Archivematica Release Notes

Released April 10th, 2014

Includes backend enhancements and API-level changes only, with no direct user facing changes

Sponsored (University of Alberta) Dataset preservation
- Sponsored Add support for AIC's https://github.com/artefactual/archivematica-storage-service/pull/2
Improved unicode support https://github.com/artefactual/archivematica-storage-service/pull/3
v2 of internal REST API (the API used by the Dashboard) and update documentation
Storage Service now supports updating - no longer necessary to reinstall to upgrade https://github.com/artefactual/archivematica-storage-service/pull/6

Released May 2, 2014

Sponsored (University of Alberta) Dataset preservation
- Sponsored creation and management of AICs #5802
- Sponsored AIP pointer file #5159
- Sponsored pointer file tracks multi-AIP relationships
- Sponsored pointer file includes compression information and other metadata required to find and process (e.g. open) AIP
Sponsored (University of Alberta) Enhancements to manual normalization workflow
- Sponsored ability to add PREMIS event detail information for manually normalized files via the dashboard #5216 User Manual - Adding PREMIS eventDetail for manual normalization
Backend/Not user-facing:
- Improved unicode support https://github.com/artefactual/archivematica/pull/17
- Better handling of preconfigured choices (processingMCP.xml)
- More choices in processing archive file formats (extra preconfigured choices)
- Improved handling of unit variables (passing parameters between micro-services)
- Update to FITS 0.8.0 (or newer if available)
- Update to ElasticSearch 0.90.13
- Security fix (avoid invoking subshell when running micro-services) https://github.com/artefactual/archivematica/pull/16
- Bug fix (file identification in mets is now from file id tool and not FITS) https://github.com/artefactual/archivematica/pull/15

Archivematica 1.0 Release Notes

Release for public testing: September 2013

Package release: January 2014

New features

Format Policy Registry (FPR) improvements including
- Ability to add/change format policies in the dashboard
- Ability to update the local FPR from fpr.archivematica.org
- Upload and report performance stats to FPR
- For detailed information about the FPR, see Administrator manual--FPR
Generation of "fail" reports in the administrative tab of the dashboard
Eliminate unused interface options (e.g. DSpace transfer, CONTENTdm upload, ICA-AtoM upload) via the administrative tab of the dashboard
DIP upload to Archivist Toolkit Archivists Toolkit integration with a metadata entry gui in the dashboard and actionable PREMIS rights
AIP pointer file
Storage service with API
Ability to request to delete an AIP via the dashboard
Upgraded to FITS 0.62
Ability for multiple pipelines to write to a shared ElasticSearch index and to the same AIP store(s) (i.e. multiple dept's -> one institution)
Further scalability testing/prototyping and improved documentation