2012 December - Board report for Apache Shiro Apache Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise session management and cryptography. We have no issues that require Board assistance at this time. Releases: - We have not released anything since our previous 1.2.1 bugfix release. Current trunk development is targeted at a 1.3.0 release (time frame not yet determined). Community & Project: - Les presented 3 presentations on various Apache Shiro topics at this year's Rich Web Experience conference in Fort Lauderdale at the end of November. - We have yet to convert over to infra@'s CMS system for our public website. That work will probably be completed over the holidays in time for infra's Jan 1 deadline. - The Shiro community remains helpful, with steady month-after-month mailing list traffic. No noticeable changes here. - The Shiro site and distribution continues to experience good growth, with the site averaging around 10,000 visitors per month and 8,700 downloads a month from Maven Central (a 25% increase from the last report).