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The Apache News Round-up: week ending 27 February 2015
ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation.
- The ApacheCon program is now available; Early Bird registration ends 28 February http://apachecon.com/
ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running 24x7x365.
- Global uptime across all Apache services is a stellar 99.73% http://status.apache.org/
- Notice of server maintenance policy change https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/towards_a_redeployable_future_or
ASF Security –a team comprising ASF Members dedicated to helping and advising Apache projects on security issues, as well as co-ordinating the handling of security vulnerabilities.
- [IMPORTANT] Security Notice: CVE-2015-0254 XXE and RCE via XSL extension in JSTL XML tags http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201502.mbox/%3C82207A16-6348-4DEE-877E-F7B87292576A%40apache.org%3E
Apache Allura™ –Open Source implementation of a software "forge", a web site that manages source code repositories, bug reports, discussions, wiki pages, blogs and more for any number of individual projects.
- Apache Allura 1.2.1 released http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/allura/allura-1.2.1.tar.gz
Apache Commons™ DBCP –Open Source software library implements database connection pooling.
- Apache Commons DBCP 2.1 released http://commons.apache.org/dbcp/download_dbcp.cgi
Apache HBase™ –Open Source, distributed Big Data store for Apache Hadoop.
- The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ HBase™ v1.0 http://s.apache.org/zW
Apache Log4j™ –well known framework for logging application behavior.
- Apache Log4j 2.2 released http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/
Apache Lucene™ –a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java.
- Apache Lucene 5.0.0 released http://lucene.apache.org/core/mirrors-core-latest-redir.html
Apache MRQL (Incubating) –query processing and optimization system for large-scale, distributed data analysis, built on top of Apache Hadoop, Hama, Spark, and Flink.
- Apache MRQL 0.9.4-incubating released http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/incubator/mrql
Apache Openmeetings™ –video conferencing, instant messaging, white board, collaborative document editing and other groupware tools using API functions of the Red5 Streaming Server for Remoting and Streaming.
- Apache Openmeetings 3.0.4 released http://openmeetings.apache.org/downloads.html
Apache Parquet (Incubating) –the common definition of Parquet column-oriented file format for Apache Hadoop.
- Apache Parquet Format 2.3.0 (Incubating) released (first release of Parquet Format with org.apache.parquet artifacts and package names) https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/incubator/parquet/parquet-format-2.3.0-incubating/
Apache Solr™ –popular, blazing fast, Open Source NoSQL search platform from the Apache Lucene project.
- Apache Solr 5.0.0 and Reference Guide for Solr 5.0 http://lucene.apache.org/solr/mirrors-solr-latest-redir.html
Apache Sqoop™ –a tool designed for efficiently transferring bulk data between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores, such as relational databases.
- Apache Sqoop 1.99.5 released http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/sqoop/1.99.5
Apache Maven™ –a project development management and comprehension tool.
- Apache Source Release Assembly Descriptor 1.0.5 Released http://maven.apache.org/apache-resource-bundles/
Apache Tomcat™ –Open Source software implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Unified Expression Language and Java WebSocket technologies.
- Apache Tomcat 8.0.20 released http://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi
- Apache Tomcat Apache Standard Taglib 1.2.3 released http://tomcat.apache.org/download-taglibs.cgi
Apache Community Notices:
- HBaseCon, the fourth annual event for the Apache HBase contributor/developer/admin/user community, will take place 7 May in San Francisco http://hbasecon.com/
- The next Apache Mesos User Group MeetUp will take place 25 March in London http://www.meetup.com/London-Mesos-User-Group/events/220602962/
- The Apache Marmotta community are being proactive and beginning to collect ideas for Google Summer of Code 2015 http://markmail.org/message/4nowycutyx2m2rj3
- The next Berlin Buzzwords conference will feature Apache projects such as Lucene, Spark, Solr and Cassandra and will take place 31 May-3 June in Berlin http://berlinbuzzwords.de
Posted at 03:59PM Feb 27, 2015
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The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ HBase™ v1.0
Stable version of Open Source, distributed Big Data store for Apache Hadoop features improved performance, ease of use, new availability guarantees, and future release compatibility.
Forest Hill, MD –24 February 2015– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today the availability of Apache™ HBase™ v1.0, the distributed, scalable, database for Apache™ Hadoop™ and HDFS™.
