[Dspace-general] DSpace 1.5.1 Stable Release

[Mark Diggory]

Dear DSpace Community,

We are pleased to announce the release of DSpace 1.5.1 stable.

This release is primarily a bug fix release incorporating numerous  
bug fixes and enhancements. Refer to the

http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/DSpace_Release_1.5.1_Notes

and SVN history for details on these modifications.

http://fisheye3.atlassian.com/changelog/~date=2008-09-11T00%3A00%3A00/ 
dspace/branches/dspace-1_5_x

Although this is a tested stable release, there is always the case  
that new issues may be uncovered.  We request that community members  
interested in testing the release please download it and verify that  
they can complete upgrade and fresh installation.

The documentation for this release is bundled within the package.

DSpace 1.5.1 can be downloaded from the files area at

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php? 
group_id=19984&package_id=64285&release_id=625291

or with SVN from

http://dspace.svn.sf.net/svnroot/dspace/tags/dspace-1_5_1/

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 SVN. 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

Sincerely,
Mark Diggory

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Mark R. Diggory - DSpace Developer and Systems Manager
MIT Libraries, Systems and Technology Services
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Home Page: http://purl.org/net/mdiggory/homepage