Apache Month in Review: July 2020

Welcome to the latest monthly overview of events from the Apache community. Here's a summary of what happened in July:

New this month --

 - ASF Annual Report – a look back at our many achievements during the 2020 Fiscal Year
 -- Press release https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport-PR
 -- Full report https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport

 - "Trillions and Trillions Served" – the feature documentary on the ASF filmed onsite at ApacheCon Las Vegas and Berlin in 2019, watch “Apache Innovation”, the fourth and final segment of the series https://s.apache.org/ApacheInnovation

 - ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
  -- Announcing ApacheCon @Home 2020: ApacheCon North America and Europe have been combined and will be held online 29 September - 1 October 2020. Join us! https://apachecon.com/acah2020

 - "Inside Infra" – a new interview series with members of the ASF Infrastructure team
  -- Meet Greg Stein --Part III https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg3

 - Apache Month in Review: June 2020 https://s.apache.org/June2020

Important Dates --

 - Next Board Meeting: 19 August 2020. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

 - ApacheCon @Home 29 September - 1 October 2020 https://apachecon.com/acah2020

Infrastructure --

In July, 846 Apache Committers changed 14,227,571 lines of code over 16,062 commits. The Committers with the top 5 highest contributions, in order, were: Mark Miller, Andrea Cosentino, Gary Gregory, Sebastian Bazley, and Zhang Yonglun.  

Project Releases and Updates --

New releases from Apache Annotator (Libraries); APISIX (API); Arrow (Big Data); Atlas (Big Data); Avro (Big Data); Beam (Big Data); BVal (Libraries); Calcite (Big Data); Commons Lang and Numbers (Libraries); Commons Text (Libraries); Curator (Messaging); Daffodil (Libraries); Druid (Big Data); Flink (Big Data); Geometry (Libraries); Groovy (Programming Languages); Guacamole (Network Client); HBase (Big Data); IoTDB (IoT); Jackrabbit (Content); Kylin (Big Data); Lucene (Search); MyFaces (Web Frameworks); NiFi (Big Data); Nutch (Web Crawler); OFBiz (Enterprise Processes Automation / ERP); Qpid (Messaging); Skywalking (Application Performance Management); Storm (Big Data); Tomcat (Servers);Tuweni (Blockchain); TVM (Machine Learning); Wicket (Web Frameworks).

The Apache Incubator is the primary entry path for projects and codebases wishing to become part of the efforts at The Apache Software Foundation. Congratulations to Apache APISIX, which graduated as a Top-Level Project this month https://s.apache.org/29wd9. We invite you to review the many projects currently in development in the Apache Incubator http://incubator.apache.org/

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Posted at 03:09PM Aug 01, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 31 July 2020

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

ASF Annual Report – a look back at our many achievements during the 2020 Fiscal Year
 - Press release https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport-PR
 - Full report https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 19 August 2020. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
 - Registration is OPEN (and free) for ApacheCon@Home taking place online 29 September - 1 October. Join us! https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/ 
 - Sponsorships available for ApacheCon@Home https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/sponsors.html 

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 100%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – Over the past week, 414 Apache Committers changed 4,407,598 lines of code over 3,792 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Mark Miller, Andrea Cosentino, Gary Gregory, Guillaume Nodet, and Shen Yi.  

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Application Performance Monitor --
 - Apache SkyWalking CLI 0.3.0 and SkyWalking Python 0.2.0 released https://skywalking.apache.org/

Big Data --
 - Apache Arrow 1.0.0 released https://arrow.apache.org/
 - Apache Calcite 1.24.0 released https://calcite.apache.org/
 - Apache Beam 2.23.0 released https://beam.apache.org/

Content --
 - Apache Jackrabbit 2.21.3 released https://jackrabbit.apache.org/

Libraries --
 - Apache Commons Text 1.9 released https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-text/

Messaging --
 - Apache Qpid Proton-J 0.33.6 and JMS 0.53.0 released https://qpid.apache.org/

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that there were 150TB+ in source code downloads from Apache mirrors (excludes convenience binaries) in FY2020? https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport 

 - Did you know that workflows for the Creative Commons Catalog project are powered by Apache Airflow? https://opensource.creativecommons.org/blog/entries/data-flow-API-to-DB/ 

 - Did you know that, after two years in development, Apache Cayenne v4.1 GA is now available? https://cayenne.apache.org/ 

Apache Community Notices

- Apache Month In Review: June 2020 – overview of events that have taken place within the Apache community https://s.apache.org/June2020 

- "Trillions and Trillions Served" – the documentary on the ASF filmed onsite at ApacheCon Las Vegas and Berlin in 2019 have been released: 1) full feature https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature 2) "Apache Everywhere" short https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere 3) "Why Apache" teaser https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions 4) “Apache Innovation” shorts https://s.apache.org/ApacheInnovation 

 - The Apache Software Foundation Statement on the COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak https://s.apache.org/COVID-19  

 - The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 21 Years of Open Source Leadership https://s.apache.org/21stAnniversary

 - The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q3 FY2020 (November 2019 - January 2020) https://s.apache.org/r6s5u

 - Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI

 - Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html

 - "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works". https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache

Posted at 07:12AM Jul 31, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 24 July 2020

Happy Friday! We've had a great week within the Apache community. Here's what happened:

Inside Infra – the interview series with members of the ASF Infrastructure team.
 - Meet Greg Stein --Part III https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg3

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 19 August 2020. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
 - Registration is OPEN (and free) for ApacheCon@Home taking place online 29 September - 1 October. Join us! https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/ 
 - Sponsorships available for ApacheCon@Home https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/sponsors.html 

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.96%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – Over the past week, 407 Apache Committers changed 4,357,953 lines of code over 3,609 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Gary Gregory, Andrea Cosentino, Mark Miller, Zhang Yonglun, and Sebastian Bazley.      

