Fedora is an open-source digital repository platform supporting the long-term preservation of digital objects and has been in use for over 20 years. Current versions of Fedora offer users the flexibility to manage and store a wide variety of digital content types, leveraging the Oxford Common File Layout (OCFL) within its persistence layer to support durability and reduce future migration barriers. Late in 2025, the Fedora Program Team released Fedora 7.x, which is the first major version release since Fedora 6.x in 2021. The project continues to build on its digital preservation roots while delivering a more modern and secure platform. Fedora 7.x includes updates to over 40 dependency libraries, strengthening the software foundation and improving maintainability for the community.

In this Repository Showdown, the Fedora Team will share a community update, discuss the current state of the technology, and outline the program’s priorities for future work. Presenters will highlight how Fedora supports digital preservation today and into the future.

Join us for a showcase of Hyku, an open-source, multi-tenant repository platform built on the Samvera stack and maintained by the Samvera community. Hyku is designed to support consortial and shared repository environments as well as single-institution deployments, enabling multiple tenants to operate within a single application while maintaining local control over branding, workflows, and metadata.

This Repository Showdown presentation will highlight recent Hyku developments and future directions following community-led work over the past year. We will demonstrate Hyku’s flexible metadata system, which allows administrators to define and version metadata schemas without code changes, including context-based workflows tied to Admin Sets. We will also discuss improvements to bulk ingest and migration workflows, accessibility and usability alignment with Hyrax, and ongoing work to modernize persistence and performance in large, shared Hyku environments. Finally, we will share upcoming roadmap priorities and opportunities for coordinated development across Hyku deployments.

Join us for a showcase of Hyrax, an open-source repository front end maintained and supported by the Samvera community. Hyrax powers institutional, data, and digital collections repositories with its flexible deposit workflows, broad file type and metadata capabilities, and IIIF support. This Repository Showdown presentation will highlight new features and future directions for Hyrax following community-led development over the past year.

We will share how we incorporated Hyku’s flexible metadata feature, refined accessibility conformance, and improved performance. We will also share our plans for joint development with Hyku led by our new Technical Coordinator.