The Apache Weekly News Round-up: week ending 26 November 2021

We're wrapping up another great week with the following activities from the Apache community:

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.97%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. View the ASF's Infrastructure Uptime site to see the most recent averages.

Apache Code Snapshot – Over the past week, 303 Apache Committers changed 18,449,074 lines of code over 6,624 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Krist Wongsuphasawat, Jesse Yang, Ville Brofeldt, Yongjie Zhao, and Harikrishna Patnala.    

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

APIs --
 - Apache APISIX 2.10.2 released
   -- CVE-2021-43557: Path traversal in request_uri variable

Big Data --
 - Apache Beam 2.34.0 released

Content --
 - Apache JSPWiki 2.11.0 released
   -- CVE-2021-44140: Arbitrary file deletion on logout
   -- CVE-2021-40369: Cross-site scripting vulnerability on Denounce plugin

Enterprise Processes Automation / ERP --
 - Apache OFBiz 18.12.02 released

Integration --
 - Apache Camel 3.11.4 (LTS) released

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that Giving Tuesday, the global day of giving, takes place this year on Tuesday 30 November. Your individual and corporate donations help the all-volunteer ASF continue to steward 350+ Apache Projects and their communities, and provide more than $22B worth of Apache software to the public good at 100% no charge? https://donate.apache.org/

 - Did you know that you can learn more about Apache TVM --the ASF's first full stack software and hardware co-optimization project-- at TVMCon, taking place online and free-of-charge 15-17 December?

 - Did you know that the New Zealand government uses Apache Wicket for its national statistics Website?

Apache Community Notices

- The Apache Month in Review: October 2021 and video highlights

- Watch "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on the ASF 1) full feature [49 min] 2) "Apache Everywhere" [6 min] 3) "Why Apache" [2.5 min] 4) “Apache Innovation” [40 min] 

 - ASF Annual Report: FY2021 -- Press release and Report (PDF)

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success 

 - Foundation Reports and Statements

 - Presentations from 2021's ApacheCon Asia and ApacheCon@Home are available on the ASF YouTube channel.

 - "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works." 

Posted at 03:27PM Nov 29, 2021 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache Weekly News Round-up: week ending 19 November 2021

Happy Friday, everyone. The Apache community has had another great week. Let's review what we've been up to:

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.57%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. View the ASF's Infrastructure Uptime site to see the most recent averages.

Apache Code Snapshot – Over the past week, 340 Apache Committers changed 4,175,400 lines of code over 3,102 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Daniel Gruno, Christofer Dutz, Sebastian Rühl, Sebastian Bazley, and Claus Ibsen.  

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache Arrow 6.0.1 released
 - Apache Ozone 1.2.0 released
   -- CVE-2021-36372: Original block tokens are persisted and can be retrieved
   -- CVE-2021-39231: Missing authentication/authorization on internal RPC endpoints
   -- CVE-2021-39232: Missing admin check for SCM related admin commands
   -- CVE-2021-39233: Container-related datanode operations can be called without authorization
   -- CVE-2021-39234: Raw block data can be read bypassing ACL/authorization
   -- CVE-2021-39235: Access mode of block tokens are not enforced
   -- CVE-2021-39236: Owners of the S3 tokens are not validated
   -- CVE-2021-41532: Unauthenticated access to Ozone Recon HTTP endpoints 

Business Intelligence --
 - Apache Superset CVE-2021-42250: Possible log injection

Cloud Computing --
 - Apache CloudStack 4.16.0.0 released

Content --
 - Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.6.22 released

Integration --
 - Apache Camel 3.13.0 released

IoT --
 - Apache IoTDB 0.12.3 released

Observability --

Programming Languages --
 - Apache Groovy 4.0.0-beta-2 released

Search --
 - Apache Lucene 8.11.0 released
 - Apache Solr 8.11.0 and Operator v0.5.0 released

Servers --
 - Apache Tomcat 8.5.73, 9.0.55, 10.0.13, 10.1.0-M7 (alpha) released
 - Apache HttpComponents Client 5.1.2 GA released
 - Apache Traffic Control: CVE-2021-43350: LDAP filter injection vulnerability in Traffic Ops

Web Frameworks --
 - Apache Struts 2.5.27 released

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that the ASF's Corporate Contribution options include Employee Giving Programs, Volunteer Grants, and Corporate Matching Gifts? End-of-year donations are welcome in any amount --thank you in advance for considering supporting the ASF! https://apache.org/foundation/contributing#support-the-asf-today

 - Did you know that Apache Pinot was featured in the Disney comedy film, "Home Sweet Home Alone"? https://twitter.com/ApachePinot/status/1459378780586262528

 - Did you know that Apache DolphinScheduler v2.0 is 20x more performant than previous versions? http://dolphinscheduler.apache.org/

Apache Community Notices

- The Apache Month in Review: October 2021 and video highlights

- Watch "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on the ASF 1) full feature [49 min] 2) "Apache Everywhere" [6 min] 3) "Why Apache" [2.5 min] 4) “Apache Innovation” [40 min] 

 - ASF Annual Report: FY2021 -- Press release and Report (PDF)

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success 

 - Foundation Reports and Statements

 - Presentations from 2021's ApacheCon Asia and ApacheCon@Home are available on the ASF YouTube channel.

