Changes in DSpace 1.4.1

General Improvements in 1.4.1

Error pages now return appropriate HTTP status codes (e.g. 404 not found)
Bad filenames in /bitstream/ URLs now result in 404 error – prevents infinite URL spaces confusing crawlers and bad "persistent" bitstream IDs circulating
Prevent infinite URL spaces in HTMLServlet
InstallItem no longer sets dc.format.extent, dc.format.mimetype; no longer sets default value for dc.language.iso if one is not present
Empty values in drop-down submit fields are not added as empty metadata values
API methods for searching epeople and groups
Support stats from both 1.3 and 1.4
[dspace]/bin/update-handle-prefix now runs index-all
Remove cases of System.out from code executed in webapp
Change "View Licence" to "View License" in Messages.properties
dspace.cfg comments changed to indicate what default.language actually means
HandleServlet and BitstreamServlet support If-Modified-Since requests
Improved sanity-checking of XSL-based ingest crosswalks
Remove thumbnail filename from alt-text
Include item title in HTML title element
Improvements to help prevent spammers and sploggers
Make cleanup() commit outstanding work every 100 iterations
Better handling where email send failed due to wrong address for new user
Include robots.txt to limit bots navigating author, date and browse by subject pages
Add css styles for print media
RSS made more configurable and provide system-wide RSS feed, also moves text to Messages.properties
Jar file updates (includes required code changes for DSIndexer and DSQuery and new jars fontbox.jar and serializer.jar)
Various documentation additions and cleanups
XHTML compliance improvements
Move w3c valid xhtml boiler image into local repository
Remove uncessary Log4j Configuration in CheckerCommand
Include Windows CLASSPATH in dsrun.bat

Bug fixes in 1.4.1

1604037 - UIUtil.encodeBitstream() now correctly encodes URLs (no longer incorrectly substitutes '+' for spaces in non-query segment
1592984 - Date comparisons strip time in org.dspace.harvest.Harvest
1589902 - Duplicate field checking error on input-forms.xml
1596952 - Collection Wizard create Template missing schema
1596978 - View unfinished submissions - collection empty
1588625 - Incorrect text on item mapper screen
1597805 - DIDL Crosswalk: wrong resource management
1605635 - NPE in Utils.java
1597504 - Search result page shows shortened query string
1532389 - Item Templates do not work for non-dc fields
1066771 - Metadata edit form dropping DC qualifier
1548738 - Multiple Metadata Schema, schema not shown on edit item page
1589895 - Not possible to add unqualified Metadata Field
1543853 - Statistics do not work in 1.4
1541381 - Browse-by-date and browse-by-title not working
1556947 - NullPointerException when no user selected to del/edit
1554064 - Fix exception handling for ClassCastException in BitstreamServlet
1548865 - Browse errors on withdrawn item
1554056 - Community/collection handle URL with / redirects to homepage
1571490 - UTF-8 encoded characters in licence
1571519 - UTF-8 in statistics
1544807 - Browse-by-Subject/Author paging mechanism broken
1543966 - "Special" groups inside groups bug
1480496 - Cannot turn off "ignore authorization" flag!
1515148 - Community policies not deleting correctly
1556829 - Docs mention old SiteAuthenticator class
1606435 - Workflow text out of context
Fix for bitstream authorization timeout
Fix to make sure cleanup() doesn't fail with NullPointerException
Fix for removeBitstream() failing to update primary bitstream
Fix for Advanced Search ignoring conjunctions for arbitrary number of queries
Fix minor bug in Harvest.java for Oracle users
Fix missing title for news editor page
Small Messages.properties modification (change of DSpace copyright text)
fix PDFBox tmp file issue
Fix HttpServletRequest encoding issues
Fix bug in TableRow toString() method where NPE is thrown if tablename not set
Update DIDL license and change coding style to DSpace standard

Changes in DSpace 1.4.0

General Improvements in 1.4.0

Content verification through periodic checksum checking
Support for branded preview image
Add/replace Creative Commons in 'edit item' tool
Customisable item listing columns and browse indices
Script for updating handle prefixes (e.g. for moving from development to production)
Configurable boolean search operator
Controlled vocabulary patch to provide search on classification terms, and addition of terms during submission.
Add 'visibility' element to input-forms.xml
Browse by subject feature
Log4J enhancement to use XML configuration
QueryArgs class can support any number of fields in advanced search.
Community names no longer have to be unique
Enhanced Windows support
Support for multiple (flat) metadata schemas
Suggest an item page
RSS Feeds
Performance enhancements
Stackable authentication methods
Plug-in manager
Pluggable SIP/DIP support and metadata crosswalks
Nested groups of e-people
Expose METS and MPEG-21 DIDL DIPs via OAI-PMH
Configurable Lucene search analyzer (e.g. for Chinese metadata)
Support for SMTP servers requiring authentication

Bug fixes in 1.4.0

1358197 - Edit Item, empty DC fields not removable
1363633 - Submission step 1 fails when there are no collections
1255264 - Resource policy eperson value was set to wrong column
1380494 - Error deleting an item with multiple metadata schema support
1443649 - Cannot configure unqualified elements for advanced search index
1333687 - Browse-(title|date) fails on withdrawn item
1066713 - Two (sub)communities cannot have one name
1284055 - Two Communities of same name throws error
1035366 - Bitstream size column should be bigint
1352257 - Selecting a Group for GroupToGroup while Creating Collection
1352226 - Navigation and Sorting in Group List (Select Groups) fails
1348276 - Null in collection name causes OAI ListSets to fail
1160898 - dspace_migrate removes Date.Issued from prev published items
1261191 - Malformed METS metadata exported