Dear AtoM and Archivematica community users,
I am writing to give you an update on our release plans for this year for both AtoM and Archivematica. As you may be aware, Artefactual staffed a team of Maintainers earlier this year (Archivematica Maintainers Douglas and Dhwani; AtoM Maintainers Anvit and TJ) and aside from getting to know the code bases, they have put their immediate focus on a plan for updating dependencies and supporting up to date operating systems.
A summary is below, but in a bit more detail: Archivematica will have two releases back to back, in the spring and summer. The first will be to “clear the decks” of a number of previously unreleased enhancements and fixes (see the 1.14 milestone on Github), and bringing PRONOM up to date. The 1.15 release that follows will have upgrades to MySql, Django, and support for Ubuntu 22.04 and Rocky Linux 9.0 (because of licensing changes in Centos, going forward we plan to use Rocky as the alternative to Ubuntu. Rocky, like Centos did previously, is intended to be the FOSS equivalent to Redhat distribution).
In the AtoM project, a 2.7.2 release will be coming soon to address a number of bugs found in the 2.7 release. Fall 2023 and Winter 2024 will see back to back AtoM releases: 2.8 in the fall will be a bug fix release primarily, along with some new API endpoints. Release 2.9 will see some big upgrades: php 8.1, MySql 8.0, an upgrade to Elasticsearch or possibly a swap for another search library (we are being impacted by licensing changes to Elasticsearch as well), and support for Ubuntu 22.04 and Rocky Linux 9.0.
A note for AtoM users regarding Bootstrap 5: as you may already be aware, AtoM 2.7 upgraded Bootstrap to version 5, but still supports version 2.x. In AtoM 2.8, we intend to deprecate Bootstrap 2.x, meaning it will still be in the code but will not be tested. Bootstrap 2.x is slated to be removed by version 2.9 (early 2024). This means if you have a custom AtoM theme, you should plan to update it to use Bootstrap 5 before you upgrade to AtoM 2.9
Archivematica
1.14 release: Spring 2023
PRONOM update to current, better support for non-DC metadata, better handling of metadata on reingest, removal of outdated Python code, various bug fixes
1.15 release: Summer 2023
Upgrade to MySql 8.0, Django 3.2, support for Ubuntu 22.04 and Rocky Linux 9.0
AtoM
2.7.2 release: Spring 2023
Various bug fixes, support on Rocky Linux 8 (already supported on Ubuntu 20.04)
2.8 release: Fall 2023
Bug fixes and API additions; Bootstrap 2.x deprecated (not tested)
2.9 release: Winter 2024
Upgrade to php 8.1, Mysql 8.0, Elasticsearch upgrade or swap tbd, support for Ubuntu 22.04 and Rocky Linux 9.0, removal of Bootstrap 2.x code
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