[Dspace-general] DSpace 1.2.2 released

[Scott Yeadon]

Dear All,

The DSpace community is pleased to announce the release of DSpace 1.2.2. 
This stable release introduces serveral new features developed by 
members of the DSpace community:
- Customisable submission forms added
- Configurable number of index terms in Lucene for full-text indexing
- Improved scalability in media filter
- Submit button on collection pages only appears if user has 
authorisationPostgreSQL 8.0 compatibility
- Search scope retention to improve browsing
- Community and collection strengths displayed
- Upgraded OAICat software
- Numerous bug fixes

The documentation for this release is bundled within the package.

DSpace 1.2.2 can be downloaded from the files area at 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dspace/ or from CVS using the tags 
dspace-1_2_2 and dspace-docs-1_2_2-1 for the source code and 
documentation modules respectively.

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/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

Regards,

The DSpace Committers