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<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">July 10, 2013</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Contact: Jonathan Markow <</span><a href="mailto:jjmarkow@duraspace.org" target="_blank">jjmarkow@duraspace.org</a>></font><div><font color="#000000">Read release notes: <a href="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/REPONEXT/Fedora+4.0+Alpha+1+Release+Notes" target="_blank">https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/REPONEXT/Fedora+4.0+Alpha+1+Release+Notes</a><br>
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<font color="#000000"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="4">NOW AVAILABLE: First Alpha Release of Fedora 4 from Fedora Futures</font></b></font><div>
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</font></i></div><div><font color="#000000"><i style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Winchester, MA</i><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> 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:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• increased performance, with enhanced vertical and horizontal scalability,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• improved durability and service availability,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• built-in support for participating in the world of linked open data,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• easier installation and deployment, and</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• an improved platform for developers—one that is easier to work with and will engage a larger corps of developers.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Download it now: </span><a href="https://github.com/futures/fcrepo4/releases/fcrepo-4.0.0-alpha-1" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">https://github.com/futures/fcrepo4/releases/fcrepo-4.0.0-alpha-1</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>New Features and Improvements</b></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><i>Durability</i></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• Self-healing–</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">When configured with redundant stores, Fedora supports detection and self-healing of corrupted files.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• Transactions–</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The Fedora APIs now support transactions, with full commit and rollback support.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• Clustering for high availability–</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Fedora now supports clustering multiple Fedora nodes to maximize redundancy and failover.</span></font><div>
<font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• Metrics and reporting–</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Built-in metrics and health-checks provide near real-time reporting of repository performance and statistics.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><i>Performance</i></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• Batch operations–</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The Fedora API now supports batching of methods for increased read and write performance.</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• Clustering for scalability–</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Flexible cluster configurations to scale horizontally for read and write performance.</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• Projection, aka "instant ingest"–</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><i>Flexibility</i></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• HATEOAS support–</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Fedora 4 now provides a RESTful, hypermedia-driven API that speaks RDF</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• CMIS–</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Experimental support for Content Management Interoperability Services</span></font></div>
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<font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• WebDAV–</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Experimental support for Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning. Work with repository content directly from your desktop.</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• Eventing, messaging and web hooks–</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Fedora 4 provides expanded support for event-driven architectures, not only limited to JMS.</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• OAuth 2–</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Experimental support for the OAuth 2.0 authorization standard, to support a wider range of authentication and authorization systems via delegation.</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• Policy-driven storage–</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Experimental support for authoring policies that direct the storage of a resource based on object or datastream metadata.</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">• More storage options–</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">In addition to filesystem persistence, Fedora 4 now supports higher performance, transactional stores including LevelDB, Berkeley DB and NoSQL stores such as MongoDB.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>Acknowledgements</b></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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. </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">If you are interested in finding out about how to get involved please contact Jonathan Markow at</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span><a href="mailto:jjmarkow@duraspace.org" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">jjmarkow@duraspace.org</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">. Find out more here: </span><a href="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Fedora+Futures+Home" target="_blank">https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Fedora+Futures+Home</a>.</font></div>
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