaimedTask, PoolTask, Item, Collection, Community, MetadataField, WorkspaceItem, XmlWorkflowItem
• DSpace objects expose uniqueType attribute
• Reduced log noise from the third-party library
• Improved error handling of the item correction functionality
• Technical alignment of json files for translations
• Added ds-metric-badges and ds-metric-donuts metrics for components ds-person-search-result-list-element, ds-org-unit-search-result-list-element, ds-project-search-result-list-element, ds-journal-search-result-list-element to show metrics in search results for different entity types
• Improves the open/close behavior of the related-items popover. A StickyPopoverDirective is created to manage a sticky popover using NgbPopover. It keeps the popover open when the mouse is over its content and closes it when the mouse leaves
• Implemented functionality to display errors present inside the bitstream form in the upload section. If some metadata related to the uploaded files are missing or don’t pass the validation a generic error message will be displayed under the related file. In case of errors inside the bitstream form it will be impossible to proceed in saving the form so that all the mandatory fields will be in need to be provided
• Made a change to avoid API calls to the correction feature if such feature is disabled
• Implement the accessStatus endpoint using the automatic metadata
• Now Community/collection logo is created with the same policies as its parent dspace object

Bug fixes

• Resolved the issue of the MyDSpace Export per Type not finding any item by adding to the discovery configurations (workspace, supervisedWorkspace, otherworkspace, workflow ) the filter for the entity types
• Fixed the method to return unaltered links if external, as from specific and integration tests
• Fixed issue of Exporting bitstream's metadata is not found on the submission form for the parent item
• Fixed the (sometimes) missing import and export sections in administrator bar
• Fix the behavior of the Back button in the Bulk import page
• Fixes unwanted home-page redirect from profile page
• Fixed issue that occurred when math formulas included syntax that could be interpreted as markdown delimiters
• Sharing pages on social media now correctly shows a thumbnail
• Fix bulk export not working for certain entity type
• Added the missing title prefix label in full view on the Event item page
• Fix issue with consents for optional services selection not being reflected in cookies.
• Fixed the issue of the navigation bar and footer becoming non-clickable on the Import page
• Added the Authority label and refined the visualization of the table in Template item page
• Fixed the triggering of fake error messages when data was input and then deleted from a non-required nested field
• Fixed an issue that prevented the user to look at cookies settings by clicking on the footer link if no cookie preferences have been chosen yet
• Minor Scripts Improvements (solr-resync and item-enhancer-poller)
• Filtering on a search result by clicking on the chart now works in every situation
• Fixed ADS integration identifier metadata
• Fixed issue with wrong script parameter when using the bulk import
• Fixed margin between breadcrumb and tabs selector in item pages
• Fixed wrong error code response on rest endpoints
• Fixed cache issue with list of exposed rest properties
• Fixed Potential NPE in the ItemEnhancer poller
• Fixed performance, configuration and implementation of the prevent metadata security projection
• Fixed the ngx-mask version in order to avoid possible build errors
• Fixed issue with displayed errors of radio/check boxed in the submission form
• Added metadata crisfund.award.uri in the registry to deposit Funding
• Fixed an issue where the iiif viewer was always displaying the first file of an Item, with no way to display another file of the same item
• Fixed overlapping between authors and abstract in relation items
• Fixed text appearance in registration form
• Fix bug that led to Handle identifiers to not be resolved using the /handle/ url and any other resolution strategy
• Fixed the discovery indexes based on virtual metadata, which was indexing items before new virtual metadata was generated causing out-of-date state and inconsistent discovery filters
• Fixed wrong authorization evaluation for processes run directly from the application
• Fixed the condition of the solr filter query used by the browse endpoint which prevented to retrieve the entire list of results for collection admins belonging to different communities
• Fixed locale working badly for timezone with negative UTC offset
• Fixed redirect on SSR and refactored code in lucky-search
• Fixed the gap between the breadcrumb and tab detail button
• Fixed CMS editing, so that changes in the editor are visible in all languages after saved
• Fixed issue with process notification pop-up which hung on forever even though the process was finished
• Fixed issue with wrong sorting criteria applied when switching between different relation tabs in the item page

DSpace-CRIS 7 2023.02.05 July, 11^th

This version, released on the 11^th July 2024, provides minor improvements and bug fixing.

