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Posted at 07:58PM Jun 22, 2018 by Geertjan in General

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven 3.5.4. Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project’s build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information. You can find out more about... [Read more...]

Posted at 06:57PM Jun 22, 2018 by khmarbaise in Maven Core Release

We're ending the week with the following activities from the Apache community: Support Apache –help offset the ASF's day-to-day operating expenses. Every dollar counts.  - Increase your support of the ASF with a corporate matching gift  http://apache.org/foundation/contributing.html#CorporateGiving ASF Board –management... [Read more...]

Posted at 04:23AM Jun 22, 2018 by Sally in General

Great news: the process of completing the 2nd donation is now done and Oracle has made available a ZIP file constituting the 2nd donation. Oracle donated around 4,000,000 lines of code in the 1st donation last year and has now completed the 2nd donation constituting around 1,500,000 lines of code. This donation constitutes the modules of NetBeans dealing... [Read more...]

Posted at 12:12PM Jun 21, 2018 by Geertjan in General

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Surefire Plugin, version 2.22.0 . The release contains 33 bug fixes. Again we received contributions from the community in form of bug reports and bug fixes. Thank you and keep them coming! You should specify the version in your project’s plugin configuration:... [Read more...]

Posted at 10:39AM Jun 17, 2018 by khmarbaise in Plugin Release

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Enforcer Plugin, version 3.0.0-M2 . You should specify the version in your project’s plugin configuration: 1 2 3 4 5 <plugin> <groupId> org.apache.maven.plugins </groupId> <artifactId>... [Read more...]

Posted at 10:00AM Jun 17, 2018 by khmarbaise in Plugin Release

Happy Friday! Let's review what the Apache community has worked on over the past week: ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.  - Next Board Meeting: 20 June. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html ApacheCon™ –the... [Read more...]

Posted at 04:15PM Jun 15, 2018 by Sally in General

Yesterday I attended FOSS Backstage in Berlin. FOSS Backstage is a "conference on everything governance, collaboration, legal & economics within the scope of FOSS". I went there to present my session, based on the Apache NetBeans experiences of the past two years or so, entitled 10 Tips for Moving Large Corporate Projects to Apache . I also went... [Read more...]

Posted at 08:48AM Jun 14, 2018 by Geertjan in General

The march of standards continues unabated. Legacy TLS protocols 1.0 and 1.1 have varying weaknesses that could lead to a false sense of security. In June, in an effort to raise security and comply with modern standards, the insecure TLS 1.0 & 1.1 protocols will no longer be supported for SSL connections to Central. This should only affect users of... [Read more...]

Posted at 07:57AM Jun 13, 2018 by khmarbaise in community

The Apache Phoenix team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the 4.14.0 release . Apache Phoenix enables SQL-based OLTP and operational analytics for Apache Hadoop using Apache HBase as its backing store and providing integration with other projects in the Apache ecosystem such as Spark, Hive, Pig, Flume, and MapReduce. This 4.x release is... [Read more...]

Posted at 01:14AM Jun 12, 2018 by jamestaylor in General

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven WAR Plugin, version 3.2.2 . The WAR Plugin is responsible for collecting all artifact dependencies, classes and resources of the web application and packaging them into a web application archive. You should specify the version in your project’s plugin... [Read more...]

Posted at 10:48AM Jun 10, 2018 by khmarbaise in Plugin Release

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Help Plugin, version 3.1.0 The Maven Help Plugin is used to get relative information about a project or the system. It can be used to get a description of a particular plugin, including the plugin’s goals with their parameters and component requirements, the... [Read more...]

Posted at 01:49PM Jun 09, 2018 by khmarbaise in Plugin Release

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Maven Wagon 3.1.0 . Apache Maven Wagon is a transport abstraction that is used in Mavens artifact and repository handling code. You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page: https://maven.apache.org/wagon/download.cgi Release Notes... [Read more...]

Posted at 10:59AM Jun 09, 2018 by khmarbaise in Share Component Release

The week has skipped by, and the Apache community has been active with the following projects: Success at Apache –a monthly blog series that focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works".  - The Chance to Influence the World by Weiwei Yang  https://s.apache.org/MfuS ASF Board –management and oversight of... [Read more...]

Posted at 04:05PM Jun 08, 2018 by Sally in General

The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven PMD Plugin, version 3.10.0 A Maven plugin for the PMD toolkit, that produces a report on both code rule violations and detected copy and paste fragments, as well as being able to fail the build based on these metrics. You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the... [Read more...]

Posted at 06:17AM Jun 07, 2018 by khmarbaise in Plugin Release

by  Weiwei Yang I submitted my first patch to Apache Hadoop in 2015, a very simple bug fix with just a few lines of changes. However the feeling is still vivid to me when the patch was accepted, I felt great accomplishment. It was not about how big the change was, but rather because I knew even a small change would help a lot of people.... [Read more...]

Posted at 10:05AM Jun 04, 2018 by Sally in SuccessAtApache

Open Source Content Delivery Network used by Cisco,  Comcast,  Cox, Qwilt, and others serves 30+ petabytes of content each day. Wakefield, MA —4 June 2018— The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today... [Read more...]

Posted at 09:00AM Jun 04, 2018 by Sally in General

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Invoker Plugin, version 3.1.0 . The Invoker Plugin is used to run a set of Maven projects. The plugin can determine whether each project execution is successful, and optionally can verify the output generated from a given project execution. This plugin is in particular... [Read more...]

Posted at 07:04PM Jun 01, 2018 by khmarbaise in Plugin Release

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Shared Maven Invoker, version 3.1.0 This API is concerned with firing a Maven build in a new JVM. It accomplishes its task by building up a conventional Maven command line from options given in the current request, along with those global options specified in the... [Read more...]

Posted at 07:03PM Jun 01, 2018 by khmarbaise in Share Component Release