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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">We
are pleased to announce the release of DSpace 9.0! This major release provides new features, performance improvements and bug fixes to the DSpace platform.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://dspace.org/download/"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; text-decoration-line:underline; vertical-align:baseline">Download
DSpace 9.0</span></a></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">New
and improved features include:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">OpenAlex integration. DSpace now supports
</span><a href="https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC9x/Live+Import+from+external+sources#LiveImportfromexternalsources-OpenAlexIntegration"><span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; text-decoration-line:underline; vertical-align:baseline">importing
content</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline"> (via MyDSpace) from
</span><a href="https://openalex.org/"><span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; text-decoration-line:underline; vertical-align:baseline">OpenAlex.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">.
The DSpace </span><a href="https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC9x/Publication+Claim"><span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; text-decoration-line:underline; vertical-align:baseline">Publication
Claim</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline"> feature also now supports importing Publications related to a
</span><a href="https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC9x/Researcher+Profiles"><span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; text-decoration-line:underline; vertical-align:baseline">Researcher
Profiles</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">, provided that the profile has an OpenAlex ID.
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-style:italic; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">(Donated by 4Science and University of Cambridge with
additional funding from the Vietsch Foundation)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">Support for</span><a href="https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC9x/Matomo+Integration"><span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; text-decoration-line:underline; vertical-align:baseline">
tracking usage statistics via Matomo</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline"> (a GDPR-compliant, Google Analytics
alternative). DSpace can now integrate with</span><a href="https://matomo.org/"><span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; text-decoration-line:underline; vertical-align:baseline">
Matomo Analytics</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">, in order to track usage statistics, search statistics
and downloads. This integration requires an existing Matomo account or instance.
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-style:italic; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">(Donated by 4Science with additional funding from University
of Maryland )</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">ORCID Login flow is improved. Users</span><a href="https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC9x/ORCID+Integration#ORCIDIntegration-LoginviaORCID"><span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; text-decoration-line:underline; vertical-align:baseline">
logging in via ORCID</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline"> can now</span><a href="https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC9x/ORCID+Login%3A+Guide+to+Repository+access+and+Account+linking"><span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; text-decoration-line:underline; vertical-align:baseline">
merge their ORCID login with an existing DSpace login</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">. Users can also
login via ORCID without sharing their email from their ORCID account to DSpace. </span>
<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-style:italic; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">(Donated by 4Science and Lyrasis with additional funding from
ORCID's Global Participation Fund)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">Support for</span><a href="https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC9x/Authentication+Plugins#AuthenticationPlugins-SAML(SecurityAssertionMarkupLanguage)Authentication"><span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; text-decoration-line:underline; vertical-align:baseline">
SAML authentication</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">. DSpace now includes a SAML Authentication Plugin,
which can be configured to allow your DSpace site to use an external SAML IdP. </span>
<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-style:italic; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">(Donated by DSpaceDirect)</span></p>
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<a href="https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC9x/Request+a+Copy"><span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; text-decoration-line:underline; vertical-align:baseline">Request
a Copy</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline"> now supports sending a secure download link for larger files.
Files under a (configurable) size threshold are still attached in requests. But, larger files now send a secure (auto-expiring) link to allow the requester to download the file.
</span><a href="https://altcha.org/"><span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; text-decoration-line:underline; vertical-align:baseline">ALTCHA</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">
captcha protection is also now supported for Request a Copy. </span><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-style:italic; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">(Built
by The Library Code, funded by </span><span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(29,28,29); background-color:transparent; font-style:italic; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">Technische
Universität Berlin</span><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-style:italic; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">Health page now includes an "SEO" validation check. A basic check of your DSpace
site's</span><a href="https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC9x/Search+Engine+Optimization"><span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; text-decoration-line:underline; vertical-align:baseline">
Search Engine Optimization</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline"> is now available on your Health page (/health)
in the Admin sidebar. This SEO report checks that your sitemap is visible, your robots.txt is visible and that you have SSR (Server Side Rendering) enabled.
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-style:italic; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">(Donated by Atmire)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">Embargo release dates for embargoed files are now displayed on the Item page. The
user interface includes a new</span><a href="https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC9x/User+Interface+Configuration#UserInterfaceConfiguration-ItemPageSettings"><span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; text-decoration-line:underline; vertical-align:baseline">
"showAccessStatuses" configuration for bitstreams on the Item page</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">.
When enabled, all embargoed files will display a badge (on the Item page) which contains the date the embargo expires.</span><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-style:italic; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">
(Donated by Université Laval)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">Support for</span><a href="https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC9x/User+Interface+Configuration#UserInterfaceConfiguration-Geospatialmapviewersettings"><span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; text-decoration-line:underline; vertical-align:baseline">
Geospatial maps, including browsing and searching</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">. Items or Entities
including geospatial data can now (optionally) embed a map of the location on their Item page, and be searchable and browsable via a new geospatial map viewer.
