DSpace System Documentation: Version History

Changes in DSpace 1.6.2

Changes in DSpace 1.6.1

Bug Fixes

• DS-295 - CC License being assigned incorrect Mime Type during submission
• DS-239 - java.net.MalformedURLException: unknow protocol: resource
• DS-242 - Special groups shown for logged in user rather than for user being examined
• DS-430 - Embargo
• DS-469 - DCDate.displayDate(false,*) displays only year
• DS-471 - Accessing site-level 'mets.xml' in XMLUI doesn't work properly for handle prefixes with periods (e.g. 2010.1)
• DS-493 - Url in browser is incorrect after login
• DS-497 - Date month and day get default values when user returns to describe form
• DS-500 - Ukrainian for DSpace 1.6.0
• DS-501 - Kubrick Theme - NaN in Item Browse
• DS-506 - embargo-lifter command missing from launcher.xml
• DS-507 - Log Converter difference between docs (log-converter) and launcher (stats-log-converter)
• DS-508 - Attachment spelled as attachement in DailyReportEmailer
• DS-509 - Retrieving country names in SOLR can return ArrayIndexOutOfBounds when country code is unchecked
• DS-513 - Connection leak in SWORD authentication process
• DS-518 - Duplicate listing of dependencies in dspace-sword/pom.xml
• DS-523 - Reordering of 1.5 -> 1.6 upgrade steps in DSpace manual
• DS-526 - ItemUpdate - script and manual updates
• DS-527 - Withdrawn items not shown as deleted in OAI
• DS-534 - Documentation for 'schema' attribute in metadata xml files
• DS-537 - Malformed Japanese option values in the authority lookup window
• DS-538 - restricted items are being returned in OAI GetRecord method while using harvest.includerestricted.oai
• DS-539 - Misspelled attribute in MODS/METS output
• DS-542 - verbose output for stats-log-importer displays spurious city/country from previous committed entry
• DS-543 - Harvest not internationalized
• DS-544 - Removal of mapped items can lead to NPE
• DS-547 - Value for Recent Submissions is not workin in the XMLUI
• DS-548 - Removing repeatable values in DescribeStep does not properly test for authority control
• DS-551 - Export directories dspace.cfg and build.xml out of sync
• DS-556 - Add Xalan to SOLR pom.xml as dependency
• DS-557 - LC Authority Names - Lookup Feature - names without dates
• DS-558 - Error in update sequence script 1.5 to 1.6 Oracle
• DS-565 - Fixed for Empty description column in Itemview Page - General-Handler.xsl
• DS-566 - Fixed for side bar menu dropping when there is license text in collection - DIM-Handler.xsl
• DS-571 - Upgrade DSpace Services to next release
• DS-572 - Batch metadata editor fails to notice change of item's owning collection
• DS-573 - NPE resuming submission for item with an empty bundle original
• DS-574 - DSpaceMETSIngester creates empty original bundle
• DS-577 - Use modified Cocoon Servlet Service Impl in place of existing to support proper Cocoon Block addition
• DS-579 - Required fields in submissions display wrong error message
• DS-580 - DIDL format include HTML element if the item has no files
• DS-581 - DIDL doesn't respect the hidden fields and the oai_dc metadata section is different than the simple oai_dc implementation

Changes in DSpace 1.6.0

New Features

• DS-161 - Bulk Metadata Editing (Batch Metadata Editing)
• DS-194 - Give METS ingester configuration option to make use of collection templates
• DS-195 - Allow the primary bitstream to be set in the item importer / exporter
• DS-204 - New -zip option for item exporter and importer
• DS-205 - Creative Commons - option to set legal jurisdiction
• DS-228 - Community Admin XMLUI: Delegated Admins Patch
• DS-236 - Authority Control, and plug-in choice control for Metadata Fields
• DS-288 - Hide metadata from full item view
• DS-289 - OAI-PMH + OAI-ORE harvesting support
• DS-317 - Embargo feature
• DS-321 - DSpace command launcher
• DS-323 - ItemUpdate - new feature to batch update metadata and bitstreams
• DS-324 - Add support for OpenSearch syndicated search conventions
• DS-330 - Create new session on login / invalidate sessions on logout
• DS-359 - Add alternate file appender for log4j
• DS-377 - Add META tags identifying DSpace source version to Web UIs
• DS-388 - Item importer - new option to enable workflow notification emails
• DS-430 - Embargo
• DS-447 - Email test script

