Archivematica 1.8 and Storage Service 0.13 release notes

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Added

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Changed

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Streamline checksum verification

This enhancement de-duplicates checksum verification in Archivematica, which helps to improve the performance of Archivematica in processing large transfers (many files and/or large files). This enhancement includes three changes:

• Remove the "Verify checksums generated on ingest" micro-service
• Enhance the "Verify AIP" micro-service to bulk query the database for transfer-generated checksums and then verify that they match what is documented in the bag-generated manifest-<ALGORITHM>.txt.
• Have "Verify AIP" create an AIP-level "fixity check" PREMIS:EVENT that it can pass to the Storage Service, which will document this verification in the pointer file.

This should not impact regular workflows, but it is worth noting that there is no AIP-level fixity check PREMIS event for uncompressed AIPs, which don't have pointer files. For uncompressed AIPs, there are still object-level fixity events in place. Note that there is an issue in the Archivematica Issues repository regarding this note - Problem: uncompressed AIPs need pointer files #32

This work was sponsored by Columbia University Library. Thank you!

• Issue: #918
• Pull requests: PR 1012

File format identification updates

Archivematica 1.8 is now up to date with PRONOM v.94! For more information on new data added to PRONOM, check the PRONOM release notes.

This work was sponsored by the Denver Art Museum. Thank you!

Fixed

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• Bugfix 1: ASCII codes can't decode when the filename contains a backtick 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

Upgraded tools and dependencies

• Tool has been updated to version X.
• Fido has been upgraded to version 1.3.12
• Siegfried has been upgraded to version 1.7.10

End of life dependencies

Archivists' Toolkit integration

Archivists' Toolkit has been deprecated since 2013. The Archivists' Toolkit DIP upload feature has not had active development or testing since then. There are no plans to start testing or to fix any problems with the feature. As a result, there is a proposal deprecate this feature in Archivematica 1.9. Community response is welcome via a comment on the issue in GitHub.