Release date: TBA

We are proud to announce the release of Fedora 4.7.0.

Resources

• This release has been built against Java 8 and requires Java 8
• Downloads
• Javadocs

Team

Release Manager

• Jared Whiklo, University of Manitoba

Developers

• A. Soroka, University of Virginia

• Aaron Birkland, Johns Hopkins University
  

• Unknown User (acoburn), Amherst College

• Andrew Woods, DuraSpace
• Benjamin Armintor, Columbia University
• Bethany Seeger, Amherst College
• Esme Cowles, Princeton University
• Jared Whiklo, University of Manitoba
• Joshua Westgard
• Michael Durbin, University of Virginia
• Mirek Simek, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague
• Mohamed Mohideen Abdul Rasheed, University of Maryland
• Nick Ruest, York University
• Peter Eichman, University of Maryland
• Yinlin Chen, Virginia Tech

Issue Reporters

• Aaron Birkland

• Unknown User (acoburn)

• Andrew Woods
• Bethany Seeger
• Jim Tuttle
• Joshua Westgard
• Justin Coyne

Summary

The Fedora 4.7.0 release furthers several major objectives:

• Upgrade to Modeshape 5.0.0 Final 
• Fedora Export/Import service tools
• Tighten the definition of the RESTful application programming interface (API)
• Replace legacy transform service with more powerful LDPath service
• Fix bugs

This release will be the last release built against a version of Modeshape that uses Infinispan for data storage.

Changes

ModeShape 5 Upgrade

This release represents a significant change to Fedora's underlying persistence implementation. The ModeShape application over which the Fedora implementation is built has seen a major upgrade. As a part of that upgrade, the object persistence layer has changed from using a product called Infinispan to native, pluggable, support for storage backends including JDBC stores such as PostgreSQL and MySQL.

Although this simplifies the application architecture, it does require a backend data upgrade from previous Fedora 4.x versions to 4.7.0. The upgrade process involves performing a backup of your existing Fedora, followed by a restore into your new 4.7.0 Fedora.

In the event that an error is experience during the restore process, the Fedora Upgrade Utility may be used.

Replace fcrepo-transform with a LDPath service

The extension module fcrepo-transform is not included in the 4.7.0 release of Fedora. This module was used to transform RDF resources into JSON using programs based on LDPath. The functionality provided by fcrepo-transform is now available in the fcrepo-ldpath component of the fcrepo-camel-toolbox project.

More information about using the fcrepo-ldpath component is available in the project README: https://github.com/fcrepo4-exts/fcrepo-camel-toolbox/tree/master/fcrepo-ldpath

Additional information about LDPath can be found on the Marmotta website: http://marmotta.apache.org/ldpath/language.html

Housekeeping and Bugfixes

Numerous refactorings, bugfixes, and clean-up tasks were addressed in this release:

Complete Listing of Resolved Tickets