General Improvments

• DS-52 - Factor out common webapp installation - ID: 2042160
• DS-196 - METS exposed via OAI-PMH includes descritpion.provenance information
• DS-201- handle.jar 6.2 needs adding to DSpace Maven repository
• DS-213 - IPAuthentication extended to allow negative matching
• DS-219 - Internal Server error - include login details of user
• DS-221 - XMLUI 'current activity' recognises Google Chrome as Safari
• DS-234 - Configurable passing of Javamail parameter settings
• DS-238 - Move item function in xmlui
• DS-241 - DSpace Assembly Improvement
• DS-243 - UsageEvent adjustments to support Statistics and Reporting Addons
• DS-252 - Interpolate variables in the Subject: line of email templates as well
• DS-261 - Community Admin JSPUI: porting of the DS-228 patch
• DS-270 - Make delegate admin permissions configurable
• DS-271 - Make the OAI DC crosswalk configurable
• DS-291 - README update for top level of dspace 1.6.0 package directory
• DS-297 - Refactor SQL source and Ant script to avoid copying Oracle versions over PostgreSQL
• DS-299 - Allow long values to be specified for the max upload request (for uploading files greater than 2Gb)
• DS-306 - Option to disable mailserver
• DS-307 - Offer access in AbstractSearch to QueryResults for subclasses
• DS-315 - Enhance readability of embedded metadata in html head
• DS-316 - Make SWORD app:accepts configurable
• DS-319 - Replace /dspace/bin/dsrun org.dspace.browse.ItemCounter with /dspace/bin/itemcounter
• DS-333 - Adjust SWORD ingest crosswalk to store bibliographic citation
• DS-339 - Cleanup Dependenceis and POM files prior to release Upgrade Servlet API to 2.4 across all projects
• DS-347 - Add --quiet option to MediaFilterManager to disable debug/monitoring output
• DS-356 - Antispam for suggest item feature
• DS-361 - Merge + Improvie Generation of Syndication Feeds

• DS-372 - New verbose option for [dspace]/bin/dspace cleanup script

• DS-382 - Add 'dc.creator' to Author browse index by default
• DS-386 - Allow user to specify which <dmdSec> is used by the METS Ingester when importing METS from Packager script
• DS-389 - Misleading label: "Submit to This Collection" is corrected
• DS-405 - New 1.6 Statistics settings in dspace.cfg need documentation
• DS-407 - Install or Upgrade on existing server throws error for 'mvn package'
• DS-410 - Updates to upgrade instructions necessary
• DS-412 - XPDF MediaFilter: generate UTF-8 text, and improve error reporting
• DS-425 - JSP UI cosmetics: horizontal scroll bar
• DS-445 - New bitstream.findAll() method
• DS-446 - New ant step -test_database
• DS-460 - Change logging from RollingFileAppender to DailyFileAppender
• DS-461 - Add information about setting web proxies to maven to install docs

