<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><b>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</b><br><br>March 31, 2014<br>Read it online: <a href="http://bit.ly/1gTXI03">http://bit.ly/1gTXI03</a></font><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><font size="4"><b>NOW AVAILABLE: Fedora 4.0 Alpha 4 Release for Testing</b></font><br>
</font><p style="margin:1em 0px;line-height:18px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><em>Winchester, MA </em> The Fedora 4 development team and supporting institutions are pleased to announce the release of Fedora 4 Alpha 4. The Alpha 4 release moves the platform one step closer to the anticipated Beta release of the redesigned Fedora repository platform. Fedora 4 extends Fedora's leading role in flexible and versatile data repository solutions by meeting the growing demands of research data management and facilitating the integration in scalable data center architectures.</font></p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;line-height:18px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">The Fedora 4 Alpha 4 Release is available here: <a href="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Fedora+4.0+Alpha+4+Release+Notes">https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Fedora+4.0+Alpha+4+Release+Notes</a></font></p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;line-height:18px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">The expectation is that the Alpha 4 release will serve as a version of Fedora against which feature acceptance testing will be performed. <strong>Please contact David Wilcox (<a href="mailto:dwilcox@duraspace.org">dwilcox@duraspace.org</a>) if you are interested in engaging in this testing.</strong> Features are only complete when Fedora stakeholders declare them to be so.</font></p>
</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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