Archivematica 1.8 and Storage Service 0.13 release notes

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File Format Identification updates

• PRONOM 94 upgrade (sponsored by Denver Art Museum)
• Fido 1.3.12 upgrade
• Siegfried 1.7.10 upgrade

Fixed

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• Bugfix 1: Failures on filenames with backticks and other 'silly' characters https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/16
• Bugfix 2: AIP re-ingest fails. https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/42
• Bugfix 3: PREMIS events from previous transfers are re-appearing https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/43
• Bugfix 4: Metadata reingest fails when dc:type is null https://github.com/artefactual/archivematica/issues/1132
• Bugfix 5: Use 7-zip without compression (Copy) mode https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/46
• Bugfix 6: Metadata added before "Approve Transfer" disappears https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/140
• Bugfix 7: Generate AIP METS fails for bag SIPs if bag-info.txt has multiple instances of the same label https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/173

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