Bug fixes

• DS-44 - Monthly statistics skip first and last of month - ID: 2541435
• DS-114 - Links not working due to trailing white space in dspace.url
• DS-118 - File preview link during submission leeds to page not found
• DS-121 - XMLUI Feedback form breaks with multiple hostnames
• DS-128 - Anchor in submission doesn't work
• DS-156 - File description not available in XMLUI
• DS-184 - NPE from Edit Collection, Item Template, Edit Authorizations
• DS-191 - metadataschemaregistry_seq is not initialized correctly under Oracle
• DS-193 - OAI RDF crosswalk fails when DC value is null
• DS-197 - Deleting a primary bitstream does not clear the primary_bitstream_id on the bundle table
• DS-198 - File descriptions can not be removed/cleared in XMLUI
• DS-199 - SWORD module doesn't accept X-No-Op header (dry run)
• DS-200 - SWORD module requires the X-Packaging header
• DS-206 - Input form visibility restriction doesn't work properly
• DS-209 - Context.java turnOffAuthorisationSystem() can throw a NPE
• DS-212 - NPE thrown during Harvest of non-items when visibility restriction is enabled
• DS-216 - Migrating items that use additional metadata schemas causes an NPE
• DS-217 - Hardcoded String in the license bitstream
• DS-218 - Cannot add/remove email subscriptions from Profile page in XMLUI
• DS-222 - Email alerts due to internal errors are not sent, if context is missing
• DS-223 - Submission process show previous button in JSPUI also if the step is the first "visible" step
• DS-225 - dc.description.provenance - public display
• DS-226 - confirmation page of edit profile has an invalid link
• DS-227 - Values with double apos doesn't work in dropdown and list input type
• DS-229 - dc.description.provenance shown in default xmlui 'full item view'
• DS-231 - Missig file for index-init
• DS-232 - DCPersonName parses name incorrectly (fix included)
• DS-240 - Item validityKey not complete
• DS-242 - Special groups shown for logged in user rather than for user being examined
• DS-246 - Fix configurable browse parameter encoding (XMLUI)
• DS-248 - Missing admin column in community table in database-schema.sql - community admin patch
• DS-249 - sub-daily utility script does not pass arguments to Java (fix included)
• DS-250 - Invalid identifers are not escaped
• DS-253 - NullPointerException in HttpServletResponseBufferingWrapper
• DS-254 - Bitstream (and item-export) download service does not correctly sense authenticated user
• DS-255 - CompleteStep in submission LOSES SUBMISSION if an exception is thrown
• DS-256 - Item Export ignores metadata language qualifier
• DS-258 - Item View Thumbnails not displaying in XMLUI
• DS-260 - Template item some times has owningCollection filled and some times not
• DS-262 - Bug in DS-118, new patch included
• DS-264 - XMLUI misses logging UsageEvent on requests fulfilled from the cache
• DS-265 - IndexBrowse dies fatally when confronting badly-formatted date
• DS-269 - Oracle JDBC connection string wrong in dspace.cfg - ID: 2722093
• DS-274 - Typo in XSL breaks rendering of dri:xref with class
• DS-275 - License files not listed on Item Summary page; XSL bug with patch
• DS-276 - Patch to fix spelling error in Exception page
• DS-280 - build.xml fails for ant versions below 1.7 (patch included)
• DS-281 - Invalid Link to "Go to DSpace Home" on Page Not Found
• DS-282 - "Starts with" navigation block should not display when browsing by specific value
• DS-284 - Some rows if presented in the item summary will be wrongly considered odd or even.
• DS-285 - Item and Bitstream pages do not provide Last-Modified HTTP header, nor recognize If-Modified-Since

• DS-290 - [dspace]/exports is not created during fresh install

• DS-295 - CC License being assigned incorrect Mime Type during submission.
• DS-303 - Export migrate option incorrectly removes non-handle identifier.uris
• DS-309 - Shiboleth default roles are applied also to anonymous user and user logged-in with other methods
• DS-310 - UTF-8 encoding in community and collection text
• DS-318 - JSPUI: Left over text in edit item about format
• DS-320 - java.util.NoSuchElementException: Timeout waiting for idle object
• DS-327 - SWORD temp upload directory missing trailing slash
• DS-328 - SWORD service documents do not include atom:generator element
• DS-337 - A bug related with adding new -EPersons
• DS-338 - Bitstream download allows caching of content that requires authorization to read
• DS-340 DSpace services log to the command line
• DS-344 - Apostrophe in email address prevents EPerson from being selected
• DS-349 - Edit Item in admin UI does not allow setting Bitstream to an Internal BitstreamFormat
• DS-353 - Missing commits in XMLUI server-side javascript code.
• DS-354 - Make-handle-server configuration fails. New command created using dspace launcher.
• DS-365 New DSpace OAI-PMH Harvester doesn't support OAI gateways that do not use 'sets'
• DS-370 - E Mail Sent On Item Export Error Message
• DS-373 - "Letter" links have broken URLs in 2nd-stage Browse
• DS-378 - XMLUI Submission Interface messes up in IE7 after an empty <hint> in input_forms.xml
• DS-379 - open-search in jspui won't return description.xml
• DS-381 - community and collection homepage
• DS-385 - Packager script is unable to import the same METS + DIM package that was exported
• DS-392 - Error messages in the submission do not disappear if e.g. one of the two errors are solved
• DS-393 - The issue date in the submission lowers each time the describe page is being displayed
• DS-395 - DSpace Objects (communities, collections, items, bitstreams) only accessible to logged in users
• DS-398 - Submission license displayed on collection and item homepage
• DS-399 - Special characters in collection license lead to parse error
• DS-400 - Webui item browse (date, title or similar) reduces displayed issue date by one day
• DS-406 - View Statistics button does not work in item page
• DS-409 - JSPUI Statistics Display ignores "statistics.item.authorization.admin"
• DS-414 - solr statistics file downloads listed in statistics display of communites and collections
• DS-415 - Create groups via admin UI authorization denied
• DS-416 - Solr Statistics not starting on Windows Fresh install
• DS-417 - 1-day (or passed) embargo dates give error upon submission
• DS-418 - i18n broken in jspui
• DS-419 - Setting embargo.field.terms to an unqualified field throws uncaught exception on item submission
• DS-421 - Setting solr.metadata.item.X property to an unqualified field generates exception in SolrLogger.post on item view and prevents Solr from logging the event
• DS-422 - Directory "etc" missing from Ant target "init_installation".
• DS-423 - Ant target "clean_database" doesn't drop all tables.
• DS-424 - Export metadata button displayed in JSPUI Administration List of withdrawn items
• DS-427 - Item license per default displayed in item display of the xmlui
• DS-428 - Wrong link for bitstreams during submission unassigned
• DS-432 - No mention of config/news-xmlui.xml in manual
• DS-436 - SWORD Authenticator doesn"t support the special groups infrastructure
• DS-437 - Oracle DB Schema has artifacts from past releases
• DS-438 - JSPUI stats - filename incorrect on second and subsequent files
• DS-459 - OAI PMH is not delivering continuation tokens
• DS-468 - CLONE - Foreign characters broken in group names
• DS-472 - "fresh_install" broken on a completely clean system
• DS-474 - handle.canonical.prefix undocumented
• DS-475 - create a new group
• DS-477 - LDAPHierarchicalAuthentication fails when the LDAP returns mixed case email address
• DS-480 - Exception is thrown when removing the last file after the item is rejected during review.

