Dear community,
As part of our responsibilities as a newly graduated Top-Level Project, we
need to submit our third report to the Apache Board this month. I’ve
prepared a draft (attached) for your review.
This report marks the completion of our initial three monthly reports as a
new TLP. After this, we’ll transition to a quarterly reporting schedule.
Please take a look and share any comments or suggestions. In particular,
let me know if:
- There are corrections or updates needed for project activity, releases,
or community changes.
- Anything should be highlighted more (or less) for the Board’s attention.
The submitted content remains editable until Nov.12th, so feedback before
then would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Zhaofeng
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# Apache Teaclave Board Report - November 2025
## Description
Apache Teaclave provides SDKs for building memory-safe applications on
Trusted
Execution Environments (TEEs).
## Project Status
**Status:** New Apache Teaclave graduated as a Top-Level Project on August
21,
2025. Since graduation, the community has:
1. (1st report) Completed the transition to TLP infrastructure, including
GitHub repositories, distribution servers, website updates, and project
documentation.
2. (2st report) Released `teaclave-trustzone-sdk v0.6.0`, the first release
as
a TLP.
3. (this report) Working on the release of `teaclave-trustzone-sdk v0.7.0`
by
supporting OP-TEE 4.8.0, enhancing CI/CD infrastructure with automated
testing, and improving developer tooling and documentation.
## Summary of Project Health and Status
Since the last report, Apache Teaclave has maintained steady progress with
infrastructure updates, version upgrades, and enhanced developer tooling.
The
community remains active with steady development and moderate mailing list
discussions. Current focus areas include strengthening coding practices for
the Rust codebase and improving the TEE development experience to allow
users
to build and experiment with minimal effort.
## Issues for Board Attention
There are no Board-level issues at this time.
## Recent Releases
- 2025-09-12: Teaclave TrustZone SDK v0.6.0 (first TLP release)
## Project Activity
### Development Activity
- Integrating with OP-TEE to version 4.8.0
- Strengthening CI/CD pipelines with daily automated testing
- Improving developer experience through better error messages and
documentation.
- Approximately 40 commits merged in the past three months.
### Community Activity
- Developer mailing list: moderate activity (~20 topics in the past 30
days).
- No new committers or PMC members since the last report.
- New contributors joined since the last report, representing potential
future
committers.
## Current Plans
- **Short term (next quarter):**
- Complete next quarterly release of Teaclave TrustZone SDK, aligned with
OP-TEE’s release schedule.
- Enhance onboarding and TEE development experience by simplifying the
process of building and running TEE examples with minimal effort,
including Cargo subcommands build and toolchain management.
- **Medium term:**
- Open source additional real-world SDK use cases (e.g., Web3 scenarios).
- Maintain alignment with OP-TEE’s quarterly release cadence.
## Community Changes
- Current: 18 PMC members; no new additions since the last report.
- PMC membership represents a healthy diversity of organizations.
## Project Branding
- No branding issues.
- Website and download pages comply with Apache branding requirements.
## Legal Issues
- No legal issues to report.
## Infrastructure
- No infrastructure concerns at this time.