Key Enhancements

• New configuration introduces identifier subtypes, allowing customization of the name, icon, icon position, and link for each subtype. This includes the update for identifier subtype ROR with identifier.ror rendering type. ROR ID on the OrgUnit details page is displayed following the guidelines
• Improved visualization of related items (crisref rendering) by creating a new view for the crisref link rendering type that displays metadata in a popup when hovering and closes it automatically when moving away
• Improved the item poller org.dspace.app.rest.enhancer.RelatedItemEnhancerUpdatePoller to use its own consumers list. This allows to configure specific consumers for the item poller or add/remove not needed ones
• Implement Domino for Server-Side Rendering stability
• The validation of patch requests against Edit Item, i.e. request generated by the edit of the deposited item via the Edit “submission like” modes, is now using a more relaxed check accepting to update the item also if the resulting item results in a number of validation error not greater than before the patch. Indeed, it is important to note that a deposited item could have existing validation errors under some scenarios. The most common one is that the deposited item has been created in bulk importing data from a legacy system (migration) or has become “invalid” due to changes in the configuration where more validation criteria have been enforced. In all these scenarios, the updated logic allows editing the item without having to solve all the validation errors at the same time, as long as each edit improves the validation status of the item (i.e. reduces the amount of JSON path involved in validation errors)

Minor changes

• Set the alphabetic order in the “Entity type“ dropdown menu during the creation of a Collection
• Reload the page automatically if loading hangs up
• The visibility on the homepage of the AddToAny social sharing bar has been improved
• The user_id field of processes is now set to null when an EPerson is deleted to fix errors in process retrieval
• The search box now dynamically adapts to screen dimensions, ensuring it respects screen borders. On viewports with width less than or equal to medium-sized screens (including tablets and smartphones), the search box width is limited to the lesser of 250px or 40% of the viewport's width
• Removed old occurrence to cris.owner metadata in the Person entity input form
• Improvements of import for bulk file operations

Bug fixes

• CC License step, if mandatory, is now working correctly
• Fixed issue with export process fails when run 2 times on the same item
• Fixed the error of removal of inputs of type “link“ in submission forms
• Fixed Region Name issues with S3 storage configuration
• Resolved the issue of thumbnails not visible in search page by adding a missing check for the default configuration on thumbnails
• Fixed the wrong layout for the item administration page
• Fixes the behaviour of the Altmetric label. It will now only be displayed when the badge is available and contains data
• Fixed search when using directly an ORCID ID instead of the person’s name
• Deleted the z-index rule to make the Export button stay in the background of the dropdown menu in MyDspace
• Fixed an issue where, by pasting a DSpace URL in the address bar, the current page (e.g. in search results) was not retrieved correctly.

DSpace-CRIS 7 2023.02.04 May, 31st

This version, released on the 31st May 2024, provides minor improvements and bug fixing.

Key Enhancements

• Implemented a custom minting feature. It’s now possible to generate DOI identifiers using custom rules before registering them with Datacite. You can define your own rules for creating DOI identifiers based on specific metadata, naming conventions, or other criteria. Default item filters could also be used to specify conditions under which the custom-generated DOI identifier should be applied
• Metadata export has been updated to reflect the latest changes in the Datacite metadata schema v4.5.
• Publisher element will include the ROR identifier if available. ResourceType uses a mapping based on the COAR Resource Type Vocabulary URI instead of the textual value so that it is language insensitive
• Add support for nesting relation and if within a group in the RefererCrosswalk export templates
• The group rendering in the template engine has been extended to manage children group: relation and if. Moreover, placeholders are ignored in export instead of being exported as an empty string
• Added support/configuration for authority lookup to display icons and labels for the source of each retrieved entry
• When using metadata enhancement by the authority lookup, it’s now possible to display and select alternative entries, if any
• We have introduced indexes in the database to optimize the performance of the RelatedItemEnhancerUpdatePoller
• Improved S3 connector:
  • Added support for different storage URL than the default Amazon URL
  • Added support for setting the maximum number of connections
  • Added support for settings the connection timeouts
• Added support for Datadog Real User Monitoring (RUM)
• Ported the SolrSuggestAuthority from the old DSpace version
• Added support for AddToAny plugin for sharing posts on social media

