The Alpha release of Fedora 6.0 marks a significant milestone for the community. The release address . Fedora 6.0 addresses some of the performance and scale limitations of earlier releases, introduces a standards-based, long-term preservation-focused persistence layer, and adds a basic search service.
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- Oxford Common File Layout persistence
- Search service
- Alpha release of migration tooling that provides for upgrades from Fedora 3, 4, and 5 to Fedora 6
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Additionally, the following features will be in the Beta release of Fedora 6.0.0 but are not found in the Alpha:
- Indirect Containers
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Fedora API Compliance
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Breaking changes from Fedora 5.x
- POST-ing to a URL which does not exist will now create the destination as a ghost node, and create a child node inside of it. Previously, this would result in a 404.
- Memento timestamps may no longer be specified when creating a memento.
- Mementos cannot be deleted.
- ActivityStream Actors, in event notifications, now correctly contain a single type rather than a list of types.
- Transactions API...
- No more http://fedora.info/definitions/v4/repository#RepositoryRoot on repository root
- No more http://fedora.info/definitions/v4/repository#hasParent property on nested containers
- No more http://fedora.info/definitions/v4/repository#writable property on resources
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Fedora API Compliance
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Upgrading to the Alpha
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Beta
Community integrations
During the course of Beta testing, it is important to verify that applications in the Islandora and Samvera communities integrate with the Beta release of Fedora 6.0.
Islandora
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Samvera
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Performance criteria
The following performance criteria will be documented and verify prior to the 6.0 production release:
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