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    <p>Dear BEXIS2 User Community,<br>
      <br>
      We are glad to inform that, we have released the latest version
      2.17 of the BEXIS2. The summary of the release is as below.</p>
    <h1><a href="https://github.com/BEXIS2/Core/releases/tag/2.17"
        moz-do-not-send="true"><font color="#0080ff">v.2.17</font></a></h1>
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        255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style:
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        !important; float: none;">Web.config update to add Exceptionless
        -> see:<span> </span></span><a class="commit-link"
        data-hovercard-type="commit"
data-hovercard-url="https://github.com/BEXIS2/Core/commit/8b50510f30bd9c00a20faedb9fecf9e255005085/hovercard"
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href="https://github.com/BEXIS2/Core/commit/8b50510f30bd9c00a20faedb9fecf9e255005085"><tt style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: ui-monospace, SFMono-Regular, "SF Mono", Menlo, Consolas, "Liberation Mono", monospace; font-size: 13.6px; padding: 0.2em 0.4em; margin: 0px; white-space: break-spaces; background-color: var(--color-neutral-muted); border-radius: 6px;">8b50510</tt></a><br
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      <span style="color: rgb(87, 96, 106); font-family: -apple-system,
        BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", "Noto Sans",
        Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji",
        "Segoe UI Emoji"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;
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        white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
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        255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style:
        initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
        !important; float: none;">Database update:<span> </span></span><a
href="https://github.com/BEXIS2/Core/blob/rc/database%20update%20scripts/Update_Script_216to217.sql"
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        255); color: var(--color-accent-fg); text-decoration: none;
        font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe
        UI", "Noto Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif,
        "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji";
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        normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;
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        moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://github.com/BEXIS2/Core/blob/rc/database%20update%20scripts/Update_Script_216to217.sql</a><strong></strong></p>
    <p><strong>Workspace changes:</strong> <a class="commit-link"
        href="https://github.com/BEXIS2/Workspace/compare/2.16...2.17"
        moz-do-not-send="true">BEXIS2/Workspace@<tt>2.16...2.1</tt></a><a
        class="commit-link"
        href="https://github.com/BEXIS2/Workspace/compare/2.16...2.17"
        moz-do-not-send="true"><tt>7</tt></a></p>
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      16px; font-size: 1.25em; font-weight:
      var(--base-text-weight-semibold, 600); line-height: 1.25; color:
      rgb(36, 41, 47); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont,
      "Segoe UI", "Noto Sans", Helvetica, Arial,
      sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI
      Emoji"; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
      font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2;
      text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
      white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
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      255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style:
      initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Features</h3>
    <ul style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 2em; margin-top:
      0px; margin-bottom: 16px; color: rgb(36, 41, 47); font-family:
      -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI",
      "Noto Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple
      Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji"; font-size: 16px;
      font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
      font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing:
      normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
      text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
      word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
      background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness:
      initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
      initial;">
      <li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Adding Exceptionless for
        System Loggging/Monitoring (<a
          href="https://github.com/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1040"
          data-hovercard-type="issue"
          data-hovercard-url="/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1040/hovercard"
          style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;
          color: var(--color-accent-fg); text-decoration: none;">#1040</a>)</li>
      <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;">Add
        attributes during XSD import, show and edit (<a
          href="https://github.com/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1050"
          data-hovercard-type="issue"
          data-hovercard-url="/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1050/hovercard"
          style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;
          color: var(--color-accent-fg); text-decoration: none;">#1050</a>)</li>
    </ul>
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      16px; font-size: 1.25em; font-weight:
      var(--base-text-weight-semibold, 600); line-height: 1.25; color:
      rgb(36, 41, 47); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont,
      "Segoe UI", "Noto Sans", Helvetica, Arial,
      sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI
      Emoji"; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
      font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2;
      text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
      white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
      -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
      255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style:
      initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Enhancements</h3>
    <ul style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 2em; margin-top:
      0px; margin-bottom: 16px; color: rgb(36, 41, 47); font-family:
      -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI",
      "Noto Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple
      Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji"; font-size: 16px;
      font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
      font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing:
      normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
      text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
      word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
      background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness:
      initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
      initial;">
      <li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Metadata API: Add check for
        public (<a href="https://github.com/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1037"
          data-hovercard-type="issue"
          data-hovercard-url="/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1037/hovercard"
          style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;