Minor changes

• Highly enhanced logo editing for community and collections
• Changed the dc.subject label from "Subject Classifications" to "Subject Keywords"
• Hidden bitstreams are no longer shown in the item on the full metadata page
• Added support/configuration for authority dropdown to allow the display of icons and labels for each retrieved entry
• Integrated Mathjax for supporting markdown text
• The ROR integration also shows the country when providing suggestions in a field
• When sharing an item page, the correct item thumbnail is exposed according to the cris layout configuration
• Improve the aspect of the “tag” fields used by the submission form
• It’s now possible to hide an item’s bitstream by the administrative bitstream edit page
• Added additional configuration to enable versioning only on custom entities and to allow the creation of new versions of an item also to non-admin (check allowed group configuration)
• Add support for Link input type. In the submission form It’s now possible to use a new input type “link” to store label as metadata value and link as authority. A related rendering type has been added for visualization on the item page
• Configured Versioning BOX on item page for publication entities
• Added dc.type badge on bitstreams during submission
• Added a fallback behavior when some data loading is taking too much
• Added possibility to show entity icon in the submission form when no authority is set
• Languages enabled by default are only:
  • English
  • German
  • Spanish
  • French
• The dc.publisher metadata is now using the OrgUnitAuthority that by default looks in the ROR Registry
• Added separator for Authors' names in the MyDSpace result list
• Adapted text case for attachment rendering to use title case (first letter uppercase)
• Removes duplicated configuration values out of dspace.cfg file

Bug fixes

• Fixed dc.type mapping for Scopus provider
• Fixed the issue of showing a false error message when editing the End User Agreement
• Fixed issue with the cancel button on some administrative pages
• Added mock OpenAIRE connector for integration test to avoid failure due to service down
• Fixed issue that prevented editing and viewing of EULA
• Fixed issue with the download button shown also for not downloadable files
• Fixed issue with the search box in Navbar, which exceeded the small screen borders
• Added missing labels when importing Patents from EPO
• Added missing labels when importing from ROR
• Fixed issue with export in the MyDSpace page
• Fixed issue with Collection exports when metadata has language attributes with underscores
• Exporting collections containing items with metadata with language attributes that include underscores now works properly
• Fixed accessibility problem in the submission form. Changed the color of the icon for better contrast if there is no authority
• Fixed issue with Versioning alert box, which was missing in the item page of versioned item
• Fixed the issue of the Bulk Export failing when exporting a collection with mapped items
• Fixed visualization order of the metrics boxes on the item page
• Fixed issue with Altmetrics badge, which sometimes wasn’t shown properly
• Fixed issue with links in the versioning table, which were not resolved correctly and throws a 404 error when the page is loaded
• Fixed issue with collapsible sidebar of vertical CRIS layout
• Fixed issue with nested fields which were set with a confidence value of -1 when the authority value is chosen from the dropdown
• Fixed errors while running the update-metrics script
• Fixed issue with search page when filtering results via pie chart
• Fixed issue with Community/collection logo. A max width has been defined and small images are no longer stretched

DSpace-CRIS 7 2023.02.03 March, 29th

This version, released on the 29th of March 2024, provides minor improvements and bug fixing.

Key Enhancements

• When linking a page of the repository, the use of a language can now be forced with a URL parameter (e.g lang=it)
• Added the Communities and Collections section to the Admin menu for collection administrators when the section is not shown in the Navigation bar
• Added a setting to enable/disable the Mirador download plugin. It is enabled by default
• In items lists, thumbnails are embedded to avoid extra calls and slowdowns
• Improved the responsiveness of metrics badge pop-ups on smaller screens
• Added support for template Item in the struct builder script/configuration
• Added configurable metadata of index-able item bitstreams on Solr
• Lucky-search configuration now supports also redirect to specific bitstream allowing to preserve URL of individual files moving from other platform to DSpace (i.e. EPrints)
• DOIOrganiser performance improved
• Allowed administrators to always perform PUT/Patches operations over items (in progress or archived)
• Improved the performance of the item-enhancer script
• Display the current metrics consents text for each badge
• Implement component to visualize current consents for metrics badges in a compact way
• Introduced the relatedItemMetadataFields attribute on org.dspace.content.enhancer.impl.RelatedEntityItemEnhancer
• The relatedItemMetadataField property in metadata-enhancer.xml now uses a list of values
• Item thumbnail preview is now disabled in MyDSpace item list
• The behavior of RelatedItemEnhancer has been updated to reduce the amount of generated metadata retaining the ability to minimize load to determine required changes when the source item or the related items (deepMode = true) are updated. Now only distinct sources uuid are tracked and for each source it is possible to extract/generate one or more virtual metadata values that will be all stored individual as cris.virtual. metadata. The place of the cris.virtual. metadata always match the place of the corresponding uuid / authority from which the metadata is generated and that is stored in the cris.virtualsource.. Please note that there is no guarantee about the order of the cris.virtualsource. values, it can differs from the order of the original metadata from which the authorities have been extracted. For example, the publication with Authors: Author1, Author2, Author3 can lead to the following virtual :