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache Atlas 2.1.0 released https://atlas.apache.org/
 - Apache Calcite Avatica Go 5.0.0 released https://calcite.apache.org/avatica
 - Apache Druid 0.19.0 released https://druid.apache.org/
 - Apache NiFi Registry 0.7.0 released http://nifi.apache.org/registry
 - Apache Flink 1.11.1 released https://flink.apache.org/

Content --
 - Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.22.4 released https://jackrabbit.apache.org/oak

Libraries --
 - Apache Commons Lang 3.11 released https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/
 - Apache Geometry 1.0-beta1 released https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-geometry/

Programming Languages --
 - Apache Groovy 2.4.20, 2.5.13, and 3.0.5 released http://groovy.apache.org/

Search --
 - Apache Lucene 8.6.0 and Solr 8.6.0 released http://lucene.apache.org/

Web Frameworks --
 - Apache Wicket 7.17.0 released https://wicket.apache.org/

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that Apache projects' ongoing sustainability is ensured through the generosity of our Sponsors and individual donors, whose support helps ensure that the ASF continues to provide more than $20B worth of software to the public-at-large at 100% no cost? http://donate.apache.org

 - Did you know that projects undergoing development in the Apache Incubator are in a variety of categories that include AI, Annotation, Big Data, Blockchain, Cryptography, Data Visualization, Distributed Computing, Email, Embedded Systems, Geospatial Data, Graphing, Hardware Acceleration, IoT, Messaging, Monitoring, Natural Language Processing, Scheduling, Streaming, Training, Usability Testing, and more? http://incubator.apache.org/projects/

 - Did you know that you can learn about Apache Beam, Calcite, Camel, CarbonData, Groovy, Hadoop, Karaf, Labs, NetBeans, OFBiz, OpenOffice, PLC4X, Rya, Spark, Tomcat, Unomi, and more in the "Apache Innovation" short? https://s.apache.org/ApacheInnovation

Apache Community Notices

- Apache Month In Review: June 2020 – overview of events that have taken place within the Apache community https://s.apache.org/June2020 

- "Trillions and Trillions Served" – the documentary on the ASF filmed onsite at ApacheCon Las Vegas and Berlin in 2019 have been released: 1) full feature https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature 2) "Apache Everywhere" short https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere 3) "Why Apache" teaser https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions 4) “Apache Innovation” shorts https://s.apache.org/ApacheInnovation 

 - The Apache Software Foundation Statement on the COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak https://s.apache.org/COVID-19  

 - The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 21 Years of Open Source Leadership https://s.apache.org/21stAnniversary

 - The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q3 FY2020 (November 2019 - January 2020) https://s.apache.org/r6s5u

 - Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI

 - Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html

 - "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works". https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache

Posted at 08:17AM Jul 24, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 17 July 2020

Happy Friday! Let's take a look at what the Apache community has been up to over the past week:

"Trillions and Trillions Served" – the feature documentary on the ASF filmed onsite at ApacheCon Las Vegas and Berlin in 2019
 - Watch “Apache Innovation”, the fourth and final segment of the series https://s.apache.org/ApacheInnovation

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 19 August 2020. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
 - Registration is OPEN (and free) for ApacheCon@Home taking place online 29 September - 1 October. Join us! https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/ 
 - Sponsorships available for ApacheCon@Home https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/sponsors.html 

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.88%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – Over the past week, 405 Apache Committers changed 3,321,417 lines of code over 3,483 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Mark Miller, Shad Storhaug, Andi Huber, Andrea Cosentino, and Gary Gregory.  

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

API --
 - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® APISIX™ as a Top-Level Project https://s.apache.org/29wd9

Big Data --
 - Apache HBase 2.3.0 released https://hbase.apache.org/

Blockchain --
 - Apache Tuweni (Incubating) 1.1.0 released https://tuweni.apache.org/

Content --
 - Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.32.0 released https://jackrabbit.apache.org/oak

Enterprise Processes Automation / ERP --
 - Apache OFBiz 17.12.04 released https://ofbiz.apache.org/

Libraries --
 - Apache Annotator (Incubating) 0.1.0 released https://annotator.apache.org/
 - Apache BVal 2.0.4 released https://bval.apache.org/
 - Apache Daffodil (Incubating) 2.7.0 https://daffodil.apache.org/

Machine Learning --
 - Apache TVM (Incubating) 0.6.1 released https://tvm.apache.org/

Messaging --
 - Apache Curator 5.1.0 released https://curator.apache.org/

Web Frameworks --
 - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Wicket™ v9 https://s.apache.org/lpsmm
 - Apache Wicket 8.9.0 released https://wicket.apache.org/
 - Apache MyFaces Core 2.2.13 released http://myfaces.apache.org/

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that, as the world's largest Open Source foundation, the ASF is 7,800 Committers strong? https://projects.apache.org/timelines.html 

 - Did you know that the "Trillions and Trillions Served" feature documentary is now available with Chinese subtitles? https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Uz411i7MH 

 - Did you know that your employer can join companies such as American Express, Bloomberg, IBM, and Microsoft in matching contributions and volunteer hours made by their employees? http://apache.org/foundation/contributing.html ?

