DSpace 1.5.2 Release

DSpace 1.5.2 can be downloaded from the files area here.  or with SVN from here.
1.5.2 contains numerous bug fixes and feature improvements, including:

- SWORD module/version 1.3.1 supporting the sword standard version 1.3
- Cocoon upgraded to 2.2
- Fix for the UTF-8 issues with the XMLUI
- New authentication methods: Hierarchical LDAP and Shibboleth
- Full update translations: German, Italian for both XMLUI and JSPUI and Ukrainian for JSPUI
- New translations for 1.5.x: Greek and Thai
- Graceful resolver for urn in the item page for the JSPUI

- New hook for statistics plugins

Please refer to Jira the and SVN history for details on these and all the others modifications.

Note that the hook for statistics plugins just provides a consistent API for retrieving usage events. There is additional work being done to utilize this hook for both University of Rochester statistics and for University of Minho statistics. These add-ons are expected to become available sometime after the 1.5.2 release.

Documentation

1.5.2 Documentation HTML or PDF

Acknowledgements

A special thank you to the release manager, Andrea Bollini of CILEA and all thosee who helped to make this release possible with bug reports, patches and involvement in the Testhaton Day.