<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b><font color="#000000">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</font></b></span></p>
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</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000">Sept. 4, 2014</font></span></p>
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</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000">Contact: David Wilcox <<a href="mailto:dwilcox@duraspace.org" target="_blank">dwilcox@duraspace.org</a>></font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000">Read it online: <a href="http://bit.ly/1uBPJYE" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/1uBPJYE</a></font></span></p>
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</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4" color="#000000"><b>Introducing Fedora 4.0 Beta 3</b></font></span></p>
<font color="#000000"><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></font><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Winchester, MA</span><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> 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 </span><a href="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Fedora+4.0+Feature+Set" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Fedora 4.0 feature set</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> 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. </span></font></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000">Full release notes are <a href="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Fedora+4.0+Beta+3+Release+Notes" target="_blank">available</a>, and highlights include:</font></span></p>
<font color="#000000"><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></font><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000">- Transparent JCR/XML file system export</font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000">- Clustering support for high-availability use cases </font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000">- Demonstrated performance: 10 million objects via REST-API, 16 million via federation </font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000">- Reviewed and published Fedora 4 RDF ontology</font></span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Download Fedora 4.3 Beta </span><a href="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Fedora+4.0+Beta+3+Release+Notes" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">here</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></font></p>
<font color="#000000"><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></font><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000">Get in Here</font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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 </span><a href="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Downloads" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">install the Fedora 4.0 Beta</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (or just use the one-click-run application), test out some features, and </span><a href="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Acceptance+Testing" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">submit your results</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></font></p>
<font color="#000000"><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></font><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Three </span><a href="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Beta+Pilots" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Beta Pilot projects</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> 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. </span></font></p>
<font color="#000000"><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></font><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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 <</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:dwilcox@duraspace.org" target="_blank">dwilcox@duraspace.org</a>></span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></font></p>
<font color="#000000"><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></font><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000">How Does DuraSpace Help?</font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000"><a href="http://duraspace.org/" target="_blank">DuraSpace</a> 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.</font></span></p>
<font color="#000000"><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></font><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000">About Fedora</font></span></p>
<font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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 </span><a href="http://fedora-commons.org/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://fedora-commons.org/</span></a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> for more information. It is supported by its community of users, and stewarded by DuraSpace.</span><br clear="all">
</font><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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