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🍁Welcome to Fall
🍂. We missed you last month, but that’s only because we’ve been so busy. Read on to learn about
all that we’ve been up too, and what’s in store for the rest of the year! Many exciting things on the calendar, and you don’t want to miss out.
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Virtual Fedora Showcase 2025
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IT’S BACK! The 2025 edition of the Virtual Fedora Showcase is returning this November!
For the 3rd consecutive year, we are excited to host this 3-day, free, virtual event bringing users together from around the world. We can’t wait to see what this
year’s Showcase has in store!
Dates: November 18-21, 2025
Time: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. ET (times subject to change)
Location: Virtual (Zoom)
Cost: FREE
Visit
the Event Wiki
With event planning already underway, we are now accepting presentation proposals. Please consider submitting a talk to the program. We need all varieties of presentations
to make this successful.
Presentation ideas can include, but are not limited to the following suggestions:
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Interesting or unique Fedora implementations
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Infrastructure show-and-tell
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How your institution handled recent upgrades or tweaks within your system to solve a problem
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The good, the bad and the ugly – sharing work that didn’t go so well and what you learned from it
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Migration stories (Doesn’t have to be Fedora 6 migration stories!)
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Upcoming work and how you are preparing for it
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Cool new collections you are working on
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General Fedora updates from your institution
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Welcome New Fedora
Governance Members
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Fedora Governance elections took place through the end of the summer, and into early September. We are pleased to welcome the 2025-2026 Fedora Governance Representatives:
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James Alexander, The Open University, UK
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Alexander Berg-Weiß, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
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Jon Dunn, Indiana University
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Maria Esteva, Texas Advanced Computing Center, DesignSafe CI
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John Gostick, Cambridge University
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Heather Greer Klein, Samvera
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Rosalyn Metz, Emory University
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Dan Noonan, The Ohio State University
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Scott Prater, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Nicole Scalessa, Vassar College
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Oliver Schöner, Berlin State Library
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Aubrey Shananan, Islandora
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Tim Shearer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Dustin Slater, University of Texas at Austin
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Thomas Wrobel, University of Oxford
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From September 10-12, the Fedora Program team had the privilege of hosting the first in-person Fedora Camp since before the global pandemic. Bringing together a
group of 30 individuals from the EU and UK regions, the event was well received by all attendees.
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Attendees at Fedora Camp 2025, held in Vienna, Austria. September 2025.
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Over the course of three days, the group engaged in hands-on workshops, sharing user stories and participating in engagement activities, all aimed at building and
strengthening the sense of community and support. All of the program content is available on the
event
wiki.
A special thank you to the University of Vienna, our local hosts, for all of your support in hosting, planning, and facilitating the on-site event. We could not
have done it without you.
And to our other event sponsors, another special thank you for your contributions which helped make Fedora Camp possible.
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Foundational Sponsor: Lyrasis
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Connector Sponsor: Digitari
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Technology
Fedora 7.0 Release Update
We’ve made a small adjustment to the Fedora 7.x release timeline to reflect the time needed for our committer and technical teams to finish outstanding work. Things
are moving forward steadily, and we’re still on track for a full production release in early 2026 as planned.
View
the list of planned features for Fedora 7.x
Updated Release Timeline
Now – Mid October
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The Committer and Technical team will continue working on the remaining features and performance optimization.
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An Alpha release is planned for mid-October. This will be the first opportunity for community testing and will include all identified features and the updated dependency libraries.
Mid October – Year End
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Teams will shift focus to performance and transaction-related issues raised by community users.
Early January 2026
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A Beta release will be shared for broader community testing and feedback.
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A Release Candidate will follow once Beta testing is complete.
This revised schedule keeps us well within the original project delivery window, while giving
our teams the time they need to ensure Fedora 7.x is stable, reliable, and responsive to community needs.
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AI Discussions, Solutions Showcase Series
The AI Discussions Group announced the next
two sessions in the AI Solutions Showcase Series. The Solutions Showcase Series is a virtual event series featuring demos, and practical solutions users have implemented to mitigate the negative impacts of AI bot harvesting on their systems, including
repositories, websites, catalogues, and more.
Anubis - Featuring a talk by Xe Laso
Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Time: 10 - 11 a.m. ET
Location: Zoom
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F5 Bot Defense & Captcha Project
Date:
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Time: 10 - 11 a.m. ET
Location: Zoom
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