Archivematica 1.6.1 release notes

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NOTE: these release notes are a work in progress and are subject to change.

Primarily a bugfix release - August 1st, 2017.

Tool Updates

• Support for PRONOM 90
• siegfried updated to version 1.7.3
• FIDO updated to version 1.3.6
• ffmpeg updated to version 3.3.2 (Ubuntu only)

Archivematica 1.6.1

• Sponsored (Rockefeller Archive Center) Object Level Premis Rights Import - PR575 Docs
• Sponsored (Canadian Centre for Architecture) Update METS to encode in UTF-8 instead of ASCII - Issue #11163 PR541
• Sponsored (Canadian Centre for Architecture) Increase Elasticsearch timeout limit - Issue #11294 PR556
• Sponsored (University of Saskatchewan Library) Allow UTF8-encoded transfer directory names - Issue #10712 PR520

• Contributed (Dallas Pillen) Use display_title instead of title for sip_name in Appraisal tab - PR158
• Contributed (Dallas Pillen) Use display_string instead of title for digital object title with ArchivesSpace integration - PR41
• Support for PRONOM 89 and 90 - Issue #10982 PR660
• Fix upgrades when FPR Rules have been customised - FPR Admin Issue #46 PR609
• ArchivesSpace: Don't special case first note when editing a record - PR40
• Set filepath for zip files correctly when starting transfer - #11224 PR626
• Change date format in verifyMD5.sh - PR629

Archivematica Storage Service 0.10.1

• Sponsored (University of British Columbia Library) Improvements to editing pipelines - PR194
• Sponsored (City of Vancouver Archives) Correctly update pointer files when reingesting uncompressed AIP's PR203 PR214
• Update Bagit-python to version 1.5.4 PR207