Apache Community Notices

 - "Trillions and Trillions Served" – the documentary on the ASF filmed onsite at ApacheCon Las Vegas and Berlin in 2019 have been released: 1) full feature https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature 2) "Apache Everywhere" short https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere 3) "Why Apache" teaser https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions 4) “Apache Innovation” shorts https://s.apache.org/ApacheInnovation 

 - Apache Month In Review: June 2020 – overview of events that have taken place within the Apache community https://s.apache.org/June2020

 - The Apache Software Foundation Statement on the COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak https://s.apache.org/COVID-19 

 - The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 21 Years of Open Source Leadership https://s.apache.org/21stAnniversary

 - The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q3 FY2020 (November 2019 - January 2020) https://s.apache.org/r6s5u

 - Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI

 - Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html

 - "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works". https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache

Posted at 05:09AM Jul 17, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 10 July 2020

We're more than halfway through the year, and the Apache community is wrapping up another great week. Let's take a look:

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 15 July 2020. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
 - Registration is OPEN (and free!) for ApacheCon@Home: combining ApacheCon North America and ApacheCon Europe in a new, online format! Taking place 29 September - 1 October. Join us! https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/
 - FINAL CALL: CFP for ApacheCon@Home closes on 13 July https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/cfp.html

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.95%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – Over the past week, 303 Apache Committers changed 752,461 lines of code over 2,537 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Andrea Cosentino, Ioan Eugen Stan, Sebastian Bazley, and Paul King.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Content --
 - Apache Jackrabbit 2.21.2 released https://jackrabbit.apache.org/

Servers --
 - Apache Tomcat 7.0.105, 8.5.57, 9.0.37, and 10.0.0-M7 released https://tomcat.apache.org/

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that more than 100 developers at University Hospitals Leuven, one of Belgium's largest hospitals, created software (powered by Apache Subversion, Ant, Ivy, and many Apache Java libraries) that is used across the nexuzhealth joint venture of 25 hospitals to meet their rapidly-evolving needs as impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic? http://subversion.apache.org/ | http://ant.apache.org/ | https://ant.apache.org/ivy/  

 - Did you know that those wishing to support Apache may do so with a donation towards their ApacheCon@Home registration or by sponsoring the event? https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/ 

 - Did you know that Airflow Summit continues over the next week? https://airflowsummit.org/

Apache Community Notices

 - "Trillions and Trillions Served" – three parts of the documentary on the ASF filmed onsite at ApacheCon Las Vegas and Berlin in 2019 have been released: 1) full feature https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature 2) "Apache Everywhere" short https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere 3) "Why Apache" teaser https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions 

 - Apache Month In Review: June 2020 – overview of events that have taken place within the Apache community https://s.apache.org/June2020

 - The Apache Software Foundation Statement on the COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak https://s.apache.org/COVID-19 

 - The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 21 Years of Open Source Leadership https://s.apache.org/21stAnniversary

 - The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q3 FY2020 (November 2019 - January 2020) https://s.apache.org/r6s5u

 - Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI

 - Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html

 - "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works". https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache

Posted at 11:42AM Jul 10, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 3 July 2020

Welcome, July! We've had a great week within the Apache community. Here's what happened:

Inside Infra – the third interview in the series with members of the ASF Infrastructure team.
 - Meet Greg Stein --Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg2

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 15 July 2020. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
 - NEW! ApacheCon@Home: combining ApacheCon North America and ApacheCon Europe in a new, online format! Taking place 29 September - 1 October, registration is OPEN and FREE, with donation options for those wishing to support the ASF. Join us! https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/ 

- CFP for ApacheCon@Home has been re-opened. Hurry! Presentation proposals due on 13 July.
https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/cfp.html

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 100%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 907 Apache contributors changed 1,367,670 lines of code over 3,904 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Gary Gregory, Kaxil Naik, Andrea Cosentino, Eugen Stan, and Sebastian Bazley.     

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Application Performance Monitor --
 - Apache Chart 3.0.0 and Python 0.1.0 released https://skywalking.apache.org/

Big Data --
 - Apache Avro 1.10.0 released https://avro.apache.org/
 - Apache Storm 2.2.0 released https://storm.apache.org/
 - Apache Kylin 3.1.0 released https://kylin.apache.org/

IoT --
 - Apache IoTDB (Incubating) 0.10.0 released https://iotdb.apache.org/

Network Client --
 - Apache Guacamole 1.2.0 released https://guacamole.apache.org/

Web Crawler --
 - Apache Nutch 1.17 released https://nutch.apache.org/

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that the following Apache projects are celebrating anniversaries this month? Three cheers to Tcl (20 years); DB (18 years); STeVe (8 years); JSPWiki (7 years); Celix and Tez (6 years); NiFi (5 years); Kudu (4 years); Fluo, MADlib, and Streams (3 years); OpenWhisk (1 year)! https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date

 - Did you know that, as with all Apache software, registration to ApacheCon@Home is free of charge? We do have donation options for those who wish to support the ASF; thank you in advance for your participation. Join us! https://apachecon.com/acna2020/