Changes in DSpace 1.5.2

General Improvements

• The History System has been removed since DSpace 1.5. The [dspace]/history directory and it's contents can be completely removed if you so choose as it is non functional.

Bug fixes and smaller patches

• TBD

Changes in DSpace 1.5.1

General Improvements

• TBD

Bug fixes and smaller patches

• TBD

Changes in DSpace 1.5

General Improvements

• Highly configurable and theme-able new user interface (Manakin).
• Apache Maven-based modular build system.
• LNI (Lightweight Network Interface) service. Allows programmatic ingest of content via WebDAV or SOAP.
• SWORD (Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit): repository-standard ingest service using Atom Publishing Protocol.
• Highly configurable item web submission system. All submission steps are configurable not just metadata pages.
• Browse functionality allowing customisation of the available indexes via dspace.cfg and pluggable normalisation of the sort strings. Integration with both JSP-UI and XML-UI included.
• Extensible content event notification service.
• Generation of Google and HTML sitemaps

Bug fixes and smaller patches

• New options for ItemImporter to support bitstream permissions and descriptions.
• 1824710 Fix - Change in Creative Commons RDF.
• 1794700 Fix - Stat-monthly and stat-report-monthly
• 1566820 Patch - Authentication code moved to new org.dspace.authenticate package, add IP AUth
• 1670093 Patch - More stable metadata and schema registry import Option to generate community and collection "strength" as a batch job
• 1659868 Patch - Improved database level debugging
• 1620700 Patch - Add Community and Sub-Community to OAI Sets
• 1679972 Fix - OAIDCCrosswalk NPE and invalid character fix, also invalid output prevented
• 1549290 Fix - Suggest Features uses hard coded strings
• 1727034 Fix - Method MetadataField.unique() is incorrect for null values
• 1614546 Fix - Get rid of unused mets_bitstream_id column
• 1450491 Patch - i18n configurable multilingualism support
• 1764069 Patch - Replace "String" with "Integer" in PreparedStatement where needed
• 1743188 Patch - for Request #1145499 - Move Items
• 179196 Patch - Oracle SQL in Bitstream Checker
• 1751638 Patch - Set http disposition header to force download of large bitstreams
• 1799575 Patch - New EPersonConsumer event consumer
• 1566572 Patch - Item metadata in XHTML head elements
• 1589429 Patch - "Self-Named" Media Filters (i.e. MediaFilter Plugins) (updated version of this patch)
• 1888652 Patch - Statistics Rewritten In Java
• 1444364 Request - Metadata registry exporter
• 1221957 Request - Admin browser for withdrawn items
• 1740454 Fix - Concurrency
• 1552760 Fix - Submit interface looks bad in Safari
• 1642563 Patch - bin/update-handle-prefix rewritten in Java
• 1724330 Fix - Removes "null" being displayed in community-home.jsp
• 1763535 Patch - Alert DSpace administrator of new user registration
• 1759438 Patch - Multilingualism Language Switch - DSpace Header

Changes in DSpace 1.4.1

General Improvements

• 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

• 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]

