Archivematica 1.11 and Storage Service 0.16 release notes

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Added

PREMIS Event import

This feature allows the import of PREMIS events which took place prior to processing in Archivematica. The PREMIS events are written in an xml format (see sample data) and placed in the metadata folder of a transfer. The PREMIS events are then written to the AIP METS file.

This work was sponsored by Piql and the Norwegian Health Archives. Thank you!

• Documentation: link
• Issue: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/710

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This work was sponsored by some amazing institution. Thank you!

• Documentation: link
• Pull requests: link
• Feature files: link

Changed

Performance and monitoring improvements

This is a collection of issues fixed that improve performance for processing at scale, and also enable performance monitoring through external applications such as Prometheus and Grafana.

These updates have been sponsored by Piql and the Norwegian Health Archives. Thank you!

• Documentation: link
• Issues:
  • Commonly used database tables don't have indexes: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/907
  • MCPServer should reuse database connections: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/913
  • Archivematica does not output metrics to analyze its performance: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/906
  • MCPService must process all transfer packages sent to it at once: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/911
  • Some jobs run even when disabled: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/866
  • "Check transfer directory for objects" executed multiple times: https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/782
  • index_aip crashes elasticsearch for large transfers: https://github.com/artefactual/archivematica/issues/1199

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• Bugfix 1: link
• Bugfix 2: link. Sponsored by someone!
• Bugfix 3: link

Upgraded tools and dependencies

• Update to PRONOM v.95 https://github.com/archivematica/Issues/issues/791

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