NOW AVAILABLE: DSpace 7.0 Beta 4
Tim Donohue
Dear DSpace Community,
The DSpace Leadership Group, the DSpace Committers and LYRASIS are proud to announce that DSpace 7.0 Beta 4 is now available for download and testing.
Beta 4 is the fourth scheduled Beta release provided for community feedback and to introduce the new features of the 7.0 platform. As a Beta release, we highly advise against running this version in production. Rather, we ask that you consider installing it in a test environment, try it out, and report back any issues or bugs you notice through GitHub (UI issues, Backend/API issues).
DSpace 7.0 Beta 4 is deployed for public testing on a dedicated demo site and it can be installed manually or via a Docker “quick install”. Instructions are available at: Try out DSpace 7.
Included in Beta 4
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Live Import framework (video) support has been added to the Submission Form (and REST API /api/integration/externalsources endpoint). This includes importing from an external API or drag & drop upload of a bibliographic file.
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Controlled Vocabulary support (video) in Submission Form. Depending on the field configuration, this can include autocomplete of known terms (see default "Subject Keywords" field), dropdown support (see default "Type" field) and hierarchical tree views
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Curation Tasks are now supported via the Admin UI and the Processes UI.
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Import / Export metadata from/to CSV (i.e. Batch Metadata Editing) is now available from the Admin UI.
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Basic Usage Statistics (video) are available for the entire site, or specific Communities, Collections or Items
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Improved GDPR Alignment (video), including
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User Agreement required for all authenticated users to read and agree to.
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Cookie Preferences are now available for all users (anonymous or authenticated), along with a Privacy Statement.
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User Accounts can be deleted even if they've submitted content in the past.
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Language preferences are now kept for all users (anonymous or logged in). By default, DSpace will try to use your browser's preferred language, but you can specify a preferred language just for DSpace.
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IP-based authorization lets you restrict (or provide access to) objects based on the user's IP address.
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Search Engine Optimization: Addition of robots.txt, Sitemaps and Google Scholar "citation" tags. Sitemaps are now enabled by default and automatically update once per day.
Source: DSpace 7 Release Notes
Coming soon
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Beta 5: Our final beta release will include code cleanup, bug fixes, performance improvements and theming enhancements. Coinciding with this release, we will also be hosting a community-wide 7.0 Testathon to look for any remaining bugs.
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7.0 Final Release: The final, production-ready release of 7.0 will be released as soon as all the above Betas have been completed and any outstanding major bugs have been resolved. Roughly estimated at 1-2 months after the last Beta.
More information and the latest changes can be found on DSpace 7 Release Goals.
Thanks to major code contributors!
The following organizations have been major code contributors to DSpace 7.
Atmire
4Science
FCT / RCAAP
We gratefully recognize the following institutions who together have generously contributed financially to support the DSpace 7 staged release program, and individuals who devoted time to fundraising:
Auburn University
Cornell University
Pascal Becker
Dalhousie University
Duke University
ETH Zurich, ETH Library
Fraunhofer Gesellschaft
Imperial College London
Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis
LYRASIS
National Library of Finland
Beate Rajski
Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg - Carl von Ossietzky
Technische Universität Berlin
Technische Universität Hamburg (TUHH)
The DSpace-Konsortium Deutschland
The German Consortium
The Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg
The Library Code GmbH
The Ohio State University
Texas Digital Library
University of Arizona
University of Edinburgh
University of Kansas
University of Minnesota
University of Missouri
University of Toronto
World Bank
ZHAW
