Release date: January 24th, 2017
We are proud to announce the release of Fedora 4.7.1.
Resources
Team
Release Manager
- Bethany Seeger, Amherst College
- Andrew Woods, Duraspace
Developers
- Andrew Woods, Duraspace
- Unknown User (acoburn), Amherst College
- Aaron Birkland, Johns Hopkins University
- A. Soroka, University of Virginia
- Ben Cail, Brown University
- Bethany Seeger, Amherst College
- Danny Bernstein, Duraspace
- Diego Pino Navarro, Metropolitan New York Library Council
- Elliot Metsger, Johns Hopkins University
- Esmé Cowles, Princeton University
- Jared Whiklo, University of Manitoba
- Yinlin Chen, Virginia Tech
Issue Reporters
- Andrew Woods
- Unknown User (acoburn)
- Aaron Birkland
- A. Soroka
- Corey Hinshaw
- Diego Pino Navarro
- Esmé Cowles
- Jared Whiklo
- Justin Coyne
- Kevin Ford
- Michael Durbin
- Osman Din
- Ralf Claussnitzer
- Rob Sanderson
- Scott Prater
- Stefano Cossu
Summary
The Fedora 4.7.1 release is a backwards compatible refinement of the previous release, focused on improvements and bug fixes to the REST-API and the core code base.
Changes
Application Programming Interface
Much of the application programming interface updates in this release relate to correcting response headers.
Support for JSON-LD profiles have also been improved. It has always been possible to retrieve JSON-LD from Fedora using content negotiation. In previous releases, it was possible to retrieve expanded (the default) and compacted JSON-LD profiles. This release adds support for flattened profiles. Users familiar with the JSON-LD serialization will note a change from the "pretty printed" serialization to one that that produces a JSON response without extraneous spaces. Retrieving JSON-LD with an expanded/compacted/flattened profile can be done by adding the following header to the request (replace compacted with flattened or expanded for those other profiles):
Accept: application/ld+json; profile="http://www.w3.org/ns/json-ld#compacted"
Additionally, with the help of community input, iteration on the Fedora API Specification continues: http://fedora.info/spec/
Deprecations
- Support for the previously deprecated File System Federation capability has discontinued and the module has been removed from the fcrepo-webapp-plus project.
- The /fcr:backup and /fcr:restore endpoints have been deprecated and will be moving to an extension module in a future release of Fedora. This capability will continue to be available until the Import/Export functionality fully supports backup/restore use cases.
