Older Roadmap Format

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Last updated: May 27, 2021 by Christine Di Bella
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See Roadmap for the current roadmap


The ArchivesSpace team is pleased to share the ArchivesSpace Technology and Development Roadmap. This roadmap is a planning and communication tool to help the community know what to expect in terms of future development work and aid in planning for upcoming application releases.  

We're now making the roadmap available as a series of views targeted at the needs of different kinds of ArchivesSpace stakeholders.

  1. An All Details view presents our four categories of development and detailed information on where each development item is in the process, associated JIRA tickets, who is responsible for work on it, and when it is targeted for release. This view also highlights items for which we are particularly interested in having community developer contributions. This will be the view for those who are really immersed in an institution’s ArchivesSpace planning or who are looking to get involved in the activities of development, as well as those following a  particular feature through the development process.

    all details (as of Oct. 22, 2019)

  2. A Calendar view provides some detail about development in each category arranged chronologically by planned release. This may be most appropriate for a department head or systems person who needs to know the end result of ArchivesSpace development throughout the year, but could be useful for anyone who want to have a sense of the releases that are going to be coming out during the year, but not all the information leading up to them.

    calendar 2019 | calendar 2020

  3. Release-specific views that list what’s included in a specific release. These are appropriate for anyone looking for a snapshot of what was or is intended to be in each release.

    January 2020 - projected | February 2020 infrastructure only - projected | April 2020 projected | July 2020 - projected | September 2020 - projected

The All Details view has an impact score (ranging 1 - 3) for each development item to give a sense of the relative complexity and degree of improvement it represents in the application. An explanation of what the different impact scores mean and the criteria for determining them is included at the end of the first view. The impact scores enable us to represent the value of different development projects visually for stakeholders who may be less familiar with the specifics of archival practice or application maintenance.

The complete record for core code development is in JIRA.  This includes all completed development work (including all the work that was previously represented in Pivotal Tracker and migrated to JIRA in January 2015), current development work, work prioritized to be addressed in the near future, and work not yet prioritized. 

Development work conducted by the ArchivesSpace Program Team and contractors is prioritized by the Development Prioritization Sub-Team in collaboration with ArchivesSpace Program Team members. The Development Prioritization subteam is composed of members of the ArchivesSpace User and Technical Advisory Councils.

Upcoming releases

See roadmap views above.


Completed releases (notes for v.1.4 and later)

v2.6.0

This release contains program-led and community pull requests that provide feature enhancements, bug fixes, infrastructure improvements and documentation updates. There are a number of small changes to the staff and public interfaces. There is also a significant revamp of how background jobs run, including a new reports page layout. This release also has a new feature guided by a community-initiated and authored specification, the option to generate human-readable URLs for use in the public user interface.

v2.5.2

This release contains program-led and community pull requests that provide feature enhancements, bug fixes, infrastructure improvements, and documentation updates. In addition to more accessibility improvements, the release fixes an issue that those with Windows servers were experiencing when producing a PDF from the staff interface. The release also includes an enhanced agent merge function and more options for configuring OAI-PMH harvesting. The full list of improvements is in the release notes.


v2.5.1

This minor release contains program-led and community pull requests that provide feature enhancements, bug fixes, infrastructure improvements, and documentation updates. A focus of this release is continuing to improve the accessibility of the public and staff interfaces. The full list of improvements is in the release notes.


v2.5.0

This release contains many program-led and community pull requests that provide feature enhancements, bug fixes, infrastructure improvements, and documentation updates. The centerpiece of this release is the refactored reports. Other especially noteworthy improvements are code that reduces loading times for records in the staff interface and work to improve OAI-PMH and export functionality. Smaller items include small updates to the PDF produced from the public interface and the option to use Japanese translations for the interface labels. There are also some bug fixes for the public and staff interfaces and some additional automated tests and infrastructure upgrades. The full list of bug fixes and improvements is included in the release notes.


v2.4.1

This minor release fixes a bug introduced in 2.4.0 that affected searching by date in the public user interface.  Please see the release page for more information.


v2.4.0

This release contains many program-led and community pull requests that provide feature enhancements, bug fixes, infrastructure improvements, and documentation updates. Some items of note include improvements to the search results screen in the staff interface (including new columns for identifier and result context for archival objects), updates to the mapping and new options for our built-in MARCXML exporter for resources, a new option to search subjects in the PUI, and updates to the French translations. Please see the release page for a listing of all the new features and bug fixes included in this release.


