Apache Tomcat Board Report, June 2007 Summary -------------- The project continues to be active on a number of fronts. There are no issues requiring Board attention at this time.
Releases ------------- We cut a number of releases incorporating all our active branches. Tomcat 5.5.22 was out a couple of months ago, 5.5.23 last month, and 5.5.24 is coming out later this month. Tomcat 4.1.35 was out a couple of months ago, shortly followed by 4.1.36, both primarily bug fix and security fix releases. Tomcat 6, the current production branch, had three releases this past quarter: 6.0.11, 6.0.12, and 6.0.13, which is the latest stable Tomcat at this time. Finally, the Tomcat connectors, mainly mod_jk, has a couple of releases as well: 1.2.22 and 1.2.23. Security ------------ The Tomcat security site (http://tomcat.apache.org/security.html) has been getting more love and attention. It now contains the vast majority of known issues and fixes for all Tomcat branches. We've been working closely with security issue reports and the Apache Security committee on quickly replying to issues, resolving them, and coordinating public disclosures. There exist one or two open security issues at the moment. The fixes are already in SVN, the issues are not major, and we're working to coordinate public disclosure with the reporters. Development ------------------- We've moved Tomcat 6.0.x into its own SVN branch, continuing work on new and experimental features in the trunk. We also have a sandbox area for really experimental stuff. Tomcat release artifacts, once approved by a PMC vote, are now published on the standard / main Maven repositories. We continue to work with downstream integrators and re-packagers of Tomcat, such as the Gentoo Linux project, on improving our release process and artifacts for their consumption. ApacheCon ----------------- Tomcat has a nice presence at this past ApacheCon (in Amsterdam), with a full day of presentations and talks about the project. There were presentations from several Tomcat committers as well as other users and contributors. From what I understand, the talks were well-attended and well-received. Community ----------------- After last quarter's new committers and PMC members, there were no changes the committership nor PMC membership this time. The PMC Chair is likely to change next month, continuing the voluntary Tomcat tradition of one year terms. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
