DSpace 2.1 Hits The Streets

Anonymous Patron writes “The DSpace committers are pleased to announce the availability of DSpace version 1.2.1. This stable release introduces several new Features developed by members of the DSpace community:

– Oracle support added
– Thumbnails in item view can now be switched off/on
– Browse and search thumbnail options
– Improved item importer
– Configurable fields for the search index
– Script for transferring items between DSpace instances
– Numerous bug fixes

This version of DSpace and associated documentation can be downloaded from the usual SourceForge location.

Those wishing to do development work with DSpace are strongly encouraged to obtain the source code using CVS. This is very straightforward and a guide to doing this is available here.

Please visit the DSpace Wiki to see the various resources and collaboration tools available to the DSpace community