2012 March - 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 are very happy to announce that we have released Apache Shiro 1.2 on Tuesday, January 24 2012, after our last report. While 'just' a point release, this effort constituted over a year's worth of work. We are very excited for the community to have this release. Community & Project: - We are happy to report that Jared Bunting has become our newest PMC member. He has been a valuable member of the team overall, and especially helpful with Shiro's Guice integration. - More articles, blog posts, tweets and tutorials are being written about Apache Shiro every day. Google Analytics shows almost 100,000 page views and 10,000 unique visitors per month, showing significant continued project interest and community growth after leaving the Incubator a little over a year ago.