Hello River folk, please review / comment / suggest / changes for the
draft board report for November below.
Regards,
Peter.
## 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:
- Minimal activity at present, initial work modular build structure
has commenced, awaiting to be populated with River 3.0 code.
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:
- River is a mature codebase with existing deployments, it was
primarily designed for dynamic discovery of services on private
networks. IPv4 NAT limitations historically prevented the use of River
on public networks, however the use of IPv6 on public networks removes
these limitations. Web services evolved with the publish subscribe
model of todays internet, River has the potential to dynamically
discover services on IPv6 networks, peer to peer, blurring current
destinctions between client and server, it has the potential to address
many of the security issues currently experienced with IoT and avoid any
dependency on the proprietary cloud for "things".
- 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.
* Secure TLS SocketFactory's for RMI Registry, uses
the currently logged in Subject for authentication.
The RMI Registry still plays a minor role in service activation,
this allows those who still use the Registry to secure it.
* 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.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Dan Rollo on Fri Dec 01 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 16 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Dan Rollo at Thu Nov 02 2017
## Releases:
- Last release was River-3.0.0 on Thu Oct 06 2016
## Mailing list activity:
- Relatively quiet.
- dev@river.apache.org:
- 91 subscribers (down -3 in the last 3 months):
- 7 emails sent to list (6 in previous quarter)
- u...@river.apache.org:
- 92 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 1 emails sent to list (3 in previous quarter)
## JIRA activity:
- 1 JIRA tickets created in the last 3 months
- 0 JIRA tickets closed/resolved in the last 3 months