"Apache HBase v1.0 marks a major milestone in the project's development," said Michael Stack, Vice President of Apache HBase. "It is a monumental moment that the army of contributors who have made this possible should all be proud of. The result is a thing of collaborative beauty that also happens to power key, large-scale Internet platforms."
Dubbed the "Hadoop Database", HBase is used on top of Apache Hadoop and HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) for random, real-time read/write access for Big Data (billions of rows X millions of columns) across clusters of commodity hardware. HBase is used by Apple, Facebook, FINRA, Flipboard, Flurry, Pinterest, RocketFuel, Salesforce, Xiaomi, and Yahoo!, among many other organizations.
Apache HBase has also fostered a healthy ecosystem of projects that run on top of it, such as Apache Phoenix, a SQL layer over HBase, and OpenTSDB, a time series database that uses HBase as its backing store.
"Medium- and high- scale services at hundreds of enterprises and some of the largest Internet companies today are backed by Apache HBase," explained Andrew Purtell, member of the Apache HBase Project Management Committee. "Chances are when using your computer or mobile device you interact with a system built with HBase many times daily without ever knowing it. The HBase 1.0 release appropriately acknowledges a maturity already achieved by the Apache HBase community and software both, and is a great occasion to learn more about HBase, how it can help you solve your scale data challenges, and the growing ecosystem of Open Source and commercial software that chooses HBase as foundation."
Apache HBase v1.0 is the result of 7 years of development, and reflects more than 1,500 changes and upgrades over the previous major release, Apache HBase 0.98.0. Notable new features include:
- Improved performance without sacrificing stability;
- Introduction of new APIs and reorganization of select client-side APIs;
- Read availability using timeline consistent region replicas for new availability guarantees;
- Online configuration change to enable reloading a subset of the server configuration without restarting the region servers; and
- New look, enhanced usability, and radically revamped documentation.
(Please see the accompanying technical fact sheet at https://blogs.apache.org/hbase/entry/start_of_a_new_era for details on new functionality).
Lars Hofhansl, Principal Architect at Salesforce.com, and member of the HBase Project Management Committee, said, "Over 13,000 JIRA issues were filed to get HBase where it is now. Going forward we have a clear compatibility story between major and minor versions."
"This is a very exciting moment for Apache HBase, and goes to show how far we have come as a community in stabilizing and maturing Apache HBase", said Francis Liu, Development Lead for Apache HBase at Yahoo. "HBase is an integral part of our technology stack powering numerous critical offstage processing use cases across our business in online advertising, search, communication, content personalization and targeting, and social, mobile and emerging products. Today, we operate some of the largest HBase clusters across a 3,000 server footprint, and look forward to working with the community with a stable release as a base to scale individual HBase clusters to millions of regions soon."
"Hearty congratulations to the HBase community," said Ishan Chhabra, Lead of all things HBase at Rocketfuel Inc. "Apache HBase already powers our critical online applications and data pipelines over thousands of machines globally, and the community's relentless focus on stability and performance gives us the confidence to continue making it an integral part of our data stack as we scale to 10,000+ machines."
"Apache HBase is a critical data storage system at Pinterest, where we run it across thousands of nodes doing close to 10 million operations every second," said Raghavendra Prabhu, Head of Infrastructure at Pinterest. "HBase is the underlying technology behind Pinterest's Zen graph storage service, which powers key product features like the home feed, messages, notifications, network news and our interest graph. We are eagerly looking forward to the improvements in availability and reliability in HBase 1.0 and will continue to work with the community on improving it for large scale user facing workloads."
"HBase has been the cornerstone of our customer analytics platform Lily since late 2008", says Steven Noels, CTO of NGDATA. "Granted it was an adventurous choice at that time, but since then HBase has evolved and matured, reconfirming that choice time and time again. Seeing 1.0 (finally) shipping is a sign of confirmed adoption throughout all layers of the industry, from internet companies up to (in our case) large financial institutions, telcos and media companies. We are thankful to be part of such a strong, persistent and vibrant community development endeavour."
"HBase-1.0.0 is the start of a new era," said Enis Söztutar, HBase v1.0 release manager and member of the Apache HBase Project Management Committee. "We have marked it as the next stable version of Apache HBase, and encourage all new users to start using this version."
