May 2018 Report

Xerces-J

Xerces-J 2.12.0 was released at the end of April which contains a completed XML Schema 1.1 processor, fixes several bugs and addresses a few security issues. Thanks to Mukul Gandhi for driving this long awaited release.

There has been some discussion on the mailing lists about pushing the new Xerces release into the Maven repositories. We're looking to the community for volunteers to help with this.

Mailing list traffic has been moderate; roughly 135+ posts on the j-dev and j-users lists since the beginning of March 2018.

The latest release is Xerces-J 2.12.0 (April 30th, 2018).

Xerces-C

Some improvements were made to the Xerces-C build in March. Otherwise it's been quiet on the development front since the last release.

Mailing list traffic has been moderate; roughly 230+ posts on the c-dev and c-users lists since the beginning of March 2018.

No new releases since the previous report. The latest release is Xerces-C 3.2.1 (February 28th, 2018).

Xerces-P

Nothing in particular to report. There was no development activity over the reporting period.

XML Commons

No activity over the reporting period.

Committer / PMC Changes

The most recent committers were added in April 2017 (Xerces-C) and May 2017 (Xerces-J).

No new PMC members since the last report. The most recent addition to the PMC was in June 2016.

Two committers have committed changes to SVN since March 2018.

Apache Project Branding Requirements

The project logo still needs a "TM" to be added to it.