The Apache News Round-up: week ending 30 October 2020

Farewell, October --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.
 - The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q1 FY2021 (May - July 2020) https://s.apache.org/2mefr
 - Next Board Meeting: 18 November 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.
 - ApacheCon@Home was a success https://s.apache.org/d3stb All sessions now online at https://www.youtube.com/c/TheApacheFoundation/ 

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, 391 Apache Committers changed 3,264,512 lines of code over 3,468 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Robert Scholte, Andrea Cosentino, Gary Gregory, Mykola Bodnar, and Kaxil Naik.  

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

API --
 - Apache APISIX 2.0 released https://apisix.apache.org/

Application Performance Monitor --
 - Apache SkyWalking Nginx LUA 0.3.0 released https://skywalking.apache.org/

Blockchain --
 - Apache Tuweni (Incubating) 1.2.0 released https://tuweni.apache.org/

Data Management Platform --
 - Apache Ignite 2.9.0 released http://ignite.apache.org/

IoT --
 - Apache StreamPipes (Incubating) 0.67.0 released https://streampipes.apache.org/

Did You Know?

- Did you know that Oak Ridge National Laboratory uses Apache Spark and Parquet to solve high-performance computing solutions on some of the world's fastest supercomputers? https://youtu.be/b5fpiDzScRU 

- Did you know that Orange's media center is powered by Apache Wicket? http://wicket.apache.org/

- Did you know that "Success at Apache" features the personal and project perspectives on the people and processes behind why Apache "just works"? Contributions accepted by all ASF Committers! https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache

Apache Community Notices

- Apache Month In Review: September 2020 https://s.apache.org/Sep2020

- ASF FY2020 Annual Report https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport 

- "Trillions and Trillions Served" documentary on the ASF: 1) full feature https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature 2) "Apache Everywhere" https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere 3) "Why Apache" https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions 4) “Apache Innovation” 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

 - 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 10:39AM Oct 30, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 23 October 2020

And it's 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.
 - The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q1 FY2021 (May - July 2020) https://s.apache.org/2mefr
 - Next Board Meeting: 18 November 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.
 - All sessions, including Plenaries and Keynotes from ApacheCon@Home are available https://www.youtube.com/c/TheApacheFoundation/ 

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.86%. 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, 380 Apache Committers changed 2,506,459 lines of code over 3,325 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Andrea Cosentino, Claus Ibsen, Andi Huber, Łukasz Dywicki, and Mark Miller.    

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache Druid 0.20.0 released https://druid.apache.org/
 - Apache Kylin 3.1.1 released https://kylin.apache.org/
 - Apache Arrow 2.0.0 released https://arrow.apache.org/
 - Apache NiFi Registry 0.8.0 released https://nifi.apache.org/registry.html
 - Apache BookKeeper 4.11.1 released http://bookkeeper.apache.org
 - Apache Hadoop CVE-2018-11764 Privilege escalation in web endpoint https://s.apache.org/jjdpq

Blockchain --
 - Apache Tuweni (Incubating) 1.2.0 released https://tuweni.apache.org/

Content --
  - Apache Jackrabbit 2.21.4 released https://jackrabbit.apache.org/

Integration --
 - Apache Camel 3.6.0 released https://camel.apache.org/

Library --
 - Apache XMLBeans 4.0.0 released  https://xmlbeans.apache.org/
 - Apache Commons Net 3.7.2 released https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-net/

Messaging --
 - Apache Qpid Broker J 7.1.10 and J 8.0.2 released https://qpid.apache.org/

Did You Know?

- Did you know that the ASF Infrastructure team have added more self-serve features to .asf.yaml? https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/even-more-github-features-added

- Did you know that Salesforce uses Apache Druid as their real-time analytical database to store application performance metrics extracted from billions to trillions of log lines per day? http://druid.apache.org/ 

- Did you know that the Apache OFBiz community is deliberating deployment on AWS production environments? http://s.apache.org/yvu54

Apache Community Notices

- Apache Month In Review: September 2020 https://s.apache.org/Sep2020

- ASF FY2020 Annual Report https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport 

- "Trillions and Trillions Served" documentary on the ASF: 1) full feature https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature 2) "Apache Everywhere" https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere 3) "Why Apache" https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions 4) “Apache Innovation” 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

 - 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 06:04AM Oct 23, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 16 October 2020

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

Inside Infra – the interview series featuring members of the ASF Infrastructure team.
 - Meet Daniel Gruno --Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Daniel2

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q1 FY2021 (May - July 2020) https://s.apache.org/2mefr
 - Next Board Meeting: 21 October 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.
 - Our first online event was a huge success https://blogs.apache.org/conferences/entry/apachecon-home-2020-was-a 
 - Plenaries, Keynotes, and dozens of sessions are now available at https://www.youtube.com/c/TheApacheFoundation/ 

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 – Over the past week, 396 Apache Committers changed 3,610,614 lines of code over 3,602 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Andrea Cosentino, Cedric Champeau, Mark Thomas, Claus Ibsen, and Jarek Potiuk.  

