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New features in DSpace 1.8 

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  • For a list of all features/improvement/bugs currently scheduled for 1.8.0, see the 1.8.0 Version in our Issue Tracker.
    • NOTE: This listing is not finalized, and is likely to change. Not all features/improvements/bugs currently scheduled for 1.8.0 are guaranteed to be in that release.
  • More Curation Tools/Plugins (MIT & Others). Obviously, some could potentially even be release asynchronously, and also formally "bundled" with 1.8.0
  • Configurable Reviewer Workflow (@mire) a project that enhances Reviewer Workflow configurability that is orthogonal to Curation Tooling.
  • Core Service and Service Manager Refactorings
  • REST API formal release? It missed 1.7.0, but there seemed to be interest there. Volunteer(s) to stabilize/improve for 1.8.0? (Still working on it, also volunteers/testers are welcome :) Bojan Suzic
  • DSpace "Easy" Installer (Tim Donohue)? See DS-802 and InstallerPrototype for more details
    • Perhaps, alongside this, an easier way to "install" plugins/addons (like Curation Tool plugins)??
  • SWORD Client for DSpace (Robin Taylor, and possibly Richard Jones & Stuart Lewis)
    • would allow DSpace to push/submit content to other SWORD enabled repositories
    • For closed & open access repositories – add a button to transfer content from a closed to an open repository.
  • Context Guided Ingest (Richard Rodgers/MIT) – define an interface, where any submission code can write "attributes" and can retrieve those again later on. Can add any new attributes/values that you want for your submission code. Could be serialized to XML (using input-forms.xml) OR have an implementation of that service that stores in DB (recommended). JPA2?
    • would allow for type-based submission processes (e.g. Theses/Dissertations could have different submission steps than articles/papers).
    • based on the Item type based submission patch picked up by Robin Taylor (initially a GSoC project)
  • Usability improvements / new Theme work (Peter Dietz)
  • Discovery Enhancements
    • Discovery back end rewrite to support other back end implementations beside solr for discovery (Created by Kevin Van de Velde see DSCR-22)
    • Improved discovery configuration which utilizes spring & a config file that is located in the modules dir (Created by Kevin Van de Velde see DS-971)
    • New Discovery user interface ? (Provided by Kevin Van de Velde or @mire ?)
  • Rewrite of Creative Commons licensing (MIT)??
    • would improve upon the features of the current CC licensing submission step
    • Currently only against XMLUI from MIT
    • Legacy problem – do we update old license to new or not? Currently MIT runs 'split version' with old licenses looking like old, and new look like new.

Postponed for a Future Release

Organizational Details

Release Coordination

Timeline and Proceeding

Note

It has been decided that DSpace 1.8.0 will be released in Oct 2011. The exact date is still being worked out. What follows is a tentative release timeline - it has changed slightly from its original state, but the final release will still come out sometime in Oct 2011.

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  • Very Tentative Release Timeline (This should not be considered final)
    • August 19, 2011 : Feature Freeze Date
    • September 2, 2011 : Final Documentation "Due Date"?
    • September 9, 2011 : Release Candidate 1 release
    • September 12-23, 2011 : Testathon
    • October 7, 2011 : Release Candidate 2 release
    • October 10-19, 2011 : Final Testing / Bug Fixing
    • October 21, 2011 : 1.8.0 Final Release

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