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Appointments

Date Action Decided by
2025-07-16 Appointed Lenny Primak the board, by resolution
2020-07-15 Appointed Brian Demers the board, by resolution
2010-09-22 Appointed Les Hazlewood the board, by resolution

Decisions

Date Decision Item Outcome
2010-09-22 Establish Apache Shiro Project special order no outcome recorded

Reports

2026-06-17 — Lenny Primak

## Description:
The mission of Shiro is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Powerful and easy-to-use application security framework

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing with moderate activity
Issues for the board: None at this time

## Membership Data:
Apache Shiro was founded 2010-09-21 (16 years ago)
There are currently 16 committers and 12 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 4:3.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Lenny Primak on 2022-12-04.
- No new committers. Last addition was Steinar Bang on 2026-01-12.

## Project Activity:
We released Shiro 2.2.0 on 5/26/2026.
We also fixed 5 security issues and published 4 CVEs
Working on Project Glasswing as top concerned in the list of ASF projects

## Community Health:
Mailing list traffic is low.
There has been a significant increase of security vulnerability reports.

2026-03-18 — Lenny Primak

## Description:
The mission of Shiro is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Powerful and easy-to-use application security framework

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing with moderate activity
Issues for the board: None at this time

## Membership Data:
Apache Shiro was founded 2010-09-21 (15 years ago)
There are currently 16 committers and 12 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 4:3.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Lenny Primak on 2022-12-04.
- Steinar Bang was added as committer on 2026-01-12

## Project Activity:
The Shiro team has been actively working on Shiro 3.x, culminating with
a release of 3.0.0-alpha-1 at the end of February 2026
We also released Shiro 2.0.6 on 11/05/2025 and Shiro 2.1.0 on 2/7/2026
We also closed 2 security issues and published 2 CVEs

## Community Health:
Mailing list traffic is low.
We opened up GitHub Discussions at the end of 2025.
We achieved merging all PRs and closing many issues in the first part of 2026.

2025-12-17 — Lenny Primak

## Description:
The mission of Shiro is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Powerful and easy-to-use application security framework

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing with low activity
Issues for the board: None at this time

## Membership Data:
Apache Shiro was founded 2010-09-21 (15 years ago)
There are currently 15 committers and 12 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 5:4.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Lenny Primak on 2022-12-04.
- Boris Petrov was added as committer on 2025-10-31

## Project Activity:
The Shiro team is in the planning stages for 3.0 which aims to cut
some tech debt and help move the project forward (and by dropping
deprecated functionality). New functionality and fixes are still
accepted in 2.x, 1.x is security fix only.

## Last Release was:
- 2.0.6 was released on 2025-11-05.

## Community Health:
Mailing list traffic is low.
We opened up GitHub Discussions in December 2025.
We eased contributions by offering "squash and merge" functionality on GitHub.

2025-09-24 — Lenny Primak

## Description:
The mission of Shiro is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Powerful and easy-to-use application security framework

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing with low activity
Issues for the board: None at this time

## Membership Data:
Apache Shiro was founded 2010-09-21 (15 years ago)
There are currently 14 committers and 12 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 7:6.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Lenny Primak on 2022-12-04.
- No new committers. Last addition was Lenny Primak on 2022-11-01.

## Project Activity:
The Shiro team is in the planning stages for 3.0 which aims to cut
some tech debt and help move the project forward (and by dropping
deprecated functionality). New functionality and fixes are still
accepted in 2.x, 1.x is security fix only.

## Last Release was:
- 2.0.5: 2025-07-01

## Community Health:
Mailing list traffic is low.
We are planning to open up GitHub Discussions this year.

2025-06-18 — Brian Demers

## Description:
The mission of Shiro is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Powerful and easy-to-use application security framework

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing with low activity

Issues for the board: None at this time

## Membership Data:
Apache Shiro was founded 2010-09-21 (15 years ago)
There are currently 14 committers and 12 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 7:6.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Lenny Primak on 2022-12-04.
- No new committers. Last addition was Lenny Primak on 2022-11-02.

## Project Activity:
The Shiro team is in the planning stages for 3.0 which aims to cut
some tech debt and help move the project forward (and by dropping
deprecated functionality). New functionality and fixes are still
accepted in 2.x, 1.x is security fix only.

Last release was:
- 2.0.4: 2025-04-16

## Community Health:
Mailing list traffic is low.
(Actual statistical changes are less useful when the traffic volume is low)

2025-03-19 — Brian Demers

## Description:
The mission of Shiro is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Powerful and easy-to-use application security framework

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing with low activity

Issues for the board: None at this time

## Membership Data:
Apache Shiro was founded 2010-09-21 (14 years ago)
There are currently 14 committers and 12 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 7:6.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Lenny Primak on 2022-12-04.
- No new committers. Last addition was Lenny Primak on 2022-11-02.

## Project Activity:
The Shiro team is in the planning stages for 3.0 which aims to cut
some tech debt and help move the project forward (and by dropping
deprecated functionality). New functionality and fixes are still
accepted in 2.x, 1.x is security fix only.

Last release was:
- 2.0.2: 2024-11-06

## Community Health:
Mailing list traffic is low.
Commits in the last quarter were mostly related to dependency updates.

2024-12-18 — Brian Demers

## Description:
The mission of Shiro is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Powerful and easy-to-use application security framework

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing with low activity

Issues for the board: None at this time

## Membership Data:
Apache Shiro was founded 2010-09-21 (14 years ago)
There are currently 14 committers and 12 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 7:6.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Lenny Primak on 2022-12-04.
- No new committers. Last addition was Lenny Primak on 2022-11-02.

## Project Activity:
The Shiro team is in the planning stages for 3.0 which aims to cut
some tech debt and help move the project forward (and by dropping
deprecated functionality). New functionality and fixes are still
accepted in 2.x, 1.x is security fix only.

Last release was:
- 2.0.2: 2024-11-06

## Community Health:
There was a slight uptick in mailing list traffic due to the latest release.

2024-09-18 — Brian Demers

## Description:
The mission of Shiro is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Powerful and easy-to-use application security framework

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing with low activity

Issues for the board:
The statistics available on https://reporter.apache.org/wizard/statistics?shiro
Seems to be decreasing over time. Is this expected. Are there recommendations
on where to gather relevant metrics?

## Membership Data:
Apache Shiro was founded 2010-09-21 (14 years ago)
There are currently 14 committers and 12 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 7:6.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Lenny Primak on 2022-12-04.
- No new committers. Last addition was Lenny Primak on 2022-11-02.

## Project Activity:
The Shiro team is in the planning stages for 3.0 which aims to cut
some tech debt and help move the project forward (and by dropping
deprecated functionality). New functionality and fixes are still
accepted in 2.x, 1.x is security fix only.

