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The University of Queensland Library has released version 1.0 beta of Fez, "an open source project to produce and maintain a highly flexible web interface to FEDORA for any Library or Insituition to configure and publish or archive documents of any type sustainably." Fez can be run on any server that supports PHP and features advanced searching, title and author browsing, configurable document workflow and document lifecycle management, LDAP and Active Directory authentication, and community and collection architecture, similar to DSpace's. Unlike DSpace, Fez also supports controlled vocabularies and statistics on downloads per author, per community, per collection, and per subject.