Release date: 12 October, 2015

We are proud to announce the release of Fedora 4.4.0.

Resources

• This release has been built against Java 8
• Downloads [1]
• Javadocs [2]

Team

Release Manager

Andrew Woods

Developers

Issue Reporters

Summary

The Fedora 4.4.0 release furthers several major objectives:

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• Fix bugs

Updates

Community Involvement

Application Programming Interface

Linked Data Platform alignment

Upgrading and Migrating

A primary focus of the ongoing Fedora effort is to facilitate the upgrade/migration of Fedora3 repositories to Fedora4. To those ends, a number of improvements have been incorporated into the "migration-utils [9]" upgration utility.

• Packaging the utility as a standalone executable application
• Using opaque identifiers for migrated resources
• Adding support for user-provided RDF namespace mappings
• Providing specific mappings of Fedora3 to Fedora4 properties
• Improving support for migrating resources with non-existent datastreams

External Services

Web Access Control

Housekeeping and Bugfixes

Numerous refactorings, bugfixes, and clean-up tasks were addressed in this release. Some of the highlights include:

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References

[1]  https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Downloads
[2]  http://docs.fcrepo.org
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