Editing New Features in EPrints 3.1 (section)

== Configuration ==
* New form based interface for admins to add metadata fields via the web.
* Admins may view configuration via the web.
* Admins may modify configuration via the web.
* Phrases, Citations, Workflows, Templates and static files are automatically re-read if they are altered. This means no more running generate_static every five minutes (although you still need it to ADD files)
* Buttons to refresh the configuration, the views and the abstracts, via the Admin page.
* When creating a new repository, a db connection error doesn't abort the process, and you are offered a random password to use for the db account.
* errors and warnings in executing code from .pl files now show correct line number and filename making debugging less annoying.
* epadmin erase_data now recreates all tables, rather than drop and recreate the entire database.
* Added plugin-masking so a local plugin can take the id of an existing plugin even though it has a different Perl class.
* epadmin has a command to create anything missing in the database. Handy if you want to add a field.
* Plugins can now be installed in a repository-specific plugins dir, although the perl package names must be unique.