Announced just this week: Apache Fortress 1.0-RC42 released. What, is this some kind of joke? Why would a project go thru 42 iterations of release candidates just for a 1.0 designation? No joke here unless you find our efforts to create a simple, useful and robust access management solution funny. Before that 1.0 label gets used, we’re going to make sure it’s deserving. The good news, we’re almost there….