v2.3.2

This minor release includes some bug fixes and small enhancements. Please see the release page for a listing of all the new features and bug fixes included in this release.


v2.3.1

This minor release includes some bug fixes and small enhancements. Please see the release page for a listing of all the new features and bug fixes included in this release.


v2.3.0

This release includes a new feature to add additional required fields to an agents record, the first phase of implementation of agents module expansion. It also includes some bug fixes and small enhancements. Please see the release page for a listing of all the new features and bug fixes included in this release.


v2.2.2
This minor release contains a number of community pull requests and several bug fixes. The most notable bug fix is for truncation searching in the public user interface. Please see the release page for a listing of all of the features and bug fixes included in this release.


v2.2.1
This minor release contains a number of bug fixes and improvements, many contributed by community members. Please see the release page for a listing of all of the features and bug fixes included in this release.


v2.2.0

This major release includes an assessment module and EAD3 exporter, in addition to some bug fixes and enhancements. Please see the release page for a listing of all the new features and bug fixes included in this release.


v2.1.2
This minor release contains several bug fixes and addresses some technical debt issues. Please see the release page for a listing of all the new features and bug fixes included in this release.


v2.1.1
This minor release contains a couple dozen small bug fixes and enhancements, including improvements to the PUI and OAI-PMH implementations in v2.1.0. Most notably, it addresses a bug that caused initial indexing to take significantly longer than was desirable, particularly for large databases. Please see the release page for a full listing of the issues addressedin this release.


v2.1.0

This major release includes the production-ready version of the new public user interface, a starter OAI-PMH responder, and enhanced rights management functionality. It also removes the unneeded original container management code to improve performance. Please see the release page for a listing of all the new features and bug fixes included in this release.


v2.0.1

This patch release remedies an issue discovered in 2.0.0 in which the resource tree appears to become unresponsive. 


v2.0.0

This major release includes upgrades to some of the underlying technologies of the application and performance improvements. The changes include upgrading to Rails 5, better performance for background jobs and larger databases, a new way to reorder components in resources and digital objects, and remediation of some issues with reports. Please see the release page for a listing of all the new features and bug fixes included in this release.


v1.5.4

This patch release corrects an issue that caused the METS export for digital objects not to run.


v1.5.3

This minor release includes a number of fixes for prioritized bugs and commits from community pull requests. Please see the release page for a listing of all the new features and bug fixes included in this release.


v1.5.2

This minor release includes bug fixes and performance improvements, and addresses some minor layout issues in the staff interface. This release includes development work completed by our development partner Hudson Molonglo as well as pull requests submitted by members of the community. Please see the release page for a listing of all the new features and bug fixes included in this release.

 

v.1.5.0 and 1.5.1

These releases incorporate the enhanced container management functionality originally developed for Yale University by Hudson Molonglo (HM) into the core code of the application. They also incorporate the complementary location management functionality developed for New York University by HM. They also include a number of small bug fixes and feature enhancements. Please see the release pages (v1.5.0 | v1.5.1) for a listing of all the new features and bug fixes included in these releases. (V1.5.1 includes two fixes for issues found in v1.5.0: ensuring the correct version of Solr is packaged and making some changes to the EAD importer to ensure that valid EAD is produced when certain characters or encoding are present in notes.) The recording from the July 5, 2016, release overview webinar reviewing many of these features and the process for upgrading is available at http://archivesspace.org/recording-and-slides-for-v1-5-0-release-webinar/.

 

v.1.4

  • This release includes solutions to rendering and re-ordering performance problems that many users reported. These solutions were distributed in two release candidates in 
    August 2015 and received approval from several users.
  • This release also includes several new features: an enhanced interface to the LCNAF plugin that makes it easier to scan and identify authority records for import; ability to see how many times and where a controlled value term has been applied; ability to set a default order for notes in the resource and digital object modules; and the ability to record extent statements in the Rapid Date Entry template in the resource module.

See the ArchivesSpace GitHub release page for a complete listing of new features and bug fixes included in the most recent release and previous releases. Reports for sprints completed in 2015 are posted at https://archivesspace.atlassian.net/wiki/display/ADC/Releases+and+Sprints.