Monthly Updates

It’s an understatement to say that we are living and working through times that many of us never expected. We hope that everyone is safe and urge everyone to do whatever they need to keep themselves and their loved ones safe and healthy. That said, we recognize that continuing to help the communities we each … Read More

Development We anticipate putting out a release candidate for the next version of ArchivesSpace within days. Once the release candidate is out, we expect to have a relatively short window between the release candidate and the release. As always, we’ll appreciate all the testing people are able to do in the period between the release … Read More

Development We are working on the next release of ArchivesSpace, projected for early 2020. Some of the new features that are likely to be included are merging top containers, merging container profiles, and additional options for viewing results in the browse and search areas in the staff interface. The release will also have some performance … Read More

November 2019 Update Development As mentioned in the release announcement for ArchivesSpace v2.7.0, the changes in the languages area will require data cleanup to existing records for some people. Upon upgrade, existing language information is migrated to the new or newly structured fields. While some ways of recording information could be easily accommodated in this … Read More

Development ArchivesSpace v2.7.0 is now available. You can download it at https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/releases/tag/v2.7.0.  This release contains program-led and community pull requests that provide feature enhancements, bug and security fixes, and documentation updates, as well as infrastructure improvements, which were a significant focus of this release. A full list of the changes and improvements is provided on … Read More

Development The ArchivesSpace team is pleased to announce a release candidate, v2.7.0-RC1. You can download it at https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/releases/tag/v2.7.0-RC1 or test it out without downloading at http://test.archivesspace.org/staff (username admin /password admin). This release candidate contains program-led and community pull requests that provide feature enhancements, bug fixes, and documentation updates, as well as a number of infrastructure … Read More

Development We are getting close to having a release candidate available for the work we’ve been doing on some needed infrastructure improvements for the application and making recording language information more standards-compliant in this area. The release candidate will also have some bug fixes and small feature enhancements. Look for an announcement in September. Are … Read More

July 2019 Update Development We continue to work on some needed infrastructure improvements for the application. We’re also doing work on agents and recording language information that will make ArchivesSpace more standards-compliant in these areas. We’re aiming to have these ready to go into the application in a release later this summer. Are you interested … Read More

Development Version 2.6.0 of ArchivesSpace was released last month. We have now turned our attention to some needed infrastructure improvements for the application. We are also doing work on agents and recording language information that will make ArchivesSpace more standards-compliant in these areas. We’re aiming for the next release to come out later this summer. … Read More