<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><b><font color="#000000">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</font></b></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">October 4, 2013</font></div>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000">Contact: Andrew Woods <span style="white-space:nowrap"><<a href="mailto:awoods@duraspace.org" target="_blank">awoods@duraspace.org</a>></span></font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000">Read it online: <a href="http://bit.ly/18WKmtT" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/18WKmtT</a></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font size="4" color="#000000"><b>NOW AVAILABLE: Fedora 3.7.0</b></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">The Fedora team is pleased to announce the launch of Fedora 3.7.0 with thanks to the following individuals and institutions for their contributions:</font></div>
<div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000">Benjamin Armintor, Columbia University<br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000">Frank Asseg FIZ Karlsruhe<br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px">
<font color="#000000">Jesper Damkjaer, DMC<br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000">Thomas Pii, DMC<br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000">Scott Prater, University of Wisconsin<br>
</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000">Edwin Shin, Data Curation Experts<br></font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000">Adam Soroka, University of Virgina </font></li></ul></div>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><font color="#000000">Fedora 3.7.0 is a bug fix release with some improvements. The principle goals of the release are compatibility with <a href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html" target="_blank">JDK 7</a> which is now the target platform, and upgrades of library dependencies to the most modern versions possible for stability as development effort on Fedora shifts towards Fedora 4. It is recommended that all current users upgrade to Fedora 3.7.0.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">Release notes and downloads: <a href="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORA37/Fedora+Repository+3.7.0+Release+Notes#FedoraRepository3.7.0ReleaseNotes-Fedora3.7.0ReleaseNotes" target="_blank">https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORA37/Fedora+Repository+3.7.0+Release+Notes#FedoraRepository3.7.0ReleaseNotes-Fedora3.7.0ReleaseNotes</a></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000">The Fedora 3.7.0 and 3.7.1 releases will be the last in the <a href="http://duraspace.org/node/612" target="_blank">3.0 line</a> prior to the release of Fedora 4.0. Fedora 3.0 was launched in July of 2008 offering users an integrated structure–Content Model Architecture–for persisting and delivering the essential characteristics of digital objects in Fedora. The final 3.0 releases are aimed at making sure that Fedora 3 users continue to have access to stable repository functionality.</font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">The Fedora repository platform is an unqualified success in the digital preservation and repository arena. More than twelve years since its inception, the project has seen three major releases, has hundreds of institutional adopters worldwide, and is the centerpiece of countless systems where preservation is a primary function.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b><font color="#000000">About Fedora</font></b></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000"><br>
</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000">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 <a href="http://fedora-commons.org/" target="_blank">http://fedora-commons.org/</a> for more information. It is supported by its community of users, and stewarded by DuraSpace (<a href="http://duraspace.org/" target="_blank">http://duraspace.org</a>). </font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><font color="#000000">-- <br>Carol Minton Morris<br>DuraSpace<br>Director of Marketing and Communications<br>cmmorris@DuraSpace.org<br>Skype: carolmintonmorris<br>607 592-3135<br>
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