DSpace System Documentation: Version History

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Changes in DSpace 1.7.3

General Improvements

Bug Fixes

• DS-1603 - Resolves a security issue in JSPUI

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Changes in DSpace 1.7.2

Bug Fixes

Changes in DSpace 1.7.1

General Improvements

Bug Fixes

Changes in DSpace 1.7.0

New Features

General Improvements

Bug Fixes

Changes in DSpace 1.6.2

General Improvements

Bug Fixes

Changes in DSpace 1.6.1

General Improvements

Bug Fixes

Changes in DSpace 1.6.0

New Features

General Improvements

Bug Fixes

Changes in DSpace 1.5.2

New Features

General Improvements

Bug Fixes

Changes in DSpace 1.5.1

General Improvements and Bug Fixes

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• Fix various problems with resources potentially not being freed, and other minor fixes suggested by FindBugs
• Replace URLEncoder with StringEscapeUtils for better fix of escaping the hidden query field
• Fix #2034372 - Resorting in JSPUI gives no results
• Fix #1714851 - set eperson.subscription.onlynew in dspace.cfg to only include items that are new to the repository
• Fix issue where the browse and search indexes will not be updated correctly if you move an Item
• Fix problem with SWORD not accepting multiple concurrent submissions
• Fix #1963060 Authors listed in reverse order
• Fix #1970852 - XMLUI: Browse by Issue Date "Type in Year" doesn't work
• Statistics viewer for XMLUI, based on existing DStat. Note that this generates
  the view from the analysis files (.dat), does not require HTML report generation.
• Fixed incorrect downloading of bitstream on withdrawn item
• Add JSPUI compatible log messages to XMLUI transformers
• Clean up use of ThreadLocal
• Improved cleanup of database resources when web
  application is unloaded
• Fix bug #1931799 - duplicate "FROM metadatavalue&quot
• Fixed Oracle bugs with ILIKE operators and LIMIT/OFFSET clauses

Changes in DSpace 1.5

General Improvements

• Highly configurable and theme-able new user interface (Manakin).
• Apache Maven-based modular build system.
• LNI (Lightweight Network Interface) service. Allows programmatic ingest of content via WebDAV or SOAP.
• SWORD (Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit): repository-standard ingest service using Atom Publishing Protocol.
• Highly configurable item web submission system. All submission steps are configurable not just metadata pages.
• Browse functionality allowing customisation of the available indexes via dspace.cfg and pluggable normalisation of the sort strings. Integration with both JSP-UI and XML-UI included.
• Extensible content event notification service.
• Generation of Google and HTML sitemaps

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• New options for ItemImporter to support bitstream permissions and descriptions.
• 1824710 Fix - Change in Creative Commons RDF.
• 1794700 Fix - Stat-monthly and stat-report-monthly
• 1566820 Patch - Authentication code moved to new org.dspace.authenticate package, add IP AUth
• 1670093 Patch - More stable metadata and schema registry import Option to generate community and collection "strength" as a batch job
• 1659868 Patch - Improved database level debugging
• 1620700 Patch - Add Community and Sub-Community to OAI Sets
• 1679972 Fix - OAIDCCrosswalk NPE and invalid character fix, also invalid output prevented
• 1549290 Fix - Suggest Features uses hard coded strings
• 1727034 Fix - Method MetadataField.unique() is incorrect for null values
• 1614546 Fix - Get rid of unused mets_bitstream_id column
• 1450491 Patch - i18n configurable multilingualism support
• 1764069 Patch - Replace "String" with "Integer" in PreparedStatement where needed
• 1743188 Patch - for Request #1145499 - Move Items
• 179196 Patch - Oracle SQL in Bitstream Checker
• 1751638 Patch - Set http disposition header to force download of large bitstreams
• 1799575 Patch - New EPersonConsumer event consumer
• 1566572 Patch - Item metadata in XHTML head elements
• 1589429 Patch - "Self-Named" Media Filters (i.e. MediaFilter Plugins) (updated version of this patch)
• 1888652 Patch - Statistics Rewritten In Java
• 1444364 Request - Metadata registry exporter
• 1221957 Request - Admin browser for withdrawn items
• 1740454 Fix - Concurrency
• 1552760 Fix - Submit interface looks bad in Safari
• 1642563 Patch - bin/update-handle-prefix rewritten in Java
• 1724330 Fix - Removes "null" being displayed in community-home.jsp
• 1763535 Patch - Alert DSpace administrator of new user registration
• 1759438 Patch - Multilingualism Language Switch - DSpace Header

