The relevance and benefits of the ORCID persistent identifiers in the research ecosystem are increasingly evident. Nowadays users expect a good integration between the repository platform and ORCID with a bidirectional exchange of information. Unfortunately, up to now DSpace was lacking in this regard except for a very minor and limited integration allowing the submitter to query the ORCID public registry during the deposit. On the other hand, the cousin project DSpace-CRIS has featured a full integration [3] since 2014 at the time of the ORCID v1.2 API and based on a version 4 of DSpace. Since the release of DSpace 7, the DSpace governance has been encouraging a progressive merge of these projects, backporting from DSpace-CRIS the most user-demanded features. As a result, the DSpace 7.3 release plan includes the porting of the core ORCID integration [2], enabling DSpace users to finally connect their local DSpace profiles with ORCID, showing an authenticated ORCID badge where appropriate and pushing DSpace records to their ORCID profiles. The presentation will show in detail the functionalities now available, the requirements to enable them in terms of ORCID membership and DSpace configuration, and the plans to bring more ORCID-related features to DSpace.