2013 June - 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 released a new 1.2.2 bugfix release on May 30th encompassing 18 bug fixes. Community & Project: - We have finally moved over to Apache Infra's svnpubsub mechanism for publishing website updates. This is working really well so far. We are still flushing out the best authoring system to use - we are currently using a custom file-based CMS, but recently found Octopress, which looks much more feature rich and powerful. - Initial efforts towards a 2.0 distribution have started in the svn trunk. It is still quite early, and a new release is probably at least 6 months away. - Outside of the Shiro codebase, there is a significant effort to secure Apache ActiveMQ with Shiro located here: https://github.com/lhazlewood/activemq/tree/trunk/activemq-shiro Once complete, the ActiveMQ development team has indicated they will be happy to include it in ActiveMQ's distribution. - Les presented at the 2013 Cassandra Summit showing how to use Cassandra as a distributed data store for clustering Shiro sessions: https://github.com/lhazlewood/shiro-cassandra-sample