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Version 1.7.0

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titleDSpace 1.7.0 was officially released to the public on December 17, 2010.

DSpace 1.7.0 can be downloaded immediately at either of the following locations:

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titleRecommended to Upgrade to DSpace 1.7.1

We recommend all DSpace 1.7.0 users upgrade to DSpace 1.7.1, to receive several bug fixes along with a medium-level security fix. For more information see:

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Info

DSpace 1.7.0 is a scheduled, "time-based" release. In order to decrease delays in releasing new features and increase transparency, the DSpace Developers scheduled 1.7.0 in advance and based its features on what we were able to complete within that timeframe. Despite the fact that 1.7.0 had a much tighter timeframe than previous major releases, the developers have managed to include some significant new features, numerous bug fixes and performance improvements.

Scheduling releases benefits us all as it should decrease the delays in releasing new features, and increase the transparency of the development process. The DSpace Developers feel that these benefits will far outweigh the cost of potentially having fewer major features in a given DSpace release. We hope the DSpace Community will also realize the immediate benefits, which should allow them to receive new features more quickly, rather than potentially waiting years for the next major release of the software. The DSpace Developers hope to continue this trend of "time based" releases with all future releases.

New features in DSpace 1.7

Mirage, a clean and professional looking theme for XMLUI.
dri2xhtml-alt, and xmlui theme development framework that eases XMLUI theme development.
See Mirage in action at http://demo.dspace.org/xmlui. For a video demo see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq3d_oD-4aM

Mirage was contributed by @mire, NV.

Discover, a faceted browsing and searching interface that gives a deeper and more intuitive look at repository contents.
See Discovery in action at http://demo.dspace.org/xmlui. For more information, watch the video introduction to Discovery.

Discovery was contributed by @mire, NV.

Archival Information Package (AIP) Backup & Restore process. Allows for a backup of DSpace into a generic METS-based structure, that can be used to migrate DSpace content to another system that supports AIP's (DSpace or non-DSpace). This backup and restore functionality also allows one to backup to cloud storage services like DuraCloud, though it could just as easily be used to backup to tape or a hard drive.

Added by Tim Donohue (DuraSpace)

Curation System , a framework for building and running tasks to help a Curator preserve and improve your repository contents.
Tasks can be run on communities, collections, and items through the command line for cron-tasks, or through the User Interface for admins.
The initial tasks available are:* Profile Bitstream Formats -- counts the number of bitstreams that share the same file format extension. 

  • Virus Scan -- inspect the bitstreams with a virus scanner (ClamAV) to detect if they contain viruses
  • Check for Required Metadata -- checks that item metadata has values for all fields marked as required in the input-form

    Added by Richard Rodgers (MIT)

Automated Unit Testing of core code -- helps the developers ensure that DSpace is as bug free and stable as possible. Unit Testing coupled with continuous integration on our bamboo server allows us to validate every change to the DSpace code base. Thus letting us know immediately if something changed broke another feature.

Added by Pere Villega, a product of DSpace Summer of Code2 2010 (mentor Stuart Lewis).

 

Improved Google Scholar metadata exposure. Additional citation_ tags have been exposed to allow the Google Scholar crawler to find better associate repository metadata and PDF content.

Added by Sands Fish, Richard Rodgers (MIT) and Peter Dietz (Ohio State)

 

PowerPoint text extraction, for searching within PowerPoint slides

Added by Keith Gilbertson (Georgia Tech)

 

Top 10 Most Visited items list, available for the overall site.

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The old way will no longer work, as the task scripts have been removed:

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[dspace]/bin/create-administrator

The functionality is all performed by the centralized DSpace launcher, e.g.:

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[dspace]/bin/dspace create-administrator

Calling a command by its full classname still works by adding dsrun before the classname.

Code Block

[dspace]/bin/dspace dsrun org.dspace.administer.CreateAdministrator

Organizational Details

Release Coordination

  • Release Coordinator: Peter Dietz, Ohio State University Libraries
  • Release Coordinator: Tim Donohue, DuraSpace

Timeline and Proceeding

Release Timeline:

  • (tick) August 13, 2010 : Milestone 1 - "Feature Decision Day"
  • (tick) October 22, 2010 : Feature Freeze
  • (tick) October 29, 2010 : Final Documentation "Due Date"
  • (tick) November 5, 2010 : Release Candidate 1
  • (tick) November 8-19, 2010 : 1.7 Testathon
  • (tick) December 3, 2010 : Release Candidate 2
  • (tick) December 6-15, 2010 : Final Testing / Bug Fixing
  • (tick) December 17, 2010 : Final Release

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