2009-January Status Report for the Apache OpenJPA Project Highlights OpenJPA is busy implementing the latest JPA 2.0 JSR-317, which is in Public Review Draft status. The implementation is being done in trunk in "iterations" after discussion with the community. The first iteration has been completed (not released) and can be evaluated via nightly build. Slice has been added to OpenJPA as a separate module. Slice is a plug-in extension for OpenJPA to interact with distributed databases within the same transaction. Community Mailing lists continue to be very active, with an average of almost 300 messages per month on the dev alias and approximately 400 messages per month on the users alias. OpenJPA continues to experience an increase in email subscriptions and activity. There are 150 subscribers to dev and nearly 200 to users. The community is working well together. Questions from the community are answered promptly, often resulting in a JIRA being filed. Governance The PMC has elected Jeremy Bauer to the PMC, and Jeremy has accepted. The PMC continues to track contributors with an eye toward making them committers, and committers PMC members. Releases No releases since 1.2, but a 1.3.x branch was created, anticipating a release based on JPA 1.0 specification if it becomes necessary.