Last release was:
- 2.0.1: 2024-05-25

## Community Health:
The user mailing list traffic continues to be low. Dev lists and
Slack discussions are now focused on planning for 3.x

2024-06-19 — Brian Demers

## Description:
The mission of Shiro is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Powerful and easy-to-use application security framework

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing with low activity

Issues for the board:
We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache Shiro was founded 2010-09-21 (14 years ago)
There are currently 14 committers and 12 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 7:6.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Lenny Primak on 2022-12-04.
- No new committers. Last addition was Lenny Primak on 2022-11-02.

## Project Activity:
The Shiro team is actively working on 2.0, and 1.x is in maintenance mode.
2.0 is now GA and we are in the process of figuring out a End-of-life plan
for 1.x
- 2.0.1: 2024-05-25

## Community Health:
Mailing list traffic is up a bit in general as issues and questions about
the major release are raised.

2024-03-20 — Brian Demers

## Description:
The mission of Shiro is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Powerful and easy-to-use application security framework

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing with low activity

Issues for the board:
We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache Shiro was founded 2010-09-21 (13 years ago)
There are currently 14 committers and 12 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 7:6.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Lenny Primak on 2022-12-04.
- No new committers. Last addition was Lenny Primak on 2022-11-02.

## Project Activity:
The Shiro team is actively working on 2.0, and 1.x is in maintenance mode.
2.0 is now GA and we are in the process of figuring out a End-of-life
plan for 1.x
- 2.0.0: 2024-02-20

## Community Health:
The GitHub related community health reporting seems broken, all values are zero

2023-12-20 — Brian Demers

## Description:
The mission of Shiro is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Powerful and easy-to-use application security framework

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing with low activity

Issues for the board:
We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache Shiro was founded 2010-09-21 (13 years ago)
There are currently 14 committers and 12 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 7:6.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Lenny Primak on 2022-12-04.
- No new committers. Last addition was Lenny Primak on 2022-11-02.

## Project Activity:
The Shiro team is actively working on 2.0, and 1.x is in maintenance mode.
- 2.0.0-alpha-4 was released on 2023-11-07
- 1.13.0 was released on 2023-11-03

## Community Health:
Shiro's activity dipped a little this quarter, with most of the
development going into maintenance releases.

2023-09-20 — Brian Demers

## Description:
The mission of Shiro is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Powerful and easy-to-use application security framework

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing with low activity.

Issues for the board:
We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache Shiro was founded 2010-09-21 (13 years ago)
There are currently 14 committers and 12 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 7:6.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Lenny Primak on 2022-12-04.
- No new committers. Last addition was Lenny Primak on 2022-11-02.

## Project Activity:
The Shiro team is actively working on 2.0, and 1.x is in maintenance mode.
- 2.0.0-alpha-3 was released on 2023-07-25.
- 1.12.0 was released on 2023-07-11.
- patch releases for v1 and v2 are expected shortly

## Community Health:
GitHub pull requests (by humans) have double this quarter.

NOTE: It's hard to parse the stats for a couple reasons:
- Last quarter we moved to GH issues, diffs are skewed
- The generated stats don't filter bots (COMDEV-536)

2023-06-21 — Brian Demers

## Description:
The mission of Shiro is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Powerful and easy-to-use application security framework

## Project Status:
Current project status: Ongoing with low activity.

Issues for the board:
We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache Shiro was founded 2010-09-21 (13 years ago)
There are currently 14 committers and 12 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 7:6.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Lenny Primak on 2022-12-04.
- No new committers. Last addition was Lenny Primak on 2022-11-02.

## Project Activity:
The Shiro team is actively working on 2.0, and 1.x is in maintenance mode.
- 2.0.0-alpha-2 was released on 2023-05-04
- patch releases for v1 and v2 are expected shortly

## Community Health:
- Mailing list traffic is down a bit this quarter.
- Shiro recently started using GitHub Issues. Hopefully, this makes it easier
for folks to report issues (or otherwise contribute).

2023-03-22 — Brian Demers

## Description:
The mission of Shiro is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Powerful and easy-to-use application security framework

## Issues:
We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache Shiro was founded 2010-09-21 (12 years ago)
There are currently 14 committers and 12 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 7:6.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Lenny Primak on 2022-12-04.
- No new committers. Last addition was Lenny Primak on 2022-11-02.

## Project Activity:
The Shiro team is actively working on 2.0 and 1.x is in maintance mode.
- 2.0.0-alpha-1 was released on 2023-02-28
- 1.11.0 was released on 2023-01-07

## Community Health:
Excluding automated emails, mailing list traffic is up. Mostly
related to conversations around Shiro 2.0 and dropping support for
Java 8 (and supporting Jakarta packages).

2022-12-21 — Brian Demers

## Description:
The mission of Shiro is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Powerful and easy-to-use application security framework

## Issues:
We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache Shiro was founded on 2010-09-21 (12 years ago)
There are currently 14 committers and 12 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 7:6.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Lenny Primak was added to the PMC on 2022-12-04
- Lenny Primak was added as a committer on 2022-11-02

## Project Activity:
- The team is currently working on a 1.11 maintenance release which will
  contain support for Jakarta packages
- An alpha release of Shiro v2 is planned for the near future
- 1.10.1 was released on 2022-11-14.
- 1.10.0 was released on 2022-10-07.

## Community Health:

Overall, Shiro has seen an uptick in activity, this is due to:
- Focus on Jakarta packages (both on v1 and v2 branches)
- A couple of patch releases
- An active new PMC member Lenny

NOTE: It doesn't look like the "community health" stats are reported correctly.
I'm unsure if the stats (percentages) filter out automated emails,
but the charts are not.

2022-09-21 — Brian Demers

## Description:
The mission of Shiro is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Powerful and easy-to-use application security framework

## Issues:
We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache Shiro was founded 2010-09-21 (12 years ago)
There are currently 13 committers and 11 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:6.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Benjamin Marwell on 2020-12-13.
- No new committers. Last addition was Benjamin Marwell on 2020-04-23.

## Project Activity:
- The team is currently working on a 1.10 maintenance release
- Work is underway to support jakarta packages
- Planning around Shiro v2 is still being discussed
- Last release: v1.9.1 - 2022-06-22

## Community Health:
- Mailing list traffic is down, but PRs/commits are up
  This may indicate that more converstion is happening on GitHub
- The project recieved a couple pull requests from community members

2022-06-15 — Brian Demers

## Description:
The mission of Shiro is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Powerful and easy-to-use application security framework

## Issues:
We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache Shiro was founded 2010-09-21 (12 years ago)
There are currently 13 committers and 11 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:6.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Benjamin Marwell on 2020-12-13.
- No new committers. Last addition was Benjamin Marwell on 2020-04-23.

