Apache Geronimo Board Report
The Geronimo project generated multiple releases over the last three months. The community is discussing a Geronimo Server 2.2 release. There are also discussions regarding OSGi and potential support from within Geronimo. Ivan Xu joined the Geronimo project as our newest committer.
Releases
Server
Geronimo Server 2.1.4 was released. This release included multiple bug fixes and addressed 3 security vulnerabilities in the admin console.
Plugins
Components
- Geronimo TxManager 2.1.2 was released. This release included multiple bug fixes.
DayTrader
DevTools
- Geronimo Eclipse Plugin 2.1.4 was released. This release included bug fixes and support for the latest 2.1.4 server release.
Genesis
GShell
- GShell 1.0-alpha2 was released
XBean
- XBean 3.5 was released.
Samples
Javamail
- Javamail Spec 1.6 and Provider 1.7 were released to address problems which were uncovered.
Specs
- We requested the jsr-196 (jaspi) tck from sun on dec 2 2008 and still haven't received it.
JUGs and Conferences
Two Geronimo presentations were made at ApacheCon EU 2009 by David Jencks:
- Administering Apache Geronimo 2.x
- Administering Apache Geronimo through Custom Server Assemblies
Policy Changes
Privacy Policy was created and linked in to all Confluence generated websites, due to us using Google Analytics -
http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxPMGT/geronimo-privacy-policy.html
Community
Automated Java EE 5 TCK tests are running on phoebe and selene – providing much faster test results that can be shared and reproduced by the entire TCK community. In addition some manually driven TCK testing has been performed for non-Geronimo projects.
Security
Three security vulnerabilities were discovered in the Geronimo admin console. There were fixed in the Geronimo Server 2.1.4 release:
- CVE-2008-5518
- CVE-2009-0038
- CVE-2009-0039
New PMC Members
New Committers
- Ivan Xu
Other Issues and News
The community discussed using the Apache Nexus installation for release and snapshot staging/deployment. The community decided to hold off on switching to this new process until after the Geronimo Server 2.1.4 release.