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Easier Upgrading to 5.x from ANY previous DSpace version (1.x.x, 3.x or 4.x).

• Your underlying DSpace database now upgrades itself automatically when you first run a newer version of DSpace (see DS-2167, by Tim Donohue with support/feedback from 5.0 Release Team). 
• Solr/Lucene indexes now upgrade automatically during the "ant update" step of the Upgrade process (see DS-2297 by Tim Donohue, with support/feedback from Ivan Masár and 5.0 Release Team).

Perform Batch Imports from the User Interface (in both XMLUI and JSPUI) (enabled by default)

• XMLUI version (XMLUI Documentation, also see DS-1641) by Peter Dietz with the support of Ohio State University Libraries and Longsight
• JSPUI version (JSPUI Documentation, also see DS-2177) by the Greek National Documentation Centre/EKT

JSPUI new features

• Drag and drop file upload (using HTML5), see DS-1994 by Pascal-Nicolas Becker with the support of TU Berlin
• Item Visual Indicators in Browse/Search results, see DS-2162 by Greek National Documentation Centre/EKT
• Track file downloads in Google Analytics statistics (see DS-2008) by Robin Taylor

XMLUI new features

• Mirage 2 Responsive Theme, based on Bootstrap (disabled by default, see DS-2052 for screenshots) by @mire
• ORCID Integration (disabled by default, see DS-2049) by @mire
• Report Google Analytics statistics from Admin UI (disabled by default, see DS-2108) by Robin Taylor
• Track file downloads in Google Analytics statistics (see DS-2008) by Robin Taylor
• Autogenerate PDF citation "cover pages" for all PDFs (disabled by default, see DS-2175) by Peter Dietz with the support of Ohio State University Libraries and Longsight 
• Sherpa/Romeo lookup during item submission process, see DS-2053 by Kevin Van de Velde and Bert Vanderhallen with the support of @mire (previously available only in JSPUI)
• Rendering MathML code in abstracts using MathJax, see DS-635 by Peter Dietz with the support of Ohio State University Libraries and Longsight
• Ensure "page not found" error pages use configured theme, see DS-1596 by Tim Donohue with the support of DuraSpace
• Performance improvements for "Select Collection" dropdown in submission process, see DS-682 by Peter Dietz with the support of Ohio State University Libraries and Longsight

REST API new features

• DSpace REST API now includes CRUD (Create/Read/Update/Delete) endpoints, see DS-2168 by the Czech Technical University in Prague

NEW RDF Interface to support Linked (Open) Data

• DSpace can now provide its content as Linked (Open) Data via a new RDF interface (provided as an "rdf" webapp), see DS-2061 by Pascal-Nicolas Becker

OAI-PMH interface enhancements / bug fixes

• OpenAIRE v3 compliance (operators over filters)
• OAI respects item READ rights
• /oai displays the list of available contexts; contexts have descriptions

See DS-1649 by João Melo 

Bug fixes / improvements

BTE: batch import from various bibliographic formats

(BTE)

• BTE: batch import from various bibliographic formats was upgrade to the latest version (see DS-2183)

Kindly Kindly contributed by the Greek National Documentation Centre/EKT

• OpenAIRE v3 compliance (operators over filters)
  
• OAI respects item READ rights
• /oai displays the list of available contexts; contexts have descriptions

Image Removed

Solr libraries were upgraded to version 4.10.2 (JSPUI, XMLUI and OAI modules)

DOI Support

• Jira
  server DuraSpace JIRA serverId c815ca92-fd23-34c2-8fe3-956808caf8c5 key DS-2119

  by Mohamed Mohideen Abdul Rasheed

Image Added

Apache Solr libraries were upgraded for all interfaces (JSPUI, XMLUI, and OAI)

See DS-2253 by Roeland Dillen with the support of @mire

Enhancements to DOI Support (disabled by default)

• Enhanced EZID IdentifierProvider Metadata Mapping via XSLT, see DS-2119 by Mohamed Mohideen Abdul Rasheed

Enhanced Thumbnail Quality (disabled by default)

• Enhanced image thumbnails can now be generated using ImageMagick
• Enhanced PDF Thumbnails can now be generated using ImageMagick and Ghostscript

See DS-2105

by Terry Brady with the support of Georgetown University

• All DSpaceObject-inheriting classes now have metadata. The UIs don't yet take advantage of them in this release. But, you will notice a new "eperson" metadata schema for EPeople metadata. All other DSpaceObjects now use the default "dc" metadata schema to store object information.