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Application Performance Monitor --
 - Apache SkyWalking CLI 0.4.0 released https://skywalking.apache.org/

Computing --
 - Apache Teaclave (incubating) 0.1.0 released https://teaclave.apache.org/

Content --
 - The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 20 Years of OpenOffice® https://s.apache.org/86lex
 - Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.22.5 released https://jackrabbit.apache.org/

Machine Learning --
 - Apache TVM (Incubating) 0.7.0 released https://tvm.apache.org/

Search --
 - Apache Solr CVE-2020-13957 The checks added to unauthenticated configset uploads in Apache Solr can be circumvented https://s.apache.org/9nmgo

Servers --
 - Apache Tomcat 8.5.59, 9.0.39, 10.0.0-M9 released https://tomcat.apache.org/
 - Apache Tomcat CVE-2020-13943 HTTP/2 Request mix-up https://s.apache.org/9rw62

Web Frameworks --
 - Apache Wicket 9.1.0 released https://wicket.apache.org/

Did You Know?

- Did you know that Apache Roadshow China will be held online 24-25 October, alongside COSCon 2020? https://programmersought.com/article/65545569898/ 

- Did you know that members of the Apache community will be presenting at All Things Open, being held online 19-20 October? https://2020.allthingsopen.org/  

- Did you know that members of the Apache Ignite community will be presenting at the In-Memory Computing Virtual Conference 2020, being held 28-29 October? https://www.imcsummit.org/2020/virtual/

- Did you know that members of the Apache Pulsar community will be presenting at Pulsar Summit, being held online 28-29 November? https://pulsar-summit.org/en/event/asia-2020

Apache Community Notices

- Apache Month In Review: September 2020 https://s.apache.org/Sep2020

- ASF FY2020 Annual Report https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport 

- "Trillions and Trillions Served" documentary on the ASF: 1) full feature https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature 2) "Apache Everywhere" https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere 3) "Why Apache" https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions 4) “Apache Innovation” 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

 - 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 12:54PM Oct 16, 2020 by Sally in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 9 October 2020

Hurrah for Friday! 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: 21 October 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.
 - ApacheCon@Home 2020 was a huge success https://blogs.apache.org/conferences/entry/apachecon-home-2020-was-a 
 - Select session recordings will be posted in the coming weeks to https://www.youtube.com/c/TheApacheFoundation/ 

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.92%. 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, 384 Apache Committers changed 1,331,935 lines of code over 3,179 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Andrea Cosentino, Claus Ibsen, Mark Thomas, Mark Miller, and Sebastian Bazley.  

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache Calcite 1.26.0 released https://calcite.apache.org/
 - Apache Calcite CVE-2020-13955 Disabled HTTPS Hostname Verification https://s.apache.org/m9xta

Content --
 - Apache Any23 2.4 released http://any23.apache.org/

Libraries --
 - Apache Commons Net 3.7.1 released https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-net/

Programming Languages --
 - Apache Groovy 4.0.0-alpha-1 released https://groovy.apache.org/

Search --
 - Apache Lucene 8.6.3 and Solr 8.6.3 released http://lucene.apache.org/

Servers --
 - Apache HttpComponents Client 4.5.13 GA and 5.0.3 GA released https://hc.apache.org/
 - Apache HttpComponents Client CVE-2020-13956 Incorrect handling of malformed URI authority component https://s.apache.org/lpvrx

Web Frameworks --
 - Apache Wicket 8.10.0 released https://wicket.apache.org/

Did You Know?