 - Did you know that John Deere's data platform is powered by Apache Flink and Apache Spark to scalably receive and processes millions of sensor measurements per second, and adapt to continually increasing volumes of data? https://flink.apache.org/ https://spark.apache.org/

Apache Community Notices

 - "Trillions and Trillions Served" – the feature documentary on the ASF filmed onsite at ApacheCon Las Vegas and Berlin in 2019 https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature  

 - The Apache Software Foundation Statement on the COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak https://s.apache.org/COVID-19  

 - The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 21 Years of Open Source Leadership https://s.apache.org/21stAnniversary

 - Apache Month In Review: June 2020 – overview of events that have taken place within the Apache community https://s.apache.org/June2020

 - The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q3 FY2020 (November 2019 - January 2020) https://s.apache.org/r6s5u  

 - "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on the ASF, is in post-production. Catch the teaser at https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions and "Apache Everywhere", the first "Trillions" "short" filmed onsite at ApacheCon Las Vegas and Berlin this past year https://youtu.be/nXtIti9jMFI

 - Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI

 - ASF Operations Summary: Q2 FY2020 (August - October 2019) https://s.apache.org/2kv2n

 - ASF Founders look back on 20 Years of the ASF https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on

 - Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html

 - ApacheCon: Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998 http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon

 - "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works". https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache

Posted at 11:25AM Jul 03, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

Apache Month in Review: June 2020

Welcome to the latest monthly overview of events from the Apache community. Here's a summary of what happened in June:

New this month --

 -"Trillions and Trillions Served" – the feature documentary on the ASF filmed onsite at ApacheCon Las Vegas and Berlin in 2019 https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature

 - ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
  -- Announcing ApacheCon @Home 2020: ApacheCon North America and Europe have been combined and will be held online 29 September - 1 October 2020. Join us! https://apachecon.com/acah2020

 - "Inside Infra" --a new interview series with members of the ASF Infrastructure team
  -- Meet Greg Stein --Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg and Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg2

 - ASF Statement on the COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak https://s.apache.org/COVID-19

 - Apache Month in Review: May 2020 https://s.apache.org/May2020

Important Dates --

 - Next Board Meeting: 15 July 2020. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

 - ApacheCon @Home 29 September - 1 October 2020

Infrastructure --

In May, 860 Apache Committers changed 19,454,137 lines of code over 16,319 commits. The Committers with the top 5 highest contributions, in order, were: Gary Gregory, Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Sebastian Bazley, Andrea Cosentino, and Claus Ibsen.

Project Releases and Updates --

New releases from Apache Archiva (Build Management); Beam (Big Data); Calcite (Big Data); Commons IO (Libraries); Commons BCEL (Libraries); Curator (Messaging); CXF Fediz (Libraries); Flink (Big Data); Fortress (Identity Management); HttpComponents Client (Servers); HttpComponents Core (Servers); Hudi (Big Data); Jackrabbit (Content); JSPWiki (Content); Libcloud (Cloud Computing); NetBeans (Integrated Development Environment); PDFBox (Content); Pulsar (Messaging); Qpid (Messaging); ShardingSphere (Big Data); Skywalking and Nginx (Application Performance Management); Tomcat (Servers); Traffic Control (Servers).

The Apache Incubator is the primary entry path for projects and codebases wishing to become part of the efforts at The Apache Software Foundation. Congratulations to Apache Hudi, which graduated as a Top-Level Project this month https://s.apache.org/odtwv. Welcome to Apache Pegasus (incubating) as the latest podling to enter the Incubator! We invite you to review the many projects currently in development in the Apache Incubator http://incubator.apache.org/   

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Posted at 01:33PM Jul 01, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 26 June 2020

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

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 15 July 2020. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
 - Notice on Apache 2020 Conferences https://s.apache.org/zgm8m 

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 100%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 917 Apache contributors changed 3,498,501 lines of code over 3,692 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Manfred Moser, Sebastian Bazley, Andrea Cosentino, Gary Gregory, and Claus Ibsen.      

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Application Performance Monitor --
 - Apache SkyWalking 8.0.1 and Nginx LUA 0.2.0 released https://skywalking.apache.org/

Big Data --
 - Apache Calcite Avatica 1.17.0 released https://calcite.apache.org/avatica

Build Management --
 - Apache Archiva 2.2.5 released https://archiva.apache.org/

Libraries --
 - Apache CXF Fediz 1.5.0 released http://cxf.apache.org/fediz.html

Messaging --
 - Apache Pulsar 2.6.0 released https://pulsar.apache.org/

Servers --
 - Apache Traffic Server 8.0.8 and 7.1.11 released https://trafficserver.apache.org/

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that Apache Cordova released OSX 6.0.0? https://cordova.apache.org/ 

 - Did you know that Apache Royale released the new, nifty Tour De Jewel component to demonstrate progress on pages? https://royale.apache.org/ 

 - Did you know that the Python agent for Apache SkyWalking is in development? http://skywalking.apache.org/ 

Apache Community Notices

 - "Trillions and Trillions Served" – the feature documentary on the ASF filmed onsite at ApacheCon Las Vegas and Berlin in 2019 https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature  

 - The Apache Software Foundation Statement on the COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak https://s.apache.org/COVID-19  

 - The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 21 Years of Open Source Leadership https://s.apache.org/21stAnniversary