  cris.virtualsource.<qualifier> = uuid3, uuid3, uuid1, uuid2, uuid2, uuid2
  cris.virtual.<qualifier> = value-extracted-from-author3, value2-extracted-from-author3, value-extracted-from-author1, 
                             value-extracted-from-author2, value2-extracted-from-author2, value3-extracted-from-author2
  

• Added support for pushing the Product entities to ORCID (donated by floriangantner - University of Bamberg)
• Added support for pushing the Patent entities to ORCID (donated by floriangantner - University of Bamberg)
• Updated deduplication configuration for the new data-quality add-on features.
• During submission, autosave is triggered by changes on dc.type by default
• Removed sortablejs library dependency

Bug

• Fixed issue for which navigating to the item page during CSR could have led to a hard redirect of the page
• Resolved the out of memory error during Angular build
• Supervised items in MyDSpace are now listed correctly
• Fixed the error appearing in Edit item update when there’s no submitter
• Fixed the issue for which the authority value was not saved if controlled vocabulary was used in a not repeatable field
• Fixed bug for rendering cris-layout-configuration breaking when the rendering was set on a field without the filtering metadata
• Fixed rendering issue with item page with huge/large number of metadata
• Added the template for the subscription statistics email previously hard-coded in the script
• Fix the issue of facets disappearing in search page when a filter was selected
• Fixed issue with type-bind when dc.type is provided by a metadata enrichment
• Fixed issue with type-bind when dc.type is vocabulary controlled
• Fixed issue for which Authority was not saved for repeatable fields

DSpace-CRIS 7 2023.02.02 February, 9th

This version, released on the 9th of February 2024, provides minor improvements and bug fixing.

Key Enhancements

• Created a bootable jar to execute DSpace REST as Spring Boot application

• Added the internal routing on the counted component and improved its general appearance and behavior

• Removed the dropdown menu with SherpaRomeo suggestions when entering the title of Books

• Added support to display an alternative tab/box if the configured one is not accessible by the current user

• Added AddToAny for sharing posts on social media

• Implemented a GDPR-compliant metrics integration

  • Isolated consents for third party metrics, each of the metrics can be accepted/declined separately.

  • Script loading is conditional to allow giving consent for each metric.

  • Disabling each metric is possible on the whole environment via configuration property.

• In order to have, for ORCID, an external identifier even for orgunits like departments, with this version the orgunit hierarchy is scanned upwards, and the first identifier is used for the disambiguation

• Improved the post preview on social media when sharing it from the social buttons

• Improved the appearance of subscription emails

• The MetadataImporter was updated in order to be able to load all the registries at once, with the possibility of configuring which files must be used and without having to specify the file to use for every import

• The ItemEnhancer now avoids performing an update of an item when there are no changes in the calculated virtual metadata, even when the deep \(previously named force\) mode is used. This prevents triggering other consumers, such as reindexing or altering the last modification date of the item if not really needed.

• Created utility functions to handle internal and external links

• The ROR integration also shows the country when providing suggestions in a field

Bug fixes

• Using discovery configuration communityOrCollection for the item mapper in the item administrative section

• Fixed the issue that made filters in the search section not work correctly if square brackets are used

• Fixed the logo being displayed on the communities & collections pages. The logo had no maximum size

• Added tests to test the community/collection logo could be edited once set/uploaded

• The default logo was Person but the default one is now File since not every thumbnail is generally related to a Person it makes sense to have a more generic logo/thumbnail

• This technical improvement opens the opportunity for performance improvements each time that a script or other functionalities require to work over all or a large list of items.

