Have you upgraded to DSpace 8 or 9 from 7.x? What issues have you experienced?

[Carolyn Sullivan]

Hello all,

We're upgrading!  If you've done this from 7.x, how's your experience been?  Anything weird happen?  Inquiring minds (mostly mine) want to know, please tell all!

Thanks,

Carolyn.

[Andrew K]

Hey Carolyn,

I upgraded from 7 to 8, and recently 8 to 9. 8 is much like 7. But 9 is almost perfect and fast (I also migrated to the new server, so can't compare directly).

In 9 I switched to runnable jar and found that approach a lot more convenient.

Can't remember much trouble installing 9. Probably some misunderstanding with solr cores which was solved pretty fast.

Good luck!

Andrew

понеділок, 3 листопада 2025 р. о 22:46:32 UTC+2 Carolyn Sullivan пише:

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Generally positive and looking forward to 9.x.

The main work I found going from 7.6 to 8.0 was the work to refactor the frontend themes I had. I found it's well documented.

But note the SSR changes in 8.0 - that's much better since it means that the frontend can reach directly to the backend during SSR instead of going to the publicly visible https url.

I also saw 7.6 also fail to render pages client side, and was lucky enough for that to be fixed when I upgrade.

Am currently on 8.2.

-Andrew