## Project Activity:
- We have seen recent community interest in moving from "javax" packages
  to "jakarta", work is underway
- Last release: v1.9.0 - 2022-03-22.

## Community Health:
Overall, community traffic is down. We'd like to take this opportunity
to ask the board or others reading this report for guidance on reaching
a wider group of developers.

2022-03-16 — Brian Demers

## Description:

The mission of Shiro is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Powerful and easy-to-use application security framework

## Issues:

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

## Membership Data:

Apache Shiro was founded 2010-09-21 (11 years ago)
There are currently 13 committers and 11 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:6.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Benjamin Marwell on 2020-12-13.
- No new committers. Last addition was Benjamin Marwell on 2020-04-23.

## Project Activity:

- The project's website and tooling have been updated to an OSS static site
  generator (which will make updates on the site easier)
- The team is currently working on a 1.9 maintenance release
- Last release: v1.8.0 - 2021-08-26.

## Community Health:

- The project recently changed how automated messages are delivered, which
  I suspect is why both the number of emails to issues@shiro are down, and
  the number of JIRA opened and closed are up.
- A large chunk of work just wrapped up on the `shiro-site` repo (which is
  not reflected in the automated report)

2021-12-15 — Brian Demers

## Description:

The mission of Shiro is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Powerful and easy-to-use application security framework

## Issues:

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache Shiro was founded 2010-09-22 (11 years ago)
There are currently 13 committers and 11 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:6.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Benjamin Marwell on 2020-12-14.
- No new committers. Last addition was Benjamin Marwell on 2020-04-23.

## Project Activity:

- Shiro released v1.8.0 last quarter (2021-08-26), no release this quarter.
- Work is close to finished moving the project's site to
  an OSS static site generator.
- Recent changes include generating more secure hashes as required by the
  infra team.

We had interesting discussions started in slack, e.g. if Apache Shiro
should support the Jakarta Security API.
Since only little interest was shown by Jakarta core committers and there has
not been any user demand, the topic was not brought up on the mailing list.


## Community Health:

The overall community health is steady. We observed less issues, probably
due to a mature codebase.
This resulted in less emails on the dev and user lists.
There were also no urgent security issues to solve.
Issue notifications had been moved to their own mailing list,
which is why we see a further decrease on the dev mailing list.

There were occasional questions on the user list which were answered by
the PMC members.

2021-09-15 — Brian Demers

## Description:
The mission of Shiro is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Powerful and easy-to-use application security framework

## Issues:
We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time

## Membership Data:
Apache Shiro was founded 2010-09-21 (11 years ago)
There are currently 13 committers and 11 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:6.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Benjamin Marwell on 2020-12-13.
- No new committers. Last addition was Benjamin Marwell on 2020-04-23.

## Project Activity:

- Shiro released v1.8.0 this quarter (2021-08-26).
- Work is underway to move the project's site build more maintainable
  by migrating from custom tooling to an existing OSS static site generator.
- Work continues on 2.x, removing code and reducing module/build complexity

Releases:
- 1.8.0 was released on 2021-08-26.
- 1.7.1 was released on 2021-01-31.
- 1.7.0 was released on 2020-10-29.

## Community Health:

- JIRA messages have been moved to issues@shiro.a.o, this will shift reported
  numbers around a little this quarter and likely next.
- The ASF Slack is often where dev chatter starts, (and then followed
  up with a message to dev@shiro.a.o as needed)
- Happy 11th Birthday Apache Shiro!

2021-06-16 — Brian Demers

## Description:
The mission of Shiro is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Powerful and easy-to-use application security framework

## Issues:
We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time

## Membership Data:
Apache Shiro was founded 2010-09-21 (11 years ago)
There are currently 13 committers and 11 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:6.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Benjamin Marwell on 2020-12-13.
- No new committers. Last addition was Benjamin Marwell on 2020-04-23.

## Project Activity:
- The project is prepping a 1.8 release with bug fixes
- Work on 2.x has picked up again, though much of that has been related
  to stabling builds and build infra

Releases:
- 1.7.1 was released on 2021-01-31.
- 1.7.0 was released on 2020-10-29.
- 1.6.0 was released on 2020-08-17.

## Community Health:
All of the stats are up this quarter, partially because there is development on
two different branches.

2021-03-17 — Brian Demers

## Description:
The mission of Shiro is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Powerful and easy-to-use application security framework

## Issues:
We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time

## Membership Data:
Apache Shiro was founded 2010-09-21 (10 years ago)
There are currently 13 committers and 11 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:6.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Benjamin Marwell was added to the PMC on 2020-12-13
- No new committers. Last addition was Benjamin Marwell on 2020-04-23.

## Project Activity:
- The project is maintaining a 1.x branch for bug fixes and security updates
- Work on 2.x has stalled a bit due to the increased focus on 1.x

Releases:
- 1.7.1 was released on 2021-01-31.
- 1.7.0 was released on 2020-10-29.
- 1.6.0 was released on 2020-08-17.

## Community Health:
Mailing list traffic is down over the past quarter, this is partially
because we had a busy November in the previous quarter.

2020-12-16 — Brian Demers

## Description:
The mission of Shiro is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Powerful and easy-to-use application security framework

## Issues:
We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time

## Membership Data:
Apache Shiro was founded 2010-09-21 (10 years ago)
There are currently 13 committers and 10 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Colm O hEigeartaigh on 2019-10-08.
- No new committers. Last addition was Benjamin Marwell on 2020-04-23.

## Project Activity:

- The project is maintaining a 1.x branch for bug fixes and security updates
- Work on 2.x has stalled a bit due to the increased focus on 1.x

Releases:
- 1.7.0 was released on 2020-10-29.
- 1.6.0 was released on 2020-08-17.
- 1.5.3 was released on 2020-05-03.

## Community Health:

Mailing list traffic is about the same
- slight decrease in the dev list, but an increase in the user list

There has also been an uptick in the number of commits in the last quarter.

2020-09-16 — Brian Demers

## Description:
The mission of Shiro is the creation and maintenance of software related to
Powerful and easy-to-use application security framework

## Issues:
We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache Shiro was founded 2010-09-21 (10 years ago)
There are currently 13 committers and 10 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Colm O hEigeartaigh on 2019-10-08.
- No new committers. Last addition was Benjamin Marwell on 2020-04-23.

## Project Activity:

- New PMC Chair (bdemers) voted in on 2020-0-17
- The project is maintaining a 1.x branch for bug fixes and security updates
- Also continuing to move forward with 2.x on master

Releases:
- 1.6.0 was released on 2020-08-17.
- 1.5.3 was released on 2020-05-03.
- 1.5.2 was released on 2020-03-23.

