November 2014 Report

Xerces-J

A potential security issue was reported to the PMC in early November. It appears that it may have already been fixed and are seeking confirmation from the reporter.

A couple defects were fixed in the XML Schema implementation. Otherwise it has been relatively quiet.

Mailing list traffic has been low; roughly 90 posts on the j-dev and j-users lists since the beginning of August 2014.

No new releases this quarter. The latest release is Xerces-J 2.11.0 (November 30th, 2010).

Xerces-C

It has been a quiet three months with no development activity.

Mailing list traffic has been very low; roughly 35 posts on the c-dev and c-users lists since the beginning of August 2014.

There was no news on the anticipated 3.2 release or discussion of it this quarter. The latest release is Xerces-C 3.1.1 (April 27th, 2010).

Xerces-P

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

XML Commons

Responded to a question regarding XML Commons artifacts on Maven Central. No other activity over the reporting period.

Committer / PMC Changes

No new committers in the last quarter. The most recent committers were elected in July 2008 (Xerces-C) and May 2009 (Xerces-J).

No new PMC members in the last quarter. The last two additions to the PMC were in May 2010.

Two committers (who are also PMC members) committed changes to SVN in the last quarter.

Apache Project Branding Requirements

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