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Fedora
Repository 3.4 Release Candidate 1 released today July 2
2010
Fedora 3.4-RC1 is
now available for download from the main Fedora Repository page at http://wiki.duraspace.org/x/AgAU.
Release 3.3 of Fedora will continue to be available from this page until the
final version of Fedora 3.4 is released, which we are aiming to do in
August.
Although a minor
release, this version includes a number of exciting new features and bug fixes
that make Fedora an ever more compelling repository
platform.
You are encouraged
to download this new release and give it a spin. Please let us have your
comments and feedback via the mailing lists, and of course please let us know of
any problems you discover.
As this is a Release
Candidate, testing has not been as rigorous as the testing normally carried out
for a final release, although it has been tested on a number of different
platforms. Therefore for production use we would recommend that you use
Fedora 3.3.
Some of the
important new features in this release are:
- DC,
RELS-EXT, RELS-INT as Managed Content: The Dublin Core and
Relationships datastreams can now be stored as Managed Content, improving
performance particularly when these datastreams are large
- REST API relationships methods:
New methods in the REST API for adding and manipulating relationships in
RELS-EXT and RELS-INT
- Enhanced Content Models:
Including the ability to validate objects against their content models, and
support for optional datastreams
- Optimistic Locking: The REST API
now provides support for optimistic locking to ensure no-one else has made a change to an object since
you started editing it
- FeSL Authentication: FeSL
Authentication can now be used independently of FeSL's experimental
authorization mechanism, and is now the default authentication mechanism
(although the old mechanism can be specified during installation). FeSL
Authorization is still disabled by default.
- Logging reconfiguration without
restart: Using the new SLF4J and Logback logging framework, logging
configuration changes now become effective without having to restart the
server
- REST API improvements and bug
fixes: further stabilizing the REST API
- Deprecation of "LITE" APIs: As of
this release, the API-A-LITE and API-M-LITE APIs are deprecated, and will be
removed in a future release. You are encouraged to migrate any code using
these APIs to use the new REST API.
Java package
naming and Java version
- As of release 3.4,
Java 5 (JDK 1.5) is no longer supported. Java 6 (JDK 1.6) or later is required
both to build and run Fedora.
- Java package names
have undergone a thorough revision for this release. If you have your own code
built against Fedora libraries and you update these to use the libraries from
this version you will need to update your code to use the new package
names.
Many thanks to all
of you who have made this release possible, not only those who have contributed
directly to the code for this release, but also those of you who have provided
comments and feedback on the mailing lists and raised issues in JIRA. We
rely on the continued involvement of those who use Fedora to continue to make
the project a success.
Regards
Steve
Bayliss
Fedora 3.4 Release
Manager
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