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DSpace

EDTECH
Velocity0.0

Open-source repository software for digital archives and libraries

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DSpace patches 10.x, 9.x and 8.x on one day, with 7.x now out of the batch.

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◆Current state
DSpace, the open-source repository platform for institutional archives, ships its backend and REST API separately from the frontend. After 10.0 in May, the September 14 batch delivered bug-fix releases 10.1, 9.4 and 8.5 within two hours of each other. The 7.x line, declared end-of-life with 7.6.7, no longer appears.
◆Where it's heading
The project now maintains three major lines with coordinated patch days a few months apart. Adoption of 10.x will decide how long 8.x stays in the batch.
◆Prediction
Expect the next coordinated patch batch in roughly three months; when 8.x is retired is unclear from the notes.

◆Recent moves

  1. 2mo ago

    DSpace 10.1: first bug-fix release of the 10.x line

    The first bug-fix release of the 10.x line, three and a half months after 10.0. It marks 10.x as the line institutions can start upgrading to.

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  2. 2mo ago

    DSpace 9.4: 9.x bug-fix release

    Bug fixes for 9.x in the same coordinated batch as 10.1. The notes link out and list nothing in the entry itself.

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  3. 2mo ago

    DSpace 8.5: 8.x bug-fix release

    Bug fixes for 8.x, now the oldest supported line after 7.x reached end-of-life.

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  4. 5mo ago

    DSpace 10.0 (Backend / REST API Only)

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    The major release the whole 10.0 RC cycle was building toward, shipped as backend and REST API only with a matching frontend released separately. Its arrival is what triggers the support-policy shift that ends the 7.x line the same afternoon, making this the release that resets which versions institutions are allowed to stay on.

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  5. 5mo ago

    DSpace 9.3 (Backend / REST API Only)

    A bug-fix release for the 9.x platform, shipped in the same coordinated batch as 10.0. It carries no new capability — its role is to keep 9.x current for institutions that will not jump straight to 10.0.

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  6. 5mo ago

    DSpace 8.4 (Backend / REST API Only)

    Bug fixes for the 8.x line, released minutes after 9.3 as part of the same multi-branch batch. With 7.x retiring, 8.x becomes the oldest supported line, so this is the floor of the new support matrix.

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