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= February 2015 Board report

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

== Releases

The votes for these releases closed on 2014/10/21

* Apache Aries Maven ESA Plugin (esa-maven-plugin) 1.0.0
* Apache Aries JNDI Core (jndi-core) 1.0.2
* Apache Aries JNDI URL Handler (jndi-url) 1.1.0
* Apache Aries Transaction Manager (transaction-manager) 1.0.2
* Apache Aries Transaction Blueprint (transaction-blueprint) 1.0.2
* Apache Aries Transaction Enlisting JDBC Datasource (transaction-jdbc) 2.1.0
* Apache Aries JMS Pool (transaction-jms) 2.0.0

The votes for these releases closed on 2014/11/04

* Apache Aries JPA Container (jpa-container) 1.0.2
* Apache Aries JPA Container Managed Contexts (jpa-container-context) 1.0.4

The votes for these releases closed on 2014/12/05

* *New* Apache Aries Blueprint Maven Plugin (blueprint-maven-plugin) 1.0.0 (2014/12/05)
* Apache Aries Blueprint Annotation based authorization (blueprint-authz) 1.0.0 (2014/12/05)

== Project update

Creation of a new project: blueprint-maven-plugin: for generating OSGi an blueprint.xml from CDI, JEE and Spring annotations.

Contributions continue to come in from non-committers via GitHub.

Newest PMC member voted in on 28th July 2013.

There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.