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Support for DSpace 5 ended on January 1, 2023. See Support for DSpace 5 and 6 is ending in 2023
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Welcome to Release 5.0. DSpace 5 is the latest major release offering many new features, bug fixes and improvements. For information on upgrading to DSpace 5, please see Upgrading DSpace.
The following is a list of the new features included for the 5.x platform (not an exhaustive list):
Easier Upgrading to 5.x from ANY previous DSpace version (1.x.x, 3.x or 4.x). Perform Batch Imports from the User Interface (in both XMLUI and JSPUI) XMLUI new features JSPUI new features REST API new features RDF Interface to support Linked (Open) Data (NEW) OAI-PMH interface enhancements / bug fixes See DS-1649 by João Melo Enhanced Thumbnail Quality (disabled by default) See DS-2105 by Terry Brady with the support of Georgetown University Bug fixes / improvements to Biblio-Transformation-Engine (BTE) Kindly contributed by the Greek National Documentation Centre/EKT Enhancements to DOI Support (disabled by default) Apache Solr libraries were upgraded for all interfaces (JSPUI, XMLUI, and OAI) Add a place for third-party JARs / plugins to be "found" by DSpace (disabled by default) See DS-2107 by Mark H. Wood with the support of IUPUI University Library All objects now have metadata support See DS-1582 by Mark H. Wood with the support of IUPUI University Library and Kevin Van de Velde with the support of @mireDSpace 5.0 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 5.0
A full list of all changes / bug fixes in 5.x is available in the Changes in 5.x section.
The following individuals have contributed directly to this release of DSpace: TBA, 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 TBA.
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.