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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-ZA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Hilton Gibson [mailto:hilton.gibson@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> 24 November 2010 08:15<br><b>To:</b> Smith, Ina <ismith@sun.ac.za>; Anita Liebenberg; September, CLINT <cls@sun.ac.za>; Klapwijk, WOUTER <wklap@sun.ac.za>; Paulette Taljaard<br><b>Subject:</b> Fwd: [Dspace-devel] DSpace 1.7.0 to be released on Dec 17, just in time for holidays<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>FYI<br><br>-------- Original Message -------- <o:p></o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td nowrap valign=top style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><b>Subject: <o:p></o:p></b></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal>[Dspace-devel] DSpace 1.7.0 to be released on Dec 17, just in time for holidays<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td nowrap valign=top style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><b>Date: <o:p></o:p></b></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:35:08 -0500<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td nowrap valign=top style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><b>From: <o:p></o:p></b></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal>Peter Dietz <a href="mailto:dietz.72@osu.edu"><dietz.72@osu.edu></a><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td nowrap valign=top style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><b>To: <o:p></o:p></b></p></td><td style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal>Dspace Tech <a href="mailto:dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net"><dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net></a>, <a href="mailto:dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net">dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net</a><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>All,</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><br><span class=apple-style-span>The Committers would like to formally announce that the much anticipated DSpace 1.7.0 will be released on Friday, December 17, 2010.</span><br><br><span class=apple-style-span>The recent DSpace 1.7.0 Testathon has been a success. It has helped us to locate several issues/bugs that we are working to resolve before the 1.7.0 Final Release. We'd like to thank everyone who has taken part in testing and reporting of issues.</span><br><br><span class=apple-style-span>As a reminder, this new release will bring several new major features, along with numerous bug fixes and performance improvements.</span><br><br><span class=apple-style-span>Major new features/improvements include:</span><br><span class=apple-style-span>* A new XMLUI Theme named Mirage (contributed by @mire), which you can see in action at <a href="http://demo.dspace.org/xmlui/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#074D8F'>http://demo.dspace.org/xmlui/</span></a></span><br><span class=apple-style-span>* The DSpace "Discover" module, which allows you to add faceted browsing/searching to XMLUI (contributed by @mire), also in action at <a href="http://demo.dspace.org/xmlui/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#074D8F'>http://demo.dspace.org/xmlui/</span></a></span><br><span class=apple-style-span>* A new Archival Information Package (AIP) Backup & Restore process</span><br><span class=apple-style-span>* A new Curation Administration User Interface -- which will allow for a series of Curation tasks to be performed on objects in DSpace.</span><br><span class=apple-style-span>* PowerPoint text extraction, for searching within PowerPoint slides</span><br><span class=apple-style-span>* Improved Google Scholar Indexing -- We've been working directly with Google Scholar developers to ensure your DSpace contents are findable in Google Scholar.</span><br><span class=apple-style-span>* Improved performance and scalability of DSpace (thanks to Graham Triggs for leading the effort to plug up memory leaks and fix other performance issues)</span><br><span class=apple-style-span>* Automated Unit Testing of core code -- helps the developers ensure the core code of DSpace is as bug free and stable as possible</span><br><br><span class=apple-style-span>In the meantime, you are welcome to try out the early release of DSpace 1.7.0 on <a href="http://demo.dspace.org/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#074D8F'>http://demo.dspace.org/</span></a> and continue to provide any early feedback you may have. If you'd like to install a test version on your own server, early releases of DSpace 1.7.0 are also available to download on SourceForge: <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/dspace/files/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#074D8F'>http://sourceforge.net/projects/dspace/files/</span></a></span><br><br><span class=apple-style-span>More information on this release is also available in the DSpace 1.7.0 Release Notes at:</span><br><span class=apple-style-span><a href="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Release+1.7.0+Notes" target="_blank"><span style='color:#074D8F'>https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Release+1.7.0+Notes</span></a></span><br><br><span class=apple-style-span>We hope that you are as excited as we are about the upcoming release of DSpace 1.7.0. Have a happy holiday season!</span><br><br><span class=apple-style-span>Peter Dietz (1.7.0 Release Coordinator) and the DSpace Committers</span></span><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Hilton Gibson<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Systems Administrator<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>JS Gericke Library<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Room 1053<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Stellenbosch University<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Private Bag X5036<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Stellenbosch<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>7599 <o:p></o:p></pre><pre>South Africa<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre>Tel: +27 21 808 4100 | Cell: +27 84 646 4758<o:p></o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>