The LOCKSS Program is pleased to announce that LOCKSS 2.0-alpha5, the fifth publicly available prototype of our next-generation distributed digital preservation software suite, is now available for testing.
First and foremost on many people's mind: due to fortunate timing, all system components and the custom Solr and OpenWayback Docker containers included in LOCKSS 2.0-alpha5 contain only the latest version of Log4j (2.16.0), which is not vulnerable to CVE-2021-44228 ("Log4Shell"), CVE-2021-45046 and CVE-2021-4104.
In addition to bug fixes and performance improvements throughout the system, this new iteration features:
We welcome the community's input. We invite developers to read the release notes, try out the installation instructions or upgrade from 2.0-alpha4 to 2.0-alpha5, and provide us with feedback.
Thib Guicherd-Callin
Program Manager, LOCKSS Program