"There is no rest for the wickedly talented set of contributors who made HBase 1.0," added Stack. "HBase 2.0 is already taking form in our master branch. Users can look forward to new orders of read/write and node count scaling and this time around they won't have to wait seven years on it shipping; HBase 2.0 will be out later this year."
Availability and Oversight
Apache HBase v1.0 is available immediately as a free download from http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/hbase/ As with all Apache products, Apache HBase software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. For documentation and ways to become involved with Apache HBase, visit http://hbase.apache.org/ and @HBase on Twitter.
Get Involved!
The HBase community welcomes contributions and participation through various mailing lists as well as attending face-to-face MeetUps, trainings, and events. Catch Apache HBase in action at HBaseCon, taking place 7 May 2015 in San Francisco http://hbasecon.com/
About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than 350 leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way," more than 500 individual Members and 4,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Budget Direct, Cerner, Citrix, Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, HP, IBM, InMotion Hosting, iSigma, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, Pivotal, Produban, WANdisco, and Yahoo. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/ and follow https://twitter.com/TheASF
© The Apache Software Foundation. "Apache", "Apache Hadoop", "Hadoop", "Apache HBase", "HBase", "Apache HDFS", "HDFS", "Apache Phoenix", "Phoenix", and "ApacheCon", are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Posted at 11:21AM Feb 24, 2015
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The Apache News Round-up: week ending 20 February 2015
This week we welcomed Cloudera, who renewed its sponsorship of the ASF and upgraded to the Platinum level http://s.apache.org/5KH . Here's what happened elsewhere at the Foundation:
ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running 24x7x365.
- The Infra team's global uptime across all Apache services is a stellar 99.73% http://status.apache.org/
Apache Accumulo™ –sorted, distributed key/value store is a robust, scalable, high performance data storage system that features cell-based access control and customizable server-side processing.
- Apache Accumulo 1.6.2 released http://accumulo.apache.org/downloads/
Apache Gora™ –an easy-to-use in-memory data model and persistence for big data framework with data store specific mappings and built-in Apache Hadoop support
- Apache Gora 0.6 released http://gora.apache.org/downloads.html
Apache Libcloud™ –a Python library that abstracts away the differences among multiple cloud provider APIs.
- Apache Libcloud 0.17.0 released http://libcloud.apache.org/downloads.html
Did You Know?
- Did you know that Twitter uses Apache Kafka, Storm, Hadoop, and Cassandra to handle 5 billion sessions a day in real time?
- Did you know that Biology Virtual Collaborative Labs (BioVLAB) use Apache Airavata to set up computational resources and build bioinformatics tools?
- Did you know that the Oxford English Dictionary is powered by Apache Tapestry?
Apache Community Notices:
- We're participating in the annual Future of Open Source Survey, and appreciate your answering a few short questions http://s.apache.org/0UW
- Catch Apache TomEE in action on 21 February at the ceJug/JVM Users Group in Ceará, Brazil https://twitter.com/cejug
- The first ever Apache Phoenix MeetUp will take place 24 February at Salesforce in San Francisco http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Apache-Phoenix-Meetup/events/220009583/
- The next Apache Mesos User Group MeetUp will take place 25 March in London http://www.meetup.com/London-Mesos-User-Group/events/220602962/
- The Women of ASF Luncheon will be held on 14 April at ApacheCon http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/attend/women-asf-luncheon
- Apache TrafficServer Spring Summit will take place 16-17 April in Austin https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TS/Spring+2015+Summit
- The Apache Marmotta community are being proactive and beginning to collect ideas for Google Summer of Code 2015 http://markmail.org/message/4nowycutyx2m2rj3
- Are your software solutions Powered by Apache? Download & use our "Powered By" logos http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby
Posted at 05:39PM Feb 20, 2015
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The Apache Software Foundation Welcomes Cloudera as a Platinum-level Sponsor
Sponsorship boosts operational support for Apache projects and community
Forest Hill, MD –17 February 2015– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that Cloudera has renewed its sponsorship of the ASF with an upgrade to the Platinum level.
