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Seata(Simple Extensible Autonomous Transaction Architecture)is an easy-to-
use and high-performance distributed transaction solution, used to solve the
data consistency problem.
Seata has been incubating since 2023-10-29.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Complete the transfer of Seata's existing trademarks to the ASF.
2. Finalize pre-graduation discussions and address any remaining gaps in
required tasks.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No issues at the moment.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
1. 24 new code contributors have joined the community (596 contributors
in total)
2. 5 new committers were elected, and 1 PPMC members were elected.
3. We presented two sessions on Apache Seata at the CommunityOverCode
Asia conference and organized a face-to-face community meetup offline.
4. We have finalized the Apache Seata (incubating) [Maturity Model
Assessment](https://seata.apache.org/docs/next/developers/maturity) and
facilitated community-driven discussions.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Since the last report, we've merged 194 PRs, which include over 10 new
features.
2. Since the last report, we have released two official versions: 2.4.0
and 2.5.0.
3. Since the last report, we have addressed and disclosed two CVEs:
CVE-2025-32897 and CVE-2025-53606.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [X] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2025-08-05
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2025-08-06
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Our mentors have been very helpful and responsive.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
No Trademark issues.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (seata) Sheng Wu
Comments: Work on
- [X] (seata) Justin Mclean
Comments:
- [X] (seata) Huxing Zhang
Comments: The project is in good progress working towards graduation.
- [X] (seata) Heng Du
Comments:
- [X] (seata) Xin Wang
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
[PJF] Discussing Graduation
Seata(Simple Extensible Autonomous Transaction Architecture)is an easy-to-
use and high-performance distributed transaction solution, used to solve the
data consistency problem.
Seata has been incubating since 2023-10-29.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. More international contributors are joining the community.
2. Put more time into double-checking the compliance checklist to catch
any gaps.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No issues at the moment.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
1. 22 new code contributors have joined the community (572 contributors
in total)
2. 4 new committers were elected, and 1 PPMC members were elected.
3. The community actively participates in various open-source events.
We've submitted 3 project proposals for GSoC, 3 projects for OSPP (an
open-source event similar to GSoC), and 3 topics for CommunityOverCode Asia
2025, all guided by different mentors.
4. On the Seata GitHub page, there are around 3,500 "used by" listings.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Since the last report, we've merged 136 PRs, which include over 10 new
features.
2. Since the last report, versions 2.3.0 have been released. We're
currently voting on 2.4.0.
3. Since the last report, we have received and addressed several
vulnerability reports and published CVE-2024-47552 and
CVE-2024-54016.Additionally, we resolved 17 dependency vulnerabilities
through project dependency upgrades.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [X] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2025-03-19
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2025-05-06
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Our mentors have been very helpful and responsive.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
No Trademark issues.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (seata) Sheng Wu
Comments: The community begins to consider starting pre-graduation
check.
- [X] (seata) Justin Mclean
Comments:
- [X] (seata) Huxing Zhang
Comments: The project looks in good shape towards graduation.
- [X] (seata) Heng Du
Comments:
- [X] (seata) Xin Wang
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Seata(Simple Extensible Autonomous Transaction Architecture)is an easy-to-
use and high-performance distributed transaction solution, used to solve the
data consistency problem.
Seata has been incubating since 2023-10-29.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. More international contributors are joining the community.
2. Put more time into double-checking the compliance checklist to catch
any gaps.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No issues at the moment.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
1. 22 new code contributors have joined the community (572 contributors
in total)
2. 4 new committers were elected, and 1 PPMC members were elected.
3. The community actively participates in various open-source events.
We've submitted 3 project proposals for GSoC, 3 projects for OSPP (an
open-source event similar to GSoC), and 3 topics for CommunityOverCode Asia
2025, all guided by different mentors.
4. On the Seata GitHub page, there are around 3,500 "used by" listings.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Since the last report, we've merged 136 PRs, which include over 10 new
features.
2. Since the last report, versions 2.3.0 have been released. We're
currently voting on 2.4.0.
3. Since the last report, we have received and addressed several
vulnerability reports and published CVE-2024-47552 and
CVE-2024-54016.Additionally, we resolved 17 dependency vulnerabilities
through project dependency upgrades.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [X] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2025-03-19
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2025-05-06
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Our mentors have been very helpful and responsive.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
No Trademark issues.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (seata) Sheng Wu
Comments: The community begins to consider starting pre-graduation
check.