Changes in DSpace 1.4.1

General Improvements

• Error pages now return appropriate HTTP status codes (e.g. 404 not found)
• Bad filenames in /bitstream/ URLs now result in 404 error – prevents infinite URL spaces confusing crawlers and bad "persistent" bitstream IDs circulating
• Prevent infinite URL spaces in HTMLServlet
• InstallItem no longer sets dc.format.extent, dc.format.mimetype; no longer sets default value for dc.language.iso if one is not present
• Empty values in drop-down submit fields are not added as empty metadata values
• API methods for searching epeople and groups
• Support stats from both 1.3 and 1.4
• [dspace]/bin/update-handle-prefix now runs index-all
• Remove cases of System.out from code executed in webapp
• Change "View Licence" to "View License" in Messages.properties
• dspace.cfg comments changed to indicate what default.language actually means
• HandleServlet and BitstreamServlet support If-Modified-Since requests
• Improved sanity-checking of XSL-based ingest crosswalks
• Remove thumbnail filename from alt-text
• Include item title in HTML title element
• Improvements to help prevent spammers and sploggers
• Make cleanup() commit outstanding work every 100 iterations
• Better handling where email send failed due to wrong address for new user
• Include robots.txt to limit bots navigating author, date and browse by subject pages
• Add css styles for print media
• RSS made more configurable and provide system-wide RSS feed, also moves text to Messages.properties
• Jar file updates (includes required code changes for DSIndexer and DSQuery and new jars fontbox.jar and serializer.jar)
• Various documentation additions and cleanups
• XHTML compliance improvements
• Move w3c valid xhtml boiler image into local repository
• Remove uncessary Log4j Configuration in CheckerCommand
• Include Windows CLASSPATH in dsrun.bat

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• 1604037 - UIUtil.encodeBitstream() now correctly encodes URLs (no longer incorrectly substitutes '+' for spaces in non-query segment
• 1592984 - Date comparisons strip time in org.dspace.harvest.Harvest
• 1589902 - Duplicate [field] checking error [on input-forms.xml]
• 1596952 - Collection Wizard create Template missing schema
• 1596978 - View unfinished submissions - collection empty
• 1588625 - Incorrect text on item mapper screen
• 1597805 - DIDL Crosswalk: wrong resource management
• 1605635 - NPE in Utils.java
• 1597504 - Search result page shows shortened query string
• 1532389 - Item Templates do not work for non-dc fields
• 1066771 - Metadata edit form dropping DC qualifier
• 1548738 - Multiple Metadata Schema, schema not shown on edit item page
• 1589895 - Not possible to add unqualified Metadata Field
• 1543853 - Statistics do not work in 1.4
• 1541381 - Browse-by-date and browse-by-title not working
• 1556947 - NullPointerException when no user selected to del/edit
• 1554064 - Fix exception handling for ClassCastException in BitstreamServlet
• 1548865 - Browse errors on withdrawn item
• 1554056 - Community/collection handle URL with / redirects to homepage
• 1571490 - UTF-8 encoded characters in licence
• 1571519 - UTF-8 in statistics
• 1544807 - Browse-by-Subject/Author paging mechanism broken
• 1543966 - "Special" groups inside groups bug
• 1480496 - Cannot turn off "ignore authorization" flag!
• 1515148 - Community policies not deleting correctly
• 1556829 - Docs mention old SiteAuthenticator class
• 1606435 - Workflow text out of context
• Fix for bitstream authorization timeout
• Fix to make sure cleanup() doesn't fail with NullPointerException
• Fix for removeBitstream() failing to update primary bitstream
• Fix for Advanced Search ignoring conjunctions for arbitrary number of queries
• Fix minor bug in Harvest.java for Oracle users
• Fix missing title for news editor page
• Small Messages.properties modification (change of DSpace copyright text)
• fix PDFBox tmp file issue
• Fix HttpServletRequest encoding issues
• Fix bug in TableRow toString() method where NPE is thrown if tablename not set
• Update DIDL license and change coding style to DSpace standard

Changes in DSpace 1.4

General Improvements

• Content verification through periodic checksum checking
• Support for branded preview image
• Add/replace Creative Commons in 'edit item' tool
• Customisable item listing columns and browse indices
• Script for updating handle prefixes (e.g. for moving from development to production)
• Configurable boolean search operator
• Controlled vocabulary patch to provide search on classification terms, and addition of terms during submission.
• Add 'visibility' element to input-forms.xml
• Browse by subject feature
• Log4J enhancement to use XML configuration
• QueryArgs class can support any number of fields in advanced search.
• Community names no longer have to be unique
• Enhanced Windows support
• Support for multiple (flat) metadata schemas
• Suggest an item page
• RSS Feeds
• Performance enhancements
• Stackable authentication methods
• Plug-in manager
• Pluggable SIP/DIP support and metadata crosswalks
• Nested groups of e-people
• Expose METS and MPEG-21 DIDL DIPs via OAI-PMH
• Configurable Lucene search analyzer (e.g. for Chinese metadata)
• Support for SMTP servers requiring authentication