• Restored the filters in the sidebar on the Search Results page

• Fixed the link authn error during external login \(OIDC\)

• Fixed the issue of not listing any community or collection when starting CSV and XLS Metadata export

• The item page resolver function was corrected in the case of a single leading tab, resolving the issue of having a stuck loading of pages

• Fix cris-layout box for bitstream type

• Removed the yellow bar on the top of the page

• Fixed the infinite scroll in the pop-up appearing when clicking the “All of DSpace” button in the search bar on MyDSpace page

• Fixed the infinite scroll in the pop-up appearing when adding an entity starting from the option in the administration menu

• Fixed the issue of the impossibility of running the filter-media process with limitations to a community or collection

• Fixed the “detect duplicate” error which prevented the depositing of an item with a correction request

• Fixed error with the process page not being correctly updated once the process ended

Based on DSpace tag 7.6.1 (backend) and 7.6.1 (front-end)

2023

DSpace-CRIS 7 2023.02.01 December, 27th

This version, released on the 27th December 2023, provides minor improvements and bug fixing.

Key Enhancements

• Added item export format to export items as zip
• Added possibility to restrict export format by groups
• Introduced new metadata to show/hide item’s bitstreams using advanced-attachment
• Updated AddtoAny twitter button icon and label to X
• Added missing labels for ROR integration

Bug fixes

• Fixed issue with redirecting after Shibboleth login
• Fixed bug with read only fields within submission form

Based on DSpace tag 7.6.1 (backend) and 7.6.1 (front-end)

DSpace-CRIS 7 2023.02.00 November, 30th

This version, released on the 30th November 2023, provides alignment with DSpace 7.6.1 tag.

Upgrade instruction

The SOLR cores configuration MUST be updated with the last updates of this release.

A full SOLR reindex is reccomended, the search core could contains data that are inconsistent with the updated schema.xml version. You can rebuild the index via the dspace index-discovery script.

This could be a new script to be put in crontab

Key Enhancements

• Alignment with DSpace 7.6.1 tag. See DSpace 7.6 release notes and DSpace 7.6.1 release notes for further information.
• Improved ORCID login flow. Now it is possible to complete the login process even when the ORCID account’s email is private.
• Improved ORCID integration with versioned entities. Now only the last versioned item is synchronized with ORCID.
• Improved ROR integration. ROR is now exposed to datacite, it is possible to import orgunit from ROR and use the additional information like ROR id and type of orgunit to facilitate the selection of the correct orgunit.
• Now the CRIS layout tool support multiple layout for the same entity accordingly to definable custom filters.

Major improvements areas / bug fixes

• Improved application performance during SSR. Now requests for pages which contain search results are fetched on CSR only.
• Changed route behavior for CRIS item pages. First tab defined by the CRIS layout is no longer used in the item’s URL. To maintain backward compatibility redirect to the main page is done automatically.
• Improved managing of metadata security toggle for nested metadata.
• Improved stability of hide and sort functionality.
• Bulk export is accessible by the admin sidebar.
• Improved sitemap generation to exclude restricted content and duplicate links for item.
• Improved performance of filter-media script

Based on DSpace tag 7.6.1 (backend) and 7.6.1 (front-end)

DSpace-CRIS 7 2023.01.01 October, 4th

Version released on 4th of October, provides minor changes and bug fixing

Key Enhancements

• Improved UI responsivity
• Dynamic Edit Mode evaluation based on custom filters
• Advanced attachments layout improvements
• Improved metric donuts layout in search
• Improved categories in statistics section

Major improvements areas / bug fixes

• Fixed search tools in mobile view
• Scopus Improvements in import & NPE prevention
• Improved Usability of small buttons in MyDspace page
• Fixed request correction feature not removing bitstreams
• Enabled the use of legacy OAI identifiers
• Fixed Live import missing mapping features for fields
• Fixed Sherpa Romeo policies changes not reflected
• Datacite schema version update (v. 4)
• Fixed APA generation with citeproc
• Fixed End User Agreement showing twice

Based on DSpace tag 7.5 (backend) and 7.5 (front-end)

DSpace-CRIS 7 2023.01.00 June, 9th

Version released on 9th of june, provides alignment with DSpace 7.5 tag. See DSpace 7.5 release notes

Key Enhancements

• Alignment with DSpace 7.5. See DSpace 7.5 release notes.
• Replace AddThis as social plugin manager with AddToAny
• Export of the current cris layout configuration as a reusable xls​
• Ability to configure the explore sections under hierarchical menu
• bug fixing

Major improvements areas / bug fixes

• Fixed a bug affecting special groups membership evaluation during CRIS security checks