 - Apache Month In Review: May 2020 – overview of events that have taken place within the Apache community https://s.apache.org/May2020

 - The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q3 FY2020 (November 2019 - January 2020) https://s.apache.org/r6s5u  

 - "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on the ASF, is in post-production. Catch the teaser at https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions and "Apache Everywhere", the first "Trillions" "short" filmed onsite at ApacheCon Las Vegas and Berlin this past year https://youtu.be/nXtIti9jMFI

 - Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI

 - ASF Operations Summary: Q2 FY2020 (August - October 2019) https://s.apache.org/2kv2n

 - ASF Founders look back on 20 Years of the ASF https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on

 - Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html

 - ApacheCon: Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998 http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon

 - "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works". https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache

Posted at 09:35AM Jun 26, 2020 by Sally in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 19 June 2020

Happy Friday! Let's take a look at what the Apache community has been up to 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: 15 July 2020. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
 - Notice on Apache 2020 Conferences https://s.apache.org/zgm8m

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.72%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 902 Apache contributors changed 5,499,342 lines of code over 3,942 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Chunen Ni, Sebastian Bazley, Rupeng Wang, Gary Gregory, and Andrea Cosentino.      

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Cloud Computing --
 - Apache Libcloud 3.1.0 released http://libcloud.apache.org/

Servers --
 - Apache HttpComponents Client 5.0.1 GA released https://hc.apache.org/
 - Apache Traffic Control 4.1.0 released https://trafficcontrol.apache.org/

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that you can meet Apache APISIX (Incubating), catch up with Apache CloudStack, see what’s next with Apache HBaseas the project celebrates its 10th Anniversary, and more? Only on Feathercast --the voice of the ASF https://feathercast.apache.org

 - Did you know that Tencent uses Apache Pulsar to process tens of billions of dollars in financial transactions each day? http://pulsar.apache.org/ 

 - Did you know that Apache Cordova has a major release for iOS? https://cordova.apache.org/ 
 

Apache Community Notices

 - "Trillions and Trillions Served" – the feature documentary on the ASF filmed onsite at ApacheCon Las Vegas and Berlin in 2019 https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature  

 - The Apache Software Foundation Statement on the COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak https://s.apache.org/COVID-19  

 - The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 21 Years of Open Source Leadership https://s.apache.org/21stAnniversary

 - Apache Month In Review: May 2020 – overview of events that have taken place within the Apache community https://s.apache.org/May2020

 - The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q3 FY2020 (November 2019 - January 2020) https://s.apache.org/r6s5u  

 - "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on the ASF, is in post-production. Catch the teaser at https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions and "Apache Everywhere", the first "Trillions" "short" filmed onsite at ApacheCon Las Vegas and Berlin this past year https://youtu.be/nXtIti9jMFI

 - Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI

 - ASF Operations Summary: Q2 FY2020 (August - October 2019) https://s.apache.org/2kv2n

 - ASF Founders look back on 20 Years of the ASF https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on

 - Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html

 - ApacheCon: Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998 http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon

 - "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works". https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache

Posted at 05:46AM Jun 19, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 12 June 2020

Hurrah for Friday! We've had a great week within the Apache community. Here's what happened:

"Trillions and Trillions Served" – the feature documentary on the ASF filmed onsite at ApacheCon Las Vegas and Berlin in 2019 https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature 

Inside Infra – the third interview in the series with members of the ASF Infrastructure team.
 - Meet Greg Stein --Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 17 June 2020. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
 - Notice on Apache 2020 Conferences https://s.apache.org/zgm8m

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.98%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 350 committers changed 922,742 lines of code over 2,850 commits. Top 5 committers, in order of commits, are: Andrea Cosentino, Guillaume Nodet, Jark Wu, Raphaël Ouazana, and Michael Vorburger.             

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache ShardingSphere 4.1.1 released https://shardingsphere.apache.org/
 - Apache Beam 2.22.0 released https://beam.apache.org/
 - Apache Flink Stateful Functions 2.1.0 released https://flink.apache.org/

Content --
 - Apache Jackrabbit 2.20.1 released https://jackrabbit.apache.org/
 - Apache PDFBox 2.0.20 released https://pdfbox.apache.org/

Integrated Development Environment --
 - Apache NetBeans 12.0 released https://netbeans.apache.org/
 - Newly Identified Inactive Malware Campaign: Impact on Apache NetBeans https://blogs.apache.org/netbeans/entry/newly-identified-inactive-malware-campaign 

Libraries --
 - Apache Commons IO 2.7 released https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-io/
 - Apache Commons BCEL 6.5.0 released https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-bcel/

Messaging --
 - Apache Qpid JMS 0.52.0 released https://qpid.apache.org/

Servers --
 - Apache Tomcat 8.5.56, 9.0.36, and 10.0.0-M6 released https://tomcat.apache.org/
 - Apache HttpComponents Core 5.0.1 GA released https://hc.apache.org/

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that you could help with the next version of Apache OpenOffice? https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/apache-openoffice-needs-your-help 

 - Did you know that Airflow Summit 2020 will be held 6-17 July online? https://airflowsummit.org/  

 - Did you know that Beam Summit 2020 will be held 24-28 August online and free of charge? https://beamsummit.org/
 

Apache Community Notices

 - The Apache Software Foundation Statement on the COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak https://s.apache.org/COVID-19  