 - "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works." 

Posted at 02:32PM Nov 22, 2021 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache Weekly News Round-up: week ending 12 November 2021

Hello, everyone --let's review the Apache community's activities from over the past week:

Sponsor Success at Apache – the blog series that focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works", featuring insights and experiences from the perspective of select ASF Sponsors
 - "Exploration and Practice of the Apache Way in Tencent" by Mark Shan

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 17 November 2021. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.94%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. View the ASF's Infrastructure Uptime site to see the most recent averages.

Apache Code Snapshot – Over the past week, 352 Apache Committers changed 11,730,654 lines of code over 3,823 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Krzysztof Kopyściński, Mark Thomas, Andrea Cosentino, Adam Kocoloski, and Tomaž Muraus.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache NiFi 1.15.0 released
 - Apache ShardingSphere 5.0.0 released

Business Intelligence --
 - Apache Superset CVE-2021-41972: Credentials leak

Content --
 - Apache Jackrabbit 2.20.4 and Jackrabbit Oak 1.8.25 released
 - Apache Traffic Control 6.0.1 released and CVE-2021-43350: LDAP filter injection vulnerability in Traffic Ops

Messaging --
 - Apache Qpid Proton 0.36.0 released

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that the Apache Unomi community will be holding their first Unomi developer MeetUp online and free of charge on 18 November?

 - Did you know that the Apache Ignite community are preparing for the vote on v2.12, are redesigning their project Website, and will be kicking off Ignite Summit Cloud Edition 16 November? Catch up on a busy week ahead!

 - Did you know that Uber Eats' new real-time exactly-once ad event processing is powered by Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, and Apache Pinot? 

Apache Community Notices

- The Apache Month in Review: October 2021 and video highlights

- Watch "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on the ASF 1) full feature [49 min] 2) "Apache Everywhere" [6 min] 3) "Why Apache" [2.5 min] 4) “Apache Innovation” [40 min] 

 - ASF Annual Report: FY2021 -- Press release and Report (PDF)

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success 

 - Foundation Reports and Statements

 - Presentations from 2021's ApacheCon Asia and ApacheCon@Home are available on the ASF YouTube channel.

 - "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works." 

Posted at 02:46PM Nov 15, 2021 by Sally Khudairi in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 5 November 2021

Welcome November --we've closed October with another great week. Here are the latest updates on the Apache community's activities:

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
 - Our 2021 events are complete: thanks to all speakers, sponsors, participants, and planners for their great turnout!
 - Presentations for ApacheCon Asia and ApacheCon@Home are available on the ASF YouTube channel.

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 100.00%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. View the Apache Infrastructure Uptime site to see the most recent averages.

Apache Code Snapshot – Over the past week, 309 Apache Committers changed 6,052,770 lines of code over 2,644 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Claus Ibsen, Yuan Tian, Andrea Cosentino, and Sebastian Rühl.  

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Enterprise Processes Automation / ERP --
 - Apache OFBiz 18.12.01 released

Observability --
 - Apache SkyWalking Java Agent 8.8.0 released

Workflow --
 - Apache Airflow 2.2.1 released
 - Apache DolphinScheduler CVE-2021-27644: mysql jdbc connector parameters deserialize remote code execution

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that the following Apache Projects are celebrating anniversaries this month? Congratulations to Apache Ant (19 years); HttpComponents (14 years); Attic, Buildr, CouchDB, and Qpid (13 years); ComDev (12 years); OODT and ZooKeeper (11 years); Kafka and Syncope (9 years); Ambari (8 years); BookKeeper and Drill (7 years); Brooklyn, Groovy, Kylin, and REEF (6 years); Geode (5 years); Guacamole and Impala (4 years); Griffin (3 years); Petri (2 years); as well as Superset and TVM (1 year)

 - Did you know that Druid Summit Americas and EMEA events and watch parties start on 9 November? Secure your spot today!

 - Did you know that Ignite Summit Cloud Edition kicks off on 16 November? Learn more at http://ignite.apache.org/

Apache Community Notices

- The Apache Month in Review: October 2021 https://s.apache.org/October2021 and video highlights https://youtu.be/3rPR6tNt-dg

- Watch "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on the ASF 1) full feature [49 min] 2) "Apache Everywhere" [6 min] 3) "Why Apache" [2.5 min] 4) “Apache Innovation” [40 min] 

 - ASF Annual Report: FY2021 -- Press release and Report (PDF)

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success 

 - Foundation Reports and Statements

 - Presentations from ApacheCon Asia are available on YouTube

 - "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works." 