## Community Health:

The overall mailing list and commit counts are down from the previous quarter,
we should see another bump in activity shortly as as prepare for the next
minor release.

Of note the number of code contributors did go up (10% increase)

2020-06-17 — Les Hazlewood

## Description:
Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.

## Issues:
We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache Shiro was founded 2010-09-21 (10 years ago)
There are currently 13 committers and 10 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:5.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Colm O hEigeartaigh on 2019-10-08.
- Benjamin Marwell was added as committer on 2020-04-23

## Project Activity:

- General project activity (commits and dev related discussion) has been up
  this quarter
- The project's master branch has officially moved to 2.0 development

Releases:
- Last release was 1.5.3 on 2020-05-03

## Community Health:

Mailing list (user and dev) have seen a bump in activity this quarter.
Full metrics: https://reporter.apache.org/wizard/statistics?shiro

2020-03-18 — Les Hazlewood

## Description:
Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.

## Issues:
We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

## Membership Data:
Apache Shiro was founded 2010-09-21 (9 years ago)
There are currently 13 committers and 11 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:6.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Colm O hEigeartaigh on 2019-10-08.
- No new committers. Last addition was Colm O hEigeartaigh on 2019-10-09.

## Project Activity:
- As of the 1.5, Shiro requires Java 8+
- Feature development on master is going strong and helping modernize
  the project.

## Community Health:
dev and user list activity has gone up this quarter
Our latest committers / PMC members have been helping bring some new
life to the project

2019-12-18 — Les Hazlewood

## Description:
Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Membership Data:
Apache Shiro was founded 2010-09-21 (9 years ago)
There are currently 13 committers and 11 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:6.

Community changes, past quarter:
- Colm O hEigeartaigh was added to the PMC on 2019-10-08
- Jean-Baptiste Onofré was added to the PMC on 2019-10-07
- Colm O hEigeartaigh was added as committer on 2019-10-09
- Jean-Baptiste Onofré was added as committer on 2019-10-08

## Project Activity:
We are still working towards the next 1.5.0 release, which has taken a little
longer than expected. Last release was 1.4.1 on 2019-05-01.

## Community Health:
- dev@shiro.apache.org had a 2% increase in traffic in the past quarter
  (291 emails compared to 284)
- user@shiro.apache.org had a 35% increase in traffic in the past quarter
  (42 emails compared to 31)
- 10 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (-44% decrease)
- 17 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (no change)
- 28 commits in the past quarter (-3% decrease)
- 8 code contributors in the past quarter (no change)
- 23 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (no change)
- 30 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (20% increase)

2019-09-18 — Les Hazlewood

## Description:
Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.

## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time

## Membership Data:
Apache Shiro was founded 2010-09-22 (9 years ago)
There are currently 11 committers and 9 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 6:5.

Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-12-20.
- No new committers. Last addition was Francois Papon on 2018-12-20.

## Project Activity:
We are continuing hard work on the preparing of the next 1.5.0 release with:
- upgrade min version of JDK to 8
- better OSGi support
- upgrading dependencies
We want to released the 1.5.0 in next month
We added a new maven-plugin (japicmp) to enforced Shiro api backward
compatibility
Recent releases:
    1.4.1 was released on 2019-05-01.

## Community Health:
We have new contributors showing thier interest in the project by making
some PRs

dev@shiro.apache.org had a 24% increase in traffic in the past quarter
(286 emails compared to 230)
user@shiro.apache.org had a 433% increase in traffic in the past quarter
(32 emails compared to 6)
17 issues opened in JIRA, past quarter (-26% decrease)
15 issues closed in JIRA, past quarter (-42% decrease)
28 commits in the past quarter (-22% decrease)
7 code contributors in the past quarter (no change)
22 PRs opened on GitHub, past quarter (-8% decrease)
24 PRs closed on GitHub, past quarter (-20% decrease)

2019-06-19 — Les Hazlewood

## Description:
Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.

## Issues:
 - We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

## Activity:
 - Project commits and message on the dev list has gone up since the start of
   the year
 - Outdated dependencies have been updated/removed from the project

## Health report:
 - Our latest committer / PMC member has been helping bring some new life to
   the project
 - Feature development on master is going strong and helping modernize the
   project.

## PMC changes:
 - Currently 9 PMC members.
 - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
 - Last PMC addition was Francois Papon on Wed Dec 19 2018

## Committer base changes:
 - Currently 11 committers.
 - No new committers added in the last 3 months
 - Last committer addition was Francois Papon at Thu Dec 20 2018

## Releases:
 - 1.4.1 was released on Tue Apr 30 2019

## JIRA activity:
 - 21 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
 - 24 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months

2019-03-20 — Les Hazlewood

2019 March - Board report for Apache Shiro

Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Releases:

- Last release was 1.4.0 on 05-May-2017

Community & Project:

- Our latest committer / PMC member has been helping bring some new life to
  the project

- Project commits and message on the dev list has gone up since the start of
  the year

- Feature development is planned to continue against master.

- The 1.4.0 Release has been a step toward modernizing Shiro as well as retain
  backwards compatibility

Last committer voted in: Francois Papon on 10 Dec 2018 Last PMC Member voted
in: Francois Papon on 10 Dec 2018

2019-01-16 — Les Hazlewood

2019 January - Board report for Apache Shiro

Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Releases:

- Last release was 1.4.0 on 05-May-2017

Community & Project:

- We have a new committer and PMC member!  François Papon was voted in on 10 Dec 2018.

- Mailing list traffic has dipped slightly in the last quarter

- Feature development is planned to continue against master.

- The 1.4.0 Release has been a step toward modernizing Shiro as well
as retain backwards compatibility

- Discussion has resumed for Shiro 2.0 development

Last committer voted in: François Papon on 10 Dec 2018
Last PMC Member voted in: François Papon on 10 Dec 2018

2018-12-19 — Les Hazlewood

No report was submitted.

2018-09-19 — Les Hazlewood

Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Releases:

- Last release was 1.4.0 on 05-May-2017

Community & Project:

- Mailing list traffic has dipped slightly in the last quarter

- Feature development is planned to continue against master.

- OSGI support is a popular feature, we get an occasional one-liner
patch. However, we do NOT have a committer with sufficient experience,
which makes supporting it difficult.

- The 1.4.0 Release has been a step toward modernizing Shiro as well
as retain backwards compatibility

Last committer voted in: Andreas Kohn on 15 Jul 2016
Last PMC Member voted in: Andreas Kohn on 26 Jul 2016

2018-06-20 — Les Hazlewood

Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Releases:

- Last release was 1.4.0 on 05-May-2017

Community & Project:

- Mailing list traffic has dipped slightly in the last quarter

- There is more interesting in translating shiro.apache.org to
Chinese, but nothing concrete yet.

