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Team

Release Manager

Danny Bernstein - DuraSpace

Developers

Andrew Woods - DuraSpace
Aaron Birkland - Johns Hopkins University
Bethany Seeger - Amherst College
Danny Bernstein - DuraSpace
Esmé Cowles - Princeton University
Jared Whiklo - University of Manitoba
Michael Durbin - University of Virginia

Testers

Aaron Birkland - Johns Hopkins University
Andrew Woods - DuraSpace
Ben Pennell
Bethany Seeger - Amherst College
Danny Bernstein - DuraSpace
Esmé Cowles - Princeton University
Jared Whiklo - University of Manitoba
Jennifer Smith
Joshua Westgard - University of Maryland
Kevin Ford
Michael Durbin - University of Virginia
Peter Eichman - University of Maryland
Stuart Kenny

Issue Reporters

Summary

The Fedora 4.7.5 release is a backwards compatible refinement of the previous release, focused on bug fixes, enhancements and deprecation flagging.

Changes

Application Programming Interface

The application programming interface updates in this release relate to correcting response headers.

Content-Type header on container HEAD requests mirrors those returned on GET
Link header of ldp:constrainedBy added to responses of requests to create an ldp:Resource
Link headers included on /fcr:versions resources
Link headers included on /fcr:fixity resources

Deprecations

This is the final release to include the XACML and RBACL authorization modules. Subsequent Fedora releases will only include the WebAC authorization module.

Configuration

This release includes several new configuration options for customizing Fedora installations:

Performance

This release adds two new configuration options targeting improved performance:

Preservation

This release includes an update to fixity result responses on fixity failures such that the digest algorithm used in performing the check (in the case where an algorithm other than the default SHA-1 is used) is returned to the client.

Housekeeping and Bugs

Numerous bug fixes and clean-up tasks were addressed in this release.