Welcome to Release 5.8, a bug-fix release for the DSpace 5.x platform. For information on upgrading to DSpace 5, please see Upgrading DSpace.

5.8 Release Notes 

DSpace 5.8 contains a fix for a bug introduced in DSpace 5.7. As it only provides bug/security fixes, DSpace 5.8 should constitute an easy upgrade from DSpace 5.x for most users. No database changes or additional configuration changes should be necessary when upgrading from DSpace 5.x to 5.8.
 

Major bug fixes include:

• Resolve a performance issue in the ImageMagick Thumbnail Creation process for PDF files (DS-3661)

Other fixes

• Update automated testing resources (DS-3674)
• Set a particular version for CSS processing in Mirage2

5.8 Acknowledgments 

The 5.8 release was led by the DSpace Committers.

The following individuals provided code or bug fixes to the 5.8 release: Terry Brady (terrywbrady), Tim Donohue (tdonohue), Hardy Pottinger (hardyoyo).  Release support provided by Mark Wood (mwood).

5.7 Release Notes 

DSpace 5.7 is a security & bug fix release to resolve several issues located in previous 5.x releases. As it only provides bug/security fixes, DSpace 5.7 should constitute an easy upgrade from DSpace 5.x for most users. No database changes or additional configuration changes should be necessary when upgrading from DSpace 5.x to 5.7.
 

Major bug fixes include:

• Security fixes for both JSPUI and XMLUI:

  • [HIGH SEVERITY] Basic (Traditional) Workflow approval process is vulnerable to unauthorized manipulations.(https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-3647 - requires a JIRA account to access.) 
    • Discovered by Pascal Becker (The Library Code / TU Berlin).
  • [LOW SEVERITY] DSpace shipped with a version of Apache Commons Configuration that was vulnerable to COLLECTIONS-580 (Deserialization Vulnerability). (https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-3520 - requires a JIRA account to access.)
    • Discovered by Alan Orth.
• Security fixes for REST API:
  • [HIGH SEVERITY] A user with submit permissions can bypass workflow approvals by depositing via REST API.(https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-3281 - requires a JIRA account to access.) 
    • Discovered by Emilio Lorenzo.
• XMLUI bug fixes:
  • /handleresolver path was no longer working: DS-3366
  • Fix broken images when running Mirage 2 on Jetty: DS-3289
  • Improve error message when user attempts to update an e-mail address to an existing address: DS-3584
  • Fix error when uploading large files (>2GB) via a web browser: DS-2359
• JSPUI bug fixes
  • READ access rights not being respected on Collection homepage: DS-3441
• Solr Statistics fixes:
  
  • Sharding statistics corrupted some fields and was unstable: DS-3436, DS-3458
• AIP Backup and Restore fixes:
  • Failed AIP imports left files in assetstore: DS-2227

5.7 Acknowledgments 

The 5.7 release was led by the DSpace Committers.

The following individuals provided code or bug fixes to the 5.7 release: Pascal-Nicolas Becker (pnbecker), Andrea Bollini (abollini), Terry Brady (terrywbrady), Samuel Cambien (samuelcambien), Yana De Pauw, Tom Desair (tomdesair), Peter Dietz (peterdietz), Tim Donohue (tdonohue), Claudia Juergen (cjuergen), Bram Luyten (bram-atmire), Ivan Masar (helix84), Alan Orth (alanorth), Andrea Pascarelli (lap82), Kim Shepherd (kshepherd), Mark Wood (mwoodiupui), Jonas Van Goolen (jonas-atmire), Philip Vissenaekens (PhilipVis), and Arvo Consultores y Tecnología. S.L (arvoConsultores)

5.6 Release Notes

DSpace 5.6 is a security & bug fix release to resolve several issues located in previous 5.x releases. As it only provides bug/security fixes, DSpace 5.6 should constitute an easy upgrade from DSpace 5.x for most users. No database changes or additional configuration changes should be necessary when upgrading from DSpace 5.x to 5.6.
 

In addition, this release fixes minor bugs in the 5.x releases. For more information, see the Changes in 5.x page.

5.6 Acknowledgments 

The 5.6 release was led by Andrea Pascarelli (4Science) and the Committers.