- Did you know that the following projects are celebrating anniversaries this month? Many happy returns to the Apache Incubator (18 years); Xalan and XML Graphics (16 years); PDFBox (11 years); Thrift (10 years); JMeter (9 years); Cordova, Isis, and OpenOffice (8 years); jclouds (7 years); Calcite (5 years); Juneau and Kibble (3 years); Joshua and ServiceComb (2 years); SINGA and Submarine (1 year) https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date

- Did you know that Apache Airflow, Arrow, Druid, and Superset (incubating) were awarded InfoWorld's Bossies for the Most Innovative Open Source Projects &  Next Generation Tools? Go Apache! https://www.idg.com/news/infoworld-announces-2020-bossie-award-winners-for-the-most-innovative-open-source-projects-and-next-generation-tools/  

- Did you know that Pinterest's real-time analytics platform is powered by Apache Druid? http://druid.apache.org/

Apache Community Notices

- Apache Month In Review: September 2020 https://s.apache.org/Sep2020

- ASF FY2020 Annual Report https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport 

- "Trillions and Trillions Served" documentary on the ASF: 1) full feature https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature 2) "Apache Everywhere" https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere 3) "Why Apache" https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions 4) “Apache Innovation” 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

 - 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 02:20PM Oct 09, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 2 October 2020

Hello, October --we've had a super-busy week, with ApacheCon drawing thousands of online participants as well as a slew of activities from the Apache community:

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 21 October 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.
 - It's a wrap! ApacheCon@Home recordings will be posted in the coming weeks (send email to announce-subscribe@apachecon.com to receive updates and future conference notifications). Thank you to event sponsors Apple, AWS, DataStax, IBM, Imply, Instaclustr, MuseDev, OpenLogic/Perforce, Red Hat, RX-M, and VMWare. 

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. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – Over the past week, 306 Apache Committers changed 748,827 lines of code over 2,445 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Andrea Cosentino, Mark Thomas, Duo Zhang, and Claus Ibsen.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache HBase 2.3.2 released https://hbase.apache.org/
 - Apache Flink Stateful Functions 2.2.0 released https://flink.apache.org/
 - Apache NiFi 1.12.1 released http://nifi.apache.org/
 - Apache NiFi CVE-2020-9486, CVE-2020-9487, CVE-2020-9491, CVE-2020-13940 https://s.apache.org/hlh3t 

Build Management --
 - Apache Ant 1.10.9 released https://ant.apache.org/
 - Apache Ant CVE-2020-11979 insecure temporary file vulnerability https://s.apache.org/rnaf4

Integration --
 - Apache Camel 3.4.4 released https://camel.apache.org/

Libraries --
 - Apache Commons DBCP 2.8.0 released http://commons.apache.org/dbcp/
 - Apache Commons Pool 2.9.0 released https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-pool/

Messaging --
 - Apache Pulsar Manager 0.2.0 released https://pulsar.apache.org/

Programming Languages --
 - Apache Groovy 3.0.6 released http://groovy.apache.org/

Servers --
 - Apache HttpComponents Client 5.0.2 GA released https://hc.apache.org/

Web Conferencing --
 - Apache OpenMeetings CVE-2020-13951 DoS via public web service https://s.apache.org/1ugzb

Web Frameworks --
 - Apache Struts 2.5.25 released https://struts.apache.org/

Did You Know?

- Did you know that dozens of Apache project and community presentations are available at the ASF's official YouTube channel? https://www.youtube.com/c/TheApacheFoundation

- Did you know that Apache Druid powers real-time analytics for Airbnb, Alibaba, British Telecom, Cisco, Didi Chuxing, eBay, Hulu, Lyft, Netflix, and many more? http://druid.apache.org/ 

- Did you know that members of the Apache community will be presenting at All Things Open, taking place online in a few weeks? Registration is open https://2020.allthingsopen.org/
 

Apache Community Notices

- Apache Month In Review: September 2020 https://s.apache.org/Sep2020

- ASF FY2020 Annual Report https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport 

- "Trillions and Trillions Served" documentary on the ASF: 1) full feature https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature 2) "Apache Everywhere" https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere 3) "Why Apache" https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions 4) “Apache Innovation” 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

 - 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 12:14PM Oct 02, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

Apache Month in Review: September 2020

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

New this month --

 - ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
  -- ApacheCon @Home 2020: all 2020 events have been combined and held online (free of charge!) 29 September - 1 October 2020 https://apachecon.com/acah2020
   -- The Apache® Software Foundation Welcomes its Global Community Online at ApacheCon@Home https://s.apache.org/74zbx 
   -- ApacheCon 2020 features Natural Language Processing for Electronic Medical Records in dedicated track on Apache cTAKES https://s.apache.org/x1051

 - "Inside Infra" – a new interview series with members of the ASF Infrastructure team
   -- Meet Daniel Gruno --Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Daniel1

 - Apache Month in Review: August 2020 https://s.apache.org/Aug2020

Important Dates --

 - Next Board Meeting: 21 October 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 September, 808 Apache Committers changed 10,547,457 lines of code over 15,444 commits. The Committers with the top 5 highest contributions, in order, were: Andrea Cosentino, Mark Miller, Mark Thomas, Claus Ibsen, and Jean-Baptiste Onofré.

