src/team/reports/2016-07.html

---
layout: default
title: Board Report - July 2016
breadcrumb: Board Report - July 2016
---

<div class="page-title">
  <div class="container">
    <h1>BOARD REPORT - July 2016</h1>
  </div>
</div>

<div class="container">
  <div class="row" style="margin-top: 30px">
    <div class="col-md-12 col-md-6">
      <h5 class="text-green">Activity</h5>
      <ul>
        <li>The ActiveMQ Broker continues to see continued bug fixes and feature additions
          <ul>
            <li>Support added for AMQP over WebSockets added for inclusion in 5.14.0</li>
            <li>Improvements to the KahaDB message store allowing for better store clean up.</li>
            <li>Important fixes continue to be ported to the 5.13.x branch and a new 5.13.4 release is nearing release readiness.</li>
          </ul>
          <li>ActiveMQ Artemis continues working towards adding ActiveMQ 5.x equivalent features, client compatibility and improvements:</li>
          <ul>
            <li>The OpenWire protocol implementation is now feature complete</li>
            <li>The Database journal has been improved and support added for:</li>
            <ul>
              <li>MySQL</li>
              <li>PostgreSQL</li>
            </ul>
            <li>Database storage for large messages has been added</li>
            <li>HA using replication has been heavily tested and had several improvements</li>
            <li>The AMQP protocol has had a lot of attention including many fixes and support for AMQP link drain and subscription addresses</li>
            <li>MQTT protocol has been updated to support interceptors and cross protocol communication</li>
            <li>Dual-authentication is now supported so SSL and non-SSL connections can be authenticated by different JAAS login modules.</li>
            <li>The broker's SSL keystores can now be reloaded on demand without stopping the broker.</li>
            <li>JMS topics are now auto-created by default when a producer sends a message or a client subscribes.</li>
            <li>The name of the authenticated user can now be automatically added to the messages it sends.</li>
            <li>STOMP clients can now have their authentication and authorization based on their SSL certificate.</li>
            <li>Lots of smaller bug fixes and performance improvements</li>
          </ul>
      </ul>
      </ul>
      <h5 class="text-green">PMC changes</h5>
      <ul>
        <li>Currently 23 PMC members</li>
        <li>Martyn Taylor was added to the PMC on Sun Jul 10 2016</li>
        <li>Last PMC addition: Sun Jul 10 2016 (Martyn Taylor)</li>
      </ul>
      <h5 class="text-green">Committer base changes</h5>
      <ul>
        <li>Currently 56 committers</li>
        <li>No new committers added in the last 3 months</li>
        <li>Last committer addition was Matt Richard Hogstrom at Thu Jan 28 2016</li>
      </ul>
      <h5 class="text-green">Releases</h5>
      <ul>
        <li>5.13.3 was released on Sun May 01 2016</li>
        <li>ActiveMQ Artemis 1.3.0 was released on Tue Jun 14 2016</li>
        <li>Apache.NMS.ActiveMQ v1.7.2 was released on Wed Apr 06 2016</li>
      </ul>
      <h5 class="text-green">Mailing list activity</h5>
      <ul>
        <li><a href="mailto:users@activemq.apache.org">users@activemq.apache.org</a></li>
        <ul>
          <li>741 subscribers (up 14 in the last 3 months)</li>
          <li>638 emails sent to list (837 in previous quarter)</li>
        </ul>
        <li><a href="mailto:dev@activemq.apache.org">dev@activemq.apache.org</a></li>
        <ul>
          <li>367 subscribers (up 14 in the last 3 months)</li>
          <li>909 emails sent to list (653 in previous quarter)</li>
        </ul>
        <li><a href="mailto:announce@activemq.apache.org">announce@activemq.apache.org</a></li>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="mailto:announce@activemq.apache.org"></a>9 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months)</li>
        </ul>
        <li><a href="mailto:issues@activemq.apache.org">issues@activemq.apache.org</a></li>
        <ul>
          <li>43 subscribers (up 3 in the last 3 months)</li>
          <li>2159 emails sent to list (1698 in previous quarter)</li>
        </ul>
      </ul>
      <h5 class="text-green">JIRA activity</h5>
      <ul>
        <li>261 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months</li>
        <li>262 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months</li>
      </ul>
      <p>(Most of this information is pulled from <a href="https://reporter.apache.org/">reporter.apache.org</a>)</p>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>