NOW AVAILABLE: Fedora 6.0 Alpha Release
Arran Griffith
Today we are here to share some very exciting news with everyone - the Fedora 6 Alpha Release is ready and available for download and testing. This marks a significant milestone for the community and brings us that much closer to a production release aimed at early 2021.
One of the goals of Fedora 6 is to retain compliance with the feature set found in Fedora 5.1, which includes continued compliance with the Fedora API specification. We have also successfully completed the following:
Oxford Common File Layout persistence
Search Service
Alpha release of migration tooling that provides upgrades from Fedora 3, 4 and 5 to Fedora 6.
You can download the Fedora 6.0 Alpha and migration tooling here:
To assist you in using these tools, we have provided detailed instructions on how to walk the various upgrade paths.
To make testing easier you may want to try the updated Docker deployment option: fcrepo-docker.
With this Alpha release, we want to ensure that the broader community has ample opportunity to confirm the functionality of the software against local needs and use cases and provide feedback as we look toward a Beta release. We cannot emphasize enough how valuable your feedback is to us. It is the lonestar guiding our choices about where to focus the development effort so that we can deliver the greatest benefit to the community.
Please use the fedora-tech mailing list or the #fedora-6-testing channel in the Fedora Slack to provide any and all feedback on this release - just letting us know that you are testing the software would be greatly appreciated.
We also want to send a HUGE thank you out to all of those who participated in the sprints thus far. Without your involvement, we would not have been able to accomplish this goal.
Andrew Woods - Lyrasis
Daniel Bernstein - Lyrasis
Jared Whiklo - University of Manitoba
Peter Winckles - University of Wisconsin, Madison
Jon Roby - University of Manitoba
Ben Pennell - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Peter Eichman - University of Maryland
Mohamed Mohideen Abdul Rasheed - University of Maryland
Aaron Birkland - Johns Hopkins University
Youn Noh - Yale University
Dan Field - National Library of Wales
Jenny A’Brook - National Library of Wales
Richard Williams - National Library of Wales
Michal Dulinski - National Library of Wales
Remigiusz Malessa - National Library of Wales
With Fedora 6 official production release right around the corner, we created this short video to showcase the Top 4 Features we think you will be most excited about. Please feel free to share it with your colleagues and anyone else who might be interested in what Fedora 6 has to offer!
WATCH HERE: https://youtu.be/fAo6Y_pq7SI
Thank you again to everyone for helping us reach this momentous milestone. Cheers 👏
From,
The Fedora Project Team