- Feature development is planned to continue against master.

- OSGI support is a popular feature, we get an occasional one-liner
patch. However, we do NOT have a committer with sufficient experience,
which makes supporting it difficult.

- The 1.4.0 Release has been a step toward modernizing Shiro as well
as retain backwards compatibility

Last committer voted in: Andreas Kohn on 15 Jul 2016
Last PMC Member voted in: Andreas Kohn on 26 Jul 2016

2018-03-21 — Les Hazlewood

2018 March - Board report for Apache Shiro

Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Releases:

- Last release was 1.4.0 on 05-May-2017

Community & Project:

- Mailing list traffic has returned to normal (after a lull around the
holidays last quarter). StackOverflow remains a popular alternative
for the user list.

- Feature development is planned to continue against master.

- OSGI support is a popular feature, we get an occasional one-liner
patch. However, we do NOT have a committer with sufficient experience,
which makes supporting it difficult.

- The 1.4.0 Release has been a step toward modernizing Shiro as well
as retain backwards compatibility

Last committer voted in: Andreas Kohn on 15 Jul 2016
Last PMC Member voted in: Andreas Kohn on 26 Jul 2016

2017-12-20 — Les Hazlewood

2017 December - Board report for Apache Shiro

Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Releases:

- Last release was 1.4.0 on 05-May-2017

Community & Project:

- Mailing list traffic has dipped a little, Stack Overflow has been becoming
  the preferred place to ask questions.

- There has been some community interest in translating the Shiro site into
  Chinese. (This also lines up with a perceived increased number of
  questions/forum posts seen from Chinese speaking users)

- Feature development is planned to continue against master.

- The 1.4.0 Release has been a step toward modernizing Shiro as well as retain
  backwards compatibility

Last committer voted in: Andreas Kohn on 15 Jul 2016 Last PMC Member voted in:
Andreas Kohn on 26 Jul 2016

2017-09-20 — Les Hazlewood

2017 September - Board report for Apache Shiro

Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Releases:

- Last release was 1.4.0 on 05-May-2017
- We encountered a few permission issues during post release
tasks. A different team member lead the release (which is great), we
are working on fixing this for the next release.

Community & Project:

- Mailing list traffic has dipped a little, Stack Overflow has been
becoming the preferred place to ask questions.

- Community pull requests to the Shiro doc site continue to roll in,
now that pages includes an 'Edit in Github' link.

- Feature development is planned to continue against master.

- The 1.4.0 Release has been a step toward modernizing Shiro as well
as retain backwards compatibility

Last committer voted in: Andreas Kohn on 15 Jul 2016
Last PMC Member voted in: Andreas Kohn on 26 Jul 2016

2017-06-21 — Les Hazlewood

Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography. We have no issues that require Board
assistance at this time.

Releases:

- Last release was 1.4.0 on 05-May-2017

Community & Project:

- Mailing list traffic has remained the same.
- Community pull requests to the Shiro doc site continue to roll in, now that
pages includes an 'Edit in Github' link.
- Feature development is planned to continue against master.
- The 1.4.0 Release has been a step toward modernizing Shiro as well as retain
backwards compatibility

Last committer voted in: Andreas Kohn on 15 Jul 2016
Last PMC Member voted in: Andreas Kohn on 26 Jul 2016

2017-03-15 — Les Hazlewood

Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Releases:

- None since last report

Community & Project:

- Mailing list traffic has remained the same.

- Community pull requests to the Shiro doc site have increased, now that
  pages includes an 'Edit in Github' link.

- Feature development is planned to continue against master.

- The 1.4.0 Release has been a step toward modernizing Shiro as well as
  retain backwards compatibility

Last committer voted in: Andreas Kohn on 15 Jul 2016
Last PMC Member voted in: Andreas Kohn on 26 Jul 2016

2016-12-21 — Les Hazlewood

Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Releases:

- 1.4.0-RC2 was released on Wed Nov 09 2016

Community & Project:

- Mailing list traffic has remained the same.

- Most of the 2.x changes have been included in the 1.4.0-RC2 release.
1.4.0 is now on master.  Development will continue on master.

- Feature development is planned to continue against master.

- The 1.4.0 Release has been a step toward modernizing Shiro as well
as retain backwards compatibility.

Last committer voted in: Andreas Kohn on 15 Jul 2016
Last PMC Member voted in: Andreas Kohn on 26 Jul 2016

2016-09-21 — Les Hazlewood

Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Releases:

 - 1.3.1 was released on Tue Aug 30 2016
 - 1.3.2 was released on Tue Sep 12 2016

Community & Project:

- The 1.3.2 contained fix for CVE-2016-6802

- Mailing list traffic has remained the same.

- New committer/PMC member Andreas Kohn

- The 2.x release has been postponed in favor of a 1.3.x release
  in order to consume various community patch submissions.

- Project is mostly stable and in maintenance/bugfix mode until a 2.0
  release can be made.  Only minor feature development is planned on 1.x.

Last committer voted in: Andreas Kohn on 15 Jul 2016
Last PMC Member voted in: Andreas Kohn on 26 Jul 2016

2016-07-20 — Les Hazlewood

Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Releases:

- 1.2.5 was released on Tue May 24 2016
- 1.2.6 was released on Tue Jun 28 2016

Community & Project:

- Mailing list traffic has remained the same, with a slight raise on dev@
 due to the increase number of commits.

- The 2.x release has been postponed in favor of a 1.3.x release
 in order to consume various community patch submissions.

- Release 1.2.5 contained a fix for CVE-2016-4437

- Project is mostly stable and in maintenance/bugfix mode until a 2.0
 release can be made.  Only minor feature development is planned on 1.x.

Last committer voted in: Jerome LELEU on 4 Aug 2015 Last PMC Member voted in:
Brian Demers on 20 May 2013

2016-06-15 — Les Hazlewood

No report was submitted.

2016-03-16 — Les Hazlewood

Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Releases:

- We released the 1.2.4 bugfix/point release on July 7th.

Community & Project:

- 2.x work has slowed as of late.  The hope is to resume significant work when
  possible.  Cleanup needs to occur before final release candidates can go out.

- It was a priority since the last board report to move to Git.  This has been
  completed.

- Project is mostly stable and in maintenance/bugfix mode until a 2.0 release
  can be made.  No significant feature development is planned on 1.x.

Last committer voted in: Jérôme LELEU on 4 Aug 2015
Last PMC Member voted in: Brian Demers on 20 May 2013

2015-12-16 — Les Hazlewood

Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Releases:

- We released the 1.2.4 bugfix/point release on July 7th.

