DSpace 1.6.0 has seen the following bug-fix releases. If you are using 1.6.0, we recommend upgrading minimally to the latest version of 1.6.x:

• DSpace Release 1.6.1 Notes
• DSpace Release 1.6.2 Notes

• [DS-289] OAI-PMH + OAI-ORE harvesting support

• [DS-118] File preview link during submission leads to page not found
• [DS-121] XMLUI Feedback form breaks with multiple hostnames
• [DS-156] File description not available in XMLUI
• [DS-198] File descriptions can not be removed/cleared in XMLUI
• [DS-240] Item validityKey not complete
• [DS-251] Bulk Metadata Editing: XMLUI aspect and forms
• [DS-363] JSPUI statistics views
• [DS-406] View Statistics button does not work in item page
• [DS-409] JSPUI stats display ignores 'statistics.item.authorization.admin'
• [DS-414] File downloads listed in collections and communities statistics
• [DS-438] JSPUI stats - filenames incorrect
• [DS-418] I18n broken in JSPUI
• [DS-474] handle.canonical.prefix undocumented

• [DS-114] Links not working due to trailing white space in dspace.url
• [DS-188] Misspell exclude.type=indentifier in dstat.cfg
• [DS-197] Deleting a primary bitstream does not clear the primary_bitstream_id on the bundle table
• [DS-222] Email alerts due to internal errors are not sent, if context is missing
• [DS-231] Missig file (just some obsolete use of index-all in the current documentation, corrected the docs)
• [DS-248] Missing admin column in community table in database-schema.sql and update - community admin patch
• Item Importer - documented the use of non-dc metadata during item import
• [DS-269] Oracle JDBC connection string wrong in dspace.cfg - ID: 2722093
• Removed superfluous statistics configuration parameters from dspace.cfg

• [DS-337] A bug related with adding new -EPersons

• [DS-331] Config property mismatch between dspace.cfg and DSpaceLocaleAction (XMLUI)

• [DS-425] JSPUI cosmetics - horizontal scroll bar

• [DS-190] Portuguese (pt_PT) translation Messages.properties JSP-UI v1.5.2

• [DS-44] Monthly statistics skip first and last of month - SF ID: 2541435
• [DS-161] Bulk 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-196] METS exposed via OAI-PMH includes description.provenance information
• [DS-200] SWORD module requires the X-Packaging header
• [DS-204] New -zip option for item exporter and importer
• [DS-209] Context.java turnOffAuthorisationSystem() can throw a NPE
• [DS-212] NPE thrown during Harvest of non-items when visibility restriction is enabled
• [DS-213] IPAuthentication extended to allow negative matching
• [DS-216] Migrating items that use additional metadata schemas causes an NPE
• [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-242] Special groups shown for logged in user rather than for user being examined
• [DS-250] Invalid identifiers are not escaped
• [DS-256] Item Export ignores metadata language qualifier
• [DS-279] XMLUI Item Mapper will map the same item more than one time
• [DS-290] [dspace]/exports is not created during fresh install
• [DS-303] Export migrate option incorrectly removes non-handle identifier.uris
• [DS-315] Enhance readability of embedded metadata in html head
• [DS-316] Make SWORD app:accepts configurable
• [DS-318] JSPUI: Left over text in edit item about format
• [DS-319] Replace '/dspace/bin/dsrun org.dspace.browse.ItemCounter' with /dspace/bin/itemcounter
• [DS-321] DSpace command launcher
• [DS-327] SWORD temp upload directory missing trailling slash
• [DS-328] SWORD service documents do not include atom:generator element
• [DS-333] Adjust SWORD ingest crosswalk to store bibliographic citation
• [DS-364] Script to convert legacy dspace.log stats into solr stats records
• [DS-372] New verbose option for [dspace]/bin/dspace cleanup script
• [DS-388] Item importer - new option to enable workflow notification emails
• [DS-389] Misleading label: "Submit to This Collection"
• [DS-424] Export metadata button displayed in JSPUI Administration List of withdrawn items
• [DS-442] Enable RSS feeds by default
• [DS-445] New Bitstream.findAll() method
• [DS-446] New ant step - test_database
• [DS-447] Email test script

• [DS-400] Fix DCDate date formatting for display in JSPUI (thanks also to Stuart Lewis for testing and final adjustment)
• [DS-284] alternate odd and even styles correctly on table rows in Item Summary view
• [DS-393] Fix DCDate and submission timezone bugs that changed date on page reload
• [DS-377] Add META tags identifying DSpace source version
• [DS-373] Fix "Letter" link URLs in 2nd-stage Browse
• [DS-294] Add preferred language setting to Edit Profile page in XMLUI
• [DS-361] Syndication Feeds refactoring, support all RSS/Atom formats for both feed and OpenSearch
• [DS-369] Follow harvest.includerestricted.rss in XMLUI
• [DS-349] Admins can choose Internal BitstreamFormats in XMLUI
• [DS-347] Add --quiet option to filter-media (MediaFilterManager) to disable progress messages
• [DS-297] Move PostgreSQL-specific SQL into etc/postgres for greater clarity
• [DS-338] Disable cache advice (Expires header) on Bitstream download that requires authorization (XMLUI)
• [DS-285] Respond to If-Modified-Since request header in XMLUI, also provide Last-Modified response header for Bitstreams
• [DS-288] Configurable option to hide metadata fields in public UIs and OAI-PMH
• [DS-128] Fix repositioning on submission pages after add button is clicked (XMLUI)
• [DS-255] Protect submission from being lost if exception occurs in CompleteStep
• [DS-254] Fix response for authorization failure on Bitstream when user is logged-in
• [DS-232] Parse personal names correctly if there is no space after the last name
• [DS-191] metadataschemaregistry_seq is not initialized correctly under Oracle
• [DS-193] OAI RDF crosswalk fails when DC value is null
• [DS-249] sub-daily utility script does not pass arguments to Java
• [DS-252] Interpolate variables in the Subject: line of email templates as well
• [DS-262] Bug in DS-118, new patch included
• [DS-274] Typo in XSL breaks rendering of dri:xref with class
• [DS-275] License files not listed on Item Summary page
• [DS-276] Patch to fix spelling error in Exception page
• [DS-280] build.xml fails for ant versions below 1.7

