ArchivesSpace v4.2.0 now available
Christine Di Bella
Hello ArchivesSpace members,
ArchivesSpace is announcing the availability of v4.2.0. You can download it from our releases page. Both our standard distribution and Docker distribution are available for this release.
This release contains bug fixes plus some small feature improvements. Bug fixes include correcting an issue with the download of the PDF on the public interface on mobile devices and correcting an issue that prevented setting a user as inactive in the staff interface from some of the views. Small feature improvements include the addition of a configuration to set which fields are included when the Duplicate Resource functionality in the staff interface is used and a new option to exclude URIs from PDFs downloaded from the staff interface. There are also a number of small fixes to improve accessibility, particularly for the public interface. We have also released an updated VPAT for this version.
This release marks the first ArchivesSpace release with full Ukrainian translations for the interfaces. There is also work on Polish, Italian, and Dutch translations. Community members have been making excellent progress using Weblate for this work. We always welcome additional contributions to our existing translations as well as translations for new languages. You can find instructions for participating in ArchivesSpace this way on our wiki.
Thanks to the community members who submitted code or translations for this release: Alexander Duryee, Brian Hoffman, DJ Hayes, Jonny Bylsma, Joshua Shaw, Laura L. R. Sinhur, Lydia Tang, Mark Triggs, Michael Glanznig, Regine Heberlein, and René Vlak (as well as Lora Woodford while she was working at the Smithsonian). ArchivesSpace member funds made possible the work of ArchivesSpace team members Thimios Dimopulos, Brian Zelip, Lora Woodford, and Zeff Morgan, who wrote and reviewed most of the code in this release, as well as contractors Harris Papazoglou and Vasilis Chouliaras,.
Support for Solr 9.9 and Java 21 has been added for this release. Please note that, because of upcoming upgrades to our version of jRuby, version 4.2.0 of the application is the last full release that will support Java 11. If using docker, you do not need to worry about these dependencies.
More information about what’s in this release and the downloadable files are in the release notes. Information on upgrading to a new version of ArchivesSpace is available in our technical documentation. As a reminder, members are eligible for technical support – if you ever need help upgrading from one version to another, please feel free to email us at Archives...@lyrasis.org.
Thanks as always for your support. If you have questions or need any assistance, please let us know.
Christine