[Dspace-general] DSpace 1.4.2 beta released

[James Rutherford]

Dear All,

The DSpace community is pleased to announce the release of DSpace 1.4.2
beta (3 days ahead of schedule!).

This beta is primarily a bug fix release incorporating numerous bug
fixes and enhancements. Refer to the CHANGES file within the
distribution for the full list of enhancements, alternatively check
here: http://wiki.dspace.org/CurrentReleaseToDo

The final release of 1.4.2 should be out within a week or so, and work
has already started in earnest on the 1.5 release.

The documentation for this release is bundled within the package.

DSpace 1.4.2 beta can be downloaded from the files area at 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dspace/ or with SVN from
tags/dspace-1_4_2-beta.

Please use the mailing lists 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 take
part 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)
- Provide or update language packs
- 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 Committer Group

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