The first release candidate for JHOVE 1.24 is now available for testing.
JHOVE <http://jhove.openpreservation.org/> is an open source file format
identification, validation and characterisation tool for digital
preservation, and part of the OPF reference toolset
<https://openpreservation.org/technology/reference-toolset/>.

This community release incorporates the global contributions made during
our development
<https://openpreservation.org/blog/2019/04/30/improving-jhove-through-international-collaboration/>
and document
<https://openpreservation.org/event/opf-document-hack-week-october-2019/>
hack weeks, held earlier this year, as well as independent contributions.
These online events aimed to celebrate and encourage meaningful
contributions to open source software. We’d like to say a huge thank you to
everyone who volunteered effort to this release and helped improve JHOVE
for the benefit of the digital preservation community.

Major new features of this release include:

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   A new EPUB module
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   Translations of JHOVE error messages into German, Portuguese, Dutch,
   Danish and French
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   Document clean up and improvement across modules


To download the release candidate and read the release notes, see our news
item
<https://openpreservation.org/news/jhove-1-24-community-release-candidate-out-now/>.


-- 
Becky McGuinness | Community Manager
@openpreserve | Skype: becky.mcguinness1

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