• [DS-236] Authority control for metadata fields and Choice Authority plugin framework

• [DS-201] handle.jar upgraded to version 6.2

• [DS-335] DatabaseManager additions from Minho statistics addon.
• [DS-247] Contribution of @MIRE Solr Based Statistics Engine to DSpace.
• [DS-336] DSpace 2.0 Services Support / including fix for System.out lines.
• [DS-241] DSpace Assembly Improvement

• [DS-206] Input form visibility restriction doesn't work properly
• [DS-199] SWORD module doesn't accept X-No-Op header (dry run)
• [DS-223] Submission process show previous button in JSPUI also if the step is the first "visible" step
• [DS-227] Values with double apos doesn't work in dropdown and list input type
• [DS-259] Community/collection admin should not to be able to delete their admin group
• [DS-261] Community Admin JSPUI: porting of the DS-228 patch
• [DS-271] Make the OAI DC crosswalk configurable
• [DS-260] Template item some times has owningCollection filled and some times not
• [DS-309] Shiboleth default roles are applied also to anonymous user and user logged-in with other methods
• [DS-270] Make delegate admin permissions configurable
• [DS-436] SWORD Authenticator doesn't support the special groups infrastructure
• [DS-415] Create groups via admin UI authorization denied
• [DS-217] Hardcoded String in the license bitstream

• [DS-218] Cannot add/remove email subscriptions from Profile page in XMLUI
• [DS-238] Move item function in xmlui
• [DS-281] Invalid Link to "Go to DSpace Home" on Page Not Found (XMLUI)
• [DS-378] XMLUI Submission Interface messes up in IE7 after an empty <hint> in input_forms.xml
• [DS-382] Proposal: Add 'dc.creator' to Author browse index by default
• [DS-385] Packager script is unable to import the same METS + DIM package that was exported
• [DS-386] Allow user to specify which <dmdSec> is used by the METS Ingester when importing METS from Packager script
• [DS-398] Submission license displayed on collection and item homepage (XMLUI)
• [DS-399] Special characters in collection license lead to parse error (XMLUI)

• [DS-423] Ant target 'clean_database' doesn't drop all tables.

• [DS-228] Community Admin XMLUI: Delegated Admins Patch

• [DS-483] statistics.item.authorization.admin ignored by xmlui
• [DS-365] support for OAI gateways that do not use sets in harvester
• [DS-392] Error messages in the submission do not disappear if e.g. one of the two errors are solved
• [DS-381] community and collection homepage
• [DS-310] UTF-8 encoding in community and collection text
• [DS-307] Offer access in AbstractSearch to QueryResults for subclasses
• [DS-306] Option to disable mailserver
• [DS-226] confirmation page of edit profile has an invalid link
• [DS-247] Update of contribution of @MIRE Solr Based Statistics Engine to DSpace.

• [DS-225] dc.description.provenance - public display

• [DS-205] Creative Commons - option to set legal jurisdiction

• [DS-258] Item View Thumbnails not displaying in XMLUI

• [DS-291] README update for top level of dspace 1.6.0 package directory

• [DS-299] Allow long values to be specified for the max upload request (> 2GB uploads)
• [DS-344] Fix problem where apostrophe in email address would stop EPerson being selected
• [DS-359] Add alternate file appender for log4j

• [DS-52] Factor out common webapp installation - ID: 2042160
• [DS-455] Remove dspace/config/log4j.xml

• [DS-330] Create new session on login / invalidate sessions on logout

• [DS-324] Add OpenSearch support

• [DS-356] Antispam for suggest item feature
• [DS-289 Oracle Patch] OAI-PMH + OAI-ORE harvesting support

• [DS-246] Fix configurable browse parameter encoding (XMLUI)
• [DS-320] java.util.NoSuchElementException: Timeout waiting for idle object
• [DS-353] Missing commits in XMLUI server-side javascript code.

• [DS-468] Fixed "foreign characters broken in group names (XMLUI)"

• [DS-370] E Mail Sent On Item Export Error Message

• [DS-375] Dspace 1.5.2 Russian translation

• [DS-295] CC License being assigned incorrect Mime Type during submission.

• [DS-460] Change logging from RollingFileAppender to DailyFileAppender