Community & Project:

- 2.x work has slowed as of late.  The hope is to resume significant work this
  month and into January.  Cleanup needs to occur before final release
  candidates can go out.

- Mostly everyone wants to move the project to ASF Git.  We'll hopefully do
  this before the next board report!

- Project is mostly stable and in maintenance/bugfix mode until a 2.0 release
  can be made.  No significant feature development is planned on 1.x.

Last committer voted in: Jérôme LELEU on 4 Aug 2015
Last PMC Member voted in: Brian Demers on 20 May 2013

2015-09-16 — Les Hazlewood

Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application
security framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization,
enterprise session management and cryptography.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Releases:

- We released the 1.2.4 bugfix/point release 2 months ago on July 7th.

Community & Project:

- We have a new committer! Jerome LELEU, a long time community member
and friend of the Shiro community accepted our invitation and became a
committer last month on August 4th, 2015.

- We are still working on 2.x and active discussion has resumed
towards this effort.

- Project is mostly stable and in maintenance/bugfix mode until a 2.0
release can be made.  No significant feature development is planned on
1.x.

Last committer voted in: Jerome LELEU on 4 Aug 2015
Last PMC Member voted in: Brian Demers on 20 May 2013

2015-06-17 — Les Hazlewood

Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Releases:

- No new releases since our previous 1.2.3 bugfix release on
  25 February 2014.  2.0 development work is still in progress, but
  the team has not indicated a concrete release date.  There are
  some backwards incompatible changes that need to be vetted before
  a release is feasible.

Community & Project:

- Mailing list traffic remains steady compared to last quarter.

- Efforts towards a 2.0 distribution remain active on a separate dev branch.

- Project is mostly stable and in maintenance/bugfix mode until a 2.0 release
  can be made.  No significant feature development is planned on 1.x.

Last PMC Member voted in: Brian Demers on 20 May 2013
Last committer voted in: Jared Bunting on 29 Jul 2012

2015-03-18 — Les Hazlewood

Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Releases:

- No new releases since our previous 1.2.3 bugfix release on
  25 February 2014.  A 1.3 release may be possible as an interim
  before 2.0, but development work last quarter has targeted the 2.0
  branch.

Community & Project:

- Mailing list traffic remains steady compared to last quarter.

- Efforts towards a 2.0 distribution remain active on a separate dev branch.
  Changes are ongoing, and we hope to make a 2.0 release soon!

- One of the PMC members, Les Hazlewood, joined the JEE Application Security
  expert group (JSR 375) where hopefully some security ideas from Shiro will
  influence the specification as well as benefit Shiro by ideas discussed in
  the expert group.

Last PMC Member voted in: Brian Demers on 20 May 2013
Last committer voted in: Jared Bunting on 29 Jul 2012

2014-12-17 — Les Hazlewood

Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application
security framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization,
enterprise session management and cryptography.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Releases:

- No new releases since our previous 1.2.3 bugfix release on 25
February 2014.  A 1.3 release may be possible as an interim before
2.0, but development work last quarter has targeted the 2.0 branch.

Community & Project:

- Mailing list traffic remains steady compared to last quarter.

- Efforts towards a 2.0 distribution remain active on a separate dev
branch. Changes are ongoing, and we hope to make a 2.0 release Q1
2015.

Last PMC Member voted in: Brian Demers on 20 May 2013
Last committer voted in: Jared Bunting on 29 Jul 2012

2014-09-17 — Les Hazlewood

Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Releases:

- No new releases since our previous 1.2.3 bugfix release on
  25 February 2014.  A 1.3 release may be on the horizon as an interim
  before 2.0, but most recent development work has targeted the 2.0
  branch.

Community & Project:

- Mailing list traffic remains steady compared to last quarter.

- Efforts towards a 2.0 distribution remain active on a separate dev branch.
  Changes are nearly complete, and we hope to make a 2.0 release this quarter or
  early next.

Last PMC Member voted in: Brian Demers on 20 May 2013
Last committer voted in: Jared Bunting on 29 Jul 2012

2014-06-18 — Les Hazlewood

Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Releases:

- No new releases since our previous 1.2.3 bugfix release last quarter on
  25 February 2014.  A 1.3 release still appears to be on the
  the horizon as an interim before 2.0.

Community & Project:

- Mailing list traffic remains steady compared to last quarter.

- The Shiro plugin for Apache ActiveMQ has been accepted by the ActiveMQ
  project and has been released in their v. 5.10 distribution! This allows
  all aspects of ActiveMQ to be secured by Shiro - a nice addition!

- Efforts towards a 2.0 distribution remain active on a separate dev branch.
  Changes made this past week make it ready for full dev team review and
  discussion.  An actual 2.0 release date has not been planned yet.

Last PMC Member voted in: Brian Demers on 20 May 2013
Last committer voted in: Jared Bunting on 29 Jul 2012

2014-03-19 — Les Hazlewood

Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Releases:

- We published a 1.2.3 bugfix release on 25 February 2014, 7 days ago.  A 1.3
  release is still on the horizon as an interim before 2.0.

Community & Project:

- Brian Demers graciously fixed the user-reported CVE-2014-0074 and pushed out
  the 1.2.3 hotfix.

- A new Shiro plugin for Apache ActiveMQ has been contributed to (and accepted
  by) the Apache ActiveMQ team.  This allows all aspects of ActiveMQ to be
  secured by Shiro - a nice addition! The plugin is scheduled to be available
  in the upcoming ActiveMQ 5.10 release.

- Efforts towards a 2.0 distribution have picked up on a new dev branch.  We
  will still likely need a 1.3 interim release, but that has been slow-going
  as of late.  Hopefully we can release 1.3 next month.

- User mailing list continues to be quite active.

Last PMC Member voted in: Brian Demers on 20 May 2013
Last committer voted in: Jared Bunting on 29 Jul 2012

2013-12-18 — Les Hazlewood

Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Releases:

- No new releases since our May 30 2013 1.2.2 bugfix release.  A 1.3 release
  is still on the horizon as an interim before 2.0.

Community & Project:

- Brian Demers accepted his nomination to the Shiro PMC.  We're happy to have
  him aboard!

- Efforts towards a 2.0 distribution are slow going, as the last quarter has
  been particularly busy for the entire Shiro team.  The community is
  advocating a few issues that probably should be represented in a 1.3
  interim release, so they don't have to wait for 2.0 (JSF release + bug
  fixes).

- User mailing list has been quite active the last month.  We're grateful for
  a community that helps each other out a lot without as much guidance by the
  core shiro team as might have been necessary earlier in the project's
  history.

Last PMC Member voted in: Brian Demers on 20 May 2013
Last committer voted in: Jared Bunting on 29 Jul 2012

2013-09-18 — Les Hazlewood

Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Releases:

- No new releases since our May 30 2013 1.2.2 bugfix release.  A 1.3 release
 may be on the horizon as an interim before 2.0.

