Dear DSpace Community, We are pleased to announce the release of DSpace 7.6.2! This release provides bug fixes and performance improvements to the 7.6.x platform. No new features are provided. As such, this release should be an easier upgrade for sites already running 7.6.x.
Download DSpace 7.6.2 <https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/Release+Notes#ReleaseNotes-7.6.2ReleaseNotes> Security fixes: - Fix CVE-2024-38364 (low severity) by disabling the ability to open HTML/XML bitstreams in a user's browser. See security advisory <https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/security/advisories/GHSA-94cc-xjxr-pwvf> (or mailing list announcement) for more details & configuration workaround. Major Bug fixes / improvements include: - Performance Improvements - Disabled Angular "inlineCriticalCSS" in all Server Side Rendering (SSR). This provides a performance improvement to all SSR generated pages.(Donated by 4Science) - Media filter performance improvements when filtering a large number of bitstreams (for thumbnail creation or full text indexing). (Donated by 4Science) - Submission form performance improvements. The submission form has been updated to ensure it no longer loads all related objects. (Donated by Atmire) - Submission configuration reloading performance improvements. This also improves performance of creating a new Collection. (Donated by Toni Prieto) - Updated robots.txt to stop crawlers from accessing search facets (Donated by Atmire) - Accessibility improvements in User Interface - Hidden "Skip to main content" button now exists on all pages. (Donated by Atmire) - Header / Navbar / Admin Sidebar accessibility fixes (Donated by 4Science) - Community list accessibility fixes (Donated by Hrafn Malmquist) - Color contrast fixes to "dspace" theme (Donated by Maciej Kleban) - Search results / MyDSpace / Item Edit / Browse by / Login menu accessibility fixes (Donated by Atmire) - Community/Collection Homepage accessibility fixes (Donated by Atmire) - Additional keyboard controls in Submission form (Donated by Atmire) - Browse by Author accessibility fixes (Donated by Neki-it) - "Loading" message accessibility improvements (Donated by Neki-it) - Fixing issue with header menu being keyboard accessible on small screens (Donated by Eike Löhden) - Fix color contrast issues with cookie settings popup (Donated by PCG Academia) - Submission form fixes - Fixed caching issues and instability of PATCH commands when editing date (Donated by 4Science) - Fixed issue where some changes could be lost after a save but reappear after reloading page (Donated by Atmire) - Fixed issue where metadata import (from external source) would only show first value for each metadata field instead of all values (Donated by Atmire) - Fixed issue where vocabulary displayed value was not always appearing when editing an existing submission (Donated by Atmire) - Provide a way to deselect a value from a metadata field dropdown (Donated by Atmire) - Fixed bugs related to creating/deleting Entity relationships in the submission form (Donated by Atmire) - Fixed bugs where type-bind wasn't working for radio buttons and checkboxes (Donated by Max Nuding) - Fixed issues with CrossRef and Scopus metadata import (Donated by Sascha Szott) - Fixed issue with display of no results from CrossRef search (Donated by Philipp Rumpf) - Fixed issues with DataCite metadata import (Donated by Florian Gantner) - Statistics fixes - Solr Statistics: fixed issue where first visit to a repository was not always tracked because of a CSRF token mismatch. - Google Analytics 4 updated to only count file downloads from ORIGINAL bundle. (Donated by Atmire) - Item Counts (webui.strengths) are now updating automatically again. - SEO improvements - Legacy bitstream URLs now return a 301 redirect (instead of a 302) (Donated by Atmire) - Missing identifiers now return an HTTP code 404 (Donated by Atmire) - Minor updates to various dependencies for security purposes (both for user interface and backend) - For a full list of changes and contributors in 7.6.2, see our Release Notes <https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/Release+Notes#ReleaseNotes-7.6.2ReleaseNotes> New and improved Language support - (NEW) Arabic (العربية) translation added by KnowledgeWare Technologies Est. - Czech (Čeština) translation updates donated by NTK - German (Deutsch) language updates donated by Sascha Szott (saschaszott) - Portuguese (Português) language updates donated by Ricardo Saraiva (rsaraivac) A total of 58 individuals contributed to 7.6.2. For a full list of changes and contributors in 7.6.2, see our Release Notes <https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/Release+Notes#ReleaseNotes-7.6.2ReleaseNotes> . Would you like to contribute towards our next major release (9.0)? DSpace 9.0 will be released in 2025. While the scope of this release is still being finalized, we welcome contributions from anyone. Contributions may take the form of: - Contributing money to our DSpace Development Fund <https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSPACE/Announcement%3A+DSpace+Development+Fund> - All funds go directly towards development in the next release, and you will be acknowledged on our DSpace Development Fund <https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSPACE/Announcement%3A+DSpace+Development+Fund> page. - Contributing code - As a volunteer developer you can determine which issue ticket you’d like to work on. 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