Releases: 4Science/dspace-angular
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 05th Oct 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)
The Technical Documentation can be found on the REST release
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
his release is identical to the previous DSpace-CRIS 7 release 2021.03.00, so refer to this for release notes.
REST application version dspace-cris-2021.03.01 release notes are available here
DSpace-CRIS 7 2022.01.00 March, 2nd
DSpace-CRIS 7 2022.01.00 March, 2nd (REST | Angular)
This version, released on the 2nd Mar 2022, is aligned with DSpace 7.2 tag. New functionalities have been provided like new renderings, the possibility of setting a custom-url for an Item, new statistics sections. Several minor, not blocking, bugs have been resolved
Key Enhancements
- Added new renderings to matrix layout
- One or more custom-url(s) can be set for DSpace-CRIS 7 entities
- Site, Login, Workflow statistics sections
- COAR resource type vocabularies updated to v. 3.0
Architecture
- Aligned with DSpace 7.2 tag
Data presentation
- Frequent actions available in Item’s page as buttons
- CRIS components top-sections and counter-section can be themed
- New email rendering subtype (link.email)
- Vertical layout as default
- Scopus and researcherid added as subtypes for ‘identifier’ rendering
- Most downloaded items in statistics
- Added unique I18n keys to CRIS layout tabs and boxes names
- IIIF viewer rendering in matrix layout
Data security
- Improved validation to layout configuration tool file when uploaded
Other
- Custom url can be defined for DSpace-CRIS entities
- Bulk Export in 2 steps: 1. selection of Entity 2. Selection of format
- Site, Workflow and Login statistics
- Improved Pentaho migration scripts to migrate bitstream metadata values and statistics
- Pentaho job to migrate statistics from previous DSpace-CRIS 5 to DSpace-CRIS 7
- ORCID link
- Item versioning option available in Item’s context menu
- Fixed recipient(s) can be used to test functionalities sending emails
- Scopus view modes parameter, to be used by this integration, configurable
- COAR Resource Type vocabulary updated to v. 3.0
Based on DSpace commits 122924a (backend) and e4f483c (front-end)
DSpace-CRIS 7 release 2021.03.00
This version, released on the 30th Dec 2021, provides a new way of rendering an Item detail page, possibility of adding custom html fragments in home page, share functionality. Search and browsing performances have been improved, and further checks have been added to improve security and prevent the saving of Items in an invalid state when edited. Details of this release are reported below.
Key Enhancements
- New Item Detail page based on the concept of matrix layout
- Enforced metadata profile in no-administrative edit screens (prevent to save change to item with invalid or missing mandatory metadata)
- Edit of html fragments in the home page
- Share on social networks via addthis
- Several minor bugs fixed
Architecture
- Aligned with DSpace 7 community last improvement, with a preview of several features of 7.2 tag
- Performance improvements in browsing and search listing
Data presentation
- New Item Detail page, with matrix layout
- Hide the bitstream list in the item page when no bitstreams are available
- Provided a standard and semi automatic way to define i18n keys for item layout pages
- Filters and facets can be built using display value for metadata set using lists or controlled vocabularies
- Extended valuepair rendering to metadata defined via a controlled vocabulary
- Layout configuration performed via DSpace-CRIS 7 process or CLI command
Data security
- Items cannot be saved in an invalid state
- Item security evaluation when exporting in csv or xls.
Other
- Invitation to join groups
Based on DSpace commits dbede2b (backend) and 7abdceb (front-end)
DSpace-CRIS 7 release 2021.02.02
This release is identical to the previous DSpace-CRIS 7 release 2021.02.01, so refer to this for release notes.
REST application version dspace-cris-2021.02.02 release notes are available here