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Release Date: August 18, 2011:
We are proud to announce the release of Fedora 3.5. 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.
Some of the important new features are:
fedora.fcfg
is considered deprecated as of this release, due to time constraints some module configuration has not yet been moved out of fedora.fcfg
and into native spring xml. See also Spring Configuration in the documentation.dbxml
has 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_HOME
environment variable no longer required to run fedora server. Outside of running commandline utilities, FEDORA_HOME
is now ignored, and has been completely replaced with more flexible means of specifying the location of the fedora home directory.dc:identifier
fields, this will be automatically corrected.
Tomcat 5.5 and earlier are no longer supported. This release has been extensively tested with Tomcat 6.0.x, and is also known to work with Tomcat 7.0.x |
As part of ongoing cleanup efforts, REST API responses have been fixed so that they are now fully compliant with their declared schema. This means that some responses might be slightly different when compared to those from earlier releases. For more information, see the overarching issue in Jira |
Starting with Tomcat 6.0.24, which is the bundled version of Tomcat included in this release, Tomcat logs messages to indicate potential memory leaks. You may notice a number of SEVERE messages logged when Tomcat is stopped as a consequence of this new Tomcat behavior. FCREPO-969 has been logged to track these and address these where they lie within Fedora code. |
For a detailed list of features and bugfixes comprising this release see the tables below.
The release notes for older versions of Fedora can be found in the documentation for each version. You can find the documentation for all versions here