The following individuals provided code or bug fixes to the 5.6 release: Andrea Bollini (abollini), Tim Donohue (tdonohue), Claudia Juergen (cjuergen), Bram Luyten (bram-atmire), Ivan Masar (helix84), oooriii, Andrea Pascarelli (lap82), Hardy Pottinger (hardyoyo), Roeland Dillen (rradillen), Andrea Schweer (aschweer), William Tantzen (wilee53), Mark Wood (mwoodiupui), Bruno Nocera Zanette

5.5 Release Notes

DSpace 5.5 is a security & bug fix release to resolve several issues located in previous 5.x releases. As it only provides bug/security fixes, DSpace 5.5 should constitute an easy upgrade from DSpace 5.x for most users. No database changes or additional configuration changes should be necessary when upgrading from DSpace 5.x to 5.5.

Major bug fixes include:

• XMLUI security fixes:
  • [HIGH SEVERITY] The XMLUI "themes/" path is vulnerable to a full directory traversal. (DS-3094 - requires a JIRA account to access.) This means that ANY files on your system which are readable to the Tomcat user account may be publicly accessed via your DSpace website.
    • Reported by Virginia Tech
      
• JSPUI security fixes: 
  • [MEDIUM SEVERITY] The JSPUI "Edit News" feature (accessible to Administrators) can be used to view/edit ANY files which are readable to the Tomcat user account (DS-3063 - requires a JIRA account to access.)
    • Reported by CINECA
      
• REST fixes
  • Fixed the "/handle" endpoint (DS-2936)
  • REST webapp wasn't registering itself on startup (DS-2946)
• OAI fixes
  • Fixed a few incorrect URL encoding issue (DS-3050)
  • Fixed the broken "NOT" filter (DS-2820)
• Configuration Fixes
  
  • Fixed misspelling in dcterms registry (conformsTo) (DS-2998) 
  • Updated our default DataCite configurations to point at the updated DataCite test server (DS-2923)
• Other minor fixes
  • Broken SQL query in Item.findByMetadataFieldAuthority API method (DS-2517)
    
  • Mirage2: Ensured printing the item page from doesn't include bitstream URLs (DS-2893)

In addition, this release fixes minor bugs in the 5.x releases. For more information, see the Changes in 5.x page.

5.5 Acknowledgments 

The 5.5 release was led by Tim Donohue (DuraSpace) and the Committers.

The following individuals provided code or bug fixes to the 5.5 release: Pascal-Nicolas Becker (pnbecker), Andrea Bollini (abollini), Tim Donohue (tdonohue), Claudia Juergen (cjuergen), Bram Luyten (bram-atmire), Ivan Masar (helix84), Dylan Meeus (DylanMeeus), AmberPoo1, Christian Scheible (christian-scheible), Tim Van de Langenbergh (tim-atmire), Mark Wood (mwoodiupui)

5.4 Release Notes

DSpace 5.4 is a bug fix release to resolve several issues found in DSpace 5.x. As it only provides bug fixes, DSpace 5.4 should constitute an easy upgrade from any other DSpace 5.x version for most users. Beginning with DSpace 5.x, we also provide an easier upgrade process from any prior version of DSpace (1.x.x, 3.x or 4.x).

Major bug fixes include:

• JSPUI security fixes: 
  • [MEDIUM SEVERITY] Cross-site scripting (XSS injection) is possible in JSPUI search interface (in Firefox web browser). (DS-2736 - requires a JIRA account to access for two weeks, and then will be public): This vulnerability could allow someone to embed dangerous Javascript code into links to search results. If a user was emailed such a link and clicked it, the javascript would be run in their local browser. This vulnerability has existed since DSpace 3.x 
    • Discovered by Genaro Contreras
      
  • [LOW SEVERITY] Expression language injection (EL Injection) is possible in JSPUI search interface. (DS-2737 - requires a JIRA account to access for two weeks, and then will be public): This vulnerability could allow someone to obtain information from the site/server using JSP syntax. This vulnerability has existed since DSpace 3.x
    • Discovered by Genaro Contreras
      
• Google Scholar fix:
  • Google Scholar metadata did not guarantee proper ordering of authors (DS-2679)
• Search / Browse fixes (for Discovery/Solr):
  
