Aaron Birkland
Senior Software Engineer
Johns Hopkins University
Dan Coughlin
Director of Software Development in Information Technology Services
Pennsylvania State University
Ben Wallberg
Manager, Software Systems Development and Research
University of Maryland at College Park
David Wilcox
Product Manager
DuraSpace
Fedora 4 is a collaboratively designed repository system developed by a community of stakeholders. New features and tools are proposed openly to the community, and interested parties contribute resources to make them a reality. In 2015, four new features were selected for this process by community members: Audit Service, WebAccessControl authorization, an API (application program interface) extension architecture, and support for asynchronous storage media. Many institutions have started migrating their existing Fedora collections to Fedora 4 using open source tools created by Fedora community members in order to take advantage of the new features and opportunities that Fedora 4 delivers. This panel will provide an overview of some of the most exciting new features, as well as a discussion on migrating from earlier versions of Fedora to Fedora 4 and going into production with this new platform.