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Fedora 3.7.0 Release Notes

Release Date: September 19, 2013:

Fedora 3.7.0 is a release with bug fixes and some improvements. The principal goals of the release are compatibility with JDK 7 (now the target platform) and upgrades of library dependencies to the most modern versions possible for stability as development effort on Fedora shifts towards Fedora 4. All current users are recommended to upgrade to 3.7.0.

Downloads

The binaries for this release may be downloaded on Sourceforge.

Contributors

The Fedora Commons project would not be possible without the support of its community. In particular, this release is indebted to the following individuals and institutions for contributions:

• Benjamin Armintor, Columbia University
• Frank Asseg FIZ Karlsruhe
• Jesper Damkjaer, DMC
• Thomas Pii, DMC
• Scott Prater, University of Wisconsin
• Edwin Shin, Data Curation Experts
• Adam Soroka, University of Virgina

With special thanks to Columbia University for donating personnel time to managing the release.

Special Note:

Fedora 3.7.0 was built and distributed on the Java 7 platform. Testing indicates that the source code is backwards-compatible with Java 6, but that will require building the project from source. Please see here for information about the EOL process for Java. The source code for the project is available on Github.

You are encouraged to download this new release and give it a spin. Please let us have your comments and feedback via the mailing lists, and of course please let us know of any problems you discover.

For a detailed list of bug fixes and improvements comprising this release see the table below

Bug Fixes and Improvements

Previous Release Notes

The release notes for older versions of Fedora can be found in the documentation for each version. You can find the documentation for all versions here