[Pasig-discuss] NOW AVAILABLE: Fedora 4.2.0 Release

[Carol Minton Morris]

*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*

May 22, 2015

Read it online: http://bit.ly/1KoI1fv
Contact: Andrew Woods

*NOW AVAILABLE: Fedora 4.2.0 Release*

The Fedora team is pleased to announce that Fedora 4.2.0 was released on
May 19, 2015 and is *now available
<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Fedora+4.2.0+Release+Notes#Fedora4.2.0ReleaseNotes-Resources>*
.

The focus of the 4.2.0 release was twofold:

   - Establish an Audit Service
   - Create and exercise tooling for Fedora 3 to 4 migrations

Additionally, numerous bugs and housekeeping issues were addressed.

Note: The reason this release is 4.2.0 instead of 4.1.2 is because the
required version of Java was upgraded to Java8 per the project policy
<https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Policy+-+Supported+JVM> [3].


*Resources*
This release has been built against Java 8

   - Downloads <https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Downloads> [1]
   - Javadocs <http://docs.fcrepo.org/> [2]

*Team*

   - Release Manager, Andrew Woods

*Developers*


   - A. Soroka (University of Virginia)
   - Aaron Coburn (Amherst College)
   - Andrew Woods (DuraSpace)
   - Daniel Lamb (Discovery Garden)
   - Esme Cowles (University of California, San Diego)
   - Jared Whiklo (University of Manitoba)
   - Kevin Glover
   - Michael Durbin (University of Virginia)
   - Mohamed Mohideen Abdul Rasheed (University of Maryland)
   - Nianli Ma (Indiana University)
   - Nick Ruest (York University)
   - Osman Din (Yale University)

*Issue Reporters*


   - A. Soroka
   - Aaron Birkland
   - Aaron Coburn
   - Andrew Woods
   - Daniel Lamb
   - Esme Cowles
   - Kevin Bowrin
   - Kevin Glover
   - Michael Durbin
   - Nianli Ma
   - Nick Ruest
   - Osman Din
   - Ralf Claussnitzer

*Updates*

*Audit Service*

   - Establish framework for capturing internal and external events in an
   external triplestore
   - Establish framework for persisting internal and external events within
   the repository
   - Create Audit Service administrator documentation
   <https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORA4x/Setup+Audit+Service> [4]

*Fedora 3 to 4 Migration*

With the migration-utils utility
<https://github.com/fcrepo4-labs/migration-utils> [5], enable the following
types of migration from Fedora 3 to Fedora 4

   - Simple RDF datastreams
   - Redirect datastreams
   - External datastreams
   - Datastream properties
   - RDF properties in RELS-INT datastreams
   - Legacy-FS FOXML

*Fedora Java Client*

Update Fedora 4 Java Client library
<https://github.com/fcrepo4-labs/fcrepo4-client> [6] to:

   - Support property updates on Non-RDF Source Descriptions
   - Support creation of Fedora 4 "external" content with
   "message/external-body" content-type

*Java 8*

   - Update build machinery and projects for Java 8

*Linked Data Platform*

   - Respond with 501 on client-provided Link header for LDPR creation
   - NonRDFSources now have rdf:type ldp:NonRDFSource

*Bugs and Housekeeping*

   - Bug: Creating a node in the web application through a proxy causes the
   baseURL to be set incorrectly
   - Standardizing underlying libraries
   - Updating ReadMe files
   - Refactoring code
   - Reducing leakage of JCR concepts
   - Improve OSGi support

*References*

[1] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Downloads
[2] http://docs.fcrepo.org
[3] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Policy+-+Supported+JVM
[4] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORA4x/Setup+Audit+Service
[5] https://github.com/fcrepo4-labs/migration-utils
[6] https://github.com/fcrepo4-labs/fcrepo4-client
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