This board report is due, however it will need to be delayed until June,
I have been aware since last month that it needed to be done.
## Description:
- Apache River provides a platform for dynamic discovery and lookup
search of network services. Services may be implemented in a number
of languages, while clients are required to be jvm based (presently at
least), to allow proxy jvm byte code to be provisioned dynamically.
## Issues:
No significant issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity:
Interest in making Jini specifications programming language agnostic.
Release roadmap:
River 3.1 - Modular build restructure (& binary release)
River 3.2 - Input validation 4 Serialization, delayed unmarshalling&
safe ServiceRegistrar lookup service.River 3.3 - OSGi support
## Health report:
- Minimal activity at present on dev.
- Some recent commit activity, around modular build.
- Future Direction:
* Target IOT space with support for OSGi and IPv6 (security fixes
required prior to announcement) * Input validation for java
deserialization - prevents DOS and
Gadget attacks.
* IPv6 Multicast Service Discovery (River currently only supports
IPv4 multicast discovery).
* Delayed unmarshalling for Service Lookup and Discovery (includes
SafeServiceRegistrar mentioned in release roadmap), so
authentication can occur prior to downloading service proxy's,
this addresses a long standing security issue with service lookup
while significantly improving performance under some use cases.
* Security fixes for SSL endpoints, updated to TLS v1.2 with removal of
support for insecure cyphers.
* Maven build to replace existing ant built that uses
classdepandjar, a bytecode dependency analysis build tool.
* Updating the Jini specifications.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 12 PMC members.
- Last PMC addition was Dan Rollo on Fri 1st December 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 16 committers.
## Releases:
- River-3.0.0 was released on Wed Oct 05 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- Relatively quiet .
## JIRA activity:
- Activity around making Jini specifications programming language
agnostic.- Some additional bug reports
