[Dspace-general] DSpace version 1.2.1 released

[Tansley, Robert]

The DSpace committers are pleased to announce the availability of
DSpace version 1.2.1.  This stable release introduces several new
Features developed by members of the DSpace community:

- Oracle support added
- Thumbnails in item view can now be switched off/on
- Browse and search thumbnail options
- Improved item importer
- Configurable fields for the search index
- Script for transferring items between DSpace instances
- Numerous bug fixes

This version of DSpace and associated documentation can be downloaded
from the usual SourceForge location:

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

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/DspaceDeveloping

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

We look forward to hearing from you!

The DSpace Committers