## Description:
The mission of Jena is the creation and maintenance of software related
to Java framework for building Semantic Web applications
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.
## Membership Data:
Apache Jena was founded 2012-04-18 (9 years ago)
There are currently 18 committers and 14 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 9:7.
Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members. Last addition was Aaron Coburn on 2019-01-22.
- No new committers. Last addition was Greg Albiston on 2019-07-08.
## Project Activity:
Jena 4.0.0 was released on 2021-04-01.
This release marks moving from requiring a Java8 platform to requiring a
Java11 platform. After discussion in the dev and users communities, the
feeling was that this was a moment for a major version jump. Because of
this, there was as much removal of deprecated and old code as time
permitted.
The release was roughly inline with the "release every 3 or 4 months"
ideal that the project has.
The release date was by-chance!
This release also contained an updated implementation of "RDF-star" - an
emerging new feature for RDF that is gaining traction. This release
passes all the syntax and evaluation test suites.
## Community Health:
The community, as seen on the user list and via contributors remains
healthy. The thread on whether to update to Java11 was the busiest user
list thread.
