[Dspace-general] DSpace 1.3 Released

[Scott Yeadon]

Dear All,

The DSpace community is pleased to announce the release of DSpace 1.3. 
This stable release introduces serveral new features developed by 
members of the DSpace community:
- 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*
*- Numerous bug fixes

The documentation for this release is bundled within the package.

DSpace 1.3 can be downloaded from the files area at 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dspace/ or from CVS using the tag 
dspace-1_3.

Please use the mailing lists available at 
http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=19984 to provide feedback on this 
release.

Those wishing to do development work with DSpace are strongly encouraged 
to obtain the source code using CVS. This is very straightforward and a 
guide to doing this is available here:
http://wiki.dspace.org/ContributionGuidelines

We would also like to take this opportunity to invite you all to
participate in the DSpace development process. Extra developer
hands are always welcome, but there are other ways you can help:

- Test the system and report bugs
- Provide documentation (for end users and institutions, as well
as technical)
- Share your deployment experiences
- Donate content and metadata for testing and research
- Share your technical experience and ideas

Please visit the DSpace Wiki to see the various resources and
collaboration tools available to the DSpace community:
http://wiki.dspace.org/DspaceResources

Regards,

The DSpace Committers