Updated link for the release notes:
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Fedora+4.0+Alpha+1+Release+Notes
Apologies for the mixup.
On Jul 10, 2013, at 7:14 AM, Carol Minton Morris <[email protected]>
wrote:
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>
> July 10, 2013
> Contact: Jonathan Markow <[email protected]>
> Read release notes:
> https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/REPONEXT/Fedora+4.0+Alpha+1+Release+Notes
>
> NOW AVAILABLE: First Alpha Release of Fedora 4 from Fedora Futures
>
> Winchester, MA DuraSpace and the Fedora Futures team is proud to announce
> the first Alpha release of Fedora 4. In addition to carrying forward the best
> qualities of the Fedora platform, Fedora 4 Alpha 1 addresses a number of high
> priority requirements expressed by the international repository community,
> including:
>
> • increased performance, with enhanced vertical and horizontal scalability,
> • improved durability and service availability,
> • built-in support for participating in the world of linked open data,
> • easier installation and deployment, and
> • an improved platform for developers—one that is easier to work with and
> will engage a larger corps of developers.
>
> As an alpha release, Fedora 4.0 Alpha 1 is not feature complete. As the final
> release nears, we'll have full documentation and tooling for migrating
> existing Fedora 3 repositories, but at this time, we invite you to take this
> early release of Fedora 4 for a spin, validate our new ideas, contribute your
> own and join the effort. Developers from the Hydra and Islandora projects
> have already updated forks of their respective projects to work against
> Fedora 4's new APIs and now we're ready for the greater Fedora community to
> do the same.
>
> Download it now:
> https://github.com/futures/fcrepo4/releases/fcrepo-4.0.0-alpha-1
>
> New Features and Improvements
>
> Durability
>
> • Self-healing–When configured with redundant stores, Fedora supports
> detection and self-healing of corrupted files.
> • Transactions–The Fedora APIs now support transactions, with full commit and
> rollback support.
> • Clustering for high availability–Fedora now supports clustering multiple
> Fedora nodes to maximize redundancy and failover.
> • Metrics and reporting–Built-in metrics and health-checks provide near
> real-time reporting of repository performance and statistics.
>
> Performance
>
> • Batch operations–The Fedora API now supports batching of methods for
> increased read and write performance.
> • Clustering for scalability–Flexible cluster configurations to scale
> horizontally for read and write performance.
> • Projection, aka "instant ingest"–Fedora now supports "projecting" over
> external data sources (such as a filesystem) yet having those resources
> appear as part of the repository with full support for reading and writing to
> those external resources.
>
> Flexibility
>
> • HATEOAS support–Fedora 4 now provides a RESTful, hypermedia-driven API that
> speaks RDF
> • CMIS–Experimental support for Content Management Interoperability Services
> • WebDAV–Experimental support for Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning.
> Work with repository content directly from your desktop.
> • Eventing, messaging and web hooks–Fedora 4 provides expanded support for
> event-driven architectures, not only limited to JMS.
> • OAuth 2–Experimental support for the OAuth 2.0 authorization standard, to
> support a wider range of authentication and authorization systems via
> delegation.
> • Policy-driven storage–Experimental support for authoring policies that
> direct the storage of a resource based on object or datastream metadata.
> • More storage options–In addition to filesystem persistence, Fedora 4 now
> supports higher performance, transactional stores including LevelDB, Berkeley
> DB and NoSQL stores such as MongoDB.
>
> Acknowledgements
>
> Our thanks and appreciation go out to the sponsors that generously provided
> the funding and developer resources that made this Alpha release possible. We
> hope you like what you see and will join us in building the future of Fedora.
>
> Alpha 1 Sponsors
>
> Brown University
> Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
> Columbia University
> Discovery Garden
> DuraSpace
> FIZ Karlsruhe
> Indiana University
> MediaShelf
> Northeastern University
> Oxford University
> Pennsylvania State University
> Smithsonian Institution
> Stanford University
> University of California, San Diego
> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
> University of Virginia
> University of New South Wales
>
> Get Involved
>
> DuraSpace and the Fedora Futures Steering Group are seeking "platinum"
> sponsors to raise the level of support for Fedora to $500,000 a year for
> three years to catalyze the development of Fedora 4. If you are interested in
> finding out about how to get involved please contact Jonathan Markow at
> [email protected]. Find out more here:
> https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Fedora+Futures+Home.
>
> About Fedora
>
> Fedora is an open source project of the DuraSpace organization that provides
> a flexible, extensible and durable digital object management services. First
> released in 2004, it has hundreds of adopters worldwide, with deep roots in
> the research, scientific, intellectual and cultural heritage communities. See
> http://fedora-commons.org/ for more information. It is supported by its
> community of users, and stewarded by DuraSpace.
>
> --
> Carol Minton Morris
> DuraSpace
> Director of Marketing and Communications
> [email protected]
> Skype: carolmintonmorris
> 607 592-3135
> Twitter@DuraSpace
> Twitter@DuraCloud
> http://DuraSpace.org
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