5.5.3 Upgrade Notes5.5.3 Upgrade Notes

Future changes

IE 9 and IE 10 will not be supported from version 5.6 and forward:

From Pure 5.6.0 (released June 2016) Pure will no longer support Internet Explorer 9 and Internet Explorer 10. This does NOT mean that Pure is not working in IE 9 or IE 10, but we will no longer test against these browsers, and we will not fix bug specifically related to these two browsers. If you are using Internet Explorer, you should therefore upgrade your browser to the latest version of Internet Explorer in order to get the best experience with Pure.

Hereby, we are following the line from Microsoft whom ended this support on January 12 (see e.g., https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/WindowsForBusiness/End-of-IE-support)

Deprecation / End of support for DSpace 1.8.x or earlier from version 5.6 and forward
From version 5.6/4.25 (June 2016) of Pure, support for DSpace 1.8.x and earlier will be deprecated. The functionality will still work and be supported, but existing customers are strongly advised to migrate to more recent versions of DSpace. All new customers will need a more recent DSpace version.

From version 5.8/4.27 of Pure (February 2017), Pure will no longer support and bug fix the integration to DSpace versions 1.8.x or earlier.

Our decision to do this is to better align with the versions that are supported from the DSpace community as well as keeping the number of supported releases we need to test and maintain at a reasonable level.

The DSpace Committers Group officially ended support of 1.8.x as of January 2015 (see https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Releases for details, and https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Software+Support+Policy for the groups established support policy).

In future versions of Pure, we will support integration to Dspace versions two years after The DSpace Committers Group end their support, which should provide sufficient time to plan and execute an upgrade of DSpace. For example, support for DSpace 3.x integrations in Pure will end in February 2018.

For customers wishing to migrate to more recent releases of DSpace, please check https://pure.helpjuice.com/en_US/pure-core/supported-platforms for supported versions. From Pure release 5.6, support for DSpace 5.x will be added.

Deprecation / End of support for Equella from version 5.6 and forward
From version 5.6/4.25 (June 2016) of Pure, support for Equella will be removed from the list of officially supported repositories. Existing customers will continue to receive support for the currently supported Equella version, but we will not implement integration to more recent versions of Equella.

Our decision to drop this is the very low number of customers we have that integrate to Equella.

Oracle 11g will not be supported as the Pure database from version 5.7 and forward:

As of version 5.7/4.26 of Pure, which will be released in October 2016, Pure will no longer support Oracle 11g for the Pure database.

SQL Server 2005 will not be supported as the Pure database from version 5.7 and forward:

As of version 5.7/4.26 of Pure, which will be released in October 2016, Pure will no longer support SQL Server 2005 for the Pure database.

SQL Server testing

Pure is currently being tested on SQL Server 2008 and 2014, but from Pure version 5.6 we will only be testing with SQL Server 2014. SQL Server 2008 and newer will still be supported by Pure.

See the End of Support Announcements for Pure page for all end of support announcements.