DuraSpace has released DSpace 1.6.
Here's an excerpt from the announcement:
Community-requested features in the new release include an enhanced statistics package which provides more information about how your repository is being used, an embargo facility so items can be kept dark for a period of time, and a batch metadata editing tool which can be used to change, add, find/replace metadata as well as facilitate mass moves, re-order values or add new items in bulk. And there’s more such as authority control which contains an integration with the Sherpa Romeo Service for publisher names, as well as the Library of Congress Nameservice. Other new features include:
- Delegated administration
- OpenSearch
- Command launcher
- OAI-PMH harvesting of items from remote repositories
- Configurable OAI-PMH dublin core output
- Move item functionality in XMLUI
- If-Modified-Since / Last-Modified header support in XMLUI
- Change to logging behaviour to ensure better log retention and management
- Update to the latest handle server library
- Ability to perform batch imports and exports from zip files of items
- New test scripts to test database and email settings
- Ability to set legal jurisdiction in creative commons licensing