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On the morning of your scheduled upgrade, TDL will generate a helpdesk ticket to track work and communicate with you throughout the upgrade.
Around noon on the day scheduled for your upgrade, TDL’s software engineer will restrict sessions on your DSpace repository, meaning nobody will be able to log in and add or change content. (Folks will still be able to browse the site and download unrestricted files.)
TDL will begin migrating migrate all of your content over to the a new DSpace 7 staging instance set up prior to the scheduled upgrade date that include theme and other customizations for your repository. TDL will point your production URL to the new DSpace 7 site. That process will be done sometime late in the morning on the following day.
At this point, TDL will contact you and ask you to test login via Shibboleth and to test/review the new site.When you approve the new site, TDL will point your production URL to the new DSpace 7 site.
Following the completion of the upgrade, you need to take the following steps:
Update deposit location(s) in Vireo.
Notify any external harvesters of the new OAI endpoint.
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The new (version 7.x) URL is: [base URL]/server/oai/request?verb=Identify (e.g. https://asu-ir.tdl.org/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
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The TDL DSpace 7 Upgrades Task Force and TDL Digital Librarian Ima Oduok have developed several resources for learning more about DSpace 7, including a comparison between versions 6 and 7 (see :
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Additionally, the global DSpace Program housed at Lyrasis has developed technical and end user documentation for DSpace 7:
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TDL members can use TDL’s DSpace 7 demo site for testing and training. See DSpace 7 Demo.
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Subject missing from emails:https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/8952
Media viewer controls behind DSpace header:https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/2341
OAI import process fails if License bundle missing anonymous READ policy:https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/7752
Unable to disable browsing by Subject Category:https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/8948
New "tag" type for input fields in submission forms is buggy:https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/2435 andhttps://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/2485
The Creative Commons License image doesn't appear on the item page:https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/8982