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New Features / Improvements in 8.0

All new features, improvements and bug fixes included in 8.0 can be found in the 8.0 Release Notes.

Priorities for 8.0

The following is an (unordered) list of new features that the the DSpace Steering Group would like to see added to the DSpace 8.0 release. The overarching goal is to keep the 8.0 release smaller in size (in terms of new features), and find ways to help the community more easily upgrade to 7.x or 8.x.  See also RoadMap.

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Date	Milestone	What it means
Friday, January 19, 2024	Deadline for feature pull requests	If you wish to contribute features to DSpace 8.0, you must submit a pull request by this date.
Friday, February 9	Feature PR Review/Test Deadline	Initial reviews/testing of PRs should be completed by all assigned reviewers.
Friday, February 23	Feature PR Merge Deadline (Feature Freeze)	DSpace 8.0 is considered feature-complete on this date. All Feature PRs should be merged. Only bug fixes will be pulled between this date and final release.
February 26  March 3 - March 1529	Major dependency updates	This is a period where the codebase will undergo major updates to support latest versions of Spring (supporting Jakarta EE) and Angular.
March 18-22  April 1 - April 5	Early documentation / bug fixes	Code cleanup prior to Release candidate.
By Friday, March 29April 5	Release Candidate 1 tagged	A DSpace 8.0 Release Candidate will be available for wider testing.
April 18-1219	Testathon	Intensive public testing of the 8.0 Release Candidate is invited.  The Release Team will focus on getting problems resolved.
Until May 17?	Extended Bug Fixing	Testathon was very successful in finding bugs in pre-8.0.  We are currently running at least two weeks behind schedule as we work to ensure the major bugs have all been fixed.  The below deadlines are tentative estimates for when the release will be made available.
Friday, May 17 (tentative) Friday, April 26	Deadline for bug-fix pull requests	Bug fixes should ideally be submitted by this date.
Friday, May 324 (tentative)	Bug-Fix PR Merge Deadline (Code Freeze)	Ideally all bug fixes are merged by this date.  Code is "frozen", with exceptions only made if major issues are discovered.
May 6-1027 - 31 (tentative)	Final Cleanup / Documentation	This week is set aside for any final cleanup (or very late bug fixes) that need to be applied to the code.  Also used to finalize Documentation, Release Notes, etc.
Monday, May 13, 2024 June 3, 2024 (tentative)	DSpace 8.0 is publicly released	DSpace 8.0 is released for download and general use.

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