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title: "Brainspace - 7.1.1 Release Notes"
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# Brainspace - 7.1.1 Release Notes

**Release Notes - Version 7.1.1 GA (Release Date: 11/06/2024)**

## Brainspace 7.1.1 Key Feature Highlights

- Streamlined the upgrade process to complete application upgrades in minutes.
- Simplified dataset archiving and restoration directly within the Brainspace application interface.
- Added support for restoring archives from Brainspace version 6.6 and later.
- Improved management of expired licenses.
- Increased performance for entity extraction.
- Strengthened security across the application and infrastructure.

## Upgrading

> [!WARNING]
> Important
> 
> Before upgrading, users are strongly encouraged to perform a manual backup of their data.

### Brainspace 7.x

To make upgrades faster and easier, the Brainspace 7 backup process has been decoupled from the upgrade process. In previous versions of Brainspace, the upgrade script automatically backed up user data. This is no longer the case. Proceeding without a manual backup could result in unrecoverable data loss if the upgrade encounters issues.

See section *APPENDIX D - Brainspace 7 Backups* of [Installation & Upgrade Guide - Brainspace 7](/brainspace/docs/installation-upgrade-guide-brainspace-7) for additional details.

### Brainspace 6.x

Brainspace version 7.1.1 must first be installed. Afterwards, the *6.x* instance can be migrated. Those processes are described in the following articles:

- [Installation & Upgrade Guide - Brainspace 7](/brainspace/docs/installation-upgrade-guide-brainspace-7)
- [Brainspace 6 to 7 Migration Guide](/brainspace/docs/brainspace-6-to-7-migration-guide)

## Release Details

| **Type** | **Category** | **Feature** | **Description** |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| New | Administration | Upgrade Process | Upgrade Brainspace quickly with a new, simplified installation process that reduces complexity and minimizes system downtime. To learn more, see [Installation & Upgrade Guide - Brainspace 7](/brainspace/docs/installation-upgrade-guide-brainspace-7). |
| New | Administration | Archive and Restore Datasets | Archive and restore datasets directly in the Brainspace user interface—no Linux command line required! Additional details are available in the [Dataset Archive and Restore Options](/brainspace/docs/dataset-archive-and-restore-options) guide. |
| New | Administration | License Management | Renew licenses directly through the user interface, without needing to exit the application. |
| New | Administration | Application Stability | Enhanced container performance for faster application startup and increased reliability. |
| New | Administration | Dataset Restore | Added the ability to restore datasets that were archived from Brainspace 6.6+. Note: While restoring datasets from versions prior to 6.6 may work, it has not been tested and is not officially supported. |
| New | Administration | Dataset Archive | Added support for archiving datasets with spaces or special characters in their names. |
| Update | Administration | Entity Extraction | Upgraded analytics component to optimize memory management. |
| Update | Security | Infrastructure | Updated container configuration to enhance security and mitigate potential exploits. |
| Update | Security | Library Update | Updated a component to prevent potential XSRF security exploits. |
| Update | Security | Apache Tomcat | Updated component to version 9.0.93 to prevent potential security exploits. |
| Update | Security | File and Dataset Imports | Strengthened validation checks for file and dataset imports to enhance security and prevent potential exploits. |
| Update | Security | XML Parser | Enhanced XML parsing security to prevent potential XXE exploits. |
| Update | Security | Archive Uploads | Enhanced security controls for uploaded archive files to guard against potential exploits. |
| Fix | Administration | Services Tab | Fixed an issue where the link to display detailed version information for analytics services returned a server communication error. |
| Fix | Analytics | Entities | Fixed issue where Entity fields sometimes failed to overlay into Relativity. |

## Related

- [Brainspace 6 to 7 Migration Guide](/brainspace-6-to-7-migration-guide.md)
- [Installation Upgrade Guide - Brainspace 7](/installation-upgrade-guide-brainspace-7.md)
- [Dataset Archive and Restore Options](/dataset-archive-and-restore-options.md)