"We are grateful for Cloudera's continued generous support, which, in turn, helps advance the efforts of the Apache community at-large," said ASF President Ross Gardler. "Sponsoring the ASF helps provide critical infrastructure and support services that keep the Foundation running on a day-to-day basis."
As a United States 501(c)(3) not-for-profit charitable organization, the ASF relies on individual donors and corporate sponsors to help bolster existing projects, incubate new initiatives, and promote meritocratic, community-driven development "The Apache Way".
An ASF Sponsor since 2011, Cloudera is recognized as a champion and active contributor to numerous Apache projects, including Avro, Hadoop, HBase, Hive, Pig, Whirr, and Zookeeper.
"Open source software has proven a powerful engine for innovation," said Mike Olson, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Cloudera. "It harnesses the talent and creativity of the global community of developers. Participation in that community is critical. Cloudera has long been a proud member of the ASF. Developers on the Cloudera payroll have created and contributed to ASF projects, working closely with their peers in the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. Our platinum sponsorship of the ASF complements our active contribution of code. The organization provides essential governance and community support on which our business relies. This donation, and our ongoing commitment, allows the ASF to deepen its investment in community, collaboration and innovation."
About Cloudera
Cloudera is revolutionizing enterprise data management by offering the first unified Platform for Big Data, an enterprise data hub built on Apache Hadoop. Cloudera offers enterprises one place to store, access, process, secure, and analyze all their data, empowering them to extend the value of existing investments while enabling fundamental new ways to derive value from their data. Cloudera’s open source Big Data platform is the most widely adopted in the world, and Cloudera is the most prolific contributor to the open source Hadoop ecosystem. As the leading educator of Hadoop professionals, Cloudera has trained over 27,000 individuals worldwide. Over 1,400 partners and a seasoned professional services team help deliver greater time to value. Finally, only Cloudera provides proactive and predictive support to run an enterprise data hub with confidence. Leading organizations in every industry plus top public sector organizations globally run Cloudera in production. For more information about Cloudera, visit http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/about/company-profile.html
About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than 350 leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way," more than 500 individual Members and 4,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Budget Direct, Cerner, Citrix, Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, HP, IBM, InMotion Hosting, iSigma, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, Pivotal, Produban, WANdisco, and Yahoo. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/ or follow https://twitter.com/TheASF
© The Apache Software Foundation. "Apache", "Apache Avro", "Avro", "Apache Hadoop", "Hadoop", "Apache HBase", "HBase", "Apache Hive", "Hive", "Apache Pig", "Pig", "Apache Whirr", "Whirr", "Apache Zookeeper", "Zookeeper", and "ApacheCon", are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Cloudera, Cloudera's Platform for Big Data, Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub Edition, Cloudera Enterprise Flex Edition, Cloudera Enterprise Basic Edition and CDH are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cloudera Inc. in the United States, and in jurisdictions throughout the world. All other company and product names may be trade names or trademarks of their respective owners.
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Posted at 08:21PM Feb 17, 2015
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The Apache News Round-up: week ending 13 February 2015
In addition to what's happened at the Foundation over the past week, we're curious: "Did You Know?", and are also sharing some community announcements:
ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running 24x7x365.
- The Infra team's 2 million weekly checks report 94.19% global uptime across all services http://status.apache.org/
Apache Jackrabbit™ –scalable, high-performance hierarchical content repository designed for use as the foundation of modern world-class Web sites and other demanding content applications.
- Apache Jackrabbit 2.9.1 and Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.1.6 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html
Apache OODT™ –a software framework, and an architectural style for the rapid construction of scientific data systems.
- Apache OODT 0.8.1 released http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/oodt/
Apache SIS™ –spatial framework that enables better representation of coordinates for searching, data clustering, archiving, or any other relevant spatial needs.
- Apache SIS 0.5 released http://sis.apache.org/downloads.html
Apache Tomcat™ –Open Source software implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Expression Language and Java WebSocket technologies.
- Important Security Notice: CVE-2014-0227 Request Smuggling http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201502.mbox/%3C54D87A0F.7010400%40apache.org%3E
- Apache Tomcat 7.0.59 released http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi
Did You Know?
- Did you know that select ASF Members are "Apache Quill" guest bloggers for OpenSource.com? http://opensource.com/search/apachesolr_search/quill
- Did you know that the Big Brother voting infrastructure runs on Apache CloudStack?