Community & Project:

- Initial efforts towards a 2.0 distribution are still under way.
 It is still quite early, and a new release is probably still at least 6
 months away.

- It might be possible to have a 1.3 interim release before 2.0, adding in
 official JSF support + a few minor bug fixes.

- User mailing list is still active, with questions (more than usual)
 picking up over the last month.

Last PMC Member voted in: Brian Demers on 20 May 2013
Last committer voted in: Jared Bunting on 29 Jul 2012

2013-06-19 — Les Hazlewood

Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Releases:

- We released a new 1.2.2 bugfix release on May 30th encompassing
 18 bug fixes.

Community & Project:

- We have finally moved over to Apache Infra's svnpubsub mechanism for
 publishing website updates.  This is working really well so far.  We are
 still flushing out the best authoring system to use - we are currently
 using a custom file-based CMS, but recently found Octopress, which looks
 much more feature rich and powerful.

- Initial efforts towards a 2.0 distribution have started in the svn trunk.
 It is still quite early, and a new release is probably at least 6
 months away.

- Outside of the Shiro codebase, there is a significant effort to secure
 Apache ActiveMQ with Shiro located here:
 https://github.com/lhazlewood/activemq/tree/trunk/activemq-shiro
 Once complete, the ActiveMQ development team has indicated they will be
 happy to include it in ActiveMQ's distribution.

- Les presented at the 2013 Cassandra Summit showing how to use Cassandra
 as a distributed data store for clustering Shiro sessions:
 https://github.com/lhazlewood/shiro-cassandra-sample

2013-03-20 — Les Hazlewood

Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Releases:

- We have not released anything since our previous 1.2.1 bugfix release.
  However, enough community desire has surfaced for a 1.2.2 patch release
  as well as a 1.3.0 release.  We are making strong efforts this and
  next week to accomplish this.

- After these next 1.2.1 and 1.3.0 releases, we might start targeting a
  2.0 distribution, which would incorporate a lot of desired changes.  We
  have been careful about this because this would very likely introduce
  backwards incompatible changes that we can't do on minor or patch releases
  as we follow the APR versioning guidelines.

Community & Project:

- Les presented Intro to Apache Shiro at ApacheCon this year - it was a good
  experience to see so many Apache folks.

- We still haven't had the time/volunteers to convert over to infra@'s CMS
  system for our public website, even though we're well past the deadline.
  This means that our public website can't be updated with new content until
  this occurs since (as we understand it) the confluence wiki is no longer
  supported.

- The Shiro community remains helpful, with steady month-after-month mailing
  list traffic.  No noticeable changes here.

- Everyone on the Shiro dev team has been quite busy w/ their respective
  full time jobs.  Coupled with the holidays, not much development was
  accomplished last quarter, but efforts are ramping up significantly for
  a 1.2.2 and 1.3.0 release.

2012-12-19 — Les Hazlewood

Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Releases:

- We have not released anything since our previous 1.2.1 bugfix release.
  Current trunk development is targeted at a 1.3.0 release (time frame
  not yet determined).

Community & Project:

- Les presented 3 presentations on various Apache Shiro topics at this year's
  Rich Web Experience conference in Fort Lauderdale at the end of November.

- We have yet to convert over to infra@'s CMS system for our public website.
  That work will probably be completed over the holidays in time for infra's
  Jan 1 deadline.

- The Shiro community remains helpful, with steady month-after-month mailing
  list traffic.  No noticeable changes here.

- The Shiro site and distribution continues to experience good growth,
  with the site averaging around 10,000 visitors per month and 8,700
  downloads a month from Maven Central (a 25% increase from the last report).

2012-09-19 — Les Hazlewood

Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application
security framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization,
enterprise session management and cryptography.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Releases:

- We released a 1.2.1 bugfix release on 28 July 2012.  Current trunk
development is targeted at a 1.3.0 release (time frame not yet
determined).

Community & Project:

- The Shiro community remains helpful, with steady month-after-month
mailing list traffic.  No noticeable changes here.

- The Shiro site and distribution continues to experience good growth,
with the site averaging around 10,000 visitors per month and 7,000
downloads a month from Maven Central, and that number is steadily
increasing each month.

2012-07-25 — Les Hazlewood

Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Releases:

- We released Shiro 1.2 last quarter and we are currently planning on
  releasing a 1.2.1 bug fix release hopefully sometime this or next week.

Community & Project:

- Shiro continues to grow, both in the number of downloads and the size of
  its community.  We've received a lot of feedback lately on integration
  with other protocols like OAuth, OpenID and open-source frameworks like
  Scribe (for OAuth).  The development team will continue to work with the
  community to provide the best Java security experience possible.

- We're excited to represent Shiro at OSCON this year with the
  rest of the ASF team.  One of our team members, Les Hazlewood, will be
  at the Apache hackathon helping anyone wishing to use or integrate with
  Shiro.

2012-06-20 — Les Hazlewood

No report was submitted.

2012-03-21 — Les Hazlewood

Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Releases:

- We are very happy to announce that we have released Apache Shiro 1.2 on
  Tuesday, January 24 2012, after our last report.  While 'just' a point
  release, this effort constituted over a year's worth of work.  We are
  very excited for the community to have this release.

Community & Project:

- We are happy to report that Jared Bunting has become our newest PMC member.
  He has been a valuable member of the team overall, and especially helpful
  with Shiro's Guice integration.

- More articles, blog posts, tweets and tutorials are being written about
  Apache Shiro every day.  Google Analytics shows almost 100,000 page views
  and 10,000 unique visitors per month, showing significant continued
  project interest and community growth after leaving the Incubator a little
  over a year ago.

2011-12-21 — Les Hazlewood

Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Releases:
- No new releases.

Community & Project:

- In our last report, we were considering voting on 1.2 as soon as possible.
  Instead, we delayed the vote to allow finishing a number of issues
  related to making password hashing much easier for applications.  That work
  is 95% complete and it is expected that a 1.2 vote will happen within a
  week or two.

- The community continues to grow, with new articles being written by the
  community.  We appreciated and were excited to see an extremely thorough
  article written by Meri covering Shiro cryptography:
  http://meri-stuff.blogspot.com/2011/12/apache-shiro-part-3-cryptography.html

- The mailing lists remain healthy.  Much of the community is awaiting the 1.2
  release, and this has become our highest priority.

2011-09-21 — Les Hazlewood

Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Releases:
- No new releases.

Community & Project:

- The Apache Shiro team is excited to report that we have added
 Jared Bunting as our second new committer after becoming a TLP.  Jared
 has been a great help to the project and he is a welcome addition to the
 team.