Project Releases and Updates --

New releases from Apache Accumulo (Big Data); Beam (Big Data); Commons Codec (Libraries); Commons Daemon (Libraries); Commons IO (Libraries); CouchDB (Big Data); Fineract (FinTech); Flink (Big Data);  Geode (Database); HttpComponents Core (Servers); IoTDB (IoT); Jackrabbit (Content); Kudu (Big Data); Kylin (Big Data); Libcloud (Cloud Computing); Lucene (Search); MyFaces (Web Frameworks); NetBeans (Integrated Development Environment); Oak (Content); OpenMeetings (Web Conferencing); OpenJPA (Libraries); OpenWebBeans (Libraries);Proton (Messaging); Ranger (Big Data); Qpid Dispatch (Messaging); Qpid Broker (Messaging); Solr (Search); Syncope (Identity Management); Tomcat (Servers); ZooKeeper (Databases).

The Apache Incubator is the primary entry path for projects we invite you to review the many projects currently in development in the Apache Incubator http://incubator.apache.org/ . New releases from incubating podlings include: Apache MXNet (Incubating; Libraries). Congratulations to Apache IoTDB™, which graduated as a Top-Level Project this month https://s.apache.org/3xv3c

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Posted at 05:45PM Oct 01, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 25 September 2020

Farewell, September --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: 21 October 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 29 September - 1 October https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/ 
 - Sponsorships available for ApacheCon@Home https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/sponsors.html
 - The Apache® Software Foundation Welcomes its Global Community Online at ApacheCon@Home https://s.apache.org/74zbx
 - ApacheCon 2020 features Natural Language Processing for Electronic Medical Records in dedicated track on Apache cTAKES https://s.apache.org/x1051

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, 397 Apache Committers changed 2,254,525 lines of code over 3,335 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Andrea Cosentino, Gary Gregory, Andi Huber, Claus Ibsen, and Duo Zhang.      

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache CouchDB 3.1.1 released https://couchdb.apache.org/
 - Apache Flink 1.10.2 released https://flink.apache.org/
 - Apache Beam 2.24.0 released https://beam.apache.org/
 - Apache Kudu 1.13.0 released https://kudu.apache.org/

Cloud Computing --
 - Apache Libcloud 3.2.0 released http://libcloud.apache.org/

FinTech --
 - Apache Fineract 1.4.0 released http://fineract.apache.org/

IoT --
 - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® IoTDB™ as a Top-Level Project https://s.apache.org/3xv3c

Messaging --
 - Apache Qpid Broker J 7.1.9 and J 8.0.1 released https://qpid.apache.org/

Servers --
 - Apache HttpComponents Core 5.1 BETA1 released https://hc.apache.org/
 - Apache Tomcat 7.0.106 released https://tomcat.apache.org/

Web Conferencing --
 - Apache OpenMeetings 5.0.1 released https://openmeetings.apache.org/

Did You Know?

-  Did you know that select ApacheCon@Home sessions will be presented in German, Hindi, Mandarin, and Spanish? https://www.apachecon.com/acah2020/tracks/ 

- Did you know that you can download and use a variety of ASF Templates and Badges for personal, project, and corporate promotions? http://apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#template-and-usage 

- Did you know that you can help Apache Struts with its vote on v2.5.25? https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/re0ca300288262ab797ec0303c3b61daf2b1c9442222b92987a39ae88%40%3Cdev.struts.apache.org%3E

Apache Community Notices

- Apache Month In Review: August 2020 https://s.apache.org/Aug2020

- ASF FY2020 Annual Report https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport 

- "Trillions and Trillions Served" documentary on the ASF: 1) full feature https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature 2) "Apache Everywhere" https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere 3) "Why Apache" https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions 4) “Apache Innovation” 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

 - 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 02:23PM Sep 25, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 18 September 2020

Greetings everyone --it's time to review the Apache community's activities from 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: 21 October 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 29 September - 1 October 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 99.89%. 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, 382 Apache Committers changed 3,359,513 lines of code over 3,557 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Mark Thomas, Jarek Potiuk, Andrea Cosentino, Claus Ibsen, and Shad Storhaug.  

