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Changes in DSpace 1.4.2

General Improvements

  
• Lots of improvements to DSIndexer
  
• Improvements in controlled vocabulary support
  
• Link to admin area in the navigation bar when logged in as an administrator
  
• Refinement of enable suggest feature
  
• Group display on MyDSpace page is now configurable
  
• Lots of work on Oracle support
  
• Fix for SF Bug #1653151 Checker file shows filter-media (just a typo in header)
  
• Specify subdirectory limit in ItemExport
  
• Stat scripts don't always return exit code 1
  
• Improved file size descriptions in ItemTag

Bug fixes

  
• 1638605 bin/cleanup fails on deleted primary bitstreams
  
• 1601946 Makes javascript independent to form position (in group/eperson selection)
  
• 1695692 make-release-package still uses CVS commands
  
• 1490162 dspace-admin, edit item trailing white spaces
  
• 1583372 DCDate.toString returns invalid string
  
• 1076506 Item import command line option for application of template
  
• 1606789 MyDSpace Group Membership Special Groups
  
• 1619439 When collection is deleted, mapped item remains in community
  
• 1217068 Failed to complete review in workflow
  
• 1606449 Improve usability of bitstream list in item display
  
• 1670106 Onebox and textarea fail when visibility set to workflow
  
• 1648070 Statistics does not use navbar="admin"
  
• 1456593 links to controlled vocab docs required
  
• 1653151 Checker file shows filter-media (just a typo in header)
  
• 1506556 Textareas in Oracle (VARCHAR datatype)
  
• 1460754 Problems with Long Java datatype and Oracle
  
• 1445573 Stats not working on Oracle

Changes in DSpace 1.4.1

General Improvements

  
• Error pages now return appropriate HTTP status codes (e.g. 404 not found)
  
• Bad filenames in /bitstream/ URLs now result in 404 error -- prevents infinite URL spaces confusing crawlers and bad "persistent" bitstream IDs circulating
  
• Prevent infinite URL spaces in HTMLServlet
  
• InstallItem no longer sets dc.format.extent, dc.format.mimetype; no longer sets default value for dc.language.iso if one is not present
  
• Empty values in drop-down submit fields are not added as empty metadata values
  
• API methods for searching epeople and groups
  
• Support stats from both 1.3 and 1.4
  
• [dspace]/bin/update-handle-prefix now runs index-all
  
• Remove cases of System.out from code executed in webapp
  
• Change "View Licence" to "View License" in Messages.properties
  
• dspace.cfg comments changed to indicate what default.language actually means
  
• HandleServlet and BitstreamServlet support If-Modified-Since requests
  
• Improved sanity-checking of XSL-based ingest crosswalks
  
• Remove thumbnail filename from alt-text
  
• Include item title in HTML title element
  
• Improvements to help prevent spammers and sploggers
  
• Make cleanup() commit outstanding work every 100 iterations
  
• Better handling where email send failed due to wrong address for new user
  
• Include robots.txt to limit bots navigating author, date and browse by subject pages
  
• Add css styles for print media
  
• RSS made more configurable and provide system-wide RSS feed, also moves text to Messages.properties
  
• Jar file updates (includes required code changes for DSIndexer and DSQuery and new jars fontbox.jar and serializer.jar)
  
• Various documentation additions and cleanups
  
• XHTML compliance improvements
  
• Move w3c valid xhtml boiler image into local repository
  
• Remove uncessary Log4j Configuration in CheckerCommand
  
• Include Windows CLASSPATH in dsrun.bat

Bug fixes

  
• 1604037 - UIUtil.encodeBitstream() now correctly encodes URLs (no longer incorrectly substitutes '+' for spaces in non-query segment
  
• 1592984 - Date comparisons strip time in org.dspace.harvest.Harvest
  
• 1589902 - Duplicate [field] checking error [on input-forms.xml]
  
