EPrints 3.5.0
Release Notes
3.4 | 3.4.1 | 3.4.2 | 3.4.3 | 3.4.4 | 3.4.5 | 3.4.6 | 3.4.7
3.3 | 3.3.5 | 3.3.6 | 3.3.7 | 3.3.8 | 3.3.9 | 3.3.10 | 3.3.11 | 3.3.13 | 3.3.14 | 3.3.15 | 3.3.16
3.2.0 | 3.2.1 | 3.2.2 | 3.2.3 | 3.2.4 | 3.2.5 | 3.2.6 | 3.2.7 | 3.2.8 | 3.2.9
This page contains information about the planned EPrints v3.5.0 tag and release on GitHub.
Contents
Release Notes
EPrints 3.5.0 will become available on EPrints 3.5 GitHub as a release.
- Codename: Highfield Hippogriff
New Dependencies
To be determined. Please refer to the Installation for EPrints 3.5.
Upgrade Considerations
EPrints 3.5.0 is only intended are a release for those deploying an new EPrints installation. EPrints 3.5.0 is not intended as a version for which you can upgrade from EPrints 3.4.x. EPrints 3.5.1 will be built with upgrading from 3.4 in mind and will offer suite of tools to assist in this process.
New Features
- Creation of first-order objects for people and organisation.
- Replaces reliance on partial loose association with user objects or lack of unique identification at for organisations at all.
- People and organisation objects can either be imported or are generated on-the-fly when added to an epruns
- Introduction of new Contributions field added to the (eprint) workflow to replace various fields that often have different formats (e.g. creators, editors, contributors, corporate creators, funders, publisher. etc.)
- Field brings together two parts an "entity" (person or organisation) and a "type of contribution" as specified by the Library of Congress "relators" vocabulary.
- To be completed
Further Planned Features and Improvements
See 3.5.1 milestone on GitHub for more details. Longer term planned features and improvements are listed under the 3.5.x milestone
