A completely revamped look and feel including a bubbly new theme, wallpaper, screensaver and logo has been provided that is visually appealing and demonstrates the exciting and user friendly nature of Fedora.

GNOME 2.13.2 and KDE 3.5 Release Candidate 2 desktop environments are available.

GNOME Power Manager and GNOME Screensaver are available as a technology preview within this release.

OpenOffice.org 2.0 final release is included. OpenOffice.org now uses system versions for many of the libraries leading to increased performance and efficiency.

Xorg X11R7 Release Candidate 3 has been included in this release. This is the first modular version, which helps in providing additional features and bug fixes at a faster pace.

Mono, an open source development environment for .NET, is available in this release. Also included are Mono-based applications such as the Beagle desktop search tool (http://beaglewiki.org/Main_Page) and F-Spot, a photo management tool (http://www.gnome.org/projects/f-spot/).

Kernel 2.6.14 is included. Software suspend is enabled in this release.

Pup, a graphical updater using yum, is available in this release.

I18N support has drastically improved through the use of SCIM language input framework, which has replaced IIMF in this release

Fedora now sports a brand new logo and changes in the animated mouse cursor theme.

gcc 4.1 compiler is included and the entire set of Fedora packages is now build using this new compiler version which brings in new security and performance enhancements.

The PCMCIA framework used by laptops and mobile devices has changed with kernel version 2.6.13-rc1 onwards. The older pcmcia-cs package using the cardmgr/pcmcia service has been replaced with a new pcmciautils package where the PCMCIA devices are handled directly with the hotplug system using udev dynamically in this Fedora release. This increases both efficiency and performance of the system. More information about these changes are available from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/pcmcia.html.

SELinux implementation has undergone a major change with a switchover to the reference policy (http://serefpolicy.sourceforge.net/) instead of the targeted and strict policy mechanisms used by previous versions of Fedora. The reference policy provides better modularity, flexibility and configurability, along with other enhancements. This version also adds support for MCS (Multi Category Security) enabled by default and MLS (Multi Level Security) security sub-systems within the SELinux framework.

Xen Virtualisation software and yum package manager are now well integrated within the Fedora installer. The installer interface is more streamlined. Remote logging and improved support for tracebacks is included.

System Tap (http://sourceware.org/systemtap/) is an instrumentation system for debugging and analysing performance bottlenecks, which is included in this release.

Frysk (http://sourceware.org/frysk/) is an execution analysis technology for monitoring running processes or threads, and is included within this release.