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
Bug fixes in 1.4.1
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