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  • no new releases have been issued since July 2013 (they have been included
    in the previous report to the ASF Board)
  • the stabilization of the latest release branch 13.07 is proceeding
    smoothly; the goal is to issue the first release out of it (13.07.01) in
    February 2014
  • we are also backporting bug fixes to the older but still active release
    branches 12.04 and 11.04: within the first quarter of 2014 we will
    probably issue one release for each of them

Community and Project

  • no new committers or PMC members have been added in this quarter; the
    last committer was Paul Foxworthy (paulfoxworthy), invited in
    November 2012; the last PMC member was Erwan de Ferrieres (erwan), invited in
    December 2009
  • mailing list traffic is lower than in the past years but it is still
    relevant and there is good community interaction
  • significant work done in the trunk mainly in the following areas:
    • bug fixes, improvements and optimizations (thread safety, high load…)
    • maintenance: code upgrade to support most recent versions of external jars
      (e.g. Tomcat, FOP, Groovy, POI, Lucene…)
    • code cleanups and improved modularity
    • enhancements and new features (General Ledger, Payments, Minilang,
      Security, URL generation...)

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