DSpace 1.8.0 is a scheduled, "time-based" release. In order to decrease delays in releasing new features and increase transparency, the DSpace Developers have scheduled 1.8.0 in advance and are basing its features on what we are able to complete within that timeframe. Scheduling releases benefits us all as it should decrease the delays in releasing new features, and increase the transparency of the development process. The DSpace Developers feel that these benefits will far outweigh the cost of potentially having fewer major features in a given DSpace release. We hope the DSpace Community will also realize the immediate benefits, which should allow them to receive new features more quickly, rather than potentially waiting years for the next major release of the software. The DSpace Developers hope to continue this trend of "time based" releases with all future releases. |
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DS-982, DS-939 More Curation Tools/Plugins (MIT & Others). Obviously, some could potentially even be release asynchronously, and also formally "bundled" with 1.8.0 |
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DS-968 Configurable Reviewer Workflow (@mire) a project that enhances Reviewer Workflow configurability that is orthogonal to Curation Tooling. |
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DS-602 SWORD Client for DSpace (Robin Taylor) |
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Enables DSpace to push/submit content to other SWORD enabled repositories |
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DS-1005 SWORDv2 Server Module (Richard Jones and Stuart Lewis) |
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DS-528 RSS feeds will support richer features, such as iTunes podcast. |
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Discovery Enhancements
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DS-964 Rewrite of Creative Commons licensing (MIT)
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DS-749 Reordering of bitstreams. |
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DS-638 Enable virus checking during submission. |
It has been decided that DSpace 1.8.0 will be released in Oct 2011. The exact date is still being worked out. What follows is a tentative release timeline - it has changed slightly from its original state, but the final release will still come out sometime in Oct 2011. |
Release Process needs to proceed according to the following Maven release process: Release Procedure