<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000"><b>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</b><br><br>May 22, 2015<br><br>Read it online: <a href="http://bit.ly/1KoI1fv" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/1KoI1fv</a><br>Contact: Andrew Woods<br><br><b><font size="4">NOW AVAILABLE: Fedora 4.2.0 Release</font></b></font><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">The Fedora team is pleased to announce that Fedora 4.2.0 was released on May 19, 2015 and is <b><a href="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Fedora+4.2.0+Release+Notes#Fedora4.2.0ReleaseNotes-Resources">now available</a></b>.<br><br>The focus of the 4.2.0 release was twofold:<br></font><ul><li><font color="#000000">Establish an Audit Service<br></font></li><li><font color="#000000">Create and exercise tooling for Fedora 3 to 4 migrations</font></li></ul><font color="#000000">Additionally, numerous bugs and housekeeping issues were addressed.<br><br>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 <a href="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Policy+-+Supported+JVM">policy</a> [3].<br><br><b>Resources<br></b><br>This release has been built against Java 8<br></font><ul><li><font color="#000000"><a href="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Downloads">Downloads</a> [1]</font></li><li><font color="#000000"><a href="http://docs.fcrepo.org/">Javadocs</a> [2]</font></li></ul><font color="#000000"><b>Team</b><br></font><ul><li><font color="#000000">Release Manager, Andrew Woods</font></li></ul><font color="#000000"><i>Developers</i><br><br></font><ul><li><font color="#000000">A. Soroka (University of Virginia)</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Aaron Coburn (Amherst College)</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Andrew Woods (DuraSpace)</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Daniel Lamb (Discovery Garden)</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Esme Cowles (University of California, San Diego)</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Jared Whiklo (University of Manitoba)</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Kevin Glover</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Michael Durbin (University of Virginia)</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Mohamed Mohideen Abdul Rasheed (University of Maryland)</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Nianli Ma (Indiana University)</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Nick Ruest (York University)</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Osman Din (Yale University)</font></li></ul><font color="#000000"><i>Issue Reporters</i><br><br></font><ul><li><font color="#000000">A. Soroka</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Aaron Birkland</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Aaron Coburn</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Andrew Woods</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Daniel Lamb</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Esme Cowles</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Kevin Bowrin</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Kevin Glover</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Michael Durbin</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Nianli Ma</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Nick Ruest</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Osman Din</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Ralf Claussnitzer</font></li></ul><font color="#000000"><b>Updates</b><br><br><i>Audit Service</i><br></font><ul><li><font color="#000000">Establish framework for capturing internal and external events in an external triplestore</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Establish framework for persisting internal and external events within the repository</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Create Audit Service <a href="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORA4x/Setup+Audit+Service">administrator documentation</a> [4]</font></li></ul><font color="#000000"><i>Fedora 3 to 4 Migration</i><br><br>With the <a href="https://github.com/fcrepo4-labs/migration-utils">migration-utils utility</a> [5], enable the following types of migration from Fedora 3 to Fedora 4<br></font><ul><li><font color="#000000">Simple RDF datastreams</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Redirect datastreams</font></li><li><font color="#000000">External datastreams</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Datastream properties</font></li><li><font color="#000000">RDF properties in RELS-INT datastreams</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Legacy-FS FOXML</font></li></ul><font color="#000000"><i>Fedora Java Client</i><br><br>Update <a href="https://github.com/fcrepo4-labs/fcrepo4-client">Fedora 4 Java Client library</a> [6] to:<br></font><ul><li><font color="#000000">Support property updates on Non-RDF Source Descriptions</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Support creation of Fedora 4 "external" content with "message/external-body" content-type</font></li></ul><font color="#000000"><i>Java 8</i><br></font><ul><li><font color="#000000">Update build machinery and projects for Java 8</font></li></ul><font color="#000000"><i>Linked Data Platform</i><br></font><ul><li><font color="#000000">Respond with 501 on client-provided Link header for LDPR creation</font></li><li><font color="#000000">NonRDFSources now have rdf:type ldp:NonRDFSource</font></li></ul><font color="#000000"><i>Bugs and Housekeeping</i><br></font><ul><li><font color="#000000">Bug: Creating a node in the web application through a proxy causes the baseURL to be set incorrectly</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Standardizing underlying libraries</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Updating ReadMe files</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Refactoring code</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Reducing leakage of JCR concepts</font></li><li><font color="#000000">Improve OSGi support</font></li></ul><font color="#000000"><b>References</b><br><br>[1] <a href="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Downloads" target="_blank">https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Downloads</a><br>[2] <a href="http://docs.fcrepo.org/" target="_blank">http://docs.fcrepo.org</a><br>[3] <a href="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Policy+-+Supported+JVM" target="_blank">https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Policy+-+Supported+JVM</a><br>[4] <a href="https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORA4x/Setup+Audit+Service" target="_blank">https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORA4x/Setup+Audit+Service</a><br>[5] <a href="https://github.com/fcrepo4-labs/migration-utils" target="_blank">https://github.com/fcrepo4-labs/migration-utils</a><br>[6] <a href="https://github.com/fcrepo4-labs/fcrepo4-client" target="_blank">https://github.com/fcrepo4-labs/fcrepo4-client</a></font></div>
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