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Achievement	More details
Community competition for different UI prototypes	DSpace UI Prototype Challenge
Formal selection of Angular as new front end framework
XMLUI and JSPUI removed from dspace "master" branch on Github
Single built-in Statistical Engine (SOLR Statistics), upgraded to v7 and moved to separate webapp
Conclusion of DSpace Entities Working group and formal decision to support rich entities in DSpace	DSpace Entities Working Group
Adoption   Adoption of Configurable Workflow as the standard, and only workflow system of DSpace 7	Configurable Workflow
Adoption of a HAL, HATEOAS, ALPS standards based REST API to maximize exposure of all DSpace features for integration purposes
Preview release, including Entity demonstrator and associated data set	DSpace 7 Preview Release
Docker installation and deployment procedures	Running DSpace 7 with Docker
Feature-complete beta release
Testathon
7.0 release

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This release finally brings together two user interfaces and their communities, who had previously been working in parallel. The ambition is to bring together best of both JSPUI and XMLUI worlds, meaning that all features you love and use are re-imagined, and re-implemented on a single new user interface technology, Angular.

The switch to this new technology will allow Angular allows more rapid innovation. It Angular also has the potential to attract developers who with prior expertise, as the community is no longer on older technologies of which the popularity was in declinegiven the popularity and global traction of Angular across industries.

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