  • Resolved a significant memory leak when searching/browsing (gradual leak) (DS-2869)
  • Resolved a significant memory spike when reindexing (only triggered when running "index-discovery" with no arguments) (DS-2832)
  • Fixes to allow fielded or boolean searches to work once again (DS-2699, DS-2803)
  • Solr logging was broken. It did not properly log to the "[dspace]/log/solr.log" files (DS-2790)
• OAI-PMH fixes:
  • Upgraded the XOAI library to 3.2.10 to resolve several issues
  • OAI did not support harvesting by date (YYYY-MM-DD) without a time (DS-2524, DS-2542) 
  • OAI getRecord was wrongly including all virtual sets (DS-2573)
  • OAI was ignoring the "dspace.oai.url" setting in "oai.cfg" (DS-2744)
• REST API fixes:
  • /handle not reflecting updates (DS-2692)

  • /collections/<id>/items ignores offset parameter (DS-2719)

  • login/logout thread safety (DS-2830)

• Deposit/Submission fixes:

  • Fix issue where if PubMed server is down submission lookup fails (DS-2813)

  • JSPUI: Allow reviewers to upload files (DS-2814)

• Minor fixes to XMLUI Mirage2 theme

In addition, this release fixes a variety of minor bugs in the 5.x releases. For more information, see the Changes in 5.x page.

5.4 Acknowledgments 

The 5.4 release was led by Andrea Schweer (University of Waikato ITS), Tim Donohue and the Committers.

The following individuals provided code or bug fixes to the 5.4 release: Pascal-Nicolas Becker (pnbecker), Arnaud de Bossoreille (arnodb), Brad Dewar (bdewar), Peter Dietz (peterdietz), Tim Donohue (tdonohue), Ondrej Košarko (kosarko), Aleksander Kotynski-Buryla (akotynski), Ivan Masar (helix84), Hardy Pottinger (hardyoyo), Christian Scheible (christian-scheible), Andrea Schweer (aschweer), Bill Tantzen (wilee53), Jonas Van Goolen, Chris Wilper (cwilper), Mark H Wood (mwoodiupui), Jun Won Jung (RomanticCat)

5.3 Release Notes

DSpace 5.3 is a bug fix release to resolve several issues found in DSpace 5.2. As it only provides bug fixes, DSpace 5.3 should constitute an easy upgrade from DSpace 5.0, 5.1 or 5.2 for most users. Beginning with DSpace 5.x, we also provide an easier upgrade process from any prior version of DSpace (1.x.x, 3.x or 4.x).

Major bug fixes include:

• Security fixes:
  • [LOW SEVERITY] Possible to access files attached to "in-progress" submissions via a direct link (DS-2614 - requires a JIRA account to access for two weeks, and then will be public). This vulnerability could allow anyone in the world to download a file attached to an "in-progress" submission if they are provided with a direct link to that file (from either UI). While a direct file link would be very hard to "guess" or stumble upon, this could allow an individual with deposit rights to make available content which has not been approved by local DSpace administrators. This vulnerability has at least existed since 5.0, but may effect versions as old as 3.0.
    • Discovered by Pascal-Nicolas Becker of Technische Universität Berlin
• Search and browse fixes:
  • Solr and Lucene special characters no longer cause search errors (DS-2339, DS-2461, DS-2472)
  • Resolved issues jumping to values when browsing by title or date (DS-2571, DS-2602)
• OAI fixes:
  • Performing a full OAI import now also cleans the OAI cache (DS-2543)
  • Harvested items are now properly imported in OAI (DS-2554)
  • Tombstones (deleted item status) are now properly applied for withdrawn items (DS-2593)
    (note: this requires 'import' to be run, the OAI event consumer will not create tombstones automatically)
  • dc.date.available is now properly exposed when using the mets metadata format (DS-2598)
• Authorization policy fixes:
  • Custom policies for items in workspace or workflow (eg. embargo lifts) are now ignored by AuthorizeManager (DS-2614)
  • NULL Resource Policy types (commonly found when upgrading from DSpace < 3.0) are now handled correctly by AuthorizeManager (DS-2587)
  • Item-level versioning now carries across all custom policies in new item versions (eg. embargos) (DS-2358)
• Other notable fixes:
  • Optimized "Select Collection" query is now disabled by default as a workaround to ensure special group lookups (LDAP, Shibboleth, IP-based) work out-of-the-box (DS-2673)
  • Resolved issue where citation_pdf_url metadata was NULL for items with multiple bitstreams but no primary bitstream (DS-2603)
  • dc.rights metadata is now properly exposed in embedded XHTML head DC (DS-2568)

In addition, this release fixes a variety of minor bugs in the 5.x releases. For more information, see the Changes in 5.x page.