          color: var(--color-accent-fg); text-decoration: none;">#1037</a>)</li>
      <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;">Metadata
        API: Add request by version (<a
          href="https://github.com/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1036"
          data-hovercard-type="issue"
          data-hovercard-url="/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1036/hovercard"
          style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;
          color: var(--color-accent-fg); text-decoration: none;">#1036</a>)</li>
      <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;">Dataset
        API: Add title (<a
          href="https://github.com/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1075"
          data-hovercard-type="issue"
          data-hovercard-url="/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1075/hovercard"
          style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;
          color: var(--color-accent-fg); text-decoration: none;">#1075</a>)</li>
      <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;">Metadata
        Statistic API: Exclude ds, add regex and metadata structure (<a
          href="https://github.com/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1014"
          data-hovercard-type="issue"
          data-hovercard-url="/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1014/hovercard"
          style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;
          color: var(--color-accent-fg); text-decoration: none;">#1014</a>)</li>
      <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;">Schema
        Mapping: User should be able to map a key to a default value if
        no field matches (<a
          href="https://github.com/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1048"
          data-hovercard-type="issue"
          data-hovercard-url="/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1048/hovercard"
          style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;
          color: var(--color-accent-fg); text-decoration: none;">#1048</a>)</li>
      <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;">Schema
        Mapping: (Automatic) bidirectional mapping (<a
          href="https://github.com/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1008"
          data-hovercard-type="issue"
          data-hovercard-url="/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1008/hovercard"
          style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;
          color: var(--color-accent-fg); text-decoration: none;">#1008</a>)</li>
      <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;">Schema
        Mapping: Convert hard coded system keys of B2 to a dynamic list
        enhancement (<a href="https://github.com/BEXIS2/Core/issues/963"
          data-hovercard-type="issue"
          data-hovercard-url="/BEXIS2/Core/issues/963/hovercard"
          style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;
          color: var(--color-accent-fg); text-decoration: none;">#963</a>)</li>
      <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;">SAM -
        Former member feature: Add tests (<a
          href="https://github.com/BEXIS2/Core/issues/920"
          data-hovercard-type="issue"
          data-hovercard-url="/BEXIS2/Core/issues/920/hovercard"
          style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;
          color: var(--color-accent-fg); text-decoration: none;">#920</a>)</li>
      <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;">SAM -
        Former member feature: Add documentation (<a
          href="https://github.com/BEXIS2/Core/issues/921"
          data-hovercard-type="issue"
          data-hovercard-url="/BEXIS2/Core/issues/921/hovercard"
          style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;
          color: var(--color-accent-fg); text-decoration: none;">#921</a>)</li>
      <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;">LDAP
        Login: Check of "null" or "empty" email addresses (<a
          href="https://github.com/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1067"
          data-hovercard-type="issue"
          data-hovercard-url="/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1067/hovercard"
          style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;
          color: var(--color-accent-fg); text-decoration: none;">#1067</a>)</li>
      <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;">Set/Unset
        Public: Send email to Admin (<a
          href="https://github.com/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1026"
          data-hovercard-type="issue"
          data-hovercard-url="/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1026/hovercard"
          style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;
          color: var(--color-accent-fg); text-decoration: none;">#1026</a>)</li>
      <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;">Dataset
        Download: Adapt text in Download-Button of unstructured datasets
        (<a href="https://github.com/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1030"
          data-hovercard-type="issue"
          data-hovercard-url="/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1030/hovercard"
          style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;
          color: var(--color-accent-fg); text-decoration: none;">#1030</a>)</li>
      <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;">Code
        Cleanup: Removal of unnecessary rpm projects (<a
          href="https://github.com/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1065"
          data-hovercard-type="issue"
          data-hovercard-url="/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1065/hovercard"
          style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;
          color: var(--color-accent-fg); text-decoration: none;">#1065</a>)</li>
      <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;">Wiki page
        for E2E tests recordings for Data Manager (<a
          href="https://github.com/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1010"
          data-hovercard-type="issue"
          data-hovercard-url="/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1010/hovercard"
          style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;
          color: var(--color-accent-fg); text-decoration: none;">#1010</a>)</li>
    </ul>
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      16px; font-size: 1.25em; font-weight:
      var(--base-text-weight-semibold, 600); line-height: 1.25; color:
      rgb(36, 41, 47); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont,
      "Segoe UI", "Noto Sans", Helvetica, Arial,
      sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI
      Emoji"; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
      font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2;
      text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
      white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
      -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
      255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style:
      initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Bugs</h3>
    <ul style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 2em; margin-top:
      0px; margin-bottom: 0px !important; color: rgb(36, 41, 47);
      font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe
      UI", "Noto Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif,
      "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji";
      font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures:
      normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400;
      letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start;
