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No development activity to report, though we got a reply from the W3C on the JIRA issue (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XMLCOMMONS-61) about their continuing challenges with excessive DTD (and other schemata) traffic. It seems that we've already done what we reasonably can on that front by bundling the XML Commons Resolver with Xerces-J and that further improvements to caching should be done at the protocol level.
Apache Project Branding Requirements
On the TLP website there's still some work to do, including adding TM to the project logo and updates for other trademark attributions.