#  Dataverse Software 6.3 Release  

 





July 03, 2024

 

 

 Dataverse 6.3 is now available. Many thanks to all of the community members who contributed code, suggestions, bug reports, and other assistance across the project.

##  Release Overview

 This release contains a number of updates and new features including:

- **New Contributor Guide**. The UX Working Group released a new Dataverse [Contributor Guide](https://guides.dataverse.org/en/6.3/contributor/index.html).
- **Search Performance Improvements**. Solr indexing and searching were improved, speeding up performance. Larger installations take note.
- **Dataverse Now Supports File-level Retention Periods**. See the [Retention Periods section](https://guides.dataverse.org/en/6.3/user/dataset-management.html#retention-periods) of the guide for details.
- **API Optimizations for Large Datasets**. Search API and permission checking have been improved for datasets with thousands of files.
- **Improved Controlled Vocabulary Support**. Improvements include updates to the citation metadata block's Language field and multiple extensions added to the external vocabulary mechanism.
- **Improved Detection of RO-Crate Files**. Dataverse now detects mime-types based on filename extensions and detects RO-Crate metadata files.
- **Sitemap Now Supports More Than 50K Items**. Dataverse can now handle more than 50,000 items when generating sitemap files. For details, see the [sitemap section](https://guides.dataverse.org/en/6.3/installation/config.html#creating-a-sitemap-and-submitting-it-to-search-engines) of the Installation Guide.

 For a complete list of code changes in this release, see the [GitHub 6.3 Milestone](https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/milestone/113?closed=1)   
View release details and upgrade instructions here: <https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/releases/tag/v6.3>



 

 

 



 

 

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