DSpace System Documentation: Version History

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Changes in DSpace 1.3.2

General Improvements

• DSpace UI XHTML/WAI compliant
• Configure metadata fields shown on simple item display
• Supervisor/workspace help documentation

Bug fixes

• Oracle compatibility fixes
• Item exporter now correctly exports metadata in UTF-8
• fixed to handle 'null' values passed in

Changes in DSpace 1.3.1

Bug fixes

• 1252153 - Error on fresh install

Changes in DSpace 1.3

General Improvements

• Initial i18n Support for JSPs - Note: the implementation of this feature required changes to almost all JSP pages
• LDAP authentication support
• Log file analysis and report generation
• Configurable item licence viewing
• Supervision order/collaborative workspace administrative tools
• Basic workspace for submissions in progress, with support for supervision
• SRB storage system option
• Updated handle server system
• Database optimisations
• Latest versions of Xerces, Xalan and OAICAT jars
• Various documentation additions and cleanups

Bug fixes

• 1161459 - ItemExporter fails with Too many open files
• 1167373 - Email date field not populated
• 1193948 - New item submit problem
• 1188132 - NullPointerException when Adding EPerson
• 1188016 - Cannot Edit an Eperson
• 1219701 - Unable to open unfinished submission
• 1206836 - community strengths not reflecting sub-community
• 1238262 - Submit UI nav/progress buttons no longer show progress
• 1238276 - Double quote problem in some fields in submit UI
• 1238277 - format support level not shown in "uploaded file" page
• 1242548 - Uploading non-existing files
• 1244743 - Bad lookup key for special case of DC Title in ItemTag.java
• 1245223 - Subscription Emailer fails
• 1247508 - Error when browsing item with no content/bitstream collections
• Set the content type in the HTTP header
• Fix issue where EPerson edit would not work due to form indexing (partial fix)
• POST handling in HTMLServlet
• Missing ContentType directives added to some JSPs
• Name dependency on Collection Admin and Submitter groups fixed
• Fixed OAI-PMH XML encoding

Changes in DSpace 1.2.2

General Improvements

• Customisable submission forms added
• Configurable number of index terms in Lucene for full-text indexing
• Improved scalability in media filter
• Submit button on collection pages only appears if user has authorisation
• PostgreSQL 8.0 compatibility
• Search scope retention to improve browsing
• Community and collection strengths displayed
• Upgraded OAICat software

Bug fixes

• Fix for Oracle too many cursors problem.
• Fix for UTF-8 encoded searches in advanced search.
• Fix for handling "\" in bitstream names.
• Fix to prevent delete of "unknown" bitstream format
• Fix for ItemImport creating new handles for replaced items

Changes in JSPs

• collection-home.jsp changed
• community-home.jsp changed
• community-list.jsp changed
• home.jsp changed
• dspace-admin/list-formats.jsp changed
• dspace-admin/wizard-questions.jsp changed
• search/results.jsp changed
• submit/cancel.jsp changed
• submit/change-file-description.jsp changed
• submit/choose-file.jsp changed
• submit/complete.jsp changed
• submit/creative-commons.jsp changed
• submit/edit-metadata.jsp new
• submit/get-file-format.jsp changed
• submit/initial-questions.jsp changed
• submit/progressbar.jsp changed
• submit/review.jsp changed
• submit/select-collection.jsp changed
• submit/show-license.jsp changed
• submit/show-uploaded-file.jsp changed
• submit/upload-error.jsp changed
• submit/upload-file-list.jsp changed

Changes in DSpace 1.2.1

General Improvements

• Oracle support added
• Thumbnails in item view can now be switched off/on
• Browse and search thumbnail options
• Improved item importer
  • can now import to multiple collections
  • added --test flag to simulate an import, without actually making any changes
  • added --resume flag to try to resume the import in case the import is aborted
• Configurable fields for the search index
• Script for transferring items between DSpace instances
• Sun library JARs (JavaMail, Java Activation Framework and Servlet) now included in DSpace source code bundle

Bug fixes

• A logo to existing collection can now be added. Fixes SF bug #1065933
• The community logo can now be edited. Fixes SF bug #1035692
• MediaFilterManager doesn't 'touch' every item every time. Fixes SF bug #1015296
• Supported formats help page, set the format support level to "known" as default
• Fixed various database connection pool leaks