- [X] (seata) Justin Mclean
Comments:
- [X] (seata) Huxing Zhang
Comments: The project looks in good shape towards graduation.
- [X] (seata) Heng Du
Comments:
- [X] (seata) Xin Wang
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Seata(Simple Extensible Autonomous Transaction Architecture)is an easy-to-
use and high-performance distributed transaction solution, used to solve the
data consistency problem.
Seata has been incubating since 2023-10-29.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. More international contributors are joining the community.
2. Handle security vulnerabilities more efficiently and set up a security
page for the project.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No issues at the moment.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
1. 40 new code contributors have joined the community (550 contributors in
total)
2. 8 new committers were elected, and 2 PPMC members were elected.
3. On the Seata GitHub page, there are around 3,500 "used by" listings,
which means over 500 more projects are now depending on Seata since the
last report.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Since the last report, we've merged 268 PRs, which include over 21 new
features, plus a bunch of optimizations and bug fixes.
2. Since the last report, versions 2.1.0 and 2.2.0 have been released.
We're currently voting on 2.3.0. Additionally, the Golang SDK project has
completed its first major milestone for entering the ASF and is preparing
for release.
3. Since the last report, we have received several vulnerability reports,
and we have fixed four of them. We disclosed one CVE, and the other three
vulnerabilities (two CVEs) will be closed with the release of version
2.3.0.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2024-10-12
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2025-01-02
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Our mentors have been very helpful and responsive. During this period, we
added a new mentor, Xin Wang.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
A company attempted to register some domains related to Seata, and we
responded with a rejection.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (seata) Sheng Wu
Comments:
- [X] (seata) Justin Mclean
Comments:
- [X] (seata) Huxing Zhang
Comments:
- [X] (seata) Heng Du
Comments:
- [X] (seata) Xin Wang
Comments: Steady progress
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Seata(Simple Extensible Autonomous Transaction Architecture)is an easy-to-
use and high-performance distributed transaction solution, used to solve the
data consistency problem.
Seata has been incubating since 2023-10-29.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Build the ASF first release. At present, we have completed API
compatibility and data compatibility with the original non-Apache package.
2. The community grows to attract more users and elect more committers
and PPMC members.
3. More discussions in @dev.
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No issues at the moment.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
This is the first report. The data below is in comparison to when we
initially entered the Apache Incubator.
- 44 new contributors have joined the community (497 contributors in
total)
- 3 new committers were elected, and no PPMC was elected.
- Hosted 4 offline meetups, 10 online bi-weekly meetings, and several
online technical architecture review sessions.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
This is the first report. The data below is in comparison to when we
initially entered the Apache Incubator.
- The main Seata project has completed API and data compatibility with
the original non-Apache package, removed all incompatible licenses, and
merged 140 PRs. Regression testing is currently in progress in preparation
for the release of the first ASF version.
- Implemented transaction support for Apache RocketMQ; replaced the
original ggEditor framework with the diagram-js framework, completing the
new version of the online Saga state machine designer; supports Saga mode
Java non-Spring transaction API; supports Raft metadata synchronization;
the seata-k8s project has supported for the Seata-Server Raft cluster mode;
MockServer, and other features.
- The Seata official website has been redesigned to meet the needs of
multi-version documentation, blogs, download pages, and more. In addition,
compliant governance of the website has been carried out following the
guidelines for Podlings.
- The community has implemented large-scale third-party dependency
security management. Since entering the incubator, Seata has eliminated
271 dependency vulnerabilities.
- The community has refactored over 30 examples in the samples project,
making the code structure more concise and clear, and better achieving the
unification of dependency management and business scenarios.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [X] Initial setup
- [X] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2023-11-24 (It is not an ASF release version)
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2024-02-27
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Mentors have provided tremendous help in the process of community
governance.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
There are no known brand and naming issues.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (seata) Sheng Wu
Comments: It is good to see the community keeps growing. Look forward
to your first ASF release.
- [ ] (seata) Justin Mclean
Comments:
- [X] (seata) Huxing Zhang
Comments: Overall the podling looks good, keep up to the first ASF
release.
- [X] (seata) Heng Du
Comments: Very happy to see more and more companies getting
involved,hope to see more contributors popping up in this project.
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Dave Fisher: There is a biweekly community meeting. The notes from
that meeting should be brought back to the dev@ mailing list.
Otherwise the podling is on the correct path.