• Added a new LimitedMetadataContributor to Live Import Framework, to limit number of metadata of the same type to be imported

• Improved Line chart visualization in statistics page reflecting the selected time interval

• AuthorityImportFiller for fundings gathering data from OpenAIRE added, Fundings related to other DSpace-CRIS Objects can be created with those gathered data

• Restored subject in sent email

• Hidden Relationships tab in Edit item page

• CMS metadata admin section improved

• Submission: dropdown values associated to blank metadata value are not stored

• Migration: fixed missing relationship values​

DSpace-CRIS 7 2022.03.01 April, 21st

This version, released on the 21st April 2023, provides alignment with DSpace 7.4 tag. See DSpace 7.4 release notes.

Key Enhancements

• Support for the viewer framework: to allow developer to plug viewer specialized in rendering of specific file types
• Configurable item brief view
• Increased flexibility for the Edit item configuration​: support for multiple security policies, link the edit modes to the original submission form name to differentiate edit inside the same entity (i.e. edit options for a publication, a thesis, etc could be different)
• Scopus live import update​
• Use the Sherpa Romeo database as an authority for journal relationship​
• Automatic guessing of linked entities during import ​
• Advanced Attachment: cleaner visualization of the bitstreams, possibility to configure which bitstream's metadata are shown in the item page

Major improvements areas / bug fixes

• General improvements on Angular side
• Google Scholar cannot index PDF
• Fixed migration steps from DSpace CRIS 5
• Fixed errors in metadata extraction step
• LDAP Authentication box not displayed when Password Authentication is disabled

Based on DSpace tag 7.4 (backend) and 7.4 (front-end)

2022

DSpace-CRIS 7 2022.03.00 December, 30th

This version, released on the 30th Dec 2022, provides alignment with DSpace 7.4 tag. See DSpace 7.4 release notes.

Key Enhancements

• Shared workspace feature: all coauthors can work on the same workspace item

• Enhanced advanced attachment item rendering, with possibility of completely hide a bitstream from item details page

• Scopus and Wos import scripts can be limited to a configurable amount of items

• Configurable crisref icons

Major improvements areas / bug fixes

• Hide/sort (management of related entities) feature

• Researcher profile creation

• Item presentation: date rendering and multi language metadata support

• Item enhancers feature

• Login redirect in case anonymous user is not authorized to see a DSpace Object

• Admin sidebar options

Based on DSpace tag 7.4 (backend) and 7.4 (front-end)

DSpace-CRIS 7 2022.02.00 September, 30th

This version, released on the 05th Oct 2022, provides alignment with DSpace 7.3 tag. See DSpace 7.3 release notes

Key Enhancements

• ORCID Authentication and synchronization. Alignment and adaptions with porting to and updates done for DSpace 7.3. See ORCID Integration
• DSpace Researcher Profile. Alignment and adaptions with porting to and updates done for DSpace 7.3. See Researcher Profiles
• Import content directly from 9 new external services including CrossRef, Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed Europe, CiNii, NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS), VuFind.org, SciELO.org, and the European Patent Office (EPO). Alignment and adaptions with porting to and updates done for DSpace 7.3. See Importing Items via basic bibliographic formats (Endnote, BibTex, RIS, CSV, etc) and online services (arXiv, PubMed, CrossRef, CiNii, etc)

Major improved areas/bug fixes
Several bug fixes and improvements have been introduced in the area of:

• item layout and configurations
• fixed entity type set during item creation
• fixed attachment rendering pagination
• optimized statistics loading and scopus import script

Based on DSpace tag 7.3 (backend) and 7.3 (front-end)

DSpace-CRIS 7 2022.01.02 August, 30th

This version, released on the 30th Aug 2022, is based on DSpace 7.2.1 tag. This version provide new features, improvements and fixes for several bugs.

Key Enhancements

• Machine Token: it is now possible to generate a long lived JWT token that is independent from the session login, so that it can be used in external system to query the DSpace API without giving away your credentials. The new feature is accessible from the profile (user account) page. The machine token can be revoked by the user.
• Multi-language support: visualization of metadata values according to the UI language with fallback to the default language and available values in other languages. Multi-language support is also available in the search and browse for metadata coming from vocabularies and value pairs (dropdown)
• Manage bitstreams via the XLS BulkImport: support to edit bitstream metadata, attach, delete new files pointing to local folder configured in the server or remote location (via public ftp, sftp, http, https)
• New fresh rendering for attachments that allow a more clean visualization of the bitstream metadata

Major improved areas/bug fixes
Several bug fixes and improvements have been introduced in the area of

• submission: type-bind, controlled-vocabularies, lookup, support for different upload panel in different collections
• edit submission mode: change bitstream policies, configure a single mode for the access and upload step to make the UI simpler
• statistics: improvement to the navigation among the pages
  and much more, please refers to the commit history for details.

