Dear community,
As part of our responsibilities as an ongoing Top-Level Project, we need to
submit our quarterly report to the Apache Board this month. I’ve prepared a
draft (attached) for your review.
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 Mar.11th, so feedback before
then would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Zhaofeng
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# Apache Teaclave Board Report - March 2026
## Description
Apache Teaclave provides SDKs for building memory-safe applications on
Trusted
Execution Environments (TEEs).
## Project Status
**Status:** Ongoing, with moderate activity.
Apache Teaclave graduated as a Top-Level Project on August 21, 2025. This
quarter, the community released `teaclave-trustzone-sdk v0.8.0` by
introducing
the `cargo-optee` build tool, enabling stable Rust support, improving build
compatibility, and keeping pace with upstream OP-TEE changes.
## Summary of Project Health and Status
Since the last report, Apache Teaclave has maintained steady progress with a
new release, improved developer tooling, and growing community engagement.
The
v0.8.0 release shipped on schedule with contributions from both existing
committers and new contributors. The mailing list saw increased activity
driven by the release cycle and substantive code review discussions. Current
focus areas include simplifying the TEE development experience through
better
Cargo tooling and strengthening memory-safety patterns in the SDK.
## Issues for Board Attention
There are no Board-level issues at this time.
## Recent Releases
- 2026-01-26: Teaclave TrustZone SDK v0.8.0
## Project Activity
### Development Activity
- Introduced `cargo-optee`, a Cargo subcommand that simplifies building and
running TEE trusted applications with minimal setup.
- Enabled stable Rust toolchain support and improved build compatibility
with
optional static TEEC linkage.
- Approximately 30 commits merged in the past three months.
### Community Activity
- Developer mailing list: increased activity (~128 messages across ~39
threads
in the past three months).
- New Release Manager completed the latest release process.
- Two first-time contributors joined with merged PRs, 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.
- Finalize safe buffer access API for volatile ParamMemref interactions.
- Continue enhancing `cargo-optee` with toolchain management and
onboarding
improvements.
- **Medium term:**
- Open source additional real-world SDK use cases.
- Maintain alignment with OP-TEE's quarterly release cadence.
## Community Changes
- Current: 16 PMC members, 7 committers; 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.