 - The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 21 Years of Open Source Leadership https://s.apache.org/21stAnniversary

 - Apache Month In Review: May 2020 – overview of events that have taken place within the Apache community https://s.apache.org/May2020

 - The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q3 FY2020 (November 2019 - January 2020) https://s.apache.org/r6s5u  

 - "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on the ASF, is in post-production. Catch the teaser at https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions and "Apache Everywhere", the first "Trillions" "short" filmed onsite at ApacheCon Las Vegas and Berlin this past year https://youtu.be/nXtIti9jMFI

 - Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI

 - ASF Operations Summary: Q2 FY2020 (August - October 2019) https://s.apache.org/2kv2n

 - ASF Founders look back on 20 Years of the ASF https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on

 - Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html

 - ApacheCon: Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998 http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon

 - "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works". https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache

Posted at 01:25PM Jun 12, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 5 June 2020

Welcome, June! We've had a great week within the Apache community. Here's what happened:

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 17 June 2020. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
 - Notice on Apache 2020 Conferences https://s.apache.org/zgm8m

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 100%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 918 Apache contributors changed 11,483,033 lines of code over 3,726 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Gary Gregory, Claus Ibsen, Andrea Cosentino, and Mark Thomas.          

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Hudi™ as a Top-Level Project https://s.apache.org/odtwv

Content --
 - Apache JSPWiki 2.11.0.M7 released https://jspwiki-wiki.apache.org/

Identity Management --
 - Apache Fortress 2.0.5 released http://directory.apache.org/fortress/

Integrated Development Environment --
 - Newly Identified Inactive Malware Campaign: Impact on Apache NetBeans https://blogs.apache.org/netbeans/entry/newly-identified-inactive-malware-campaign 

Messaging --
 - Apache Curator 5.0.0 released https://curator.apache.org/
 - Apache Qpid Proton-J 0.33.5 and JMS AMQP 0-x 6.4.0 released https://qpid.apache.org/

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that the following Apache projects are celebrating anniversaries this month? SpamAssassin (16 years); Santuario (14 years); Commons and Wicket (13 years); Sling (11 years); Karaf (10 years); Flume and VCL (8 years); Mesos (7 years); Atlas and Mynewt (3 years) --many happy returns! https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date 

 - Did you know that the first Pulsar Summit will be held 17-18 June? SIgn up today at https://pulsar-summit.org 

 - Did you know that Feathercast is back? The voice of the ASF is up with new projects featured, such as HBase, Shiro, Kafka, SkyWalkng, Ignite, Mahout, and more! https://feathercast.apache.org/ 
 

Apache Community Notices

 - The Apache Software Foundation Statement on the COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak https://s.apache.org/COVID-19  

 - The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 21 Years of Open Source Leadership https://s.apache.org/21stAnniversary

 - Apache Month In Review: May 2020 – overview of events that have taken place within the Apache community https://s.apache.org/May2020

 - The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q3 FY2020 (November 2019 - January 2020) https://s.apache.org/r6s5u  

 - "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on the ASF, is in post-production. Catch the teaser at https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions and "Apache Everywhere", the first "Trillions" "short" filmed onsite at ApacheCon Las Vegas and Berlin this past year https://youtu.be/nXtIti9jMFI

 - Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI

 - ASF Operations Summary: Q2 FY2020 (August - October 2019) https://s.apache.org/2kv2n

 - ASF Founders look back on 20 Years of the ASF https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on

 - Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html

 - ApacheCon: Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998 http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon

 - "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works". https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache

Posted at 10:02AM Jun 05, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

Apache Month in Review: May 2020

Welcome to the latest monthly overview of events from the Apache community. Here's a summary of what happened in May:

New this month --

 - The Apache Software Foundation Welcomes 34 New Members https://s.apache.org/q14mx

 - Support Apache: help the ASF continue to provide $20B+ worth of software –at 100% no cost– for the public good https://s.apache.org/GivingTuesdayNow2020

 - Apache Everywhere: the first "short" from the "Trillions" documentary filmed onsite at ApacheCon Las Vegas and Berlin this past year https://youtu.be/nXtIti9jMFI 

 - Announcing New ASF Board of Directors https://s.apache.org/Board2020  

 - ASF Statement on the COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak https://s.apache.org/COVID-19 

 - Notice on Apache 2020 Conferences https://s.apache.org/zgm8m  

 - "Inside Infra" --a new interview series with members of the ASF Infrastructure team. Meet Drew Foulks https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Drew

 - Success at Apache: the monthly blog series that focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works".
   - Bringing the Apache Beam firefly to life by Julián Bruno https://s.apache.org/bmq4l
   - Remote Collaboration in the Time of Coronavirus" by Marvin Humphrey https://s.apache.org/dkffj

 - Happy 10th Anniversary Apache HBase https://s.apache.org/m2pxf 

 - Apache Month in Review: April 2020 https://s.apache.org/Apr2020

Important Dates --

 - Next Board Meeting: 17 June 2020. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

Infrastructure --

In May, 905 Apache Committers changed 62,477,961 lines of code over 15,350 commits. The Committers with the top 5 highest contributions, in order, were: Andrea Cosentino, Manfred Moser, Claus Ibsen, Jean-Baptiste Onofré, and Liang Zhang. 

