Archivematica 1.18.0 and Storage Service 0.24.0 released

[Sarah Mason]

Hello Archivematica community members,

We’re pleased to let you know that Artefactual has released Archivematica version 1.18.0 and Storage Service version 0.24.0. You can find the release notes in GitHub and on the AM wiki. Version 1.18.0 updates ElasticSearch to 8.x and now includes support for Ubuntu 24.04. Other updates and improvements includes:

• New JHOVE validation commands

• JHOVE updated to v1.34.0

• PRONOM updated to v120

For instructions on migrating your Elasticsearch data, refer to the Upgrade Elasticsearch from 6.x to 8.x section of the Upgrade page in the documentation.

Release notes

Installation instructions

We would like to thank the community contributors, translators and members who reported issues and vulnerabilities in this release. If you would like to contribute to Archivematica, please see the contributing guidelines. For any other questions or feedback, please email the Community Team on contri...@artefactual.com.

If you would like to report issues, please visit the Archivematica Issues Repository. Guidance on how to report issues can be found here.