- Did you know DARPA Memex helps fund developers of Apache Tika, Nutch and Solr to deal with humanitarian issues such as Human Trafficking?
Apache Community Notices:
- The ASF is participating again this year in the annual Future of Open Source Survey. We appreciate your input! https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FoOS-Apache
- The Apache Mesos MeetUp & Fireside Chat will take place 18 February at Offerpop in New York http://www.meetup.com/Apache-Mesos-NYC-Meetup/events/220352664/
- The Apache Usergrid (incubating) + ElasticSearch Meetup will take place 18 February at Apigee in San Jose http://www.meetup.com/apache-usergrid-bay-area/events/220486635/?a=ea1_grp&rv=ea1&_af_eid=220486635&_af=event
- The Apache Hive User Group MeetUp will take place 19 February at LinkedIn in Mountain View http://www.meetup.com/Hive-User-Group-Meeting/events/219794523/
- The Apache Aurora MeetUp and Mesos User Group will take place 19 February at Twitter in San Francisco https://www.eventbrite.com/e/apache-aurora-meet-up-tickets-15618171371
- Catch Apache TomEE in action on 21 February at the ceJug/JVM Users Group in Ceará, Brazil https://twitter.com/cejug
- The first ever Apache Phoenix MeetUp will take place 24 February at Salesforce in San Francisco http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Apache-Phoenix-Meetup/events/220009583/
- The Women of ASF Luncheon will be held on 14 April at ApacheCon http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/attend/women-asf-luncheon
- Apache TrafficServer Spring Summit will take place 16-17 April in Austin https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TS/Spring+2015+Summit
- The Apache Marmotta community are being proactive and beginning to collect ideas for Google Summer of Code 2015 http://markmail.org/message/4nowycutyx2m2rj3
- Are your software solutions Powered by Apache? Download & use our "Powered By" logos http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby
Posted at 04:28PM Feb 13, 2015
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The Apache News Round-up: week ending 6 February 2015
February marks the 20th Anniversary of the ubiquitous Apache HTTP Server, the world's most popular Web server since 1996, and the flagship project behind the creation of the ASF. Here's what happened at the Foundation over the past week:
ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation. Events in 2015: North America (13-17 April/Austin) and Europe (28 September-1 October/Budapest)
- FINAL CALL: Travel Assistance applications close on 6 February http://www.apache.org/travel/
ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running 24x7x365.
- The Infra team's 2 million weekly checks yields 94.48% global uptime across all services http://status.apache.org/
ASF Operations –the day-to-day Foundation-wide activities that support Apache projects and the overall ASF mission.
- The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: October-December 2014 http://s.apache.org/fOb
Apache Flex™ – a highly productive, Open Source application framework for building and maintaining expressive applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops and devices, including smartphones, tablets, and TVs.
- Apache Flex SDK 4.14.0 released http://www.apache.org/dist/flex/4.14.0/RELEASE_NOTES
Apache HttpComponents Client™ –a library for client-side HTTP communication built on HttpCore. It provides connection management, cookie management, and authentication.
- Apache HttpComponents Client 4.4 GA released https://www.apache.org/dist/httpcomponents/httpclient/RELEASE_NOTES-4.4.x.txt
Apache Jackrabbit™ –scalable, high-performance hierarchical content repository designed for use as the foundation of modern world-class Web sites and other demanding content applications.
- Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.0.10 and 1.0.11 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html
Apache Kafka™ –high-throughput, publish-subscribe messaging system rethought of as a distributed commit log.
- Apache Kafka 0.8.2.0 released https://archive.apache.org/dist/kafka/0.8.2.0/RELEASE_NOTES.html
Apache PDFBox™ –an Open Source Java tool for working with Portable Document Format (PDF) documents.
- Apache PDFBox named an Open Source Partner Organization of the PDF Association http://s.apache.org/Wsf
Apache Streams (Incubating) –a lightweight server for ActivityStreams.
- Apache Streams 0.1-incubating released http://streams.incubator.apache.org
Apache Syncope™ –an Open Source system for managing digital identities in enterprise environments, implemented in JEE technology.
- Apache Syncope 1.2.2 released http://syncope.apache.org/downloads.html
Are your software solutions Powered by Apache?
