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Dataverse Software 6.10 Release

March 19, 2026

Dataverse 6.10 is now available with several new features, bug fixes, and improvements.

Highlights for Dataverse 6.10 include:

  • - Optionally require acknowledgment of a disclaimer when publishing
  • - Optionally require embargo reason
  • - Harvesting improvements
  • - Croissant support now built in
  • - Archiving, OAI-ORE, and BagIt export improvements
  • - Support for REFI-QDA Codebook and Project files
  • - Review datasets
  • - Infrastructure: Payara has been upgraded from version 6 to 7
  • - Infrastructure: Java has been upgraded from version 17 to 21
  • - New and improved APIs, including filling in a guestbook when downloading files
  • - Bug fixes

Thank you to all community members who contributed code, suggestions, bug reports, and other assistance across the project.

View release details and upgrade instructions here:

https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/releases/tag/v6.10