      text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
      widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
      background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness:
      initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
      initial;">
      <li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Fix row count to hide Excel
        download not always correct bug (<a
          href="https://github.com/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1046"
          data-hovercard-type="issue"
          data-hovercard-url="/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1046/hovercard"
          style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;
          color: var(--color-accent-fg); text-decoration: none;">#1046</a>)</li>
      <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;">Fix wrong
        mail subject if you revoke status (Former Members) (<a
          href="https://github.com/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1073"
          data-hovercard-type="issue"
          data-hovercard-url="/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1073/hovercard"
          style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;
          color: var(--color-accent-fg); text-decoration: none;">#1073</a>)</li>
      <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;">Fix change
        to former member return always true (Former Members) (<a
          href="https://github.com/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1043"
          data-hovercard-type="issue"
          data-hovercard-url="/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1043/hovercard"
          style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;
          color: var(--color-accent-fg); text-decoration: none;">#1043</a>)</li>
      <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;">Fix after
        deleting a dataset users are not able to change the permissions
        (<a href="https://github.com/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1033"
          data-hovercard-type="issue"
          data-hovercard-url="/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1033/hovercard"
          style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;
          color: var(--color-accent-fg); text-decoration: none;">#1033</a>)</li>
      <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;">Fix
        attachment uploads does not trigger system key (e.g. version)
        update in metadata (<a
          href="https://github.com/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1045"
          data-hovercard-type="issue"
          data-hovercard-url="/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1045/hovercard"
          style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;
          color: var(--color-accent-fg); text-decoration: none;">#1045</a>)</li>
      <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;">Fix
        Swagger API should not read non-XML files (<a
          href="https://github.com/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1035"
          data-hovercard-type="issue"
          data-hovercard-url="/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1035/hovercard"
          style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;
          color: var(--color-accent-fg); text-decoration: none;">#1035</a>)</li>
      <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;">Fix empty
        metadata container (<a
          href="https://github.com/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1039"
          data-hovercard-type="issue"
          data-hovercard-url="/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1039/hovercard"
          style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;
          color: var(--color-accent-fg); text-decoration: none;">#1039</a>)</li>
      <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;">Fix XSD
        import set elements as complex type, when no datatype is defined
        (<a href="https://github.com/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1034"
          data-hovercard-type="issue"
          data-hovercard-url="/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1034/hovercard"
          style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;
          color: var(--color-accent-fg); text-decoration: none;">#1034</a>)</li>
      <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;">Fix during
        user registration relationships title has an additional colon (<a
          href="https://github.com/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1057"
          data-hovercard-type="issue"
          data-hovercard-url="/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1057/hovercard"
          style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;
          color: var(--color-accent-fg); text-decoration: none;">#1057</a>)</li>
      <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;">Fix
        prevent send notification email on video preview (<a
          href="https://github.com/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1024"
          data-hovercard-type="issue"
          data-hovercard-url="/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1024/hovercard"
          style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;
          color: var(--color-accent-fg); text-decoration: none;">#1024</a>)</li>
      <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;">Fix
        authorization via API: Make http authorization header field name
        handling case-insensitive (<a
          href="https://github.com/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1023"
          data-hovercard-type="issue"
          data-hovercard-url="/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1023/hovercard"
          style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;
          color: var(--color-accent-fg); text-decoration: none;">#1023</a>)</li>
      <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;">Fix
        missing try/catch within FromExcelSerialDate(data import) (<a
          href="https://github.com/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1068"
          data-hovercard-type="issue"
          data-hovercard-url="/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1068/hovercard"
          style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;
          color: var(--color-accent-fg); text-decoration: none;">#1068</a>)</li>
      <li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.25em;">Fix
        missing try/catch for better error handling (email service) (<a
          href="https://github.com/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1060"
          data-hovercard-type="issue"
          data-hovercard-url="/BEXIS2/Core/issues/1060/hovercard"
          style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;
          color: var(--color-accent-fg); text-decoration: none;">#1060</a>)</li>
    </ul>
    <p>Visit the <a
        href="https://github.com/BEXIS2/Core/releases/tag/2.17"
        moz-do-not-send="true">release page</a> to download them.</p>
    <p>With best regards,</p>
    Jitendra Gaikwad
    <p></p>
    <p></p>
    <p style="font-size:small;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"></p>
    <p></p>
    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Dr Jitendra Gaikwad
Project Scientist (TA3)
NFDI4Biodiversity 
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Community Manager
BEXIS2 Research data management system
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Friedrich Schiller University Jena
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Leutragraben 1, 07743 Jena, Germany

Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jitendra.gaikwad@uni-jena.de">jitendra.gaikwad@uni-jena.de</a>
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