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Welcome to Release 4.0. DSpace 4.0 is a major new release of the platform. For full details on the fixes/patches/improvements, please visit the DSpace Release 4.0 Status .

The following is a list of the new features included for the 4.x platform (not an exhaustive list):

DSpace 4.0 ships with a number of new features. Certain features are automatically enabled by default while others require deliberate activation. 
The following non-exhaustive list contains the major new features in 4.0 that are enabled by default:

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

 

JSPUI porting of features previously available only on XMLUI

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

SWORDv2 module update, which provides the following improvements: 
  • 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

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

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

Language switch for xmlui and some basic i18n stuff

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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.

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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.

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

 
The following list contains all features that are included in the DSpace 4.0 release, but need to be enabled manually.
Review the documentation for these features carefully, especially if you are upgrading from an older version of DSpace.

DOI Support

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

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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

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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)

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

Improvements to LDAP Authentication

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

Media filter generates better-looking thumbnails

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

Curation Task for Consuming Web Services

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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 contribution of Adán 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

A full list of all changes / bug fixes in 4.x is available in the History section.

The following individuals have contributed directly to this release of DSpace: 

  • Aaron Zeckoski
  • Alan Orth
  • Alexey Maslov
  • Àlex Magaz Graça
  • Andrea Bollini
  • Andrea Schweer
  • Andrew Waterman
  • Anja Le Blanc
  • Bram Luyten (@mire)
  • Brian Freels-Stendel
  • Cedric Devaux
  • Claudia Jürgen
  • Clint Bellanger
  • Denis Fdz
  • DSpace @ Lyncode
  • Elias Tzoc
  • Fabio Bolognesi
  • Hardy Pottinger
  • Hélder Silva
  • Hilton Gibson
  • Ian Boston
  • Ivan Masár
  • james bardin
  • Jason Sherman
  • João Melo
  • Jonathan Blood
  • Juan Corrales Correyero
  • Keiji Suzuki
  • Kevin Van de Velde
  • Kostas Maistrelis
  • Kostas Stamatis
  • LifeH2O
  • Luigi Andrea Pascarelli
  • Marco Fabiani
  • Marco Weiss
  • Mark Diggory
  • Mark H. Wood
  • Michael White
  • Moises A.
  • Moises Alvarez
  • Onivaldo Rosa Junior
  • Pascal-Nicolas Becker
  • Peter Dietz
  • Rania Stathopoulou
  • Raul Ruiz
  • Richard Jones
  • Richard Rodgers
  • Robert Ruiz
  • Robin Taylor
  • Roeland Dillen
  • Samuel Ottenhoff
  • Sara Amato
  • Sean Carte
  • Stuart Lewis
  • Terry Brady
  • Thomas Autry
  • Thomas Misilo
  • Tim Donohue
  • Toni Prieto
  • usha sharma

and others who reviewed and commented on their work.  Many of these 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 Mark H. Wood, Hardy Pottinger and Andrea Bollini.

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

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