- Download & use our "Powered By" logos http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby
Posted at 03:28PM Feb 06, 2015
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Apache™ PDFBox™ named an Open Source Partner Organization of the PDF Association
The Apache PDFBox™ library is an Open Source Java tool for working with Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. It allows for the creation of new PDF documents, manipulation, rendering, signing of existing documents and the ability to extract content from documents. Apache PDFBox also includes several command line utilities.
"We are proud to be recognized by the PDF Association as a driver of ISO-standardized PDF technology for electronic documents," said Andreas Lehmkühler, Vice President of Apache PDFBox. "Our liaison will help further strengthen the development of Apache PDFBox by providing access to knowledge and resources around PDF technology."
PDF was first released by Adobe Systems in 1993, became an ISO International Standard - ISO 32000-1 in 2008.
The PDF Association's Partner Organizations are international associations concerned with document management, enterprise content management, long-term archiving and accessibility. Apache PDFBox the PDF Association's first Open Source Partner Organization. The PDF Association delivers vital information about implementing PDF technology to software developers and IT decision makers, and helps document management and ECM implementers understand and leverage ISO-standardized PDF technology. In turn, enterprise systems implementers and end-users benefit from enhanced PDF technology.
"With Apache PDFBox, the first Open Source organization is joining our Association," said Thomas Zellmann, Managing Director of the PDF Association. "This is our contribution to support the growth of freely available PDF solutions and their functionality to further expand the market penetration of the PDF standard."
"Being part of the PDF Association recognizes our commitment to making ISO standardized electronic document technology easily available by leveraging Apache PDFBox as a foundation for other software applications," added Lehmkühler.
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Posted at 08:21AM Feb 03, 2015
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The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: October-December 2014
"The Apache Software Foundation is a cornerstone of the modern open source software ecosystem – supporting some of the most widely used and important software solutions powering today’s Internet economy..." –Mark Driver, Research Vice President, Gartner Group
Posted at 09:39PM Feb 02, 2015
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The Apache News Round-up: week ending 30 January 2015
It's hard to believe that we're wrapping up the first month of the new year! Here's what happened over the past week:
ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team (10 rotating volunteers and 4 paid staff) on four continents responsible for keeping the ASF's infrastructure running 24x7x365.
- 94.47% global uptime across all services this week http://status.apache.org/
- Travel Assistance applications close on 6 February http://www.apache.org/travel/
Apache BookKeeper™ – a reliable replicated log service that can be used to turn any standalone service into a highly available replicated service.
- The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache BookKeeper as a Top-Level Project http://s.apache.org/3BK
Apache HTTP Server™ – Open Source HTTP server for modern operating systems including UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS/X and Netware; the most popular Web server since 1996.
- Apache HTTP Server 2.4.12 Released http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/new_features_2_4.html
Apache MyFaces™ Core –a JavaServer Faces 2.0 implementation as specified by JSR-314. MyFaces Core has passed Sun's JSR-314 TCK and is 100% compliant with the JSR-314 specification.
- Apache MyFaces Core v2.0.23, v. 2.1.17, and v2.2.7 released http://myfaces.apache.org/download.html
Apache Qpid™ –implements the latest AMQP specification, the first open standard for enterprise messaging, and provides transaction management, queuing, distribution, security, management, clustering, federation and heterogeneous multi-platform support and a lot more.
- Security Advisory: Apache Qpid qpidd can be crashed by unauthenticated user http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201501.mbox/%3C54C60497.5060504%40apache.org%3E
- Security Advisory: anonymous access to Apache Qpid qpidd cannot be prevented http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201501.mbox/%3C54C604A8.5090505%40apache.org%3E
Posted at 04:55PM Jan 30, 2015
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The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Samza™ as a Top-Level Project
- DoubleDutch, developers of mobile apps for events and conferences, uses Samza to power their analytics platform and stream data live into an event dashboard for real-time insights;
- Forstcales' Big Data security analytics solutions use Samza to processes security events log as part of the data ingestion pipelines and on-line machine learning models creation process;
- Happy Pancake, Northern Europe's largest internet dating service, uses Samza for all event handlers and data replication;
- Advertising technology provider Improve Digital uses Samza as the foundation of a realtime processing capability performing data analytics and as the basis for an alerting system;
- Jack Henry & Associates uses Samza to process user activity data across its Banno suite of products for financial institutions;
- MobileAware uses Samza as a foundation for two mobile network products: real time analytics and multi channel notification (push, text message and HTML5);
- Technology startup Project Florida uses Samza for real-time monitoring of data streams from wearable sensors, for preventative healthcare purposes;
- Quantiply, providers of Cloud-based micro-applications, uses Samza to bring together user event, system performance, and business operational data for real-time visibility and decision support; and
- Social media business intelligence solution VinTank uses Samza to power their analysis and natural language processing (NLP) pipeline.
