This is a platform upgrade release. Payara, Solr, and Java have been upgraded. No features have been added to the Dataverse software itself. Only a handful of bugs were fixed.
Many thanks to all of the community members who contributed code, suggestions, bug reports, and other assistance across the project.
View release details and upgrade instructions here: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/releases/tag/v6.0
Release Overview
This release contains major upgrades to core components
Runtime
- The required Java version has been increased from version 11 to 17.
- Payara application server has been upgraded to version 6.2023.8. This is a required update: Payara Community 5 has reached end of life.
- Solr has been upgraded to version 9.3.0.
- PostgreSQL 13 remains the tested and supported version.
Development
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Removal of Vagrant and Docker All In One (docker-aio), deprecated in Dataverse v5.14.
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All tests have been migrated to use JUnit 5 exclusively from now on.