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- Spring-based configuration. Fedora has adopted Spring as a means of configuring its internal components. This move to a modern, enterprise-grade framework offers greater flexibility for integrating repository components, and allows Fedora to more easily adapt to challenging deployment environments. See also Spring Configuration in the documentation.
- Standard WAR file distribution. Fedora runtime configuration has moved entirely outside of the WAR file, allowing a single standardized war file to be included in each release. This allows bugfix releases to be distributed and applied in a much simpler fashion than before: merely replace the old WAR file with the updated one.
- FeSL policy enforcement improvements. Numerous enhancements have been made to FeSL authZ. Notably, the requirement of installing
dbxmlhas been removed. This had been a barrier to FeSL testing and adoption. With the various improvements in FeSL authZ, we consider this feature "beta" , and encourage users of Fedora to give it a try and provide feedback. FEDORA_HOMEenvironment variable no longer required to run fedora server. Outside of running commandline utilities,FEDORA_HOMEis now ignored, and has been completely replaced with more flexible means of specifying the location of the fedora home directory.- JSON support for RISearch Resource index searches now support JSON, allowing greater ease of use with javascript clients.
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