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<font size=3>[Forwarding from the DSpace-General list. --Peter
Suber.]<br><br>
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Dear DSpace Community,<br><br>
We are pleased to announce the release of DSpace 1.5.2 stable.<br><br>
This release is primarily a bug fix release incorporating numerous bug
fixes and enhancements.<br>
We want to highlight the following additions:<br>
- SWORD module/version 1.3.1 supporting the sword standard version 1.3
<br>
- cocoon upgraded to 2.2<br>
- fix for the UTF-8 issues with the XMLUI<br>
- new authentication methods: Hierarchical LDAP and Shibboleth<br>
- full update translations: German, Italian for both XMLUI and JSPUI and
Ukrainian for JSPUI <br>
- new translations for 1.5.x: Greek and Thai<br>
- graceful resolver for urn in the item page for the JSPUI<br><br>
Please refer to the<br><br>
<a href="http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS/fixforversion/10012" eudora="autourl">
http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS/fixforversion/10012<br><br>
</a>and SVN history for details on these and all the others
modifications.<br>
<a href="http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/DSpace_Release_1.5.2_Notes#SVN_Repository_History" eudora="autourl">
http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/DSpace_Release_1.5.2_Notes#SVN_Repository_History<br>
<br>
</a>We thank all that have helped to make this release possible with bug
reports, patches and involvement in the Testhaton Day of the past 25
March.<br><br>
Although this is a tested stable release, there is always the case that
new issues may be uncovered. We request that community members
interested in testing the release please download it and verify that they
can complete upgrade and fresh installation.<br><br>
The documentation for this release is bundled within the
package.<br><br>
DSpace 1.5.2 can be downloaded from the files area at<br><br>
<a href="https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=19984" eudora="autourl">
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=19984<br><br>
</a>or with SVN from<br><br>
<a href="http://dspace.svn.sf.net/svnroot/dspace/tags/dspace-1.5.2/" eudora="autourl">
http://dspace.svn.sf.net/svnroot/dspace/tags/dspace-1.5.2/<br><br>
</a>Please use the mailing lists to provide feedback on this
release.<br><br>
Those wishing to do development work with DSpace are strongly encouraged
to obtain the source code using SVN. This is very straightforward and a
guide to doing this is available here:<br>
<a href="http://wiki.dspace.org/ContributionGuidelines" eudora="autourl">
http://wiki.dspace.org/ContributionGuidelines<br><br>
</a>We would also like to take this opportunity to invite you all to take
part in the DSpace development process. Extra developer hands are always
welcome, but there are other ways you can help:<br><br>
- Test the system and report bugs<br>
- Provide documentation (for end users and institutions, as well as
technical)<br>
- Provide or update language packs<br>
- Share your deployment experiences<br>
- Donate content and metadata for testing and research<br>
- Share your technical experience and ideas<br><br>
Please visit the DSpace Wiki to see the various resources and
collaboration tools available to the DSpace community:<br>
<a href="http://wiki.dspace.org/DspaceResources" eudora="autourl">
http://wiki.dspace.org/DspaceResources<br><br>
</a>Sincerely,<br>
Andrea Bollini<br><br>
-- <br>
Dott. Andrea Bollini<br>
Project Manager, IT Architect & Systems Integrator<br>
Sezione Servizi per le Biblioteche e l'Editoria Elettronica<br>
CILEA,
<a href="http://www.cilea.it/" eudora="autourl">http://www.cilea.it<br>
</a>tel. +39 06-59292853<br>
cel. +39 348-8277525<br>
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