• 1596952 - Collection Wizard create Template missing schema
• 1596978 - View unfinished submissions - collection empty
• 1588625 - Incorrect text on item mapper screen
• 1597805 - DIDL Crosswalk: wrong resource management
• 1605635 - NPE in Utils.java
• 1597504 - Search result page shows shortened query string
• 1532389 - Item Templates do not work for non-dc fields
• 1066771 - Metadata edit form dropping DC qualifier
• 1548738 - Multiple Metadata Schema, schema not shown on edit item page
• 1589895 - Not possible to add unqualified Metadata Field
• 1543853 - Statistics do not work in 1.4
• 1541381 - Browse-by-date and browse-by-title not working
• 1556947 - NullPointerException when no user selected to del/edit
• 1554064 - Fix exception handling for ClassCastException in BitstreamServlet
• 1548865 - Browse errors on withdrawn item
• 1554056 - Community/collection handle URL with / redirects to homepage
• 1571490 - UTF-8 encoded characters in licence
• 1571519 - UTF-8 in statistics
• 1544807 - Browse-by-Subject/Author paging mechanism broken
• 1543966 - "Special" groups inside groups bug
• 1480496 - Cannot turn off "ignore authorization" flag!
• 1515148 - Community policies not deleting correctly
• 1556829 - Docs mention old SiteAuthenticator class
• 1606435 - Workflow text out of context
• Fix for bitstream authorization timeout
• Fix to make sure cleanup() doesn't fail with NullPointerException
• Fix for removeBitstream() failing to update primary bitstream
• Fix for Advanced Search ignoring conjunctions for arbitrary number of queries
• Fix minor bug in Harvest.java for Oracle users
• Fix missing title for news editor page
• Small Messages.properties modification (change of DSpace copyright text)
• fix PDFBox tmp file issue
• Fix HttpServletRequest encoding issues
• Fix bug in TableRow toString() method where NPE is thrown if tablename not set
• Update DIDL license and change coding style to DSpace standard

Changes in DSpace 1.4

General Improvements

• Content verification through periodic checksum checking
• Support for branded preview image
• Add/replace Creative Commons in 'edit item' tool
• Customisable item listing columns and browse indices
• Script for updating handle prefixes (e.g. for moving from development to production)
• Configurable boolean search operator
• Controlled vocabulary patch to provide search on classification terms, and addition of terms during submission.
• Add 'visibility' element to input-forms.xml
• Browse by subject feature
• Log4J enhancement to use XML configuration
• QueryArgs class can support any number of fields in advanced search.
• Community names no longer have to be unique
• Enhanced Windows support
• Support for multiple (flat) metadata schemas
• Suggest an item page
• RSS Feeds
• Performance enhancements
• Stackable authentication methods
• Plug-in manager
• Pluggable SIP/DIP support and metadata crosswalks
• Nested groups of e-people
• Expose METS and MPEG-21 DIDL DIPs via OAI-PMH
• Configurable Lucene search analyzer (e.g. for Chinese metadata)
• Support for SMTP servers requiring authentication

Bug fixes

• 1358197 - Edit Item, empty DC fields not removable
• 1363633 - Submission step 1 fails when there are no collections
• 1255264 - Resource policy eperson value was set to wrong column
• 1380494 - Error deleting an item with multiple metadata schema support
• 1443649 - Cannot configure unqualified elements for advanced search index
• 1333687 - Browse-(title|date) fails on withdrawn item
• 1066713 - Two (sub)communities cannot have one name
• 1284055 - Two Communities of same name throws error
• 1035366 - Bitstream size column should be bigint
• 1352257 - Selecting a Group for GroupToGroup while Creating Collection
• 1352226 - Navigation and Sorting in Group List (Select Groups) fails
• 1348276 - Null in collection name causes OAI ListSets to fail
• 1160898 - dspace_migrate removes Date.Issued from prev published items
• 1261191 - Malformed METS metadata exported

Changes in DSpace 1.3.2

General Improvements

• DSpace UI XHTML/WAI compliant
• Configure metadata fields shown on simple item display
• Supervisor/workspace help documentation

Bug fixes

• Oracle compatibility fixes
• Item exporter now correctly exports metadata in UTF-8
• fixed to handle 'null' values passed in

Changes in DSpace 1.3.1

Bug fixes

• 1252153 - Error on fresh install

Changes in DSpace 1.3

General Improvements

• Initial i18n Support for JSPs - Note: the implementation of this feature required changes to almost all JSP pages
• LDAP authentication support
• Log file analysis and report generation
• Configurable item licence viewing
• Supervision order/collaborative workspace administrative tools
• Basic workspace for submissions in progress, with support for supervision
• SRB storage system option
• Updated handle server system
• Database optimisations
• Latest versions of Xerces, Xalan and OAICAT jars
• Various documentation additions and cleanups

