Fedora 5.0.0 Release Candidate - 1

[Daniel Bernstein]

The Fedora 5.0.0 release candidate is available for testing. Pending any issues discovered in the testing of the release candidate, the 5.0.0 release is planned for Dec 3, 2018.
 
The primary features/updates found in this release include:

• Alignment with the Fedora API Specification 1.0 which includes the implementation of the following web standards: 
  
• Memento (versioning)
• SOLID/WEB (web access control)
• Activity Streams (notifications)
•  Modeshape is no longer used for versioning and access control

The following is a full list of JIRA tickets found in this release:
https://jira.duraspace.org/issues/?filter=14708

The latest and greatest documentation can be found here:   

https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORA5x

There are several ways you can test this release candidate:
1) Download the one-click-run [1]
2) Download the war file to deploy into a servlet container [1]
Please provide your feedback on the release testing page [2].

Warm regards,

Danny Bernstein  

Technical Lead, DuraSpace

[1] https://github.com/fcrepo4/fcrepo4/releases/tag/fcrepo-5.0.0-RC-1
[2] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Release+Testing+-+5.0.0

[Stefano Cossu]

This is excellent news! Thank you for the great work and coordination
effort to pull this important milestone together.

Stefano

On 11/2/18 11:25 PM, Daniel Bernstein wrote:
> The Fedora 5.0.0 release candidate is available for testing. Pending any
> issues discovered in the testing of the release candidate, the 5.0.0
> release is planned for Dec 3, 2018.
>
> The primary features/updates found in this release include:
>

> * Alignment with the Fedora API Specification 1.0
> <https://fcrepo.github.io/fcrepo-specification/> which includes the

> implementation of the following web standards:

> o Memento <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7089> (versioning)
> o SOLID/WEB (web access control)
> <https://github.com/solid/web-access-control-spec>
> o Activity Streams
> <https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/> (notifications)
> *  Modeshape is no longer used for versioning and access control

>
> The following is a full list of JIRA tickets found in this release:
> https://jira.duraspace.org/issues/?filter=14708
>
> The latest and greatest documentation can be found here:
> https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORA5x
>
> There are several ways you can test this release candidate:
> 1) Download the one-click-run [1]
> 2) Download the war file to deploy into a servlet container [1]
> Please provide your feedback on the release testing page [2].
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Danny Bernstein
> Technical Lead, DuraSpace
>
> [1] https://github.com/fcrepo4/fcrepo4/releases/tag/fcrepo-5.0.0-RC-1
> [2] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Release+Testing+-+5.0.0
>
>

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