Apache ACE is a software distribution framework that allows you to centrally manage and distribute modular software components, configuration data and other artifacts to OSGi based and related target systems. This board report is the fourth one since ACE graduated as a TLP, and from now on we're switching to a report every three months. Releases: * December 11th, 2011: ACE 0.8.1-incubator Activity: * Lots of activity in the form of patches, new features, etc. * We are now working towards the first TLP release. Changes in committers/PMC members: * We welcomed two new committers: Jan Willem Janssen and Bram de Kruijff. Committer/PMC diversity: * No concerns, we have 10 committers that work for 7 different unique organizations. Branding/naming issues: * No issues. Legal issues: * We should still make sure we conform to the trademark policy with our new site CMS based site.