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Release Notes

Welcome to Release 13.8.0. The developers have volunteered many hours to fix, re-write and contribute new software code for this release. Documentation has also been updated.

The following is a list of the new features included for release 13.8.0 (not an exhaustive list):

• Completely rewritten OAI-PMH interface.  See: OAI 2.0
• Item Level Versioning
• Enhancements to Discovery (including hit highlighting & search snippets)
• Discovery for JSPUI
• Advanced Embargo Support
• Batch import for Bibliographic formats (Endnote, BibTex, RIS, TSV, CSV)
• Google Analytics support for JSPUI
• Controlled Vocabulary support for XMLUI
• Improvements to the upgrade and configuration process (sections of dspace.cfg have been split into separate configuration files).
• More Curation Tools/Plugins.
• Configurable Workflow.
• SWORD Client.
• SWORDv2 Server Module.
• RSS feeds now support richer features, such as iTunes podcast and publishing to iTunesU (see new "webui.feed.podcast.*" settings).
• Enhancements to Discovery.
• Rewrite of Creative Commons licensing for the XMLUI.
• Reordering of bitstreams.
• Enable virus checking during submission.
Ability to Withdraw/Reinstate/Delete Items in Bulk, via Batch Metadata Editing.

A full list of all changes / bug fixes in 13.8.0 is available in the History section.

The following people have contributed directly to this release of DSpace: Alex Lemann, Álvaro López, Andrea Schweer, Ben Bosman, Bill Hays, Bram De Schouwer, Bram Luyten, Brian Freels-Stendel, Claudia Jürgen, David Chandek-Stark, Denys Slipetskyy, Fabio Bolognesi, Gareth Waller, Hardik Mishra, Hardy Pottinger, Ivan Masár, James Russell, Janne Pietarila, Jason Stirnaman, Joonas Kesäniemi, Jordan Piščanc, Jose Blanco, Juan GarcíaAndrea Bollini, Peter Dietz, Mark Diggory, Tim Donohue, Sands Fish, helix84, João Melo, Samuel Ottenhoff, Kostas Stamatis, Robin Taylor, Kevin Van de Velde, Kim Shepherd, Konstantinos V. Paraskevopoulos 1, Lighton Phiri, Mark Diggory, Mark H. Wood , Nicholas Riley, Onivaldo Rosa Junior, Peter Dietz, Richard Rodgers, Robin Taylor, Ronee Francis, Samuel Ottenhoff, Scott Phillips, Stuart Lewis, Stuart Yeates, Terry Burton, Tim Donohue, Timo Aalto, Vladislav Zhivkov, Wendy Bossons . Many of them could not do this work without the support (release time and financial) of their associated institutions. We offer thanks to those institutions for supporting their staff to take time to contribute to the DSpace project.

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