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  • Hyku 7.0 and 7.1 released!

    Release notes: Hyku v7.0.0 (March 23) and Hyku v7.1.0 (April 7). Hyku 7.0 came out on March 23 and 7.1 followed two weeks later, so we’re covering both here. 7.0…

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  • Hyku 6.2 released!

    Hyku 6.2 is the first release with Flexible Metadata, the change we previewed in our Hyku 6.0 post. HykuUP customers were running 6.2 release-candidate code by late September, so the…

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  • Hyku 6.1 released!

    Most of this release is practical. These are changes repository staff notice the first time they upload a large file, run an import, or search the collection. Large file uploads…

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  • HykuUP Roadmap: Hyku 6.0 released and other major features upcoming!

    Learn about the benefits of Hyku 6.0, and hear about what’s coming with 6.1 and 6.2!

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  • HykuUP-grade: Now on Hyku 5.0!

    HykuUP moved to Hyku 5.0 in summer 2023, adding featured collections on the home page, custom favicons, more layout templates, and groups with roles.

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  • Mediated Deposit in Hyku

    Mediated deposit in Hyku lets repository admins review each submitted work, then approve it or send it back to the depositor for revision.

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  • Bulkrax: Bulk Import and Export for Hyku

    Bulk Import arrives on HykuUP (2020): create, schedule, and re-run imports from CSV, OAI-PMH, BagIt, and XML through the dashboard, with export to follow.

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  • Multi-Tenancy in Hyku

    Rob Kaufman’s 2019 talk on multi-tenancy in Hyku: many separate repositories, each with its own branding and users, running on one application.

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  • Hyku Load Testing

    Results from Notch8’s 2019 load test of Hyku for Carleton University, measuring response times under concurrent users on three server sizes.

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