2013-Jan Status Report for the Apache OpenJPA Project There are no items requiring board attention at this time. * Highlights Apache OpenJPA provides POJO persistence for stand-alone JSE, JEE container and many other lightweight frameworks, such as Tomcat, Spring or OSGi. * Community Mailing lists continue to be active and many applications are migrating from other vendors to OpenJPA. The developer community had maintained the codebase stable, supported for previous releases and backported resolved defects. New features (auditing, access pattern tracker) are implemented by the community of developers. Helen Xu of IBM has joined the project as a committer. * Governance We continue to monitor contributors for possible committers and PMC members. * Releases Now new releases since last report.