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache Kylin 4.0.0-alpha released https://kylin.apache.org/

IDE --
 - Apache NetBeans 12.1 released http://netbeans.apache.org/

Identity Management --
 - Apache Syncope 2.0.16 and 2.1.7 released https://syncope.apache.org/

Libraries --
 - Apache MXNet (Incubating) 1.7.0 released http://mxnet.incubator.apache.org
 - Apache Commons Daemon 1.2.3 released https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-daemon/

Messaging --
 - Apache Qpid Dispatch 1.14.0 released https://qpid.apache.org/

Servers --
 - Apache HttpComponents Core 5.0.2 GA released https://hc.apache.org/
 - Apache Tomcat 8.5.58, 9.0.38, 10.0.0-M8 released https://tomcat.apache.org/

Did You Know?

- Did you know that ApacheCon@Home features keynotes by Jonathan Ellis of DataStax, Sam Lightstone of IBM, Gian Merlino of Imply, Anil Inamdar of Instaclustr, Thomas Huang of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Edmon Begoli of Oak Ridge National Labs, Kim Huang of Red Hat, Sheng Wu of Tetrate, Camille Fournier of Two Sigma, and Catherine McGarvey of VMWare? Sign up today https://hopin.to/events/apachecon-home   

- Did you know that Solr is de-coupling from Apache Lucene to be an independent Apache project? Learn more from Atri Sharma, as interviewed by Rich Bowen, exclusively on Feathercast https://feathercast.apache.org/2020/09/01/apache-solr-and-lucene-atri-sharma/

- Did you know that recent entries into the Apache Incubator include BlueMarlin (Data Streaming), Liminal (Machine Learning), Pegasus (Big Data), and Sedona (Geospatial)? http://incubator.apache.org/  

Apache Community Notices

- Apache Month In Review: August 2020 https://s.apache.org/Aug2020

- ASF FY2020 Annual Report https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport 

- "Trillions and Trillions Served" documentary on the ASF: 1) full feature https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature 2) "Apache Everywhere" https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere 3) "Why Apache" https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions 4) “Apache Innovation” 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

 - 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 11:17AM Sep 18, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 11 September 2020

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

Inside Infra – the interview series featuring members of the ASF Infrastructure team.
 - Meet Daniel Gruno --Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Daniel1

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 16 September 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 29 September - 1 October 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 99.93%. 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 – Over the past week, 396 Apache Committers changed 2,112,475 lines of code over 3,612 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Daniel Gruno, Mark Miller, Nick Vatamaniuc, Robert Newson, and Andrea Cosentino. 

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache Ranger 2.1.0 released http://ranger.apache.org/
 - Apache Accumulo 1.10.0 released http://accumulo.apache.org/

Content --
 -Apache Jackrabbit 2.12.11 and Oak 1.34.0 released https://jackrabbit.apache.org/

Database --
 - Apache Geode 1.13.0 released http://geode.apache.org/
 - Apache ZooKeeper 3.6.2 released https://zookeeper.apache.org/

Libraries --
 - Apache OpenJPA 3.1.2 released http://openjpa.apache.org/
 - Apache Commons IO 2.8.0 released https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-io/
 - Apache OpenWebBeans-2.0.18 released http://openwebbeans.apache.org/

Servers --
 - Apache Tomcat Native 1.2.25 released https://tomcat.apache.org/

Web Conferencing --
 - Apache OpenMeetings 4.0.11 released https://openmeetings.apache.org/

Did You Know?

- Did you know that ApacheCon@Home keynoters include
  Edmon Begoli, Director of Scalable Protected Data Facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory;
  Ben Bromhead, CTO and Co-Founder at Instaclustr;
  Jonathan Ellis, Co-founder and CTO at DataStax;
  Camille Fournier, Head of Platform Engineering at Two Sigma;
  Kim Huang, Content Strategist at Red Hat;
  Thomas Huang, Technical Group Supervisor and Strategic Lead for Interactive Analytics at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory;
  Sam Lightstone, Chief Technology Officer for AI Strategy at IBM; and
  Catharine McGarvey, Development Engineering Lead for Tanzu at VMWare? https://www.apachecon.com/acah2020/tracks/keynotes.html

