[Dspace-general] DSpace 1.4 alpha 1 available for testing

[Tansley, Robert]

The DSpace community is pleased to announce DSpace 1.4 alpha 1 is
available for testing.  This is not a stable release.

Please join us for the DSpace 'testathon' to help test this release!
Both non-technical and technical folks can help.

Date: March 21 + 22, 2006

Place: IRC:  chat.freenode.net  channel #dspace

See: http://wiki.dspace.org/TestathonPage


Changes:

General Improvements

    * Content verification through periodic checksum checking
    * Support for branded preview image
    * Add/replace Creative Commons in 'edit item' tool
    * Customisable item listing columns and browse indices
    * Script for updating handle prefixes (e.g. for moving from
development to production)
    * Configurable boolean search operator
    * Controlled vocabulary patch to provide search on classification
terms, and addition of terms during submission.
    * Add 'visibility' element to input-forms.xml
    * Browse by subject feature
    * Log4J enhancement to use XML configuration
    * QueryArgs class can support any number of fields in advanced
search.
    * Community names no longer have to be unique
    * Enhanced Windows support
    * Support for multiple (flat) metadata schemas
    * Suggest an item page
    * RSS Feeds
    * Performance enhancements
    * Stackable authentication methods
    * Plug-in manager
    * Pluggable SIP/DIP support and metadata crosswalks
    * Nested groups of e-people
    * Expose METS and MPEG-21 DIDL DIPs via OAI-PMH
    * Configurable Lucene search analyzer (e.g. for Chinese metadata)
    * Support for SMTP servers requiring authentication

Bug fixes

    * 1358197 - Edit Item, empty DC fields not removable
    * 1363633 - Submission step 1 fails when there are no collections
    * 1255264 - Resource policy eperson value was set to wrong column
    * 1380494 - Error deleting an item with multiple metadata schema
support
    * 1443649 - Cannot configure unqualified elements for advanced
search index
    * 1333687 - Browse-(title|date) fails on withdrawn item
    * 1066713 - Two (sub)communities cannot have one name
    * 1284055 - Two Communities of same name throws error
    * 1035366 - Bitstream size column should be bigint
    * 1352257 - Selecting a Group for GroupToGroup while Creating
Collection
    * 1352226 - Navigation and Sorting in Group List (Select Groups)
fails
    * 1348276 - Null in collection name causes OAI ListSets to fail
    * 1160898 - dspace_migrate removes Date.Issued from prev published
items
    * 1261191 - Malformed METS metadata exported

 Robert TANSLEY / HP Labs / MIT Visiting Researcher
 http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Robert_Tansley/