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Software development 

4.7.0 Release Candidate

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The Fedora 4.7.0 release candidate is now available for testing [xx]. This release upgrades versions of the underlying persistence application, which will require a straightforward backend data migration. If you have an existing Fedora 4 repository, you are requested to test backing up your existing repository, followed by restoring it into an installation of the 4.7.0

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release candidate repository. See RESTful HTTP API - Backup and Restore for more details.

Standards

Fedora API Specification

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The DC Area Fedora User Group Meeting [21] took place on September 22-23 at the USDA National Agricultural Library.  The first day of the meeting consisted of community presentations demonstrating exciting Fedora 4 developments from the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University. The second day was split across discussions around object and metadata modeling as it relates to Fedora 3 to 4 migrations and hands-on exploration of the new Import/Export utility.

Penn State Import/Export Sprint

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