Bug fixes

• 1161459 - ItemExporter fails with Too many open files
• 1167373 - Email date field not populated
• 1193948 - New item submit problem
• 1188132 - NullPointerException when Adding EPerson
• 1188016 - Cannot Edit an Eperson
• 1219701 - Unable to open unfinished submission
• 1206836 - community strengths not reflecting sub-community
• 1238262 - Submit UI nav/progress buttons no longer show progress
• 1238276 - Double quote problem in some fields in submit UI
• 1238277 - format support level not shown in "uploaded file" page
• 1242548 - Uploading non-existing files
• 1244743 - Bad lookup key for special case of DC Title in ItemTag.java
• 1245223 - Subscription Emailer fails
• 1247508 - Error when browsing item with no content/bitstream collections
• Set the content type in the HTTP header
• Fix issue where EPerson edit would not work due to form indexing (partial fix)
• POST handling in HTMLServlet
• Missing ContentType directives added to some JSPs
• Name dependency on Collection Admin and Submitter groups fixed
• Fixed OAI-PMH XML encoding

Changes in DSpace 1.2.2

General Improvements

• Customisable submission forms added
• Configurable number of index terms in Lucene for full-text indexing
• Improved scalability in media filter
• Submit button on collection pages only appears if user has authorisation
• PostgreSQL 8.0 compatibility
• Search scope retention to improve browsing
• Community and collection strengths displayed
• Upgraded OAICat software

Bug fixes

• Fix for Oracle too many cursors problem.
• Fix for UTF-8 encoded searches in advanced search.
• Fix for handling "\" in bitstream names.
• Fix to prevent delete of "unknown" bitstream format
• Fix for ItemImport creating new handles for replaced items

Changes in JSPs

• collection-home.jspchanged
• community-home.jspchanged
• community-list.jspchanged
• home.jspchanged
• dspace-admin/list-formats.jspchanged
• dspace-admin/wizard-questions.jspchanged
• search/results.jspchanged
• submit/cancel.jspchanged
• submit/change-file-description.jspchanged
• submit/choose-file.jspchanged
• submit/complete.jspchanged
• submit/creative-commons.jspchanged
• submit/edit-metadata.jspnew
• submit/get-file-format.jspchanged
• submit/initial-questions.jspchanged
• submit/progressbar.jspchanged
• submit/review.jspchanged
• submit/select-collection.jspchanged
• submit/show-license.jspchanged
• submit/show-uploaded-file.jspchanged
• submit/upload-error.jspchanged
• submit/upload-file-list.jspchanged

Changes in DSpace 1.2.1

General Improvements

• Oracle support added
• Thumbnails in item view can now be switched off/on
• Browse and search thumbnail options
• Improved item importer
  • can now import to multiple collections
  • added --test flag to simulate an import, without actually making any changes
  • added --resume flag to try to resume the import in case the import is aborted
• Configurable fields for the search index
• Script for transferring items between DSpace instances
• Sun library JARs (JavaMail, Java Activation Framework and Servlet) now included in DSpace source code bundle

Bug fixes

• A logo to existing collection can now be added. Fixes SF bug #1065933
• The community logo can now be edited. Fixes SF bug #1035692
• MediaFilterManager doesn't 'touch' every item every time. Fixes SF bug #1015296
• Supported formats help page, set the format support level to "known" as default
• Fixed various database connection pool leaks

Changed JSPs

• collection-homechanged
• community-homechanged
• display-itemchanged
• dspace-admin/confirm-delete-collectionmoved to tools/ and changed
• dspace-admin/confirm-delete-communitymoved to tools/ and changed
• dspace-admin/edit-collectionmoved to tools/ and changed
• dspace-admin/edit-communitymoved to tools/ and changed
• dspace-admin/indexchanged
• dspace-admin/upload-logochanged
• dspace-admin/wizard-basicinfochanged
• dspace-admin/wizard-default-itemchanged
• dspace-admin/wizard-permissionschanged
• dspace-admin/wizard-questionschanged
• help/formats.htmlremoved
• help/formatschanged
• indexchanged
• layout/navbar-adminchanged

Changes in DSpace 1.2

General Improvments

• Communities can now contain sub-communities
• Items may be included in more than one collection
• Full text extraction and searching for MS Word, PDF, HTML, text documents
• Thumbnails displayed in item view for items that contain images
• Configurable MediaFilter tool creates both extracted text and thumbnails
• Bitstream IDs are now persistent - generated from item's handle and a sequence number
• Creative Commons licenses can optionally be added to items during web submission process

