new Dspace 7.6. email templates result in empty subject when sending emails

[Christiane Baier]

Hi there,

we upgraded our Dspace7.5 Testsystem to Dspace 7.6. 

We have a local.cfg in which the property is set to

dspace.name = DSpace 7 Testinstanz

What I noticed after the upgrade: emails are send with an empty subject.

the emails templates in dspace/config/emails changed with Dspace 7.6 we didn't make any changes yet. 

For example in the feedback template there is now the line

#set($subject = "${config.get('dspace.name')}: Feedback Form Information")

and further in the text
The ${config.get('dspace.name')} Team

The received email has an empty subject but a correct
The DSpace 7 Testinstanz Team

the dspace.name value from the local.cfg is taken. It shows up in the angualr Interface too. But I have no clue, why it generates empty subjects when sending emails.

Anybody else having this problems?

Kind Regards

Christiane

[Keith Gilbertson]

Christiane: 

This is a known bug in DSpace 7.6. It was reported here: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/8921

A fix, and related improvements, have been merged into the codebase to be included with the next release:

https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/8922

We were able to patch our 7.6 dev instance (we're not running DSpace 7 in production just yet) by applying Mark Wood's commit fixing the original issue (https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/8922/commits/a30454ca5a523c532e353a63270bb5a32fbd3e70) to our local code repository, and then rebuilding the server components and redeploying the web app.

-- Keith

[Christiane Baier]

Thank you Keith. 

It helps a lot to know, that it isn't a configuration issue. Saves me a lot of search time.

Kind Regards

Christiane