[Dspace-general] Announcement: DSpace version 1.2 released

[Tansley, Robert]

The DSpace team are delighted to announce the availability of DSpace version 1.2 for download.  As well as the usual plethora of bug fixes, this version introduces many enhancements since the previous stable release, including:

 - Communities can now contain sub-communities 
 - Items may be included in more than one collection 
 - Support for selecting Creative Commons license during submission
 - Full text extraction and searching for MS Word, PDF, HTML, text documents
 - Automated generation and display of image thumbnails
 - Much-improved administrative user interface
 - Some delegation of administration tasks possible
 - Improvements in OAI-PMH support
 - METS export tool
 - Simplified install process

The new version may be downloaded from:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dspace/

This release also marks the transition of DSpace from a largely centralised effort at HP Labs and MIT to a much wider open source effort, giving those who have worked with DSpace the opportunity to contribute back into the code base for the benefit of all.  DSpace has an expanding group of 'committers' from a variety of organisations and geographies, responsible for maintaining the code base.  This team needs the participation of the DSpace community for bug fixes, enhancements and other contributions that will drive the evolution of the DSpace platform.  So please, get involved!