Board report for Apache UIMA, for December 2017. Apache UIMA's mission: the creation and maintenance of open-source software related to the analysis of unstructured data, guided by the UIMA Oasis Standard. Dates: 14 Nov 2017 (new) last release - Apache uimaFIT 2.4.0 03 May 2016 (no change) last PMC addition 18 Apr 2017 (no change) last Committer addition Releases: 14 Nov 2017 Apache UIMA uimaFIT 2.4.0 09 Nov 2017 Apache Java SDK 3.0.0-beta 03 Nov 2017 Apache UIMA DUCC 2.2.1 Activity: Most major projects (Java SDK, DUCC, uimaFIT, RUTA) are actively being worked on. The Java SDK version 3 reached the beta version in a release. We successfully made our first use of the Symantec Jar-signing service (kudos to Mark Thomas for helping out in several admin issues). Mailing list activity remains moderate, with people from the extended community helping out by answering questions. Community: The community continues to be moderately active. Issues: No Board level issues at this time.