Releases: 4Science/DSpace
DSpace-CRIS 7 release 2023.02.00
This version, released on the 30th November 2023, provides alignment with DSpace 7.6.1 tag.
Upgrade instruction
The SOLR cores configuration MUST be updated with the last updates of this release.
A full SOLR reindex is reccomended, the search core could contains data that are inconsistent with the updated schema.xml version. You can rebuild the index via the dspace index-discovery script.
This could be a new script to be put in crontab
Key Enhancements
- Alignment with DSpace 7.6.1 tag. See DSpace 7.6 release notes and DSpace 7.6.1 release notes for further information.
- Improved ORCID login flow. Now it is possible to complete the login process even when the ORCID account’s email is private.
- Improved ORCID integration with versioned entities. Now only the last versioned item is synchronized with ORCID.
- Improved ROR integration. ROR is now exposed to datacite, it is possible to import orgunit from ROR and use the additional information like ROR id and type of orgunit to facilitate the selection of the correct orgunit.
- Now the CRIS layout tool support multiple layout for the same entity accordingly to definable custom filters.
Major improvements areas / bug fixes
- Improved application performance during SSR. Now requests for pages which contain search results are fetched on CSR only.
- Changed route behavior for CRIS item pages. First tab defined by the CRIS layout is no longer used in the item’s URL. To maintain backward compatibility redirect to the main page is done automatically.
- Improved managing of metadata security toggle for nested metadata.
- Improved stability of hide and sort functionality.
- Bulk export is accessible by the admin sidebar.
- Improved sitemap generation to exclude restricted content and duplicate links for item.
- Improved performance of filter-media script
DSpace-CRIS 7 release 2023.01.01
Version released on 4th of October, provides minor changes and bug fixing
Key Enhancements
- Improved UI responsivity
- Dynamic Edit Mode evaluation based on custom filters
- Advanced attachments layout improvements
- Improved metric donuts layout in search
- Improved categories in statistics section
Major improvements areas / bug fixes
- Fixed search tools in mobile view
- Scopus Improvements in import & NPE prevention
- Improved Usability of small buttons in MyDspace page
- Fixed request correction feature not removing bitstreams
- Enabled the use of legacy OAI identifiers
- Fixed Live import missing mapping features for fields
- Fixed Sherpa Romeo policies changes not reflected
- Datacite schema version update (v. 4)
- Fixed APA generation with citeproc
- Fixed End User Agreement showing twice
DSpace-CRIS 7 release 2022.03.02
This is an updated version of the DSpace-CRIS 7 2022.03.01 release which includes a security update fixing a security bug affecting the permissions check of users belonging to special groups
cris-2022.03.01 that experienced this problem to upgrade backend to cris-2022.03.02 . Angular upgrade is not required.
Download links for the Backend are available below (see Assets). You may alternatively choose to checkout the code via GitHub, using the dspace-cris-2022.03.02 tag.
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DSpace-CRIS 7 release 2023.01.00
Version released on 9th of june, provides alignment with DSpace 7.5 tag. See DSpace 7.5 release notes
Upgrade instruction
The SOLR configuration MUST be updated with the last updates of this release.
A full SOLR reindex is required, the search core could contains data that are inconsistent with the updated schema.xml version. You can drop the /data folder inside the search core (DON’T touch the other cores!) and rebuild the index via the dspace index-discovery script.
This could be a new script to be put in crontab
Key Enhancements
- Alignment with DSpace 7.5 tag. See DSpace 7.5 release notes.
- Replaced AddThis as social plugin manager with AddToAny
- Export of the current cris layout configuration as a reusable xls
- Ability to configure the explore sections under hierarchical menu
Major improvements areas / bug fixes
- Fixed a bug affecting special groups membership evaluation during CRIS security checks
- Added a new LimitedMetadataContributor to Live Import Framework, to limit number of metadata of the same type to be imported
- Improved Line chart visualization in statistics page reflecting the selected time interval
- AuthorityImportFiller for fundings gathering data from OpenAIRE added, Fundings related to other DSpace-CRIS Objects can be created with those gathered data
- Restored subject in sent email
- Hidden Relationships tab in Edit item page
- CMS metadata admin section improved
- Submission: dropdown values associated to blank metadata value are not stored
- Migration: fixed missing relationship values
DSpace-CRIS 7 release 2022.03.01
This version, released on the 21st April 2023, provides alignment with DSpace 7.4 tag. See DSpace 7.4 release notes.
Key Enhancements
- Support for the viewer framework: to allow developer to plug viewer specialized in rendering of specific file types
- Configurable item brief view
- Increased flexibility for the Edit item configuration: support for multiple security policies, link the edit modes to the original submission form name to differenciate edit inside the same entity (i.e. edit options for a publication, a thesis, etc could be different)
- Scopus live import update
- Use the Sherpa Romeo database as an authority for journal relationship
- Automatic guessing of linked entities during import
- Advanced Attachment: cleaner visualization of the bitstreams, possibility to configure which bitstream's metadata are shown in the item page
Major improvements areas / bug fixes
- General improvements on Angular side
- Google Scholar cannot index PDF
- Fixed migration steps from DSpace CRIS 5
- Fixed errors in metadata extraction step
- LDAP Authentication box not displayed when Password Authentication is disabled
DSpace-CRIS 7 release 2022.03.00
This version, released on the 30th Dec 2022, provides alignment with DSpace 7.4 tag. See DSpace 7.4 release notes.
