Introduction

We are proud to announce the release of Fedora 3.3. Although a minor release, this version includes a number of exciting new features and bug fixes that make Fedora an ever more compelling repository platform. Some of the new key features are:

• Rels-INT: Internal object relationships emanating from datastreams can now be asserted in a Fedora-recognized way.
• Inclusion of FeSL: Fedora Security Layer, a community developed security architecture for Fedora.
• Improved and stabilized the current REST API.
• Improved the SOAP API (Bugfixes, added methods to SOAP API for manipulating RELS-INT relationships).
• A number of bug fixes improving the overall stability of Fedora.
• Support for Microsoft SQL Server.
• Managed and external content can now be ingested and retrieved with the file URI scheme.
• Update to Mulgara to 2.1.4 results in significant performance boost for some queries.
• Fedora is now bundled with Tomcat 6.0.20 (was Tomcat 5.5).
• Enabled the usage of a HTTP Proxy server.
• Improved and enhanced documentation.

For a detailed list of features and bugfixes comprising this release see the tables below.

Features and Improvements

(19 issues)
Type	Key	Summary	Priority
	FCREPO-567	Maven target/goal(s) for building all distribution files and md5s
	FCREPO-451	Fedora Enhanced Security Layer (FeSL) Integration
	FCREPO-532	Get rid of ".xml" shortcut on REST API
	FCREPO-394	Migrating from ANT to Maven2
	FCREPO-570	Add methods to SOAP API for manipulating RELS-INT relationships
	FCREPO-441	Define and index internal datastream relations ( RELS-INT )
	FCREPO-543	Stabilize REST API (non-beta)
	FCREPO-503	Installer defaults to deprecated oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver
	FCREPO-533	Add getContentModels and hasContentModel methods
	FCREPO-584	Update bundled Derby to 10.5.3.0
	FCREPO-505	Fedora ontology casing
	FCREPO-447	The color blue should be reserved for links
	FCREPO-580	Update Mulgara to 2.1.4
	FCREPO-199	Update MPTStore jar in dependent projects
	FCREPO-536	New supported database: Microsoft SQL Server
	FCREPO-497	Content disposition header for filename.extension downloads of datastreams
	FCREPO-437	usage of HTTP proxy when getting external content
	FCREPO-550	Change bundled Tomcat to v6.0
	FCREPO-582	Alternative (non-fedora) webapp context no longer experimental

Bug Fixes

(29 issues)
Type	Key	Summary	Priority
	FCREPO-494	FieldSearch query connections held unnecessarily, leading to connection pool exhaustion
	FCREPO-537	Certain ingests may report failure, but retain the object in the registry, filesystem, and RI in an unreadable state.
	FCREPO-593	RI and SQL rebuilds fail due to classloader issues
	FCREPO-522	DSIDs can now no longer terminate in .xml and behave properly
	FCREPO-583	REST API: Object Profile does not show content model
	FCREPO-506	Fedora Client does not bundle the xpp3_min-* jar
	FCREPO-588	Certain triples are not removed from RI
	FCREPO-478	No SPARQL Support for CONSTRUCT
	FCREPO-530	Adding a RELS-EXT relationship with a literal object fails validation due to platform default character encoding
	FCREPO-594	DefaultDOManager - object not invalidated from doreader cache upon purge
	FCREPO-599	ImageManipulation service fails with FeSL enabled
	FCREPO-549	RELS-EXT is not validated on creation, only validated when updated
	FCREPO-523	POST to /objects/pid/datastreams/dsid is counter-intuitive
	FCREPO-396	Tomcat 6 and Jetty Installation Problems
	FCREPO-542	fedora.home context-param is required
	FCREPO-514	Bundled Derby database fails after period of usage.
	FCREPO-490	APIA Consumption Error (SOAP Error) with .NET, invoking FieldSearch
	FCREPO-590	HTML view of listDatastreams does not show link when label is empty
	FCREPO-383	Saxon service fails with Tomcat 6.0.16 as-deployed (commons-logging dependency)
	FCREPO-595	Installer claims that the install directory for FEDORA_HOME is not empty on OS X
	FCREPO-591	Duplicate artifact id's in fcrepo-server POM prevent build from source in Eclipse
	FCREPO-408	Fedora webapp root page features broken link
	FCREPO-526	DemoSOAPClient doesn't compile
	FCREPO-516	Fresh install of Fedora 3.2.1 missing Jena packages for successful Tomcat deployment?
	FCREPO-477	New hasModel resource attribute not recognized in XACML policies - patch
	FCREPO-581	Default XACML policies involving localhost don't work in IPv6 environments
	FCREPO-569	fedora/risearch GET query returns incorrect result when querying on literal object that contains multibyte utf-8 sequences
	FCREPO-541	Drop unused control group "B" from FOXML schema
	FCREPO-601	Client scripts steal focus in OS X

Previous Release Notes

All release notes for Fedora 3.x and 2.x can be found here.

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