5.3 Acknowledgments 

The 5.3 release was led by Kim Shepherd (University of Auckland Library) and the Committers.

The following individuals provided code or bug fixes to the 5.3 release: Roeland Dillen (rradillen), Tim Donohue (tdonohue), Ondřej Košarko (kosarko), Bram Luyten (bram-atmire), Pascal-Nicolas Becker (pnbecker), Pablo Buenaposada (pablobuenaposada), Nicolas Schwab (nicolasschwab), Andrea Schweer (aschweer), Àlex Magaz Graça (rivaldi8), junwei1229, and Claudia Juergen (cjuergen).

5.2 Release Notes

DSpace 5.2 is a bug fix release to resolve several issues found in DSpace 5.1.  As it only provides bug fixes, DSpace 5.2 should constitute an easy upgrade from DSpace 5.0 or 5.1 for most users. Beginning with DSpace 5.x, we also provide an easier upgrade process from any prior version of DSpace (1.x.x, 3.x or 4.x).

Major bug fixes include:

• Solr statistics upgrade fixes:
  
  • Resolve issues where index data was not being properly upgraded (DS-2486, DS-2487, DS-2489)
  • Failure when "sharding" the Solr statistics index (DS-2212) 
• OAI fixes:
  
  • Handle dates correctly in resumption tokens, so that harvesting captures the full specified range. (DS-2546, DS-2582) 
  • List all authors in METS formatted metadata. (DS-2474)
  • Change the declared OAI deletion mode to "transient", which corresponds to what DSpace actually does. (DS-2491)
  • Restore the ability to create additional Filters for OAI-PMH interface. (DS-2423)
• REST API fixes:
  • Wrong SQL in REST /items/find-by-metadata-field.  (DS-2501)
  • Listing collections would fail when using Oracle DB.  (DS-2508)
  • Correctly apply bitstream policies.  (DS-2511)
• Other notable fixes:
• • "dspace update-handle-prefix" failed when using Oracle DB. (DS-2218)
    
  • Do not index items that are still in a submitter's workspace. (DS-2403)
    
  • Remember the context (community, collection) during browsing. (DS-2482)
    
  • Better handle upload of file with a semicolon in its name. (DS-2513)
    
  • EZID DOI minting properly sets the URI of the identified item. (DS-2518)
    
• • Update of the list of robots recognized by DSpace. (DS-2531)
    

In addition, this release fixes a variety of minor bugs in the 5.x releases. For more information, see the Changes in 5.x page.

5.2 Acknowledgments 

The 5.2 release was led by Hardy Pottinger (University of Missouri Library Systems) and the Committers.

The following individuals provided code or bug fixes to the 5.2 release: Pascal-Nicolas Becker (pnbecker),  CTU Developers (ctu-developers), Roeland Dillen (rradillen), Tim Donohue (tdonohue), Àlex Magaz Graça (rivaldi8), Claudia Juergen (cjuergen), Ondřej Košarko (kosarko), Panagiotis Koutsourakis (kutsurak), Bram Luyten (bram-atmire), Ivan Masar (helix84), minusdavid, Hardy Pottinger (hardyoyo), Christian Scheible (christian-scheible), Andrea Schweer (aschweer), Antoine Snyers (antoine-atmire), Kevin Van de Velde (KevinVdV), Tim Van den Langenbergh (TimothyXL), Chris Wilper (cwilper), Mark Wood (mwoodiupui)

5.1 Release Notes

DSpace 5.1 is a security and bug fix release to resolve several issues located in DSpace 5.0. As it only provides bug fixes, DSpace 5.1 should constitute an easy upgrade from DSpace 5.0 for most users. No database changes or additional configuration changes should be necessary when upgrading from DSpace 5.0 to 5.1.

