Version 7.0

DSpace 7.0 is under active development, and is tentatively scheduled to be released in 2018.

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DSpace 7.0 Features (in Progress)

DSpace 7.0 release will concentrate on two primary features:

A new User Interface based on Angular 2 (to replace XMLUI and JSPUI)
A refactored/enhanced REST API (using modern REST best practices)

This work is actively taking place at: DSpace 7 UI Working Group Please join us! Anyone is welcome to take part in building DSpace 7.

For much more information on the history behind these decisions, see DSpace 7 UI Project Plain Language Summary

Wishlist for DSpace 7.0 (not comprehensive)

The following is an (unordered) list of changes / new features that we'd like to see added to DSpace 7.0. If you have additional features to add, please feel free. We also NEED volunteers to make these features happen, so please do volunteer if you are willing to work on a particular change! Please note that we reserve the right to reschedule/reject any feature that may not align well with the longer term RoadMap.

Feature	Notes / Tickets	Priority
Single Embargo system	We have two ways of managing embargos, when we only need one	Medium
Single built-in Statistical Engine (SOLR Statistics)	Move Elasticsearch Usage Statistics to external "module"?	Low
Enhanced Solr Statistical Reports	For example, the nice work by Andrea Schweer at http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/stats Other suggestions or code contributions welcome!	Medium
Oauth authentication plugin	Dryad (a fork of DSpace) has already implemented this, and reportedly is interested in contributing it to DSpace	High

Pull Requests to review for possible inclusion

https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/milestones/7.0

Code Changes in DSpace 7.0

New Features in 7.0

General Improvements in 7.0

Bug Fixes in 7.0

Organizational Details

Release Coordination

Instead of a single "Release Coordinator", the DSpace 7.0 release will be managed by a "Release Team".

Release Team Leader

TBD

Release Team Members

Tim Donohue

Please volunteer (by emailing Tim Donohue), if you are interested in joining the team!

Timeline and Processing

Your contributions are welcome now! Code and documentation need not be finished, so long as it is working and we can all see what it is for. Time is set aside for fixing, polishing, and integration. We have some general Code Contribution Guidelines available, but you are also welcome to ask questions on the dspace-devel mailing list.

Release Timeline

Please note that the dates below are estimates of when particular activities may occur. As there are many factors involved in a major release, these are subject to change.

Date	Milestone	What it means
TBD	Deadline for feature pull requests	If you wish to contribute features to DSpace 7.0, you must submit a pull request by this date.
TBD	Weekly developers' meeting devoted to review of feature pull requests for 5.0	The entire hour's meeting will be used to discuss proposed features submitted by the deadline.
TBD	Weekly developers' meeting devoted to review of feature pull requests for 5.0	The entire hour's meeting will be used to discuss proposed features submitted by the deadline.
TBD	Feature freeze	DSpace 7.0 is considered feature-complete on this date. Only bugfixes will be pulled between this date and final release.
TBD	Release Candidate 1 tagged	A DSpace 7.0 Release Candidate will be available for wider testing.
TBD	Release Candidate 2 tagged
TBD	Testathon	Intensive public testing of the 7.0 Release Candidate is invited. The Release Team will focus on getting problems resolved.
TBD	Release Candidate 3 tagged	An updated DSpace 7.0 Release Candidate will be available for wider testing.
2018	DSpace 7.0 is publicly released	DSpace 7.0 is released for download and general use.

Release Process needs to proceed according to the following Maven release process: Release Procedure