[REPORT] Apache Shiro - December 2011

[Les Hazlewood <lh...@apache.org>]

2011 December - 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:
- No new releases.

Community & Project:

 - In our last report, we were considering voting on 1.2 as soon as possible.
  Instead, we delayed the vote to allow finishing a number of issues
  related to making password hashing much easier for applications.  That work
  is 95% complete and it is expected that a 1.2 vote will happen within a
  week or two.

 - The community continues to grow, with new articles being written by the
  community.  We appreciated and were excited to see an extremely thorough
  article written by Meri covering Shiro cryptography:
  http://meri-stuff.blogspot.com/2011/12/apache-shiro-part-3-cryptography.html

 - The mailing lists remain healthy.  Much of the community is awaiting the 1.2
  release, and this has become our highest priority.