[Archivesspace_Users_Group] ArchivesSpace v2.8.0 now available

[Christine Di Bella]

ArchivesSpace is announcing the availability of v2.8.0. You can download it at 
https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/releases/tag/v2.8.0.

This release contains program-led and community pull requests that provide 
feature enhancements, bug fixes, infrastructure improvements, and documentation 
updates. Some items of note include the ability to merge top containers, new 
browse, search, and sort preferences in the staff interface, some improvements 
to search and display in the public interface, additional display and faceting 
options in the background jobs area, bug fixes and accessibility improvements. 
Developers at Harvard University contributed several new features related to 
containers and locations from the specification they circulated in the 
community last year.

Fans of the popular Harvard import plugin will be pleased to see that its 
functionality is now included in ArchivesSpace, courtesy of our work with the 
plugin's original developer, Bobbi Fox. Please note that if you used the plugin 
previously you will need to disable it before starting up ArchivesSpace 
post-upgrade.

Thanks very much to community members Andrew Morrison, Austin Schaffer, Dave 
Mayo, David P. Steelman, Douglas Simon, Katie Amaral, Mark Custer, Mark Triggs, 
Matt Patterson, Michael Vandermillen, and Peter Heiner for their code 
contributions to this release. Program team members Lora Woodford and Mark 
Cooper wrote extensive code and supervised the work of the contractors we 
worked with us on this release: Bobbi Fox, Brian Zelip, Sarah Morrissey, and 
Manny Rodriguez. As always this release would not have been possible without 
the substantial efforts of our Development Prioritization sub-team, Testing 
sub-team, Technical Documentation sub-team, User Documentation sub-team, and 
Core Committers Group.

Information on upgrading to a new version of ArchivesSpace is available at 
https://archivesspace.github.io/tech-docs/administration/upgrading.html. Please 
let us know if you have any questions or need help upgrading. This is the last 
release where our primary technical documentation will live at 
https://archivesspace.github.io/archivesspace/. If you'd like to get a jump on 
things, please change your bookmarks to 
https://archivesspace.github.io/tech-docs/ for all updates going forward.

Lastly, I want to acknowledge that these are incredibly tough times for so many 
of us. Even more than usual, I've really appreciated all our team and community 
members have done to continue making ArchivesSpace better in the face of many 
challenges. Thanks for all your help and for letting us know how important the 
ArchivesSpace application and community have been to you in these times.

Christine

Christine Di Bella
ArchivesSpace Program Manager
christine.dibe...@lyrasis.org
800.999.8558 x2905
678-235-2905
cdibella13 (Skype)

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[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Take a break with ArchivesSpace on Fridays

[Jessica Crouch]

Dear ArchivesSpace Users,



We’ll be hosting another casual open call via zoom at 12pm ET tomorrow. With no 
set agenda or presentation for these calls, this forum is an opportunity to 
connect, chat and recharge. Use this as a time to get help or talk about 
ArchivesSpace (or anything else) in an informal setting or just have a beverage 
with other ArchivesSpace users during this stressful time.



Most of us are doing our jobs under much different conditions than usual. As a 
browser based system you can access from anywhere, the ArchivesSpace 
application may offer a sense of archival normalcy as we each adjust. And with 
a welcoming and robust member community all over the world, ArchivesSpace can 
also offer camaraderie when many of us may feel isolated from our colleagues or 
the professional communities we interact with regularly.



Thank you to everyone who joined us last week for a great chat.



We hope to see you all tomorrow.

When: Fridays
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Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] version 2.8 release date?

[Wendy Scheir]

Thanks so much, Mark--that's really useful information.

No one has weighed in on the v2.8 release date, as of yet.

Thanks,
Wendy

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 1:44 PM Custer, Mark  wrote:

> Wendy,
>
> I'll let others weigh in about 2.8, but I expect it should be released
> soon.  That said, if you are planning on using the AT to ASpace migration
> tool (i.e. https://github.com/archivesspace/at-migration), then it looks
> like you would need to start off with ArchivesSpace 2.6.  Once the
> migration from the AT is complete (which has a lot of little gotchas, but
> in general does all of the heavy lifting), then you could go directly
> from 2.6 to 2.8 (or any newer version, without having to upgrade to each
> release in between).
>
> Starting with ArchivesSpace 2.7, though, there were changes with how
> languages and scripts of materials are recorded in ArchivesSpace, so that
> post-2.6 upgrade will also likely require some additional updates to your
> data depending on how everything is recorded in the AT now.  We are about
> to upgrade to version 2.7.1 from 2.4.1, so we haven't gone through that
> particular process yet, but we will be doing it soon.
>
> Mark
>
>
> --
> *From:* archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org <
> archivesspace_users_group-boun...@lyralists.lyrasis.org> on behalf of
> Wendy Scheir 
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 14, 2020 1:30 PM
> *To:* archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org <
> archivesspace_users_group@lyralists.lyrasis.org>
> *Subject:* [Archivesspace_Users_Group] version 2.8 release date?
>
> Hi,
>
> We are intending to migrate to ASpace from AT in the very near future.
> We're aware of v2.8-RC, but Is there an anticipated release date for v.2.8?
>
> Many thanks,
> Wendy
>
> 
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