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= October 2013 Board report

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

== Releases

* Apache Aries Blueprint Parser 1.1.0

Reusable component for parsing Blueprint xmls.

* Apache Aries Blueprint Core 1.2.0  Core of the implementation of the OSGi Blueprint Container Specification

Currently being voted on:

* Apache Aries Blueprint CM 1.0.2

Integration of OSGi Blueprint with the OSGi Configuration Admin Service.

##Project update

There has been a variety of discussion traffic on the dev and user lists primarily across blueprint, trasnaction, esa-maven-plugin, jpa, subsystem.

There are no board level issues.