[Pasig-discuss] Introducing Fedora 4.0 Beta 3

[Carol Minton Morris]

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*


Sept. 4, 2014

Contact: David Wilcox <dwilcox at duraspace.org>

Read it online: http://bit.ly/1uBPJYE


*Introducing Fedora 4.0 Beta 3*

Winchester, MA  DuraSpace and the Fedora community of users and developers
are pleased to announce that the Fedora 4.0 platform is one step closer to
a full production version of the software with the release of Fedora 4.0
Beta 3. The Fedora 4.0 feature set
<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Fedora+4.0+Feature+Set> is available
for testing with this release, including a human-readable file system
export, clustering for high-availability use cases, and support for
millions of objects. This release is part of a broad initiative to make
significant changes to the robust Fedora framework for building digital
repositories to serve the community for the next decade.

Full release notes are available
<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Fedora+4.0+Beta+3+Release+Notes>,
and highlights include:

- Transparent JCR/XML file system export

- Clustering support for high-availability use cases

- Demonstrated performance: 10 million objects via REST-API, 16 million via
federation

- Reviewed and published Fedora 4 RDF ontology

Download Fedora 4.3 Beta here
<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Fedora+4.0+Beta+3+Release+Notes>.

Get in Here

We are making progress towards completing acceptance tests, but we still
need to test the remaining features before we can release the production
version of Fedora 4.0. Please take some time to install the Fedora 4.0 Beta
<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Downloads> (or just use the
one-click-run application), test out some features, and submit your results
<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Acceptance+Testing>.

Three Beta Pilot projects
<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Beta+Pilots> are underway. These
projects will test a number of Fedora 4.0 features in a production-like
environment over the course of a few months. Each of these projects will be
showcased in a short webinar series this Fall - details will be available
soon.

Beta Pilot Projects represent a larger commitment of time and resources
than acceptance tests, but they also present an opportunity to test real
institutional use cases with Fedora 4.0, with added support from DuraSpace
and the Fedora community. If your institution is interested in
participating, please contact David Wilcox <dwilcox at duraspace.org>.

How Does DuraSpace Help?

DuraSpace <http://duraspace.org/> works collaboratively with organizations
that use Fedora to advance the design, development and sustainability of
the project. As a non-profit, DuraSpace provides business support services
that include technical leadership, sustainability planning, fundraising,
community development, marketing and communications, collaborations and
strategic partnerships and administration.

About Fedora
Fedora is an open source project that provides 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
cmmorris at DuraSpace.org
Skype: carolmintonmorris
607 592-3135
Twitter at DuraSpace <http://twitter.com/duraspace>
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