Posted at 03:31PM Nov 08, 2021 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

Apache Month in Review: October 2021

Welcome to the latest monthly overview of events from the Apache community. Here's a summary of what happened in October [video highlights available] :

New This Month --

- Apache Software Foundation moves to CDN distribution for software.

- The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® OpenOffice® 4.1.11

- Presentations from ApacheCon 2021 events are available on the ASF's YouTube channel.  

- Apache Month in Review: September 2021

Important Dates --

- Next Board Meeting: 17 November 2021. Board calendar and minutes

- Apache CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2021 - 8-12 November 2021

Infrastructure --

In October, 643 Apache Committers changed 47,071,028 lines of code over 11,309 commits. The Committers with the top 5 highest contributions, in order, were: Claus Ibsen, Andi Huber, Gary Gregory, Andrea Cosentino, and Alex Herbert.   

Project Releases and Updates --

New releases from Apache Airflow (Big Data); Ant (Build Management); APISIX (API); Bigtop (Big Data); Calcite (Big Data); Camel (Integration); CouchDB (Big Data); DB (Database); Flink (Big Data); Geode (Database); HBase (Big Data); Hop (Orchestration); HttpComponents (Servers); HTTP Server (Servers); Jackrabbit (Content); James (Mail); Kyuubi (Incubating; Big Data); Log4cxx (Libraries); Lucene (Search); OpenMeetings (Web Conferencing); OpenOffice (Content); PLC4X (IoT); Qpid (Messaging); ShardingSphere (Big Data); ShenYu (Incubating; API); SIS (Geospatial); Skywalking (Application Performance Management); Solr (Search); Storm (Big Data); Syncope (Identity Management);Tomcat (Servers); Traffic Control (Servers); XMLBeans (Library).

Apache Project Anniversaries in October: Apache Ant (19 years); HttpComponents (14 years); Attic, Buildr, CouchDB, and Qpid (13 years); Community Development ("ComDev", 12 years); OODT and ZooKeeper (11 years); Kafka and Syncope (9 years); Ambari (8 years); BookKeeper, Drill, and MetaModel (7 years); Brooklyn, Groovy, Kylin, and REEF (6 years); Geode (5 years); Guacamole, Impala, and Mnemonic (4 years); Griffin (3 years); Petri (2 years); and Superset and TVM (1 year). Many happy returns!

The Apache Incubator is the primary entry path for projects wishing to become an official part of the ASF. More than three dozen projects are currently undergoing development in the Apache Incubator.

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Posted at 07:53PM Nov 01, 2021 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 29 October 2021

Farewell, October --we're wrapping up the month with another great week. Here are the latest updates on the Apache community's activities:

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
 - Our 2021 events are complete: thanks to all speakers, sponsors, participants, and planners for their great turnout!
 - Presentations for ApacheCon Asia and ApacheCon@Home are available on the ASF YouTube channel.

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 100.00%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. View the Apache Infrastructure Uptime site to see the most recent averages.

Apache Code Snapshot – Over the past week, 320 Apache Committers changed 12,061,492 lines of code over 2,610 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Tomaz Muraus, Udo Schnurpfeil, David Jencks, Claus Ibsen, and Konrad Windszus.  

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

API --
 - Apache ShenYu (incubating) 2.4.1 available

Big Data --
 - Apache Bigtop 3.0.0 released
 - Apache Kyuubi (incubating) 1.3.1-incubating released
 - Apache HBase 1.4.14 released

IoT --
 - Apache PLC4X 0.9.0 released

Web Conferencing --
 - Apache OpenMeetings 6.2.0 released

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that organizations can support the ASF through one-time or recurring corporate contributions, matching gifts, and other corporate giving initiatives? 

 - Did you know that presentations from ApacheCon's 2021 events are available on the ASF's YouTube channel? 

 - Did you know that BNP Paribas uses Apache Ignite as a Hybrid Transactional-Analytical Processing solution?

Apache Community Notices

- The Apache Month in Review: September 2021 https://s.apache.org/September2021 and video highlights https://youtu.be/v3GdwUmevog

- Watch "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on the ASF 1) full feature [49 min] 2) "Apache Everywhere" [6 min] 3) "Why Apache" [2.5 min] 4) “Apache Innovation” [40 min] 

 - ASF Annual Report: FY2021 -- Press release and Report (PDF)

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success 

 - Foundation Reports and Statements

 - Presentations from ApacheCon Asia are available on YouTube

 - "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works." 

Posted at 02:57PM Nov 01, 2021 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   |