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There's been lots of development activity lately, particularly with fixing JIRA issues. CERT-FI notified us about a security vulnerability which we fixed before they formally announced it to the public this month. A patch is available for users. No releases are planned for this time.
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There was some discussion in late May / early June about a proposal for adding a new component for a simple ease of use API for processing XML. It turned out that something close to this idea already existed in the commons.apache.org project (http://commons.apache.org/configuration/). A couple new bug reports were opened against the XML Commons Resolver, otherwise no other activity to report for this period.
General
Gareth is stepping down as PMC chair. He's nominated Michael Glavassevich to become the next chair and has started a vote which was still going on at the time of this report.