Release 1.2

Released Nov 29th, 2011

Release 1.2 has been a year in the making and includes a host of new features, including a full Accessions module, a fine-grained Rights interface based on PREMIS, Advanced search, Global search and replace for descriptions, a complete overhaul of print styles for archival descriptions (issue 2093) and search results (issue 2146), and four new reports: file list, item list, box list and physical storage locations.

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New Features

• Trillium (beta) theme! Brand new fluid width theme based on the Bootstrap framework (Tested in Internet Explorer 9, Safari 5, Chrome 10 and Firefox 4) (issue 2092)
• Accession module
• Rights (based on PREMIS)
• Advanced search (issue 164)
• Global search and replace for descriptions (issue 2149)
• Bulk XML import (issue 1920)
• Reporting
  • Box list (issue 2082)
  • File list (issue 2107)
  • Item list (issue 2110)
  • Physical storage location (issue 2106)
  • Printed archival description (issue 2093)
  • Printed search results (issue 2146)
• Multi-institution digital object upload quotas
  • Separate digital object upload directories per institution (issue 2021)
  • Limit storage of uploaded digital objects per institution (issue 2022, issue 2023)
• SWORD API for importing digital objects (no issue)

Enhancements

• Search index performance/scalability optimization re-factor (Issue 2003)
• UI improvements based on Usability Testing (issue 164, issue 2062, issue 2092)
• Improvements for importing SKOS RDF syntax (issue 2005)
• Gracefully handle a large number of child-level descriptions in treeview (issue 1943)
• Added admin setting to specify delimiter used in reference codes (issue 1994)
• Performance improvements
  • Reduce number of default queries (issue 2000)
  • Cache action and template code using Symfony (no issue)
• Multi-institution portal enhancements
  • Search and browse restricted by repository content (issue 1948, issue 1949)
  • Improve UX and show logo for search and browse restricted by repository (no issue)
• Removed unused entities and related classes: historical_event, map, map_i18n, place, place_i18n, place_map_relation, system_event (r9662).

Internationalization

• New! Polish translation of user interface
• Merged new and improved user interface translations for Dutch, French, Spanish and Slovenian (thank you to our volunteer translators!)

Bug fixes

• Prune empty digital object directories (issue 2155)
• Can't import SKOS file if top-level terms contain <broader /> tag (issue 1766)