Release Notes
Version 3.0.4 (June 13, 2024)
  • Improve node access permission
  • Medad Copilot for PDF files
Version 3.0.3 (June 6, 2024)
  • Datacite integration
  • New Backend UI and Theme
  • Submission Tracking
  • Records Linking and Relations
  • Multiple Media File Attachment
  • Creative Commons Integration
  • Access-Controlled Search Results
  • Terms and Conditions Acceptance
  • OAI-Harvester
  • Multiple Logos and Backgrounds
  • Search Within Collection
  • Batch Upload Metadata with Media
  • Search by Issue Date in Newspaper View
Version 3.0.0 (March 31, 2024)
  • User now can see his submissions and the status of each one
  • Now using drupal 10 & latest Islandora version
  • Consurtiom support
  • Creative commons integration (copyrights)
  • DataCite integration & DOI generation
  • Records relations
  • Repository item now can host more than 1 media file
  • Admin can restrict the login times for staff
  • End user theme improvements
  • Admins, Editors, Cataloger UI/UX enhanced
  • Voice Search Enhanced
  • New 10 custom fields of type text
Version 2.4.2 (November 30, 2023)
  • Solve security issue
Version 2.4.1 (November 27, 2023)
  • Added support to have the url alias based on the identifier in the repository item
Version 2.4 (November 24, 2023)
  • Administrator now can change the fields locations under tabs in the data entry forms
  • Administrator now can change the way of displaying the full item view
  • Added default thumbnails per media type
  • Added configuration page for the type of permission will be used
  • More controls for open sea dragon viewer (images viewer) includes Brightness, Contrast and Saturation
  • Enhanced user experience for record creation, edit and view
  • Added merging records
  • Enhanced user experience for user creation and edit
  • Added digital document submission
  • Added user interests section in homepage
Version 2.3.5 (October 16, 2023)
  • Fixed slider issue for arabic interface
  • Fixed static colors for item
  • Added missing translations
Version 2.3.4 (October 13, 2023)
  • Fixed slider issue for records less then 6
  • Fixed default thumbnail size on collections page
Version 2.3.3 (October 12, 2023)
  • Fixed footer issue
  • Removed "No votes yet" when there are no votes on the record
  • Added number of records to display on search results page
  • Added a loader
Version 2.3.2 (September 21, 2023)
  • Fix watermark image issue
  • Contributors now clickable on full-page display
  • Enhance citation
  • Remove resource type from my list
  • Social media alignment in footer
  • Fix admin dashboard bug
Version 2.3.1 (September 20, 2023)
  • Minor bug fixes and enhancements.
Version 2.3.0 (September 14, 2023)
  • Enhancements & New features:
    • Security & Permissions (set permissions for user per collection)
    • Images watermark
    • Admin/Staff dashboard (Insights)
    • Theme enhancements
    • User account enhancements
    • Advanced search history
    • Download count for objects
    • Top downloads report
    • Top viewed report
    • API documentations
    • Collection facet enhancement
    • PDF limit pages on the fly
Version 2.2.1 (June 14, 2023)
  • Minor Fixes
Version 2.2.0 (June 14, 2023)
  • Enhancements & New features:
    • Item full display customizations
    • Metadata & media import
    • SSO (SAML)
    • Item creation API
    • Advanced search enhancements
    • Alternate author now can be used to link author in the metadata
    • New report for Alpaca queue
    • Quick search box on all pages
  • Bug Fixes:
    • Minor UI fixes
Version 2.1.1 (May 22, 2023)
  • Enhancements & New features:
    • New Home page
    • Enhanced PDF Watermark
    • New popup for copyright when download
    • User Dashboard (Beta)
    • Search history for users
  • Bug Fixes:
    • Sorting in browse now working fine
    • Sorting of search results
  • Known issues:
    • PDF download needs optimization
Version 2.1 (March 22, 2023)
  • Enhancements & New features:
    • Rating and reviews
    • Export selected records for admin
    • Export search results for end users
    • Save search
    • Easy ingest (select values according to the category of the content record)
    • Users lists (users can create lists and add items to these lists)
    • Browse by subjects and authors
    • IP Range Access
    • Digitization request
    • Collection Pages
    • PDF Watermark
    • Images Watermark (Cantaloupe feature)
    • Reply to users request from the system for report content
  • Known issues:
    • Sorting in search results
    • Sorting in browse
Version 2.0.8 (February 23, 2023)
  • Enhancements & New features:
    • New Groups module for permissions
    • New design for the collection browse page
    • Thumbnails now fill the cards area
    • Disabled Wildcard search
    • Title and Alt title merged into 1 index for search
    • All subjects merged in 1 search index
    • Default item view layout changed
    • Repository Items separated from Collections and CMS content
    • Collection displayed along with each repository item in the content page
    • New page for Recent additions and Most viewed, no longer search results
    • Visual effects on the collection images minimized
    • Added 'X' to Simple search box to clear the text
    • Minimized sort options, added sort order icon
    • Unauthenticated users can download the Public version of the PDF
  • Bug Fixes:
    • Responsive design issues
    • Fixed the issue of items count under collections
    • Fixed the issue of MIC not working when the user is not logged in
    • Metadata display issues (long text)
Version 2.0.7
  • Bug fixes
Version 2.0.6
  • Bug fixes
Version 2.0.5
  • Bug fixes
Version 2.0.4
  • Bug fixes
Version 2.0.3
  • Bug fixes
Version 2.0.2
  • Bug fixes
Version 2.0.1
  • Bug fixes
Version 2.0.0

New codebase using the latest release

Version 1.4
  • Bug Fixes:
    • No more huge error messages from PHP in the admin page
    • Short PDF creation mechanism changed, now you can create a short PDF file by selecting the content from the content page, and apply the short PDF action from the action's menu
    • Download full text can be assigned by user role
    • Drupal update message is now hidden
    • Paged content now working as it should
  • Enhancements & New features:
    • Now we have only 1 content type (Repository Object), and the forms are created using Templates and fields
    • Data entry forms layout changed
    • Added customizable widgets to the home page
    • Download button added to the full details page, and removed the download and print from the PDF viewer
    • Advanced Search module changed, and now it is allowing customization
    • Collection page deprecated and now when you explore a collection it will show the items under it
    • DAR settings now have its own menu
    • My bookmarks page added
    • New reports added to the repository reporting
    • New viewer added to the system for paged content (Mirador)
    • New display for newspapers
    • Matomo web analytics now integrated with the system