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= July 2014 Board report

Apache Aries delivers a set of pluggable Java components enabling an enterprise OSGi application programming model.

== Releases

There was a significant amount of release activity this quarter.
In particular, contributions for Java 7 enablement and Pax Exam 3.x usage - modernizing testing.

* Apache Aries Semantic Versioning Checker 0.2.0 and 0.3.0
* Apache Aries Parent Pom release (simplification)
* Apache Aries Proxy API 1.0.1
* Apache Aries Proxy Service 1.0.3
* Apache Aries JMX API 1.1.1
* Apache Aries JMX Core 1.1.2

=== Apache Aries Blueprint releases:

* Blueprint API 1.0.1
* Blueprint Parser 1.2.1
* Blueprint Annotation API 1.0.1
* Blueprint Annotation Impl 1.0.1
* Blueprint CM 1.0.4
* Blueprint Core 1.4.1

A new release of the Aries SPI fly bundles is currently being voted on.

== Project update

We're see almost all of our contributions from non-committers coming as pull requests from GitHub.
The last PMC member was added 28th July 2013.

== Community

* We voted in the following new committers:
* Jean-Baptiste Onofré
* Christian Schneider
* Tom Watson

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.