Posted at 10:21AM Jan 27, 2015
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The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ BookKeeper™ as a Top-Level Project
Apache BookKeeper is highly available (no single point of failure), and scales horizontally as more storage nodes are added. BookKeeper is used in production in many web scale companies. At Yahoo, it is used as the persistence layer for its Cloud messaging infrastructure, which delivers tens of billions of messages in a day. BookKeeper is used at Twitter as the replicated persistence backend for different messaging use cases, and is also used by Huawei as a shared storage in their solution for HDFS Namenode High Availability.
Posted at 09:21AM Jan 27, 2015
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The Apache News Round-up: week ending 23 January 2015
This week's highlights from The Apache Software Foundation's 350+ projects and initiatives include:
ASF Legal Affairs Committee –responsible for establishing and managing legal policies based on the advice of legal counsel and the interests of the Foundation.
- The Apache Software Foundation subpoenaed regarding Patent Claim https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_apache_software_foundation_subpoenaed1
FINAL CALL for ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation
- CFP closes on 1 February http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/program/cfp
- Travel Assistance applications close on 6 February http://www.apache.org/travel/
Apache Bookkeeper™ – distributed logging service called BookKeeper and a distributed publish/subscribe system build on top of BookKeeper called Hedwig.
- Apache BookKeeper 4.2.4 released http://bookkeeper.apache.org/releases.html
Apache Directory™ LDAP client API –an ongoing effort to provide an enhanced LDAP API, as a replacement for JNDI and the existing LDAP API (jLdap and Mozilla LDAP API) – provides the building blocks for both client side validation and server side data validation
- Apache Directory LDAP API 1.0.0-M28 released http://directory.apache.org/api/downloads.html
Apache Falcon™ –data processing and management solution for Apache Hadoop™, designed for data motion, coordination of data pipelines, lifecycle management, and data discovery.
- The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Falcon as a Top-Level Project http://s.apache.org/GT2
Apache Flink™ –a system for distributed batch and real-time streaming data analysis that offers familiar collection-based programming APIs in Java and Scala
- Apache Flink 0.8.0 released http://flink.apache.org/downloads.html
Apache HttpComponents™ Client for Android –can be deployed on Google Android in parallel to the outdated version shipped with platform while remaining partially API compatible with Apache HttpClient 4.3.
- HttpComponents Client for Android 4.3.5.1 released http://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi
Apache Tomcat™ –Open Source software implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Unified Expression Language and Java WebSocket technologies.
- Apache Tomcat 8.0.17 available http://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi
Apache Traffic Server™ –fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 compliant caching proxy server; can be used as a reverse, forward or even transparent HTTP proxy.
- Apache Traffic Server 5.2.0 released http://trafficserver.apache.org/downloads
Apache Incbuator™ –the entry path into The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) for projects and codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts. All code donations from external organisations and existing external projects wishing to join Apache enter through the Incubator.
- OpenAz and TinkerPop accepted as new podlings this month http://incubator.apache.org/projects/index.html
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Posted at 03:56PM Jan 23, 2015
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The Apache Software Foundation Subpoenaed Regarding Patent Claim
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has received a United States International Trade Commission subpoena requiring the production of documents and testimony related to U.S. Patent No. 6,691,302.
The request requires the Foundation to produce the required materials related to the above patent. Apache will, of course, be complying with all court requirements. As an open development group the majority of our documents are already publicly available. Pointers to our SVN history and mailing list archives have already been provided.
Please address any discussion to the ASF Legal mailing list.