Administration

• If you are logged in as administrator, you see admin buttons on item, collection, and community pages
• New collection administration wizard
• Can now administer collection's submitters from collection admin tool
• Delegated administration - new 'collection editor' role - edits item metadata, manages submitters list, edits collection metadata, links to items from other collections, and can withdraw items
• Admin UI moved from /admin to /dspace-admin to avoid conflict with Tomcat /admin JSPs
• New EPerson selector popup makes Group editing much easier
• 'News' section is now editable using admin UI (no more mucking with JSPs)

Import/Export/OAI

• New tool that exports DSpace content in AIPs that use METS XML for metadata (incomplete)
• OAI - sets are now collections, identified by Handles ('safe' with /, : converted to _)
• OAI - contributor.author now mapped to oai_dc:creator

Miscellaneous

• Build process streamlined with use of WAR files, symbolic links no longer used, friendlier to later versions of Tomcat
• MIT-specific aspects of UI removed to avoid confusion
• Item metadata now rendered to avoid interpreting as HTML (displays as entered)
• Forms now have no-cache directive to avoid trouble with browser 'back' button
• Bundles now have 'names' for more structure in item's content

JSP file changes between 1.1 and 1.2

This list generated with cvs -Q rdiff -s -r dspace-1_1 dspace and a sprinkling of perl.

• Changed: dspace/jsp/collection-home.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/community-home.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/community-list.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/display-item.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/index.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/home.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/styles.css.jsp
• Moved to dspace-admin and changed: dspace/jsp/admin/authorize-advanced.jsp
• Moved to dspace-admin and changed: dspace/jsp/admin/authorize-collection-edit.jsp
• Moved to dspace-admin and changed: dspace/jsp/admin/authorize-community-edit.jsp
• Moved to dspace-admin and changed: dspace/jsp/admin/authorize-item-edit.jsp
• Moved to dspace-admin and changed: dspace/jsp/admin/authorize-main.jsp
• Moved to dspace-admin and changed: dspace/jsp/admin/authorize-policy-edit.jsp
• Moved to dspace-admin: dspace/jsp/admin/collection-select.jsp
• Moved to dspace-admin: dspace/jsp/admin/community-select.jsp
• Moved to dspace-admin: dspace/jsp/admin/confirm-delete-collection.jsp
• Moved to dspace-admin: dspace/jsp/admin/confirm-delete-community.jsp
• Moved to dspace-admin: dspace/jsp/admin/confirm-delete-dctype.jsp
• Moved to dspace-admin: dspace/jsp/admin/confirm-delete-eperson.jsp
• Moved to dspace-admin: dspace/jsp/admin/confirm-delete-format.jsp
• Moved to dspace/jsp/tools: dspace/jsp/admin/confirm-delete-item.jsp
• Moved to dspace/jsp/tools: dspace/jsp/admin/confirm-withdraw-item.jsp
• Moved to dspace-admin and changed: dspace/jsp/admin/edit-collection.jsp
• Moved to dspace-admin and changed: dspace/jsp/admin/edit-community.jsp
• Moved to dspace/jsp/tools and changed: dspace/jsp/admin/edit-item-form.jsp
• Moved to dspace-admin and changed: dspace/jsp/admin/eperson-browse.jsp
• Moved to dspace-admin: dspace/jsp/admin/eperson-confirm-delete.jsp
• Moved to dspace-admin and changed: dspace/jsp/admin/eperson-edit.jsp
• Moved to dspace-admin and changed: dspace/jsp/admin/eperson-main.jsp
• Moved to dspace/jsp/tools and changed: dspace/jsp/admin/get-item-id.jsp
• Moved to dspace/jsp/tools and changed: dspace/jsp/admin/group-edit.jsp
• Moved to dspace-admin and changed: dspace/jsp/admin/group-eperson-select.jsp
• Moved to dspace/jsp/tools and changed: dspace/jsp/admin/group-list.jsp
• Moved to dspace-admin: dspace/jsp/admin/index.jsp
• Moved to dspace-admin and changed: dspace/jsp/admin/item-select.jsp
• Moved to dspace-admin and changed: dspace/jsp/admin/list-communities.jsp
• Moved to dspace-admin and changed: dspace/jsp/admin/list-dc-types.jsp
• Removed: dspace/jsp/admin/list-epeople.jsp
• Moved to dspace-admin and changed: dspace/jsp/admin/list-formats.jsp
• Moved to dspace/jsp/tools: dspace/jsp/admin/upload-bitstream.jsp
• Moved to dspace-admin and changed: dspace/jsp/admin/upload-logo.jsp
• Moved to dspace-admin: dspace/jsp/admin/workflow-abort-confirm.jsp
• Moved to dspace-admin and changed: dspace/jsp/admin/workflow-list.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/browse/authors.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/browse/items-by-author.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/browse/items-by-date.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/browse/no-results.jsp
• New: dspace-admin/eperson-deletion-error.jsp
• New: dspace/jsp/dspace-admin/news-edit.jsp
• New: dspace/jsp/dspace-admin/news-main.jsp
• New: dspace/jsp/dspace-admin/wizard-basicinfo.jsp
• New: dspace/jsp/dspace-admin/wizard-default-item.jsp
• New: dspace/jsp/dspace-admin/wizard-permissions.jsp
• New: dspace/jsp/dspace-admin/wizard-questions.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/components/contact-info.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/error/internal.jsp
• New: dspace/jsp/help/formats.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/layout/footer-default.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/layout/header-default.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/layout/navbar-admin.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/layout/navbar-default.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/login/password.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/mydspace/main.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/mydspace/perform-task.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/mydspace/preview-task.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/mydspace/reject-reason.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/mydspace/remove-item.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/register/edit-profile.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/register/inactive-account.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/register/new-password.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/register/registration-form.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/search/advanced.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/search/results.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/submit/cancel.jsp
• New: dspace/jsp/submit/cc-license.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/submit/choose-file.jsp
• New: dspace/jsp/submit/creative-commons.css
• New: dspace/jsp/submit/creative-commons.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/submit/edit-metadata-1.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/submit/edit-metadata-2.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/submit/get-file-format.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/submit/initial-questions.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/submit/progressbar.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/submit/review.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/submit/select-collection.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/submit/show-license.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/submit/show-uploaded-file.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/submit/upload-error.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/submit/upload-file-list.jsp
• Changed: dspace/jsp/submit/verify-prune.jsp
• New: dspace/jsp/tools/edit-item-form.jsp
• New: dspace/jsp/tools/eperson-list.jsp
• New: dspace/jsp/tools/itemmap-browse.jsp
• New: dspace/jsp/tools/itemmap-info.jsp
• New: dspace/jsp/tools/itemmap-main.jsp