Based on DSpace tag 7.2.1 (backend) and 7.2 - .1 not released for angular (front-end)

DSpace-CRIS 6.4.0 August, 30th

This is probably the last release of DSpace-CRIS based on DSpace 6. It is aligned with the official DSpace 6.4 tag

DSpace-CRIS 5.11.0 August, 30th

This is probably the last release of DSpace-CRIS based on DSpace 5. It is aligned with the official DSpace 5.11 tag

DSpace-CRIS 7 2022.01.01 April, 6th

This version, released on the 6th Apr 2022, is aligned with DSpace 7.2.1 tag, which includes a security update for CVE-2022-22965 (Spring4Shell critical vulnerability). This version includes updates in metrics presentation and graphical facets. Several bugs have been resolved.

Key Enhancements

• Security update to mitigate CVE-2022-22965 (Spring4Shell critical vulnerability).

• Improved metrics visualization

• Added new features (legend, x and y switch) to graphical facets

Architecture

• Aligned with DSpace 7.2.1 tag

Data presentation

• Metrics default visualization improved

• Number of items in TopComponents can be customized

• Added possibility to have legends for graphs x and y axis

• Added possibility to have a graph with x and y axis switched

• Context menu is not displayed when no menu entries are available for the current user

Data security

• CVE-2022-22965 (Spring4Shell critical vulnerability) mitigation

Other

• Added type field to administrator bitstream edit page

• Fixed several bugs.

Based on DSpace commits f863866 (backend) and e4f483c (front-end)

DSpace-CRIS 7 2022.01.00 March, 2nd 

This version, released on the 2nd Mar 2022, is aligned with DSpace 7.2 tag. New functionalities have been provided like new renderings, the possibility of setting a custom-url for an Item, new statistics sections. Several minor, not blocking, bugs have been resolved

Key Enhancements

• Added new renderings to matrix layout
• One or more custom-url(s) can be set for DSpace-CRIS 7 entities
• Site, Login, Workflow statistics sections
• COAR resource type vocabularies updated to v. 3.0

Architecture

• Aligned with DSpace 7.2 tag

Data presentation

• Frequent actions available in Item’s page as buttons
• CRIS components top-sections and counter-section can be themed
• New email rendering subtype (link.email)
• Vertical layout as default
• Scopus and researcherid added as subtypes for ‘identifier’ rendering
• Most downloaded items in statistics
• Added unique I18n keys to CRIS layout tabs and boxes names
• IIIF viewer rendering in matrix layout

Data security

• Improved validation to layout configuration tool file when uploaded

Other

• Custom url can be defined for DSpace-CRIS entities
• Bulk Export in 2 steps: 1. selection of Entity 2. Selection of format
• Site, Workflow and Login statistics
• Improved Pentaho migration scripts to migrate bitstream metadata values and statistics
• Pentaho job to migrate statistics from previous DSpace-CRIS 5 to DSpace-CRIS 7
• ORCID link
• Item versioning option available in Item’s context menu
• Fixed recipient(s) can be used to test functionalities sending emails
• Scopus view modes parameter, to be used by this integration, configurable
• COAR Resource Type vocabulary updated to v. 3.0

Architecture

• Aligned with DSpace 7.0 tag, several bugs have been resolved

Data presentation

• Added tag rendering
• Entity name translation in MyDSpace dropdown
• Sorted user's processes by id
• Improved statistics map rendering with country name localized
• Fixed manage of newline flag for box conftool configuration

Interoperability

• Introduced an OpenID authentication provider

Data security

• Defined item_admin, submitter, submitter_group and group security levels for edit/correction modes
• Extended item export to evaluate security context while extracting metadata

based on DSpace 7.0-SNAPSHOT (REST commit ebd54ff, Angular commit f85a5e6)

Documentation at https://github.com/4Science/DSpace/releases/download/dspace-cris-2021.01.00/dspace-cris7-2021_01_00-technical-documentation.pdf