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Welcome to Release 6.0, a major feature release for the DSpace platform. Any previous version of DSpace may be upgraded to DSpace 6 directly. For more information, 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.
The following individuals have contributed directly to this release of DSpace: Tim Donohue, Mark H. Wood, Pascal-Nicolas Becker, Kevin Van de Velde, Ivan Masár, Hardy Pottinger, Terry Brady, Andrea Schweer, Philip Vissenaekens, Peter Dietz, Jonas Van Goolen, Tom Desair, Dylan MEEUS, Luigi Andrea Pascarelli, William Welling, Christian Scheible, Andrea Bollini, Aleksander Kotyński-Buryła, Ondřej Košarko, Jozef Mišutka, Chris Wilper, Ilja Sidoroff, Roeland Dillen, Bram Luyten, Marsa Haoua, Claudia Jürgen, Kim Shepherd, Art Lowel, Ivo Prajer, Petr Karel, Mini Pillai, Facundo Gabriel Adorno, Luiz Claudio Santos, Robin Taylor, Tim Van den Langenbergh, Arnaud de Bossoreille, Bill Tantzen, Tiago Guimarães, Oriol Olivé Comadira, Àlex Magaz Graça, Anne Lawrence, Brad Dewar, Bruno Nocera Zanette, David Baker, Ed Goulet, Mateusz Neumann, Monika Mevenkamp, Pablo Buenaposada, Patricio Marrone, Petya Kohts, Eike Kleiner, Antoine Snyers, Bjorn Jaspers, Chris Herron, Dan Scott, David Cook, Davor Cubranic, José Carvalho, Jozsef Marton, Juan Manuel Catá, Panagiotis Koutsourakis, Pantelis Karamolegkos, Pedro Príncipe, Philippe Gray, Rodrigo Prado de Jesus, RomanticCat, Saiful Amin, junwei1229, Keith Gilbertson, Nicolas Schwab, Pablo Buenaposada, samuel, tmtvl, 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, Yan Han and Valorie Hollister.
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.