Firstly, I would like to personally thank the community for helping us reach 1.0.0.Final, we could not have done it without your support and assistance!
Since the announcement in September 2014 that Red Hat would acquire FeedHenry, there has been much discussion about the future of LiveOak. With the acquisition complete and the recent announcement at Red Hat Summit of Red Hat Mobile Application Platform, a commercial offering based on FeedHenry, Red Hat has leapfrogged where we are with LiveOak in terms of an mBaaS feature set. As more of FeedHenry is open sourced over time, the desire for a completely separate open source mBaaS developed by Red Hat does not make sense.
Given all the above, there will be no additional development of LiveOak by Red Hat. I have created a branch of the code as it stood at the 1.0.0.Final release, named [1.x](https://github.com/liveoak-io/liveoak/tree/1.x), so that anyone from the community who has an interest in advancing the project as an mBaaS may do so. I will endeavor to provide guidance and assistance on how the current project works to those that are interested in my spare time, so please be patient if I don’t respond promptly.
I do hope there can be a future for the foundation that we created with LiveOak, even if it’s not as an mBaaS. To that end, I will be spending some spare time investigating some options for LiveOak, most likely built with the core REST container in mind. When I have some information on what will be happening, I will most definitely be sharing it with the community at large.
Once again, thanks for all the work with LiveOak as an mBaaS.
I’ll leave you with a common saying for this situation: "LiveOak as an mBaaS is dead. Long live LiveOak as …"