Project Releases and Updates --

New releases from Apache Ant (Build Management); Arrow (Big Data); Beam (Big Data); Calcite (Big Data); CloudStack (Cloud Computing); CouchDB (Big Data); Daffodil (Libraries); Druid (Big Data); Flink (Big Data); Groovy (Programming Languages); Ignite (Big Data); IoTDB (IoT); Impala (Databases); Jackrabbit (Content); jclouds (Cloud); JMeter (Testing); Kudu (Big Data); Kylin (Big Data); Log4j (Libraries); Lucene (Search); NLPCraft (Natural Language Processing); NuttX (Operating System); OFBiz (Enterprise Processes Automation / ERP); OpenMeetings (Web Conferencing); PLC4X (IoT); Qpid (Messaging); ShardingSphere (Big Data); Subversion (Version Control); Syncope (Identity Management); Tomcat (Servers); UIMA (Content); Wicket (Web Frameworks); ZooKeeper (Databases).

The Apache Incubator is the primary entry path for projects and codebases wishing to become part of the efforts at The Apache Software Foundation. Welcome new podlings AgensGraph (graphing database), which entered the Incubator at the very end of April, as well as Liminal (machine learning), which was submitted just a few days ago. Congratulations to Apache ShardingSphere, which graduated as a Top-Level Project this month https://s.apache.org/315iv .We invite you to review the many projects currently in development in the Apache Incubator http://incubator.apache.org/   

Community --

Apache Community Development ("ComDev") welcomes new participants to the Apache community and mentors them in "The Apache Way".

Budapest, Hungary, is named the latest Apache Local Community (ALC) Chapter https://s.apache.org/yot34 . The Apache Local Community program is a relatively new initiative, and launched early 2020. Four ALC chapters are up and running; for more information, including how to set up your a local chapter for your community, visit https://s.apache.org/alc .

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Posted at 11:48AM Jun 01, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 29 May 2020

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

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 17 June 2020. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
 - Notice on Apache 2020 Conferences https://s.apache.org/zgm8m 
 - CFP EXTENDED for ApacheCon North America: submissions due 1 June https://www.apachecon.com/

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.74%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 900 Apache contributors changed 2,695,384 lines of code over 3,697 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Manfred Moser, Andrea Cosentino, Gary Gregory, Congxian Qiu, and Claus Ibsen.        

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache Arrow 0.17.1 released https://arrow.apache.org/
 - Apache Calcite 1.23.0 released https://calcite.apache.org/
 - Apache Ignite 2.8.1 released https://ignite.apache.org/
 - Apache Beam 2.21.0 released https://beam.apache.org/

Cloud Computing --
 - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache CloudStack v 4.14 https://s.apache.org/l5ps8

Content --
 - Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.8.22 released https://jackrabbit.apache.org/

IoT --
 - Apache PLC4X 0.7.0 released https://plc4x.apache.org/ 

Search --
 - Apache Lucene 8.5.2 and Solr 8.5.2 released https://lucene.apache.org/

Version Control --
 - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Subversion 1.14.0-LTS https://s.apache.org/osr65

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that Apache OpenOffice now features new extensions for Danish spellcheck and hyphenation dictionaries? https://openoffice.apache.org/

 - Did you know that due to the coronavirus, Pulsar Summit is virtual this year? Catch live & interactive sessions by Splunk, Verizon Media, Iterable, Yahoo! JAPAN, TIBCO, OVHcloud, Clever Cloud and many more! https://pulsar-summit.org/

 - Did you know that Japanese work-life site Haken-EN is powered by Apache Wicket? https://wicket.apache.org/ 
 

Apache Community Notices

 - The Apache Software Foundation Statement on the COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak https://s.apache.org/COVID-19  

 - The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 21 Years of Open Source Leadership https://s.apache.org/21stAnniversary

 - Apache Month In Review: April 2020 – overview of events that have taken place within the Apache community https://s.apache.org/Apr2020

 - The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q3 FY2020 (November 2019 - January 2020) https://s.apache.org/r6s5u  

 - "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on the ASF, is in post-production. Catch the teaser at https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions and "Apache Everywhere", the first "Trillions" "short" filmed onsite at ApacheCon Las Vegas and Berlin this past year https://youtu.be/nXtIti9jMFI

 - Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI

 - ASF Operations Summary: Q2 FY2020 (August - October 2019) https://s.apache.org/2kv2n

 - ASF Founders look back on 20 Years of the ASF https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on

 - Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html

 - ApacheCon: Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998 http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon

 - "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works". https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache

Posted at 07:10AM May 29, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 22 May 2020

Happy Friday! Let's take a look at what the Apache community has been up to 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: 17 June 2020. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
 - Notice on Apache 2020 Conferences https://s.apache.org/zgm8m 
 - CFP EXTENDED for ApacheCon North America: submissions due 1 June https://www.apachecon.com/

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.98%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 906 Apache contributors changed 30,740,023 lines of code over 3,548 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Liang Zhang, Andrea Cosentino, Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Claus Ibsen, and Peter Palaga.          

