Dear DSpace Community: On behalf of the DSpace developers, I would like to formally announce that DSpace 6.2 is now available. DSpace 6.2 provides bug fixes to the DSpace 6.x platform.
- DSpace 6.2 can be downloaded immediately from: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/releases/tag/dspace-6.2 <https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/releases/tag/dspace-6.1> - 6.2 Release notes are available at: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC6x/Release+Notes DSpace 6.2 is a bug fix release to resolve several issues located in previous 6.x releases. As it only provides only bug fixes, DSpace 6.2 should constitute an easy upgrade from DSpace 6.x for most users. No database changes or additional configuration changes should be necessary when upgrading from DSpace 6.x to 6.2. *Major bug fixes include:* - Important bug fixes to DSpace database connection/caching management - *Indexing:* Items failed to be reindexed after metadata changes were made: DS-3660 <https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-3660> - *Batch processing: *XMLUI Batch Import Failure: DS-3648 <https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-3648> - *Group creation:* Database migrations sometimes failed to create initial groups (Administrator and Anonymous) in fresh_installs: DS-3659 <https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-3659> - *Cache management:* DOIOrganiser CLI does not change the database anymore: DS-3656 <https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-3656> - *Cache Management*: Database changes of consumers aren't persisted anymore: DS-3680 <https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-3680?src=confmacro> - *Cache Management: *Slow batch operations due to Hibernate caching: DS-3286 <https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-3286?src=confmacro> - General bug fixes (to all UIs): - Pre-6.x Bitstream statistics were not being displayed: DS-3602 <https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-3602> - ImageMagick PDF thumbnail should always create sRGB JPEG files: DS-3517 <https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-3517> - ImageMagick PDF Processing Degraded with Changes in 5.7 release: DS-3661 <https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-3661?src=confmacro> *6.2 Acknowledgements* The 6.2 release was led by the DSpace Committers. The following individuals provided code or bug fixes or review to the 6.2 release: Pascal-Nicolas Becker, Terry Brady, Tom Desair, Tim Donohue, jawadmakki, Steve Michaels, Sébastien Nadeau, Alan Orth, Hardy Pottinger, Adan Roman, Sven Soliman, Alexander Sulfrian, Chris Wilper, Mark Wood. A detailed listing of all known people/institutions who contributed directly to DSpace 6.x is available in the Release Notes. If you contributed and were accidentally not listed, please let us know so that we can correct it! As always, we are happy to hear back from the community about DSpace. Please let us know what you think of 6.2! Sincerely, Mark Wood (on behalf of the DSpace Committers) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-tech. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