This release addresses the following security issues discovered in DSpace 5.x and below:

• XMLUI Security Fixes
  

  • [HIGH SEVERITY] XMLUI Directory Traversal Vulnerabilities (DS-2445 - requires a JIRA account to access for two weeks, and then will be public): These vulnerabilities allow someone to potentially access any file on your local filesystem which is readable to the Tomcat user account. This includes files which are unrelated to DSpace or Tomcat, but are readable to all users on the filesystem (e.g. /etc/passwd, /etc/hosts, etc.). This also includes Tomcat configuration files (which may or may not contain passwords). These vulnerabilities have existed since DSpace 1.5.2.

    • Discovered by: Khalil Shreateh, with additional (related) vulnerabilities discovered by the DSpace Committer Team

  • In some configurations of Tomcat, simply removing any "allowLinking=true" settings from your Tomcat's <Context> configuration will limit the directory traversal vulnerability's severity to only allow access to files within the XMLUI web application directory. In addition, the Tomcat documentation details "allowLinking=true" as a possible security concern.  However, you still must upgrade or patch your DSpace in order to completely resolve this vulnerability.
• JSPUI Security Fixes
  • [MEDIUM SEVERITY] JSPUI Directory Traversal Vulnerability (DS-2448 - requires a JIRA account to access for two weeks, and then will be public): This vulnerability allows someone to potentially access any file within the JSPUI web application directory (e.g. WEB-INF/web.xml). This vulnerability is believed to have existed in all prior versions of DSpace.
    • Discovered by Khalil Shreateh
      
  • [LOW SEVERITY] Cross-site scripting (XSS injection) is possible in JSPUI Recent Submissions listings (DS-1702 - requires a JIRA account to access for two weeks, and then will be public): This vulnerability could allow a depositor/submitter to embed dangerous Javascript code into the metadata of a new submission, thus causing that code to be run across other user accounts. However, this vulnerability is only possible by someone with privileges to add content to your DSpace site. This vulnerability has existed since DSpace 1.5.x.
    
    • Discovered by: Jean-Paul Zhao of University of Toronto
      
  • [LOW SEVERITY] Cross-site scripting (XSS injection) is possible in JSPUI Discovery search form (DS-2044 - requires a JIRA account to access for two weeks, and then will be public): This vulnerability could allow someone to embed dangerous Javascript code into links to search results. If a user was emailed such a link and clicked it, the javascript would be run in their local browser. This vulnerability has existed since DSpace 3.x
    • 4.x / 5.x vulnerability discovered by  Gabriela Mircea of McMaster University and Khalil Shreateh
    • 3.x vulnerability discovered by İlyas Orak of Biznet Bilisim A.S.

In addition, this release fixes a variety of minor bugs in the 5.0 release. For more information, see the Changes in 5.x page.

5.1 Acknowledgments 

The 5.1 release was led by Tim Donohue (DuraSpace) and the Committers.

The following individuals provided code or bug fixes to the 5.1 release: CTU Developers (ctu-developers), Tim Donohue (tdonohue), Ondřej Košarko (kosarko), Pascal-Nicolas Becker (pnbecker), Claudia Juergen (cjuergen), Ivan Masar (helix84), Andrea Pascarelli (lap82), Hardy Pottinger (hardyoyo), Christian Scheible (christian-scheible), William Tantzen (wilee53), Mark Wood (mwoodiupui),

5.0 Release Notes

The following is a list of the new features included for the 5.x platform (not an exhaustive list):

A full list of all changes / bug fixes in 5.x is available in the Changes in 5.x section.

Acknowledgments

The following individuals have contributed directly to this release of DSpace: 

DSpace 5.0, 5.1 and 5.2 Acknowledgments

The following individuals provided code or bug fixes to the 5.0 release: 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.

Additional Thanks

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, Sarah Shreeves, 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 5.0 Release Team consisted of:

• Peter Dietz (Longsight)
• Hardy Pottinger (University of Missouri Library Systems)
• Ivan Masár
• Mark H. Wood (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis)
• Robin Taylor (University of Edinburgh)
• Pascal-Nicolas Becker (Technische Universität Berlin)
• Andrea Schweer (Library Consortium of New Zealand)

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.