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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.

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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.
Themes contributed by @mire, NV.


Discover, a faceted browsing and searching interface that gives a deeper and more intuitive look at repository contents.
<ac:structured-macro ac:name="unmigrated-wiki-markup" ac:schema-version="1" ac:macro-id="aab8cbe64dda2d3f-3ee2c64d-44614688-b259bd78-8f39247f9be2f42208daae61"><ac:plain-text-body><![CDATA[See Discovery in action at [http://demo.dspace.org/xmlui
]]></ac:plain-text-body></ac:structured-macro>
] For more information, watch the video introduction to Discovery.
Addon 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). DuraCloud is an extention of this as one could then backup the AIP to the cloud storage.
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 Google Summer of Code 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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