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We've pulled down the previous RC in the mean time. The main difference in 3.0 is the ability to run Fez without Fedora for better performance.

The Fez Development Team is pleased to announce the release of Fez 2.1 (RC1). This release supports Fedora 2.2.x - including Fedora 2.2.4. Roughly 12 months of new functionality has gone into this release. Here are some of the highlights:

• Complete graphical user interface overhaul
• Apache Solr support for faster browsing & searching - easily handles 100,000+ objects
• Search faceting and full-text document search
• New controlled vocabularies, including SEO 2008, and Fields of Research (FOR)
• EXIF tool integration
• Origami image viewer for easy image inspection
• Session database support
• Lots of new workflows
• Refined content models
• Custom views support
• Performance tweaks and bug fixes
• Major clean-up of templates, CSS, and AJAX components
• New display modes, including image gallery
• Ad-hoc SQL engine for running workflows on arbitrary groups of records
• ORCA feed support... read more

All Fez news is now on the front page of the Fez Wiki. http://dev-repo.library.uq.edu.au/wiki/index.php/Main_Page.