- Did you know that Apache Druid are holding a series of MeetUps in September? http://druid.apache.org/ 

- Did you know that Apache MXNet (incubating) was listed among the best machine learning and deep learning libraries for building and training machine learning and deep learning models? https://mxnet.apache.org/

Apache Community Notices

- Apache Month In Review: August 2020 https://s.apache.org/Aug2020

- ASF FY2020 Annual Report https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport 

- "Trillions and Trillions Served" documentary on the ASF: 1) full feature https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature 2) "Apache Everywhere" https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere 3) "Why Apache" https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions 4) “Apache Innovation” 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

 - 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 02:54PM Sep 11, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 4 September 2020

Welcome, September! 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: 16 September 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 29 September - 1 October 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 99.76%. 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, 387 Apache Committers changed 2,230,138 lines of code over 3,461 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Mark Miller, Hervé Boutemy, Tellier Benoit, Andrea Cosentino, and Claus Ibsen.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Content --
 - Apache Jackrabbit 2.18.6 and Oak 1.8.23 released https://jackrabbit.apache.org/

Libraries --
 - Apache Commons Codec 1.15 released http://commons.apache.org/codec/

Messaging --
 - Apache Proton 0.32.0 released https://qpid.apache.org/

Search --
 - Apache Lucene 8.6.2 and Solr 8.6.2 released http://lucene.apache.org/

Web Frameworks --
 - Apache MyFaces Core 2.3-next-M4 released http://myfaces.apache.org/

Did You Know?

- Did you know that details about the online/virtual format, presentation sessions, Apache projects and communities featured, schedule selection, languages available, sponsors, Slack channel & more are available at https://blogs.apache.org/conferences/entry/apachecon-home-2020-is-just ?

- Did you know that Target uses Apache Druid to ingest more than 3 trillion rows of data across 3,500+ data sources? http://druid.apache.org/ 

- Did you know that Apache Kylin enables SQL developers and BI users to achieve sub-second response times for queries against petabytes of data? http://kylin.apache.org/ 

Apache Community Notices

- Apache Month In Review: August 2020 https://s.apache.org/Aug2020

- ASF FY2020 Annual Report https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport 

- "Trillions and Trillions Served" documentary on the ASF: 1) full feature https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature 2) "Apache Everywhere" https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere 3) "Why Apache" https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions 4) “Apache Innovation” 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

 - 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 11:28AM Sep 04, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

Apache Month in Review: August 2020

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

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

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

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

 - Success at Apache: the monthly blog series that focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works".
   -- I Became an Apache Solr Committer in 4,662 Days. Here’s how you can do it faster! by Eric Pugh https://s.apache.org/hney3

 - Apache Month in Review: July 2020 https://s.apache.org/July2020

Important Dates --

 - Next Board Meeting: 16 September 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 August, 822 Apache Committers changed 16,077,266 lines of code over 14,003 commits. The Committers with the top 5 highest contributions, in order, were: Mark Miller, Daniel Klco, Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Gary Gregory, and Andrea Cosentino.

Project Releases and Updates --

New releases from Apache Calcite (Big Data); Cocoon (Web Frameworks); Commons Imaging (Libraries); Commons NET (Libraries); Commons Pool (Libraries); Commons Validator (Libraries); Commons JCS (Libraries); CXF (Libraries); Flink (Big Data); HBase (Big Data); HTTP Server (Servers); Kafka (Big Data); Log4cxx (Libraries); Lucene (Search); NiFi (Big Data); OpenMeetings (Web Conferencing); OpenNLP (Machine Learning); Parquet (Big Data); PDFBox (Content); Qpid (Messaging); ShardingSphere (Big Data); Skywalking (Application Performance Management); and Solr (Search).

The Apache Incubator is the primary entry path for projects we invite you to review the many projects currently in development in the Apache Incubator http://incubator.apache.org/ . New releases from incubating podlings include: Apache APISIX (API) and IoTDB (IoT). 

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Posted at 09:11AM Sep 01, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 28 August 2020

Farewell, August --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: 16 September 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 29 September - 1 October 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 99.76%. 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, 396 Apache Committers changed 3,762,638 lines of code over 3,973 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Daniel Klco, Radu Cotescu, Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Mark Thomas, and Andrea Cosentino.  