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-style:italic; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">(Donated by The Library Code)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">The default tab on Community/Collection pages is now configurable. By default it
will still be the "Search" tab, but it can be modified using the </span><a href="https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC9x/User+Interface+Configuration#UserInterfaceConfiguration-CommunityPageSettings"><span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; text-decoration-line:underline; vertical-align:baseline">new
"defaultBrowseTab" setting</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline"> under the "community" or "collection" configurations
in your config.*.yml.</span><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-style:italic; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline"> (Donated by Abel Gomez)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">Accessibility Settings can be customized by users. Basic accessibility settings
like Notification (popup) timeouts and</span><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/Guides/Live_regions"><span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; text-decoration-line:underline; vertical-align:baseline">
ARIA Live Region</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline"> timeouts can now be customized by each user of your
site via the "Accessibility Settings" link in the footer. This allows users more control over how long confirmation and error messages are displayed.
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-style:italic; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">(Donated by Atmire)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">This list has been abbreviated. Additional new features are listed in the
</span><a href="https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC9x/Release+Notes#ReleaseNotes-9.0ReleaseNotes"><span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; text-decoration-line:underline; vertical-align:baseline">Release
Notes</span></a></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">Breaking
Changes</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">We
include a “Breaking Changes” section to the Release Notes to notify you of major changes which may impact your upgrade. Please visit the
</span><a href="https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC9x/Release+Notes#ReleaseNotes-9.0ReleaseNotes"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; text-decoration-line:underline; vertical-align:baseline">Release
Notes</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline"> for the full details.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">A few key breaking changes
to be aware of in DSpace 9.0:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">Frontend now runs on Angular 18 (requiring
</span><a href="https://angular.dev/guide/templates/control-flow"><span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; text-decoration-line:underline; vertical-align:baseline">Angular
Control Flow Syntax</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">) and is updated to use Bootstrap 5 styles (as version
4 is only under commercial support).</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">Frontend is now built via “npm” instead of “yarn”, which is one less dependency.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">On the backend, Apache Solr 9 is now required (as version 8 is end-of-life).</span></p>
</li></ul>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">Other
Major Updates and Improvements</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">Search filters now include an option to filter by “Access Type” (e.g. open access,
metadata only, etc) </span><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-style:italic; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">(Donated by Paulo Graça)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">RSS/Atom feeds are now available for search results
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-style:italic; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">(Donated by Atmire)</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">Performance and stability improvements were made to indexing, export tools, OpenSearch
and other areas of the application.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">Accessibility fixes/improvements were made to improve keyboard navigation, screen
reader access, small screen display, etc.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">Numerous other bug fixes and improvements, especially to the submission process
and administrative tools. See the</span><a href="https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC9x/Release+Notes#ReleaseNotes-9.0ReleaseNotes"><span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; text-decoration-line:underline; vertical-align:baseline">
Release Notes</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline"> for details. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">New
and improved Language support</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">Catalan (Català) language updates donated by Toni Prieto</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">French (Français) language updates donated by Pierre Lasou and Carolyn Sullivan</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">German (Deutsch) language updates donated by The Library Code</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">Hindi (हिंदी) language updates donated by DSquare Technologies</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">Polish (Polski) language updates donated by PCG Academia</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">Portuguese (Português) language updates donated by Ricardo Saraiva and Paulo Graça</span></p>
</li></ul>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">A
total of 89 individuals contributed to 9.0, with major institutional contributions coming from 4Science, Atmire and The Library Code. Over 400,000 lines of code were changed in this release.</span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">For
a full list of changes and contributors in 9.0, see our </span><a href="https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC9x/Release+Notes#ReleaseNotes-9.0ReleaseNotes"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; text-decoration-line:underline; vertical-align:baseline">Release
Notes</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">Would
you like to contribute towards our next major release (10.0)?</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">DSpace
10.0 will be released in 2026. While the scope of this release is still being finalized, we welcome contributions from anyone. Contributions may take the form of:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">Contributing money to our
</span><a href="https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSPACE/Announcement%3A+DSpace+Development+Fund"><span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; text-decoration-line:underline; vertical-align:baseline">DSpace
Development Fund</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline"> - All funds go directly towards development in the
next release, and you will be acknowledged on our </span><a href="https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSPACE/Announcement%3A+DSpace+Development+Fund"><span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; text-decoration-line:underline; vertical-align:baseline">DSpace
Development Fund</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline"> page.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline">Contributing code - As a volunteer developer you can determine which issue ticket
you’d like to work on. Join our weekly </span><a href="https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSPACE/Developer+Meetings"><span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; text-decoration-line:underline; vertical-align:baseline">developer
meetings</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline"> or get in touch with
</span><a href="https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/~tdonohue"><span style="font-size:11pt; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; text-decoration-line:underline; vertical-align:baseline">Tim
Donohue</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent; font-variant-numeric:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; font-variant-alternates:normal; vertical-align:baseline"> if you have any questions.</span></p>
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