Changed JSPs

• collection-home changed
• community-home changed
• display-item changed
• dspace-admin/confirm-delete-collection moved to tools/ and changed
• dspace-admin/confirm-delete-community moved to tools/ and changed
• dspace-admin/edit-collection moved to tools/ and changed
• dspace-admin/edit-community moved to tools/ and changed
• dspace-admin/index changed
• dspace-admin/upload-logo changed
• dspace-admin/wizard-basicinfo changed
• dspace-admin/wizard-default-item changed
• dspace-admin/wizard-permissions changed
• dspace-admin/wizard-questions changed
• help/formats.html removed
• help/formats changed
• index changed
• layout/navbar-admin changed

Changes in DSpace 1.2

General Improvments

• Communities can now contain sub-communities
• Items may be included in more than one collection
• Full text extraction and searching for MS Word, PDF, HTML, text documents
• Thumbnails displayed in item view for items that contain images
• Configurable MediaFilter tool creates both extracted text and thumbnails
• Bitstream IDs are now persistent - generated from item's handle and a sequence number
• Creative Commons licenses can optionally be added to items during web submission process

Administration

• If you are logged in as administrator, you see admin buttons on item, collection, and community pages
• New collection administration wizard
• Can now administer collection's submitters from collection admin tool
• Delegated administration - new 'collection editor' role - edits item metadata, manages submitters list, edits collection metadata, links to items from other collections, and can withdraw items
• Admin UI moved from /admin to /dspace-admin to avoid conflict with Tomcat /admin JSPs
• New EPerson selector popup makes Group editing much easier
• 'News' section is now editable using admin UI (no more mucking with JSPs)

Import/Export/OAI

• New tool that exports DSpace content in AIPs that use METS XML for metadata (incomplete)
• OAI - sets are now collections, identified by Handles ('safe' with /, : converted to _)
• OAI - contributor.author now mapped to oai_dc:creator

Miscellaneous

• Build process streamlined with use of WAR files, symbolic links no longer used, friendlier to later versions of Tomcat
• MIT-specific aspects of UI removed to avoid confusion
• Item metadata now rendered to avoid interpreting as HTML (displays as entered)
• Forms now have no-cache directive to avoid trouble with browser 'back' button
• Bundles now have 'names' for more structure in item's content

Changes in DSpace 1.1.1

Bug fixes

• non-administrators can now submit again
• installations now preserve file creation dates, eliminating confusion with upgrades
• authorization editing pages no longer create null entries in database, and no longer handles them poorly (no longer gives blank page instead of displaying policies.)
• registration page Invalid token error page now displayed when an invalid token is received (as opposed to internal server error.) Fixes SF bug #739999
• eperson admin 'recent submission' links fixed for DSpaces deployed somewhere other than at / (e.g. /dspace).
• help pages Link to help pages now includes servlet context (e.g. '/dspace'). Fixes SF bug #738399.

Improvements

• bin/dspace-info.pl now checks jsp and asset store files for zero-length files
• make-release-package now works with SourceForge CVS
• eperson editor now doesn't display the spurious text 'null'
• item exporter now uses Jakarta's cli command line arg parser (much cleaner)
• item importer improvements:
  • now uses Jakarta's cli command line arg parser (much cleaner)
  • imported items can now be routed through a workflow
  • more validation and error messages before import
  • can now use email addresses and handles instead of just database IDs
  • can import an item to a collection with the workflow suppressed

Changes in DSpace 1.1

• Fixed various OAI-related bugs; DSpace's OAI support should now be correct. Note that harvesting is now based on the new Item 'last modified' date (as opposed to the Dublin Core date.available date.)
• Fixed Handle support--DSpace now responds to naming authority requests correctly.
• Multiple bitstream stores can now be specified; this allows DSpace storage to span several disks, and so there is no longer a hard limit on storage.
• Search improvements:
  • New fielded searching UI
  • Search results are now paged
  • Abstracts are indexed
  • Better use of Lucene API; should stop the number of open file handles getting large
• Submission UI improvements:
  • now insists on a title being specified
  • fixed navigation on file upload page
  • citation & identifier fields for previously published submissions now fixed
• Many Unicode fixes to the database and Web user interface
• Collections can now be deleted
• Bitstream descriptions (if available) displayed on item display page
• Modified a couple of servlets to handle invalid parameters better (i.e. to report a suitable error message instead of an internal server error)
• Item templates now work
• Fixed registration token expiration problem (they no longer expire.)