Hi All,
As Hardy mentioned, DSpace 5 Test-a-Thon has begun, so if you have a
feature, bug-fix, or regression that you are looking or not looking for,
please look or not-look for it on the DSpace Demo site, which has been
updated to the latest release.
So. demo.dspace.org is the official place to try out DSpace 5.
I've also stood up a TryDSpace5 instance hosted by Longsight
<http://www.longsight.com/>: http://trydspace5.longsight.com/
You can also find jspui at: http://trydspace5.longsight.com/jspui/
If for reference, you need access to a site running DSpace 4, you can look
at: https://trydspace.longsight.com/
One of the new features of DSpace 5 that I'm most excited about is the CRUD
additions to the REST API, so I have a rest client demo app pointing to the
TryDSpace5 (Longsight) rest api:
https://dspace-rest-client-play.herokuapp.com/communities
You can use the same site-admin account that you could use at
Demo.DSpace.org
I've also enabled the PDF Citation Coverpage at:
http://trydspace5.longsight.com/handle/123456789/79
If there is something that you would like to test on either site, please
contact me, the dspace-tech list, or pop in to #dspace IRC, developers
standing by.
Also, a little "meta" on the DSpace 5 release candidate. We (Hardy)
released DSpace 5 RC1 over the weekend. We are going to quickly release an
RC2 tonight, based on some of our findings. But keep on testing sites, or
test it yourself on a local clone/build of the code.
Thanks All!
________________
Peter Dietz
Longsight
www.longsight.com
[email protected]
p: 740-599-5005 x809
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Pottinger, Hardy J. <
[email protected]> wrote:
> >From Hardy Pottinger, DSpace 5.0 Release Team Member
>
> The first Release Candidate for DSpace 5.0 will be made available for
> testing on November 6, 2014.
> Some new features of interest include:
>
> For all UIs:
>
> * Batch import from Zip files uploaded via the admin interface of either
> UI
> * Easier Database upgrades, thanks to the inclusion of Flyway, an
> open-source database migration tool
> * A feature-complete REST API, supporting both read and write operations
> * Linked (Open) Data support
> * Metadata for all DSpace Objects
> * Improved thumbnail generation (via ImageMagick/Ghostscript)
> * Google Analytics integration now tracks "downloads" of bitstreams
> * A place to add third-party plugins
>
> For JSPUI only:
> * HTML5-based drag and drop upload interface for uploading bitstreams
> during submission
> * Per-item configurable visual indicators for browse and search results
>
> For XMLUI only:
> * Mirage2 theme, utilizing many modern web design tools and technologies,
> facilitating a "responsive" web design, adapting to any screen size
> * ORCID integration via an authority plugin, and a new authority cache
> * Serpa/Romeo lookup
> * Rendering MathML code in abstracts
> * Error pages (including page not found) are all styled with your own
> site styles
> * Collection drop down box performance improvements for repositories with
> a large number of collections
> * (Optional) ability to generate citation cover pages on PDFs
> * An aspect for adding Google Analytics web usage information to item
> pages
>
> There's much more. Please see full list on the Release Status page at:
>
> https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Release+5.0+Status
>
> ATTENTION ORACLE SITES
>
> Hi, sorry to shout at you, but now that we have your attention, please do
> plan on testing the release candidates of DSpace 5.0 on your own
> infrastructure. We'd like to minimize the surprises on the day that 5.0 is
> officially released, and the best way to do that is with your help. If at
> all possible, please consider testing DSpace 5.0, to ensure it is
> compatible with Oracle. Ideally, this would mean testing a new install, and
> an upgrade. Thanks!
>
> We've really improved our Oracle testing capabilities during this release
> process, and that's something that makes me particularly proud. But,
> setting pride aside, we still need your help to test DSpace 5.0.
>
> INVITATION TO TRANSLATORS
>
> If you are willing to translate DSpace message catalogs into another
> language: the 5.0 catalogs should be nearly stable now.
>
> TESTATHON and NEXT STEPS:
>
> We plan to tag RC1 on Thursday November 6, 2014. There will be another
> announcement when it is ready for download. If you would like to try out
> the next release of DSpace in your own test environment, please do, and
> tell us what you find.
>
> The 5.0 Testathon begins on Monday, Nov. 10, 2014 and continues through
> Nov. 21. RC1 will be available on http://demo.dspace.org. You can try it
> out without installing your own instance, and your feedback would be
> appreciated. Look for the red Feedback button to report issues with the
> demo site.
>
> As always, if you really want to get your hands dirty, you can spin up
> your own testing instance of DSpace using Vagrant-DSpace:
> https://github.com/DSpace/vagrant-dspace
>
> The actual use of a software product is always more varied and surprising
> than the developers and maintainers imagined. Please help us ensure that
> DSpace 5.0 will do what you expect. Thanks!
>
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