The first release candidate for JHOVE 1.24 is now available for testing. JHOVE is an open source file format identification, validation and characterisation tool for digital preservation, and part of the OPF reference toolset.
This community release incorporates the global contributions made during our development and document 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:
- A new EPUB module
- Translations of JHOVE error messages into German, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish and French
- Document clean up and improvement across modules
Download JHOVE 1.24-RC
Read the draft release notes
Sign up for our ‘What’s new in JHOVE 1.24’ webinar
Subscribe to the JHOVE user mailing list
Feedback welcome
We invite you to download and test the release candidate. To report an issue or make a feature request please add it to the JHOVE issue tracker on GitHub or contact us with any feedback.
We will also continue internal testing of the release candidate and there may be a few small changes before the public production release.
About JHOVE
JHOVE is maintained by the Open Preservation Foundation. JHOVE is open source, free to download, to use and to modify. However, it is not free to host, maintain, support or develop. JHOVE is one of the most widely-used digital preservation tools, but currently, only OPF members support JHOVE financially as part of their membership fees. If you use JHOVE, please consider supporting its development by becoming an OPF member, or making a donation.
