= July 2013 Board report

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

== Releases

* Apache Aries Subsystems Bundle 1.0.0

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This is an 'uber' bundle form of the API and implementation (core) bundles of Aries Subsystems.
Together these are the reference implementation of the OSGi Subsystem Service Specification which "provides a declarative model for defining resource collections, including bundles, and an API for installing and managing those collections of resources." See OSGi Enterprise Release 5 specification chapter 134.
The 'uber' bundle is released for a convenience for people starting out with Subsystems.
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== Project update

We have voted in John Ross as a member of the PMC.
No new committers since the last report.
Usage questions and interactions with other non-ASF projects continue to be asked on the user list, showing users are putting Aries to use in real world scenarios.

There are no board level issues.