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As such, the process for moving to the production release of Fedora 6.0 will include both Alpha and Beta releases to ensure the broader community has ample opportunity to confirm the functionality against local needs and use cases, and to provide back to the project results and feedbackfeedback from local testing.
Alpha
One of the goals with the Fedora 6.0 release is to retain compliance with the featureset found in Fedora 5.1 which includes continuing to be compliant with the Fedora API Specification.
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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:
- Support for LDP Indirect Containers
- Targeted rebuild of side-loaded OCFL objects
- Search service user interface
- Support for the http://www.w3.org/ns/oa#PreferContainedDescriptions header...
- Migration of Fedora 4 ACLs to Fedora 6
- Migration of Fedora 5 repositories rooted at '/fcrepo' to Fedora 6
Breaking changes from Fedora 5.x
- POST-ing to a URL which does not exist will now create the destination as a pseudo-container, i.e. "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...API for creating and managing Transactions has changed
- No more http://fedora.info/definitions/v4/repository#RepositoryRoot RDF type on repository root
- No more http://fedora.info/definitions/v4/repository#hasParent property repository#hasParent property on nested containers
- No more http://fedora.info/definitions/v4/repository#writable property repository#writable property on resources...
Fedora API Compliance
The Fedora 6.0.0-alpha build has the following results when the Fedora API TestSuite is run against it.
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The following performance criteria will be documented and verify verified prior to the 6.0 production release:
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