- The team has decided to release Shiro 1.2 as soon as possible.  A release
 vote is likely this week.

- Significant effort has gone into improving Shiro's reference manual the last
 three months.  It is much better than before and continues to grow as new
 features are added.  Some talk was discussed about finding a new authoring
 format beyond using Confluence, but no changes have been implemented as of
 yet.

2011-06-15 — Les Hazlewood

Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Releases:
- No releases since our first 1 Nov 2010 1.1.0 release

Community & Project:

This last quarter has been focused more on community building than
coding, with great success.  The Shiro average website visitor traffic
has increased more than half (59%) in only 3 months!  We continue to
grow and help the JVM security community.  Following are
the most important points from the last quarter.

- The Apache Shiro team is excited to report that we have added
 Brian Demers as our first new committer after becoming a TLP.  We're
 excited that our community continues to grow with quality folks like
 Brian.

- There has been minor discussion of creating a 1.2 release soon.  A
 few minor issues need to be resolved, and hopefully this will be done
 before our next board report.

- While Shiro doesn't receive many complaints, the most frequent one has
 been that non-JavaDoc documentation has been lacking.  Significant work
 has gone into improving Shiro's documentation over the last month, and
 we believe this will serve the community much better.

- To improve project publicity, Les Hazlewood wrote an intro article on
 Apache Shiro published on InfoQ: http://www.infoq.com/articles/apache-shiro
 This has contributed to site traffic and community adoption significantly.

2011-03-16 — Les Hazlewood

Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Releases:
- No releases since our first 1 Nov 2010 1.1.0 release

Community & Project:
 - No new committers or PMC members

 - The project team is discussing the possibility of releasing a
  1.1.1 bug fix point release or moving directly to a 1.2 release.

 - Documentation efforts have increased significantly the last two
  months, with new Authentication and Authorization guides being written
  with many cleanup edits of the existing framework documentation.
  February (last month) represented the highest traffic volume to date
  for the Apache Shiro website (just shy of 10k site visits), indicating
  these edits are paying off.

 - Some new integration efforts by both committers and end-users for
  integrating with third party authentication systems seems to have picked up
  lately, with discussions about supporting OpenId, OAuth, and maybe
  Oracle SSO

 - In the last three months, the community has indicated areas for
  significant improvement in the codebase which will probably make their
  way into a 2.0 release.  There is currently no timeline for 2.0, but
  ideas are being tracked at
  https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SHIRO/Version+2+Brainstorming.

  Most notable of the improvements are the continued migration to favoring
  architecture that emphasizes OO composition over inheritance, affording
  our end-users an even more pluggable approach to application security.

2010-12-15 — Les Hazlewood

Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security framework
that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise session
management and cryptography.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Releases:
- No releases since our first 1 Nov 1.1.0 release as a TLP

Community & Project:
- No new committers or PMC members

- Continued user participation on the mailing lists.  This last month
  probably represents the highest user activity with regards to
  opening Jira issues and providing patches, a healthy sign that our
  project continues to grow as a new TLP.

- The development team is discussing as to when our next release might
  be, whether it will be before or after the holidays.  It is not
  currently decided if it will be a 1.1.1 point release or a
  1.2 minor release.

- There has been a lot of discussion in the last month by both users and
  developers as to the best way to support Shiro integration with
  3rd-party (ASF compatible) frameworks and libraries - either include
  the code as 'support modules' within Shiro's codebase, or to have the code
  reside somewhere else, like a 'shiro-extras' project, similar in concept
  to Apache Wicket's 'Wicket Stuff' project.

  The difficulty in deciding is based on 1) the likelihood of the dev
  team supporting an increasing number of integration modules directly at
  the level of quality we wish to maintain and 2) whether or not a
  security framework like Shiro should support frameworks (like
  Wicket and Struts2) that sit 'higher' in the application stack.
  Ideally we'd like the respective web communities to support Shiro since
  we believe it is in their scope to do so, rather than Shiro (a
  security framework) writing integration for multiple
  web frameworks.  This is an ongoing discussion and we've yet to come
  to a decision.

2010-11-17 — Les Hazlewood

Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security framework
that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise session
management and cryptography.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Releases:
- We are proud to announce that we have made our first release as a
 TLP, Apache Shiro version 1.1.0 on November 1st, 2010.

Community & Project:
 - No new committers or PMC members
 - Community interaction and user list traffic has grown significantly
  since becoming a TLP, with over 400 emails on the user and dev
  mailing lists last month.  This is more than double the average
  monthly traffic we had while in incubation, showing
  continued growth and a healthy community as a TLP.
 - We experienced our first security vulnerability CVE issue.  It wasn't
  handled as appropriately as it should have, with the issue becoming
  public (in a roundabout way) before it should have been made known.
  We dealt with the issue, fixed the source code, and very shortly
  thereafter released version 1.1.0.  This was a bit difficult as this
  CVE issue overlapped with the other issues required for 1.1 and because
  we had not yet released a TLP version, we couldn't simply create a
  point release and just 'get it out the door' quickly.  Instead we
  needed to coordinate the fix in the context of our first TLP
  release, which was a little more challenging.  In any event,
  it was a great learning experience, and we are confident any
  further CVE issues will be handled appropriately.

2010-10-20 — Les Hazlewood

Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security
framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise
session management and cryptography.

We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time.

Releases:
- In the few weeks since graduating from the Incubator, we haven't yet
 released a new version, although we plan on making our first TLP release
 (version 1.0.1 or 1.1) in the next month.

Community & Project:
 - No new committers or PMC members
 - All project migration issues are complete and http://shiro.apache.org
  is up and running.
 - Community interaction and user list traffic is growing steadily after
  graduating from the Incubator.  Google Analytics reports that our
  web site has received about a 40% average increase in site visitors
  after going TLP.
 - Significant new features are slated for 1.1 later this month, notably
  improved salting support for authentication tokens and a much-improved
  JNDI-based LDAP realm for using LDAP for authentication and authorization

2008-08-20 — as JSecurity, in the Incubator's report

JSecurity is a powerful and flexible open-source Java security framework
that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise session
management and cryptography.

JSecurity has been incubating since June 2008.

The project has been very active, with plenty of discussion around
features, implementation, and strategy, on both user and dev lists.

The code is still at codehaus, with the plan to migrate the code base
with all history to the apache repository once a release has been made.
Once the code is in the apache repository, additional releases of the
org.jsecurity code may be published via codehaus, while the
packages are renamed to org.apache.jsecurity.

Mailing lists have been set up, and most email traffic has been migrated
from the previous lists at codehaus.

The JIRA project is set up and is tracking new issues. Issues will be
migrated from the existing bug tracking system in due time.

The status is being maintained at
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/jsecurity/STATUS

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