We are happy to announce the TIND 1.20.1 release.  This is a minor release with performance improvements and bug fixes for all products.

The release schedule is as follows:

> Release 1.20.1 Sandbox & Early Release Instances

• January 9, 2024 (Evening) – Europe / Asia / ANZ
• January 9, 2024 (Early morning) - North America

> Release 1.20.1 to all TIND instances 

• January 23, 2024 (Evening) – Europe / Asia / ANZ
• January 23, 2024 (Early morning) - North America

Record Processing Performance Improvements

This release includes several performance updates related to processing both records and files. Most prominently, background indexing processes have been rewritten and simplified. As a result indexing speeds are vastly improved - reducing the time to do a full instance reindex by 95 %

In the first six months of 2024 we have several additional performance improvements lined up that will make the interaction with your TIND instance smoother and faster for system administrators and end-users alike!

Bugs and Problems Resolved

Record Editor [IR, DA, RDM]
When submitting changes to a record with a file in the record editor, the preview presented would skip down to the Files section automatically instead of presenting the record from the top.

Submission Dashboard [IR, RDM]

• Action buttons display
  In Firefox, a fourth Action button would sometimes be hidden due to an unintentional increase in the button size. The buttons have been reduced in size again.
  
  
• Statistics
  The “Show statistics” button was displaying results for the first table only. It will now display statistics for any selected records in any table.
  
  More improvements to the Dashboard interface are coming in 1.21.0
  

DataCite export [RDM, IR]
The DOI generation will successfully mint a DOI even if you have added an external DOI as an alternate identifier.

Video streaming [DA]
Restricted video files were being transcoded and displayed in the video viewer on the record page. Restricted files will be available for download only by users that have access, and will not be playable in the viewer.

Front Page [All]
The footer on the front page would become hidden by other page elements when vertically resizing the browser window.

Advanced Search [All]
A search from the Advanced Search page would not consider the collection selection from the front page in the same way as the Simple Search. This has now been aligned, meaning that clicking on Advanced Search from the front page link will execute a general search based on the collection selection. The collection selection is also retained when moving between simple and advanced search.

Detailed View | Submission Information [RDM, IR]
In the Submission Information section, using brackets would cause the text within to be hidden in the Curation notes field. 

File Manager [DA, IR, RDM]

• Improvements to the load speed for batch uploading files with the file manager
  
  
• Improvements to accuracy of file type processing and error handling on file ingestio

Archival Information Packages (AIP) [DA]

• Missing content in bag-info.txt
  The bag-info.txt file included in the AIPs has been improved. It now includes the following elements, and additional elements can be added through configuration (contact TIND Support for more information).
  • Bag-Size
  • Bagging-Date
  • Payload-Oxum
    
    
• Bagger validation
  Compressed AIP packages from TIND would not validate with the Library of Congress validation tool Bagger.