Key Enhancements
- Shared workspace feature: all coauthors can work on the same workspace item
- Enhanced advanced attachment item rendering, with possibility of completely hide a bitstream from item details page
- Scopus and Wos import scripts can be limited to a configurable amount of items
- Configurable crisref icons
Major improvements areas / bug fixes
- Hide/sort (management of related entities) feature
- Researcher profile creation
- Item presentation: date rendering and multi language metadata support
- Item enhancers feature
- Login redirect in case anonymous user is not authorized to see a DSpace Object
- Admin sidebar options
NB:
There are important changes on assetstore configuration to be applied in order to properly have assetstore working:
- The
assetstore.storename.{index}is no more used - configure
assetstore.index.primarywith index1 - Update the store number in the
bitstreamtable on database
DSpace-CRIS 7 release 2022.02.00
This version, released on the 30th Sept 2022, provides alignment with DSpace 7.3 tag. See DSpace 7.3 release notes
Key Enhancements
- ORCID Authentication and synchronization. Alignment and adaptions with porting to and updates done for DSpace 7.3. See ORCID Integration
- DSpace Researcher Profile. Alignment and adaptions with porting to and updates done for DSpace 7.3. See Researcher Profiles
- Import content directly from 9 new external services including CrossRef, Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed Europe, CiNii, NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS), VuFind.org, SciELO.org, and the European Patent Office (EPO). Alignment and adaptions with porting to and updates done for DSpace 7.3. See Importing Items via basic bibliographic formats (Endnote, BibTex, RIS, CSV, etc) and online services (arXiv, PubMed, CrossRef, CiNii, etc)
Major improved areas/bug fixes
Several bug fixes and improvements have been introduced in the area of:
- item layout and configurations
- fixed entity type set during item creation
- fixed attachment rendering pagination
- optimized statistics loading and scopus import script
DSpace-CRIS 7 release 2022.01.02
This version, released on the 30th Aug 2022, is based on DSpace 7.2.1 tag. This version provide new features, improvements and fixes for several bugs.
Key Enhancements
- Machine Token: it is now possible to generate a long lived JWT token that is independent from the session login, so that it can be used in external system to query the DSpace API without giving away your credentials. The new feature is accessible from the profile (user account) page. The machine token can be revoked by the user.
- Multi-language support: visualization of metadata values according to the UI language with fallback to the default language and available values in other languages. Multi-language support is also available in the search and browse for metadata coming from vocabularies and value pairs (dropdown)
- Manage bitstreams via the XLS BulkImport: support to edit bitstream metadata, attach, delete new files pointing to local folder configured in the server or remote location (via public ftp,sftp,http,https)
- New fresh rendering for attachments that allow a more clean visualization of the bitstream metadata
Major improved areas/bug fixes
Several bug fixes and improvements have been introduced in the area of
- submission: type-bind, controlled-vocabularies, lookup, support for different upload panel in different collections
- edit submission mode: change bitstream policies, configure a single mode for the access and upload step to make the UI simpler
- statistics: improvement to the navigation among the pages
and much more, please refers to the commit history for details.
Based on DSpace tag 7.2.1 (backend) and 7.2 - .1 not released for angular (front-end)
DSpace-CRIS 7 release 2022.01.01
This version, released on the 6th Apr 2022, is aligned with DSpace 7.2.1 tag, which includes a security update for CVE-2022-22965 (Spring4Shell critical vulnerability). This version carries updates in metrics presentation and graphical facets. Several bugs have been resolved.
Key Enhancements
- Security update to mitigate CVE-2022-22965 (Spring4Shell critical vulnerability).
- Improved metrics visualization
- Added new features (legend, x and y switch) to graphical facets
Architecture
- Aligned with DSpace 7.2.1 tag
Data presentation
- Metrics default visualization improved
- Number of items in TopComponents can be customized
- Added possibility to have legends for graphs x and y axis
- Added possibility to have a graph with x and y axis switched
- Context menu is not displayed when no menu entries are available for the current user
Data security
- CVE-2022-22965 (Spring4Shell critical vulnerability) mitigation
Other
- Added type field to administrator bitstream edit page
- Fixed several bugs.
Based on DSpace commits f863866 (backend) and e4f483c (front-end)
DSpace-CRIS 7 release 2021.03.01
This is an updated version of the DSpace-CRIS 7 2021.03.00 release which includes a security update for CVE-2022-22965 (Spring4Shell critical vulnerability). It is fully compatible with the DSpace-CRIS 7 Frontend cris-2021.03.00.
cris-2021.03.00 upgrade your backend to cris-2021.03.01 (or later) to resolve CVE-2022-22965.
Download links for the Backend are available below (see Assets). You may alternatively choose to checkout the code via GitHub, using the dspace-cris-2021.03.01 tag.
Release notes of cris-2021.03.00 tag: Release Notes
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