Release date: TBA
We are proud to announce the release of Fedora 4.7.0.
Resources
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
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.
This release is a major release (i.e. 4.7.0 instead of 4.6.1) because of the upgrade to Modeshape 5 which no longer uses Infinispan. This requires a complete export and import of repository contents.
Changes
Modeshape 5 upgrade
The Modeshape 5 implementation removes it's use of Infinispan. This change requires that the data be imported into a Fedora 4.7.0 repository instead of replacing one version with another.
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:
