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Support for DSpace 6 ended on July 1, 2023. See Support for DSpace 5 and 6 is ending in 2023
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Welcome to Release 6.something, a security and bug-fix release for the DSpace 6.x platform. For information on upgrading to DSpace 6, please see Upgrading DSpace.
The following is a list of the new features included for the 6.x platform (not an exhaustive list):
Major Java API refactor, supporting UUIDs and Hibernate. The DSpace Java API has been refactored significantly to make it more modular, and make it easier to achieve future RoadMap modularity goals. For more detailed information, see DSpace Service based api or DS-2701. This feature was contributed by Kevin Van de Velde of @mire, with support/help from the DSpace Committers. Most sites will not notice this major API refactor, as the upgrade is seamless. However, if you've performed major (Java-level) customizations, you may need to refactor your own customizations to use this newly refactored API. Some examples are on the DSpace Service based api page. Enhanced (Reloadable) Configuration System. See Configuration Reference, Enhanced Configuration Scheme and DS-2654. This feature was contributed by Tim Donohue of DuraSpace. Enhanced file (bitstream) storage plugins, including support for Amazon S3 file storage. This feature was contributed by Peter Dietz of Longsight. Configurable site healthcheck (i.e. repository status) reports via email. This feature was contributed by Jozef Misutka of Lindat. XMLUI new features REST API new features Search/Discovery enhancements Other enhancements: Features Removed or Replaced in 6.0 The DSpace Lightweight Networking Interface (LNI), supporting WebDAV / SOAP / RPC API, has been removed from DSpace 6.0 or above. We recommend using REST or SWORD (v1 or v2) as a replacement. However, if you still require it, the old (unmaintained) LNI codebase is still available at https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-lni. This change was contributed by Robin Taylor of University of Edinburgh.DSpace 6.0 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 6.0local.cfg
file. Any configurations (from *.cfg files) can be overridden in DSpace by simply copying them into your local.cfg and changing the value. See Configuration Referencelocal.cfg
file. This means you don't need to restart Tomcat every time you need to change a configuration./registries
endpoint which provides access to the metadata registries via REST. See also DS-2539. This feature was contributed by Terry Brady of Georgetown University./status
endpoint (inherits the version of DSpace API). See DS-2619. This feature was contributed by Ivan Masár.build.properties
configuration file has been replaced by an enhanced local.cfg
configuration file. The new local.cfg
allows you to easily override any configuration (from dspace.cfg
or modules/*.cfg
files) by simply copying it into your local.cfg
and specifying a new value. It also provides enhanced configuration options as detailed in the Configuration Reference documentation. The old build.properties
file is no longer used nor supported.modules/*.cfg
files) had to be renamed or prepended with the name of the module. This means that 5.x (or below) configurations are no longer guaranteed to be compatible with 6.x. If possible, we recommend starting with fresh configs (see below), and moving all your locally customized settings into the new local.cfg
file.disseminate-citation.cfg
to citation-page.cfg
). See this feature's documentation for more details.
A full list of all changes / bug fixes in 6.x is available in the Changes in 6.x section.
TODO: THIS LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS NEEDS UPDATING FOR 6.0!
The following individuals have contributed directly to this release of DSpace: Adan Roman, Àlex Magaz Graça , Andrea Bollini, Andrea Schweer, Antoine Snyers, Art Lowel, Artur Konczak, Bavo Van Geit, Bram Luyten, Christian Scheible, Christian Völker, Christos Rhodosthenous, Claudia Jürgen , CTU Developers, Denis Fdz, Ed Goulet, Eliana de Mattos Pinto Coelho, Elvi S. Nemiz, Emilio Lorenzo, George Simeonov, Graham Triggs , Hardy Pottinger, Ivan Masár, James Halliday, João Melo, Jon Gibson , Jordan Piščanc, Jozef M. , Keiji Suzuki, Kevin Van de Velde, Kostas Stamatis, Luigi Andrea Pascarelli, Marina Muilwijk, Mark Diggory, Mark H. Wood, Mohamed Mohideen Abdul Rasheed, Monika Mevenkamp, Ondřej Košarko, Panagiotis Koutsourakis , Pascal-Nicolas Becker, Pauline Ward, Paulo Graça , Peter Dietz, Petya Kohts, Philip Vissenaekens, Robert Faling, Robin Taylor, Roeland Dillen, Royopa, Sonmez CELIK, Terry Brady, Thanos Kyritsis, Thomas Misilo, Tiago Murakami, Tim Donohue, 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: Augustine Gitonga, Bram Luyten, Bharat Chaudhari, Claire Bundy, Dibyendra Hyoju, Elin Stangeland, Felicity A Dykas, Iryna Kuchma, James Evans, Jim Ottaviani, Kate Dohe, Kathleen Schweitzberger, Leonie Hayes, Lilly Li, Maureen Walsh, Pauline Ward, Roger Weaver, Sarah Molloy, Sarah Potvin, Steve Van Tuyl, Terry Brady, 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:
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.