DSpace 1.5.1

DSpace is a groundbreaking digital repository system, that captures, stores, indexes, preserves and redistributes an organizations research material in digital formats.
Research institutions worldwide use DSpace for a variety of digital archiving needs - from institutional repositories (IRs) to learning object repositories or electronic records management, and more.
DSpace accepts all manner of digital formats. Some examples of items that DSpace can accommodate are:
- Documents, such as articles, preprints, working papers, technical reports, conference papers
- Books
- Theses
- Data sets
- Computer programs
- Visualizations, simulations, and other models
- Multimedia publications
- Administrative records
- Published books
- Overlay journals
- Bibliographic datasets
- Images
- Audio files
- Video files
- eformatted digital library collections
- Learning objects
- Web pages
NOTE: DSpace is distributed and licensed under the terms of the BSD License.

Enhancements:
- (Scott Phillips) Fixed bug where users could not finish registering nor reset their password because the authentication method signatures were changed.
- Jay Paz (SF#1898241) Additional fixes to patch to enable reuse of methods.
- Added the ability to manage sessions with site wide alerts to prevent users from authenticating.
- Fixes a bug where the ability to edit an item durring workflow step 2 is not displayed.
- Jay Paz (SF#1898241) Add item Export from jspui and xmlui.
- Added easy support for google analytics statistics
- Added the ability for super admins to login as other users.
- Added an activity viewer to the Control Panel
- Fix for SF Bug #2082236 Subscription notification (sub-daily) no emails sent
- [2102580] William Hays: Duplicate Handle exception when replacing bitstreams
- [2102617] Sands Fish: X509Authentication fails to assign appropriate specialgroups
- (Sands Fish) Add "Select Primary Bitstream" functionality to submission workflow
- Guard against Community/Collection metadata having only whitespace characters and eliminate cases where null pointer exceptions would be thrown
- Improve DSIndexer logic in both branches to support removal of items from index when withdrawn from repository.
- (Sands Fish) Provides fix for AuthenticationUtil where users IDs are not properly compared.
- Fix NullPointerException cause by nullified Context object in LNI map item to new collection.
- Block Basic Authentication "details" from being exposed in dspace logs.
- (Bill Hays) Close InputStreamReaders explicitly to release any file handles back to OS.
- correct linking on pages when xmlui is the ROOT webapplication
- correct issue with sitemap redirection of mydspace uri.
- Add serlet-api to overlay wars to reduce compile time errors when adding classes
- Correct issues in feed generation
- XMLUI Adjust Advanced Search to use search properties from dspace.cfg.
- Correct bug in Body.toSAX where startElement is called instead of end element.
- Correct issue with libraries being excluded from wars
- Fix for SF bug #2090761 Statistics wrong use of dspace.dir for log location
- Fix for SF bug #2081930 xmlui hardcoded strings in EditGroupForm.java
- Fix for SF bug #2080319 jspui hardcoded strings in browse
- Fix for SF bug #2078305 xmlui hardcoded strings used in UI in xmlui-api
- Fix for SF bug #2078324 xmlui hardcoded strings used in UI in General-Handler.xsl
- SF patch #2076066 Review in jspui submission non-dc metadata
- SF Bug #1983859 added Foreign Lucene Analyzers to poms
- SF Bug #1989916: missing LDAP authentication key
- [1947036] Patch for SF Bug1896960 SWORD authentication and LDAP + [1989874] LDAPAuthentication
- pluggable method broken for current users
- Added copying of registration email template to 1.4 to 1.5 upgrade instructions
- Fix for SF bug #2055941 LDAP authentication fails for new users in SWORD and Manakin
- [1990660] SWORD Service Document are malformed / Corrected Atom publishing MIME types
- Updated installation and configuration documents for new statistics script, and removed references to Perl
- Fix for SF bug #2095402: Non-interactive Submission Steps dont work in JSPUI 1.5
- Fix for SF bug #2013921: Movement in Submission Workflow Causes Skipped Steps
- Fix for SF bug #2015988: Configurable Submission bug in SubmissionController
- Fix for SF bug #2034372: Resorting Search Results in JSPUI always gives no results
- Updates to Community/Collection Item Counts (i.e. strengths) for XMLUI.
- 1.5 upgrade instructions were missing Metadata Registry updates necessary to support SWORD.
- Fix various problems with resources potentially not being freed, and other minor fixes suggested by FindBugs
- Replace URLEncoder with StringEscapeUtils for better fix of escaping the hidden query field
- Fix #2034372: Resorting in JSPUI gives no results
- Fix #1714851: set eperson.subscription.onlynew in dspace.cfg to only include items that are new to the repository
- Fix issue where the browse and search indexes will not be updated correctly if you move an Item
- Fix problem with SWORD not accepting multiple concurrent submissions
- Fix #1963060 Authors listed in reverse order
- Fix #1970852: XMLUI: Browse by Issue Date "Type in Year" doesnt work
- Statistics viewer for XMLUI, based on existing DStat. Note that this generates the view from the analysis files (.dat), does not require HTML report generation.
- Fixed incorrect downloading of bitstream on withdrawn item
- Add JSPUI compatible log messages to XMLUI transformers
- Clean up use of ThreadLocal
- Improved cleanup of database resources when web application is unloaded
- Fix bug #1931799: duplicate "FROM metadatavalue"
- Fixed Oracle bugs with ILIKE operators and LIMIT/OFFSET clauses