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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):
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.