ArchivesSpace Version 2.6.0 is Available!

From Christine Di Bella at ArchivesSpace:

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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 to improve usability and clarity. 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. A full list of the changes and improvements is provided on the release page.

Thanks very much to community members Br. Paul, Blake Carver, Mark Cooper, Tim DiLauro, Bobbi Fox, Brian Harrington, dvhassel, Adam Jazairi, Steve Majewski, Dave Mayo, Curtis Poston, Austin Schaffer, and Trevor Thornton for their code contributions to this release. Thanks also to the contract developer we have been able to engage through member funds, Manny Rodriguez (via LibraryHost), for his substantial efforts on the human-readable URLs feature. Thanks as always to LYRASIS Digital Technology Services for their technical support. This release is also very much a testament to the efforts of our Development Prioritization sub-team, Testing sub-team, Technical Documentation sub-team, and Core Committers Group, as well as individual ArchivesSpace users like Celia Caust-Ellenbogen, Cory Nimer, and Rachel Searcy, who identified and helped us work through particular bug fixes and new features in this release.

Within the program, our co-op student Sarah Morrissey did amazing work in providing a number of community-requested improvements to the staff and public interfaces (many of them recommended by the Staff Interface Enhancement Working Group last year). And though I don’t always call them out in release announcements, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that Technical Lead Laney McGlohon and Junior Developer Lora Woodford worked through a tremendous amount of their own code and that of others to bring this packed release to you. We are very fortunate to have such a wonderful community-based and user-focused developer team.

Christine Di Bella

ArchivesSpace Program Manager

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You can review the release notes here: https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/releases/tag/v2.6.0

Please contact Atlas at support@atlas-sys.com if you would like to schedule an update. Atlas will take a few days to first test the update on our servers.