• 1596952 - Collection Wizard create Template missing schema
  
• 1596978 - View unfinished submissions - collection empty
  
• 1588625 - Incorrect text on item mapper screen
  
• 1597805 - DIDL Crosswalk: wrong resource management
  
• 1605635 - NPE in Utils.java
  
• 1597504 - Search result page shows shortened query string
  
• 1532389 - Item Templates do not work for non-dc fields
  
• 1066771 - Metadata edit form dropping DC qualifier
  
• 1548738 - Multiple Metadata Schema, schema not shown on edit item page
  
• 1589895 - Not possible to add unqualified Metadata Field
  
• 1543853 - Statistics do not work in 1.4
  
• 1541381 - Browse-by-date and browse-by-title not working
  
• 1556947 - NullPointerException when no user selected to del/edit
  
• 1554064 - Fix exception handling for ClassCastException in BitstreamServlet
  
• 1548865 - Browse errors on withdrawn item
  
• 1554056 - Community/collection handle URL with / redirects to homepage
  
• 1571490 - UTF-8 encoded characters in licence
  
• 1571519 - UTF-8 in statistics
  
• 1544807 - Browse-by-Subject/Author paging mechanism broken
  
• 1543966 - "Special" groups inside groups bug
  
• 1480496 - Cannot turn off "ignore authorization" flag!
  
• 1515148 - Community policies not deleting correctly
  
• 1556829 - Docs mention old SiteAuthenticator class
  
• 1606435 - Workflow text out of context
  
• Fix for bitstream authorization timeout
  
• Fix to make sure cleanup() doesn't fail with NullPointerException
  
• Fix for removeBitstream() failing to update primary bitstream
  
• Fix for Advanced Search ignoring conjunctions for arbitrary number of queries
  
• Fix minor bug in Harvest.java for Oracle users
  
• Fix missing title for news editor page
  
• Small Messages.properties modification (change of DSpace copyright text)
  
• fix PDFBox tmp file issue
  
• Fix HttpServletRequest encoding issues
  
• Fix bug in TableRow toString() method where NPE is thrown if tablename not set
  
• Update DIDL license and change coding style to DSpace standard

Changes in DSpace 1.4

General Improvements

 
• Content verification through periodic checksum checking
 
• Support for branded preview image
 
• Add/replace Creative Commons in 'edit item' tool
 
• Customisable item listing columns and browse indices
 
• Script for updating handle prefixes (e.g. for moving from development to production)
 
• Configurable boolean search operator
 
• Controlled vocabulary patch to provide search on classification terms, and addition of terms during submission.
 
• Add 'visibility' element to input-forms.xml
 
• Browse by subject feature
 
• Log4J enhancement to use XML configuration
 
• QueryArgs class can support any number of fields in advanced search.
 
• Community names no longer have to be unique
 
• Enhanced Windows support
 
• Support for multiple (flat) metadata schemas
 
• Suggest an item page
 
• RSS Feeds
 
• Performance enhancements
 
• Stackable authentication methods
 
• Plug-in manager
 
• Pluggable SIP/DIP support and metadata crosswalks
 
• Nested groups of e-people
 
• Expose METS and MPEG-21 DIDL DIPs via OAI-PMH
 
• Configurable Lucene search analyzer (e.g. for Chinese metadata)
 
• Support for SMTP servers requiring authentication

Bug fixes

 
• 1358197 - Edit Item, empty DC fields not removable
 
• 1363633 - Submission step 1 fails when there are no collections
 
• 1255264 - Resource policy eperson value was set to wrong column
 
• 1380494 - Error deleting an item with multiple metadata schema support
 
• 1443649 - Cannot configure unqualified elements for advanced search index
 
• 1333687 - Browse-(title|date) fails on withdrawn item
 
• 1066713 - Two (sub)communities cannot have one name
 
• 1284055 - Two Communities of same name throws error
 
• 1035366 - Bitstream size column should be bigint
 
• 1352257 - Selecting a Group for GroupToGroup while Creating Collection
 
• 1352226 - Navigation and Sorting in Group List (Select Groups) fails
 
• 1348276 - Null in collection name causes OAI ListSets to fail
 
• 1160898 - dspaceˍmigrate removes Date.Issued from prev published items
 
• 1261191 - Malformed METS metadata exported

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 ˍ)
 
• OAI - contributor.author now mapped to oaiˍdc: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.)