Release Notes

Welcome to Release 3.0. The developers have volunteered many hours to fix, re-write and contribute new software code for this release. Documentation has also been updated.

The following is a list of the new features included for release 3.0 (not an exhaustive list):

• Completely rewritten OAI-PMH interface.  See: OAI 2.0 Server
• Item Level Versioning
• Enhancements to Discovery (including hit highlighting & search snippets)
• Discovery for JSPUI
• Advanced Embargo Support
• Batch import for Bibliographic formats (Endnote, BibTex, RIS, TSV, CSV)
• Google Analytics support for JSPUI
• Controlled Vocabulary support for XMLUI
• Type based Submissions. See Submission User Interface
• Better encryption for locally stored passwords. See Authentication by Password
• New UI theme for mobile devices.

A full list of all changes / bug fixes in 3.0 is available in the History section.

The following people have contributed directly to this release of DSpace: Andrea Bollini, Peter Dietz, Mark Diggory, Tim Donohue, Sands Fish, Brian Freels-Stendel, Àlex Magaz Graça, Bo Gundersen, Bill Hays, helix84, Claudia Jürgen, Alex Lemann, Bram Luyten, João Melo, Samuel Ottenhoff, Nestor Oviedo, Scott Phillips, Andrea Schweer, Kostas Stamatis, Rania Stathopoulou, Keiji Suzuki, Steve Swinsburg, Robin Taylor, Kevin Van de Velde, Jennifer Whalan, and Mark H. Wood. Many of them could not do this work without the support (release time and financial) of their associated institutions. We offer thanks to those institutions for supporting their staff to take time to contribute to the DSpace project.

A big thank you also goes out to the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT), who helped the developers to prioritize and plan out several of the new features that made it into this release. The current DCAT members include: Amy Lana, Augustine Gitonga, Bram Luyten, Ciarán Walsh, Claire Bundy, Dibyendra Hyoju, Elena Feinstein, Elin Stangeland, Iryna Kuchma, Jim Ottaviani, Leonie Hayes, Maureen Walsh, Michael Guthrie, Sarah Molloy, Sarah Shreeves, Sue Kunda, Valorie Hollister and Yan Han.

We apologize to any contributor accidentally left off this list. DSpace has such a large, active development community that we sometimes lose track of all our contributors. Our ongoing list of all known people/institutions that have contributed to DSpace software can be found on our DSpace Contributors page. Acknowledgments to those left off will be made in future releases.

Want to see your name appear in our list of contributors? All you have to do is report an issue, fix a bug, improve our documentation or help us determine the necessary requirements for a new feature! Visit our Issue Tracker to report a bug, or join dspace-devel mailing list to take part in development work. If you'd like to help improve our current documentation, please get in touch with one of our Committers with your ideas. You don't even need to be a developer! Repository managers can also get involved by volunteering to join the DSpace Community Advisory Team and helping our developers to plan new features.

The Release Team consisted of Sands Fish, helix84, Hardy Pottinger, and Robin Taylor.

Additional thanks to Tim Donohue from DuraSpace for keeping all of us focused on the work at hand, and calming us when we got excited and for the general support for the DSpace project.