Changes in DSpace 1.1.1

Bug fixes

• non-administrators can now submit again
• installations now preserve file creation dates, eliminating confusion with upgrades
• authorization editing pages no longer create null entries in database, and no longer handles them poorly (no longer gives blank page instead of displaying policies.)
• registration page Invalid token error page now displayed when an invalid token is received (as opposed to internal server error.) Fixes SF bug #739999
• eperson admin 'recent submission' links fixed for DSpaces deployed somewhere other than at / (e.g. /dspace).
• help pages Link to help pages now includes servlet context (e.g. '/dspace'). Fixes SF bug #738399.

Improvements

• bin/dspace-info.pl now checks jsp and asset store files for zero-length files
• make-release-package now works with SourceForge CVS
• eperson editor now doesn't display the spurious text 'null'
• item exporter now uses Jakarta's cli command line arg parser (much cleaner)
• item importer improvements:
  • now uses Jakarta's cli command line arg parser (much cleaner)
  • imported items can now be routed through a workflow
  • more validation and error messages before import
  • can now use email addresses and handles instead of just database IDs
  • can import an item to a collection with the workflow suppressed

Changes in DSpace 1.1

• Fixed various OAI-related bugs; DSpace's OAI support should now be correct. Note that harvesting is now based on the new Item 'last modified' date (as opposed to the Dublin Core date.available date.)
• Fixed Handle support--DSpace now responds to naming authority requests correctly.
• Multiple bitstream stores can now be specified; this allows DSpace storage to span several disks, and so there is no longer a hard limit on storage.
• Search improvements:
  • New fielded searching UI
  • Search results are now paged
  • Abstracts are indexed
  • Better use of Lucene API; should stop the number of open file handles getting large
• Submission UI improvements:
  • now insists on a title being specified
  • fixed navigation on file upload page
  • citation & identifier fields for previously published submissions now fixed
• Many Unicode fixes to the database and Web user interface
• Collections can now be deleted
• Bitstream descriptions (if available) displayed on item display page
• Modified a couple of servlets to handle invalid parameters better (i.e. to report a suitable error message instead of an internal server error)
• Item templates now work
• Fixed registration token expiration problem (they no longer expire.)