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache Kudu 1.12.0 released https://kudu.apache.org/
 - Apache Kylin 2.6.6 and 3.0.2 released https://kylin.apache.org/

IoT --
 - Apache StreamPipes (Incubating) 0.66.0 released https://streampipes.apache.org/

Libraries --
 - Apache Log4j 2.13.3 released https://logging.apache.org/

Programming Languages --
 - Apache Groovy 2.5.12 and 3.0.4 released http://groovy.apache.org/

Servers --
 - Apache Tomcat 7.0.104 released https://tomcat.apache.org/

Testing --
 - Apache JMeter 5.3 released https://jmeter.apache.org/

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that the ASF is one of 10 organizations chosen by FOSS Responders to benefit from their first "UPLIFT!" Virtual Funding Event, being held on Friday 22 May? Thank you in advance for participating! https://fossresponders.com/#events 

 - Did you know that you can help Apache OpenOffice with their next release? Roll up sleeves and jump in! https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/apache-openoffice-needs-your-help 

 - Did you know that Feathercast is back? The voice of the ASF features hundreds of recordings on Apache projects and their communities, ApacheCon presentations, and more! NEW: interviews with Apache Airflow, Ignite, Kafka, Mahou, OFBiz, Sling, and more. https://feathercast.apache.org 

Apache Community Notices

 - The Apache Software Foundation Statement on the COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak https://s.apache.org/COVID-19  

 - The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 21 Years of Open Source Leadership https://s.apache.org/21stAnniversary

 - Apache Month In Review: April 2020 – overview of events that have taken place within the Apache community https://s.apache.org/Apr2020

 - The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q3 FY2020 (November 2019 - January 2020) https://s.apache.org/r6s5u  

 - "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on the ASF, is in post-production. Catch the teaser at https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions and "Apache Everywhere", the first "Trillions" "short" filmed onsite at ApacheCon Las Vegas and Berlin this past year https://youtu.be/nXtIti9jMFI

 - Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI

 - ASF Operations Summary: Q2 FY2020 (August - October 2019) https://s.apache.org/2kv2n

 - ASF Founders look back on 20 Years of the ASF https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on

 - Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html

 - ApacheCon: Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998 http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon

 - "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works". https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache

Posted at 09:03AM May 22, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 15 May 2020

Happy Friday! Let's take a look at what the Apache community has been up to over the past week:

"Apache Everywhere" – the first "short" from the "Trillions" documentary filmed onsite at ApacheCon Las Vegas and Berlin this past year (just released!) https://youtu.be/nXtIti9jMFI 

Success at Apache – the monthly blog series that focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works".
 - "Remote Collaboration in the Time of Coronavirus" by Marvin Humphrey https://s.apache.org/dkffj

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 20 May 2020. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
 - Notice on Apache 2020 Conferences https://s.apache.org/zgm8m 
 - CFP EXTENDED for ApacheCon North America: submissions due 1 June https://www.apachecon.com/

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.93%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 898 Apache contributors changed 5,578,527 lines of code over 3,680 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Radu Cotescu, Adrian Cole, Claus Ibsen, Liang Zhang, and Andrea Cosentino.        

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache Flink 1.10.1 released https://flink.apache.org/ 
 - The Apache Software Foundation Announces the 10th Anniversary of Apache HBase https://s.apache.org/m2pxf
 - Apache ShardingSphere UI 4.1.0 released https://shardingsphere.apache.org/
 - Apache Druid 0.18.1 released https://druid.apache.org/

Build Management --
 - Apache Ant 1.9.15 and 1.10.8 released https://ant.apache.org/ 

Cloud --
 - Apache jclouds 2.2.1 released https://jclouds.apache.org/

Content --
 - Apache Jackrabbit Oak 2.21.1 released https://jackrabbit.apache.org/
 - Apache UIMA uimaFIT 3.1.0 released https://uima.apache.org/

IoT --
 - Apache IoTDB (Incubating) 0.9.3 released https://iotdb.apache.org/

Messaging --
 - Apache Qpid Proton 0.31.0 released https://qpid.apache.org/

Natural Language Processing --
 - Apache NLPCraft 0.5.0 (incubating) released https://nlpcraft.apache.org/

Operating System --
 - Apache NuttX (Incubating) 9.0.0 released https://nuttx.apache.org/

Servers --
 - Apache Tomcat 8.5.55, 9.0.35, and 10.0.0-M5 released https://tomcat.apache.org/

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that Feathercast --the voice of Apache-- features hundreds of recordings on Apache projects and their communities, ApacheCon presentations, and more? New interviews include Apache Airflow, Ignite, Mahout, OFBiz, and Sling https://feathercast.apache.org 

 - Did you know that the permissive and commercially-friendly Apache License 2.0 is one of the most popular Open Source licenses? http://apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 

 - Did you know that you can Support Apache –and help the ASF continue to provide $20B+ worth of software at 100% no cost– with a tax-deductible contribution? http://donate.apache.org/ 

Apache Community Notices

 - The Apache Software Foundation Statement on the COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak https://s.apache.org/COVID-19  

 - The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 21 Years of Open Source Leadership https://s.apache.org/21stAnniversary

 - Apache Month In Review: April 2020 – overview of events that have taken place within the Apache community https://s.apache.org/Apr2020

 - The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q3 FY2020 (November 2019 - January 2020) https://s.apache.org/r6s5u  

 - "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on the ASF, is in post-production. Catch the teaser at https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions

 - Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI

 - ASF Operations Summary: Q2 FY2020 (August - October 2019) https://s.apache.org/2kv2n

 - ASF Founders look back on 20 Years of the ASF https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on

 - Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html

 - ApacheCon: Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998 http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon

 - "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works". https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache

Posted at 07:46AM May 15, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   |