We are pleased to announce the release of DSpace 8.1! This release provides performance improvements, accessibility improvements and bug fixes to the 8.x platform. No new features are provided. As such, this release should be an easier upgrade for sites already running 8.x.
Download DSpace 8.1 <https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC8x/Release+Notes#ReleaseNotes-8.1ReleaseNotes> Major Bug fixes / improvements include: - Performance Improvements in the User Interface - Angular Server Side Rendering (SSR) has been updated to attempt to reduce the CPU/memory necessary for managing bot traffic - SSR is now only performed for paths in the sitemap by default. (Donated by Vitor Silverio and Alan Orth) - SSR is no longer performed for the search and browse components. This ensures that embedded searches/browses on Community, Collection, or Item (Entity) pages are not triggered by search engine crawlers or bots. (Donated by 4Science) - Optionally, sites may configure SSR to occur via a separate, private/localhost REST API URL. This may provide performance benefits as it allows SSR processing to bypass DNS lookup. (Donated by 4Science) - Ensure components are not sending requests for large sets of data (Donated by 4Science) - Edit Item page would sometimes fail to load or encounter an infinite loop when visiting the version history page (Donated by Atmire) - Workflow tasks loaded slowly when there were large numbers of groups (Donated by PCG Academia) - Reduced number of requests when loading the simple item page and search results (Donated by Atmire) - Browse pages were retrieving more data than necessary, resulting in poor performance (Donated by Toni Prieto) - Several administrative pages could encounter infinite loading errors. (Donated by Atmire) - Improve performance of Group caching to better support sites with many Groups. (Donated by Alfeu U. Tavares) - Reduced memory usage OAI-PMH full reindex (Donated by Toni Prieto) - Accessibility improvements in User Interface - Edit Item, Bitstreams tab was refactored to enhance keyboard control (Donated by Atmire) - Submission interface now supports keyboard reordering of multi-valued fields: (Donated by 4Science) - Ensured several pages have properly ordered HTML headings. (Donated by 4Science) - An invisible ARIA "live region" now exists which can communicate notifications and page changes to screen readers (Donated by Atmire) - All disabled buttons in DSpace are now accessible to users using a screen reader. (Donated by Atmire) - "All of DSpace" browse menu has improved keyboard navigation (Donated by Atmire) - Controlled Vocabulary tree-view has improved support for keyboard navigation and screen readers (Donated by Neki-it) - Many other accessibility enhancements listed in the Release Notes <https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC8x/Release+Notes#ReleaseNotes-8.1ReleaseNotes> - ORCID integration fixes that were funded by the ORCID Global Participation Fund and built by 4Science. These include ORCID synchronization fixes, revoking of ORCID tokens, and display of ORCID icons next to authors. - Submission form bug fixes, including drag and drop fixes and dropdown fixes. See the Release Notes for details - Administrative bug fixes, including logging improvements, fixes to Administrative UI pages and fixes to backend scripts. See the Release Notes for details. - Updates to various dependencies for security purposes (both for user interface and backend) - For a full list of changes and contributors in 8.1, see our Release Notes <https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC8x/Release+Notes#ReleaseNotes-8.1ReleaseNotes> New and improved Language support - Arabic (العربية) language updates donated by KnowledgeWare Technologies Est. - Catalan (Català) language updates donated by Toni Prieto - Czech (Čeština) language updates donated by Milan Majchrak - French (Français) language updates donated by Pierre Lasou and Nima Behfourouz - German (Deutsch) language updates donated by Sascha Szott - Hungarian (Magyar) language updates donated by Zoltán Kanász-Nagy - Spanish (Español) language updates donated by Toni Prieto and Neki-it A total of 56 individuals contributed to 8.1. For a full list of changes and contributors in 8.1, see our Release Notes <https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC8x/Release+Notes#ReleaseNotes-8.1ReleaseNotes> . Would you like to contribute towards our next major release (9.0)? DSpace 9.0 <https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Release+9.0+Status> will be released in May 2025. The first deadlines for contributing to this release arrive in late February, but there’s still time to get involved. 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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