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Subject: Draft February Board report.
Date: February 17, 2018 at 5:44:29 AM EST
To: "<dev@river.apache.org>" <dev@river.apache.org>
Hi River folks,
Draft board report for February, I'm running a little late, so this might have
to be postponed untill March.
Regards,
Peter.
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## Description:
- Apache River provides a platform for dynamic discovery and lookup search of
network services. Services may be implemented in a number of languages, while
clients are required to be jvm based (presently at least), to allow proxy jvm
byte code to be provisioned dynamically.
## Issues:
No significant issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
Interest in making Jini specifications programming language agnostic.
Release roadmap:
River 3.0.1 - thread leak fix
River 3.1 - Modular build restructure (& binary release)
River 3.2 - Input validation 4 Serialization, delayed unmarshalling& safe
ServiceRegistrar lookup service.
River 3.3 - OSGi support
## Health report:
- Minimal activity at present on dev.
- No recent commit activity, but there are plans for more work in near future.
- Future Direction:
* Target IOT space with support for OSGi and IPv6 (security fixes required
prior to announcement)
* Input validation for java deserialization - prevents DOS and
Gadget attacks.
* IPv6 Multicast Service Discovery (River currently only support
IPv4 multicast discovery).
* Delayed unmarshalling for Service Lookup and Discovery (includes
SafeServiceRegistrar mentioned in release roadmap), so
authentication can occur prior to downloading service proxy's,
this addresses a long standing security issue with service lookup
while significantly improving performance under some use cases.
* Security fixes for SSL endpoints, updated to TLS v1.2 with removal
of support for insecure cyphers.
* Maven build to replace existing ant built that uses
classdepandjar, a bytecode dependency analysis build tool.
* Updating the Jini specifications.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 12 PMC members.
- One new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Dan Rollo on Fri 1st December 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 16 committers.
## Releases:
- River-3.0.0 was released on Wed Oct 05 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- Relatively quiet in comparison to recent months, however this appears as a
result of reaching concensus after a period of discussion.
## JIRA activity:
- Activity around making Jini specifications programming language agnostic.
