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Discovery: Search & Browse is now enabled by default in both XMLUI and JSPUI.

Note: The Lucene/DB-based search & browse backend is still supported, but is deprecated and might be removed in a future release. Any new features should use the Discovery API instead of tying directly to Lucene, Solr or Elastic Search.

• Discovery general enhancements
  
  • Solr libraries were upgraded to version 4.4 (JSPUI, XMLUI and OAI modules) - by lap
    
  • Solr search accent insensitive - by ab
  • Solr-based item counter - by im, ab

• Discovery UI enhancements (both JSPUI and XMLUI)
  
  • Query spell checking ("did you mean") - XMLUI by kv, JSPUI by lap, ab

Contributors:
lap - Luigi Andrea Pascarelli with the support of CINECA
ab - Andrea Bollini with the support of CINECA
kv - Kevin Van de Velde with the support of @mire
im - Ivan Masár

A new Bootstrap-based default look and feel for JSPUI (see DS-1675 for screenshots)

Kindly contributed by Andrea Bollini & Luigi Andrea Pascarelli with the support of CINECA

JSPUI new features

• Bibliographic import and lookup in Submission, by CINECA and Greek National Documentation Centre/EKT
• AJAX progress bar for file upload the submission upload step (DS-1639), by Andrea Bollini with the support of CINECA
• Sherpa/Romeo integration in the submission upload step (DS-1633), by Andrea Bollini with the support of CINECA

JSPUI porting of features previously available only on XMLUI

• Advanced Embargo feature
• Item level versioning feature
• Curation tasks administrative UI
• "Login as" feature

Kindly contributed by Keiji Suzuki & Luigi Andrea Pascarelli with the support of CINECA

UI support for metadata batch import from various bibliographic formats

• Update to Biblio-Transformation-Engine 0.9.2.2
• Added data loader for OAI-PMH
• New configuration format to support simultaneous input mappings from the various supported metadata formats
• New interface for administrators in JSPUI (for file data loaders like bibtex, csv, tsv, endnote and ris)

Kindly contributed by the Greek National Documentation Centre/EKT

• some general bug fixes including: bitstream url construction, config options, context management and connection pool, ORIGINAL bundle problem (DS-1149)
• proper METSDSpaceSIP support in both deposit and update
• proper authentication for accessing actionable bitstreams (i.e. those that can be replaced via sword), tightened security options around mediated actions, and add extra security to the access of descriptive documents (deposit receipts, statements)
• more configuration options: bundles to expose in Statements, DepositMO extensions (for individual files), and many more
• some general refactoring
• addition of 404 responses where necessary
• better support for add/replace of metadata, and how metadata updates are handled on archived items
• update to latest version of Java Server library
• new bitstream formats in the bitstream registry

Kindly contributed by Richard Jones with the support of Cottage Labs

Improved command line features

• Run commands in batch
• Display DSpace instance information including version and enabled modules (DS-1456)
• Create users from command line (DS-1355)

Kindly contributed by Mark H. Wood with the support of IUPUI University Library

Support simple embargo in XMLUI item display and in AIP import/export

Kindly contributed by Ivan Masár and Terry Brady with the support of Georgetown University

Language switch for xmlui and some basic i18n stuff

Kindly contributed by Claudia Jürgen with the support of TU Dortmund University

Filtering of web spiders from statistics can now match by the spider host's DNS name or the spider's User-Agent string.

Kindly contributed by Mark H. Wood with the support of IUPUI University Library

Several improvements to help Google Scholar better index your content (requested by Google Scholar team). See also Search Engine Optimization recommendations, for ways to further enhance Google Scholar (and other search engine) findability.

Kindly contributed by several members of the DSpace Committer team (see individual tickets for more details).

DOI Support

• Support for minting new DOIs
• Support for the DataCite and EZID DOI providers

Kindly contributed by Pascal-Nicolas Becker & Mark Wood with the support of TU Berlin and IUPUI University Library

Support running handle server and application container on separate machines

Kindly contributed by Pascal-Nicolas Becker, Andrea Bollini & Mark Wood with the support of TU Berlin and CINECA

Mobile Theme for XMLUI matures from beta (DS-1679)

• New feature:
• Documentation

Kindly contributed by Elias Tzoc and James Russell with the support of Miami University

Improvements to LDAP Authentication

• New option to map LDAP attribute-based group membership to internal DSpace groups 

Kindly contributed by Ivan Masár and Sam Ottenhoff of Longsight for Allegheny College (DS-1078).

Media filter generates better-looking thumbnails

Kindly contributed by Jason Sherman with the support of University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma

Curation Task for Consuming Web Services

Kindly contributed by Richard Rodgers with the support of Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Request a Copy for JSPUI and XMLUI (DS-824)

• For items with restricted access, allows users to ask the original author for a copy of the item

[original Minho addon docs: RequestCopy]

Original contribution of the University of Minho, improvements and porting to XMLUI by Andrea Bollini with the support of CINECAAdán Román Ruiz (Arvo Consultores). JSPUI version adapted from the Universidade do Minho. XMLUI version funded by Instituto Oceanográfico de España. Additional improvements/bug fixes by Andrea Bollini (CINECA).

A new REST web service API module based on Jersey (a JAX RS 1.0 implementation) (DS-1696)

Provides:

• Read-only access to unrestricted communities, collections, items and bitstreams
• Handle lookup
• JSON (and XML) output formats

Kindly contributed by Peter Dietz with the support of Ohio State University Libraries