2010-January Shiro Incubator status report Shiro is a powerful and flexible open-source application security framework that cleanly handles authentication, authorization, enterprise session management and cryptography. Shiro has been incubating since June 2008. During the period, the project has made steady progress towards releasing the first 1.0.0 release as part of Apache incubator. All IP clearance issues have been resolved and the team has verified there are no known remaining issues open. Previous issues related to project's name change have been largely resolved. Community involvement remains high and many users are eagerly waiting for the first official release. The team is planning on making the release during the next period. There's been an on-going effort to clean up the codebase and prioritize open JIRA issues before the release. Project's API documentation (javadoc) is in a fairly good state, but the remaining issue is where and how to automatically publish the javadoc for general consumption. In addition, a wiki-based documentation effort for creating a reference guide was launched. The project team is not considering graduation at this point, but after the first release, the team will decide on a roadmap targeting graduation. The status is being maintained at http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/shiro/STATUS