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• 1358197 - Edit Item, empty DC fields not removable
• 1363633 - Submission step 1 fails when there are no collections
• 1255264 - Resource policy eperson value was set to wrong column
• 1380494 - Error deleting an item with multiple metadata schema support
• 1443649 - Cannot configure unqualified elements for advanced search index
• 1333687 - Browse-(title|date) fails on withdrawn item
• 1066713 - Two (sub)communities cannot have one name
• 1284055 - Two Communities of same name throws error
• 1035366 - Bitstream size column should be bigint
• 1352257 - Selecting a Group for GroupToGroup while Creating Collection
• 1352226 - Navigation and Sorting in Group List (Select Groups) fails
• 1348276 - Null in collection name causes OAI ListSets to fail
• 1160898 - dspace_migrate removes Date.Issued from prev published items
• 1261191 - Malformed METS metadata exported

Changes in DSpace 1.3.2

General Improvements

• DSpace UI XHTML/WAI compliant
• Configure metadata fields shown on simple item display
• Supervisor/workspace help documentation

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• 1252153 - Error on fresh install

Changes in DSpace 1.3

General Improvements

• Initial i18n Support for JSPs - Note: the implementation of this feature required changes to almost all JSP pages
• LDAP authentication support
• Log file analysis and report generation
• Configurable item licence viewing
• Supervision order/collaborative workspace administrative tools
• Basic workspace for submissions in progress, with support for supervision
• SRB storage system option
• Updated handle server system
• Database optimisations
• Latest versions of Xerces, Xalan and OAICAT jars
• Various documentation additions and cleanups

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• 1161459 - ItemExporter fails with Too many open files
• 1167373 - Email date field not populated
• 1193948 - New item submit problem
• 1188132 - NullPointerException when Adding EPerson
• 1188016 - Cannot Edit an Eperson
• 1219701 - Unable to open unfinished submission
• 1206836 - community strengths not reflecting sub-community
• 1238262 - Submit UI nav/progress buttons no longer show progress
• 1238276 - Double quote problem in some fields in submit UI
• 1238277 - format support level not shown in "uploaded file" page
• 1242548 - Uploading non-existing files
• 1244743 - Bad lookup key for special case of DC Title in ItemTag.java
• 1245223 - Subscription Emailer fails
• 1247508 - Error when browsing item with no content/bitstream collections
• Set the content type in the HTTP header
• Fix issue where EPerson edit would not work due to form indexing (partial fix)
• POST handling in HTMLServlet
• Missing ContentType directives added to some JSPs
• Name dependency on Collection Admin and Submitter groups fixed
• Fixed OAI-PMH XML encoding

Changes in DSpace 1.2.2

General Improvements

• Customisable submission forms added
• Configurable number of index terms in Lucene for full-text indexing
• Improved scalability in media filter
• Submit button on collection pages only appears if user has authorisation
• PostgreSQL 8.0 compatibility
• Search scope retention to improve browsing
• Community and collection strengths displayed
• Upgraded OAICat software

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• collection-home.jspchanged
• community-home.jspchanged
• community-list.jspchanged
• home.jspchanged
• dspace-admin/list-formats.jspchanged
• dspace-admin/wizard-questions.jspchanged
• search/results.jspchanged
• submit/cancel.jspchanged
• submit/change-file-description.jspchanged
• submit/choose-file.jspchanged
• submit/complete.jspchanged
• submit/creative-commons.jspchanged
• submit/edit-metadata.jspnew
• submit/get-file-format.jspchanged
• submit/initial-questions.jspchanged
• submit/progressbar.jspchanged
• submit/review.jspchanged
• submit/select-collection.jspchanged
• submit/show-license.jspchanged
• submit/show-uploaded-file.jspchanged
• submit/upload-error.jspchanged
• submit/upload-file-list.jspchanged

Changes in DSpace 1.2.1

General Improvements

• Oracle support added
• Thumbnails in item view can now be switched off/on
• Browse and search thumbnail options
• Improved item importer
  • can now import to multiple collections
  • added --test flag to simulate an import, without actually making any changes
  • added --resume flag to try to resume the import in case the import is aborted
• Configurable fields for the search index
• Script for transferring items between DSpace instances
• Sun library JARs (JavaMail, Java Activation Framework and Servlet) now included in DSpace source code bundle

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