Posted at 06:03PM Jan 22, 2015
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The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Falcon™ as a Top-Level Project
"Graduation of Apache Falcon's is a proud moment for the community who came together to solve a very relevant problem of data processing and management in Hadoop ecosystem," said Mohit Saxena, CTO and co-founder InMobi, one of the largest users of Apache Falcon. "I also want to applaud the efforts of contributors, committers and user community who actively pitched in the development of Falcon and it is only because of their conviction and efforts project has graduated. I am hoping promotion of Falcon to TLP will increase the contribution and adoption across the community and help Falcon achieve newer heights."
Falcon represents a significant step forward in the Hadoop platform by enabling easy data management. Users of Falcon platform simply define infrastructure endpoints, data sets and processing rules declaratively. These declarative configurations are expressed in such a way that the dependencies between these configured entities are explicitly described. This information about inter-dependencies between various entities allows Falcon to orchestrate and manage various data management functions.
"Falcon has enabled our team to incrementally build up a complex pipeline comprised of over 90 processes and 200 feeds that would have been very challenging with Apache Oozie alone," said programmer Michael Miklavcic.
"I began to work on Falcon in my spare time for fun, but it quickly became interesting in relation to my job at Talend", said Jean-Baptise Onofré, Vice President of Apache Karaf and Software Architect at Talend. "As Talend DataIntegration provides features like CDC (Change Data Capture), and data notification, we are in the process of integrating Apache Falcon in Talend products."
"Apache Falcon's graduation is a milestone for the project and a credit to its contributors. Its open, collaborative development has effected a robust community around software essential to the Hadoop ecosystem," said Chris Douglas, Falcon incubation mentor at the ASF. "By becoming a Top-Level Project, the ASF recognizes its demonstrated ability to self-govern. Congratulations to Falcon's users, to its contributors, and particularly to its new Project Management Committee on this achievement."
Availability and Oversight
As with all Apache products, Apache Falcon software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. For documentation and ways to become involved with Apache Falcon, visit http://falcon.apache.org/ and @ApacheFalcon on Twitter.
Posted at 09:21AM Jan 19, 2015
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The Apache News Round-up: week ending 16 January 2015
Our 4,000+ Committers have been busily working on a variety of projects this week. Here are the highlights:
Not A Mirage: The Apache Software Foundation's official number of projects and initiatives "grows overnight" with census adjustment
- https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/not_a_mirage_the_apache
Upcoming deadlines for ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation
- Call for Papers closes on 1 February http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/program/cfp
- Apache Travel Assistance applications close on 6 February http://www.apache.org/travel/
Apache Commons Validator™ – provides the building blocks for both client side validation and server side data validation. It may be used standalone or with a framework like Struts.
- Apache Commons Validator 1.4.1 released http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-validator/download_validator.cgi
Apache Curator™ –Java libraries that make using Apache ZooKeeper much easier and more reliable.
- Apache Curator 2.7.1 released https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12314425&version=12328938
Apache Flink™ –Open Source distributed Big Data system for expressive, declarative, and efficient batch and streaming data processing and analysis
- The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Flink™ as a Top-Level Project http://s.apache.org/YrZ
Apache Jackrabbit™ –scalable, high-performance hierarchical content repository designed for use as the foundation of modern world-class Web sites and other demanding content applications.
- Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.1.4 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html
Apache Knox™ –a REST API Gateway for providing secure access to the data and processing resources of Hadoop clusters.
- Apache Knox Gateway 0.5.1 released http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/knox/0.5.1
Apache Qpid™ –implements the latest AMQP specification, the first open standard for enterprise messaging, and provides transaction management, queuing, distribution, security, management, clustering, federation and heterogeneous multi-platform support and a lot more.
- CVE-2015-0203: Apache Qpid's qpidd can be crashed by authenticated user http://s.apache.org/PCe
Apache Tika™ –an ASFv2 licensed open source tool for extracting information from digital documents.
- Apache Tika 1.7 released http://www.apache.org/dist/tika/CHANGES-1.7.txt
Apache Incbuator™ –the entry path into The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) for projects and codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts. All code donations from external organisations and existing external projects wishing to join Apache enter through the Incubator.
- Corinthia and Zeppelin are accepted as new podlings in December http://incubator.apache.org/projects/index.html
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Posted at 07:16PM Jan 16, 2015
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