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- Fineract 1.x

The 1.4 release is unfortunately still pending as the community is working to find volunteer release managers and maintainers to help cut the release. The community is still anticipating a number of significant contributions for the 1.5 release so would like to urgently get the 1.4 release shipped.  The community really recognizes that for the contribution model and upstream development to really been working and support the growth of the community, more work properly, contributions need to come from the individuals and committers belonging to organizations building using the software in production environments (e.g. commercial solutions powered by Fineract). Despite the massive uptick a recent uptick since April 2020 in contributions from volunteers and interns, contributions from the ecosystem and , especially ongoing maintenance and release management from the ecosystem of expert fineract-deployers is at relatively low levels at the moment. 

Three intern candidates have been brought on directly through Apache Software Foundation for Google Summer of Code and are making great progress on implementing checkstyles, refactoring the code, hardening the codebase, upgrading core dependencies, implementing live API docs, migrating to EclipseLink and more. In addition there is one Outreachy intern working on some Fineract issues and several of the seventeen Mifos GSOC interns who are contributing to Apache Fineract via Fineract CN Mobile, Credit Bureau integration module, and more. To learn more about each intern, visit this blog post from the Mifos Initiative at https://mifos.org/blog/gsoc-2020/.

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The community is still trying to push towards a stable a first release of Fineract CN centered around a minimum set of mature and stable libraries needed to establish a foundational framework, along with minimum set of functionality that can demonstrate an end to end solution on top of the framework and sufficient DevOps tooling and scripts to more easily deploy the framework.  Progress microservices. There is discussion regarding the twin goals of a) deployable MVP solution, and b) base level of libraries to ensure upstream contribution models from the organizations using the code in production. Progress is still slow on getting the few organizations, actively using the codebase to contribute back, and their expert "users",  to contribute back.  Focus is currently on sufficient deployment tools to make the project more approachable for new devs. 

Work is still ongoing to get the public demo server live. GSOC projects related to live API documentation as well as additional UIs on top of Fineract CN are in progress. Work is ongoing to provide an Open Banking API layer on top of Fineract CN to all third party and trusted first-party apps to securely connect. 

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Both projects continue to remain retain healthy discussion with 534 mails sent to our dev
mailing dev mailing list, which amounts to a minor seasonal (~25%) increas increase in traffic
compared traffic compared to the previous quarter (425) 

Activity rates on JIRA have seen a sharp increase (nearly 5x) thanks to the tireless efforts of Michael Vorburger to encourage contributions, review pull requests in a timely manner and recognize incoming contributions in a weekly Fineract Weekly Resolved Issues update and Dashboard on JIRA. Thanks as well to Petri and Awasum for their contributions, mentorship and reviews of code along with our Fineract interns. 

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