[Dspace-general] DSpace 1.6 Release Updates

[Tim Donohue]

Hi all,

First off, we'd like to again thank everyone for their participation and 
help during the DSpace Testathon in December.  During the Testathon we 
came across a total of 34 different bugs, found by over 10 different 
testers.  Although this may sound like a lot of bugs, our team of 
volunteer developers have already fixed many of them and are actively 
working to fix the rest in the coming weeks.

We'd also like to specifically recognize and thank those institutions 
and developers who hosted DSpace 1.6 test instances during the Testathon:
* University of Auckland (Stuart Lewis)
* University of Dortmund (Claudia Jürgen)
* University of Toronto (Gabriela Mircea)

As for the status of the 1.6 release, the DSpace Developers have agreed 
upon a tentative roadmap as follows:

(1) Release a 1.6 RC2 (Release Candidate 2) before end of January
(2) Short testing period of 1.6RC2 at end of January and early February.
(3) Release DSpace 1.6.0 in mid-February

Again, these dates are still tentative. But, our goal is to have 1.6.0 
available for download in February!

Thanks again for helping us make DSpace 1.6 better!  Community 
involvement and feedback definitely helps make our new releases more 
fully featured and bug-free.

We hope your new year is joyful!

Tim and the DSpace Developers

-- 
Tim Donohue
Technical Lead for DSpace Project
DuraSpace.org