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Welcome to Release 5.3, a bug-fix release for the DSpace 5.x platform. For information on upgrading to DSpace 5, please see Upgrading DSpace.  

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 only bug fixes, DSpace 5.2 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:

  • Search and browse fixes:
  • OAI fixes:
    • Performing a full OAI import now also cleans the OAI cache (DS-2543)
    • Harvested items are now properly imported in OAI (DS-2554)
    • Tombstones (deleted item status) are now properly applied for withdrawn items (DS-2593)
      (note: this requires 'import' to be run, the OAI event consumer will not create tombstones automatically)
    • dc.date.available is now properly exposed when using the mets metadata format (DS-2598)
  • Authorization policy fixes:
    • Custom policies for items in workspace or workflow (eg. embargo lifts) are now ignored by AuthorizeManager (DS-2614)
    • NULL Resource Policy types (commonly found when upgrading from DSpace < 3.0) are now handled correctly by AuthorizeManager (DS-2587)
    • Item-level versioning now carries across all custom policies in new item versions (eg. embargos) (DS-2358)
  • Other notable fixes:
    • Optimized "Select Collection" query is now disabled by default as a workaround to ensure special group lookups (LDAP, Shibboleth, IP-based) work out-of-the-box (DS-2673)
    • Resolved issue where citation_pdf_url metadata was NULL for items with multiple bitstreams but no primary bitstream (DS-2603)
    • dc.rights metadata is now properly exposed in embedded XHTML head DC (DS-2568)

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 Release Notes

DSpace 5.2 is a bug fix release to resolve several issues found in DSpace 5.1.  As it only provides only 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:

  • Solr statistics upgrade fixes:
    • Resolve issues where index data was not being properly upgraded (DS-2486, DS-2487, DS-2489)
    • Failure when "sharding" the Solr statistics index (DS-2212) 
  • OAI fixes:
    • Handle dates correctly in resumption tokens, so that harvesting captures the full specified range. (DS-2546, DS-2582) 
    • List all authors in METS formatted metadata. (DS-2474)
    • Change the declared OAI deletion mode to "transient", which corresponds to what DSpace actually does. (DS-2491)
    • Restore the ability to create additional Filters for OAI-PMH interface. (DS-2423)
  • REST API fixes:
    • Wrong SQL in REST /items/find-by-metadata-field.  (DS-2501)
    • Listing collections would fail when using Oracle DB.  (DS-2508)
    • Correctly apply bitstream policies.  (DS-2511)
  • Other notable fixes:
    • "dspace update-handle-prefix" failed when using Oracle DB. (DS-2218)
    • Do not index items that are still in a submitter's workspace. (DS-2403)
    • Remember the context (community, collection) during browsing. (DS-2482)
    • Better handle upload of file with a semicolon in its name. (DS-2513)
    • EZID DOI minting properly sets the URI of the identified item. (DS-2518)
    • Update of the list of robots recognized by DSpace. (DS-2531)

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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:

  • Peter Dietz (Longsight)
  • Hardy Pottinger (U University of Missouri Library Systems)
  • Ivan Masár
  • Mark H. Wood (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis)
  • Robin Taylor (University of Edinburgh)
  • Pascal-Nicolas Becker (Technische Universität Berlin)
  • Andrea Schweer (Library Consortium of New Zealand)

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

The 5.2 release was led by Hardy Pottinger (University of Missouri Library Systems)

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and the Committers.

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

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.