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache HBase 2.3.1 released https://hbase.apache.org/
 - Apache Calcite 1.25.0 released https://calcite.apache.org/
 - Apache Flink 1.10.2 released https://flink.apache.org/

Content --
 - Apache PDFBox 2.0.21 released https://pdfbox.apache.org/

IoT --
 - Apache IoTDB (Incubating) 0.10.1 released https://iotdb.apache.org/

Libraries --
 - Apache Commons JCS 3.0 released https://commons.apache.org/jcs/
 - Apache Log4cxx 0.11.0 released https://logging.apache.org/log4cxx/
 - Apache CXF 3.4.0 released https://cxf.apache.org

Web Conferencing --
 - Apache OpenMeetings 5.0.0-M4 released https://openmeetings.apache.org/

Did You Know?

- Did you know that ApacheCon@Home keynoters include Thomas Huang of NASA Jet Propulsion Lab; Camille Fournier of Two Sigma; and Edmon Begoli of Oak Ridge National Labs? Learn more at https://www.apachecon.com/acah2020/tracks/ 

- Did you know that Shopify is building a new streaming analytics pipeline powered by Apache Beam, Druid, and Kafka? https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?category#big-data 

- Did you know that Apache Royale Jewel UI set already provides 60+ components to quickly build Web applications? https://royale.apache.org/ 

Apache Community Notices

- Apache Month In Review: July 2020 https://s.apache.org/July2020 

- ASF FY2020 Annual Report https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport 

- "Trillions and Trillions Served" documentary on the ASF: 1) full feature https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature 2) "Apache Everywhere" https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere 3) "Why Apache" https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions 4) “Apache Innovation” 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

 - 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 10:52AM Aug 28, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 21 August 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: 16 September 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 29 September - 1 October 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 99.76%. 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, 233 Apache Committers changed 1,491,530 lines of code over 1,662 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Luca Burgazzoli, Kaxil Naik, Liang Zhang, Nick Vatamaniuc, and Boris Zhu.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

API --
 - Apache APISIX Dashboard 1.5 (Incubating) released https://apisix.apache.org/

Application Performance Monitor --
 - Apache SkyWalking Chart 3.1.0 released https://skywalking.apache.org/

Big Data --
 - Apache ShardingSphere ElasticJob UI 3.0.0-alpha released https://shardingsphere.apache.org/elasticjob/
 - Apache NiFi 1.12.0 released http://nifi.apache.org/

Messaging --
 - Apache Qpid JMS 0.54.0 and Dispatch 1.13.0 released https://qpid.apache.org/

Search --
 - Apache Lucene 8.6.1 and Solr 8.6.1 released http://lucene.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 steward 227M+ lines of code and provide more than $20B worth of software to the public-at-large at 100% no cost? http://donate.apache.org 

- 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 segment of the "Trillions and Trillions Served" documentary? https://s.apache.org/ApacheInnovation  

- 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/ 

Apache Community Notices

- Apache Month In Review: July 2020 https://s.apache.org/July2020 

- ASF FY2020 Annual Report https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport 

- "Trillions and Trillions Served" documentary on the ASF: 1) full feature https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature 2) "Apache Everywhere" https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere 3) "Why Apache" https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions 4) “Apache Innovation” 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

 - 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 12:45PM Aug 21, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 14 August 2020

Hooray for Friday! The Apache community has been busy over the past week; let's review what happened:

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 29 September - 1 October 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 99.76%. 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, 151 Apache Committers changed 4,892,020 lines of code over 678 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Sebastian Bazley, Gary Gregory, Nick Vatamaniuc, Liang Zhang, and Kaxil Naik.    

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache Kafka 2.5.1 and 2.6.0 released https://kafka.apache.org/
 - Apache ShardingSphere ElasticJob-3.0.0-alpha released https://shardingsphere.apache.org/elasticjob/
 - Apache Parquet 1.11.1 released https://parquet.apache.org/

Libraries --
 - Apache Commons Imaging 1.0-alpha2 released https://commons.apache.org/imaging/
 - Apache Commons NET 3.7 released https://commons.apache.org/net/
 - Apache Commons Validator 1.7 released https://commons.apache.org/validator/

Servers --
 - Apache HTTP Server 2.4.46 released https://httpd.apache.org/

Web Frameworks --
 - Apache Struts CVE-2019-0230 (Possible RCE) and CVE-2019-0233 (DoS) security issues https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r42ff5f78b46f751c48eee1fe4201a49ab48524f33ac8f8975f2029b8%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E 

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that tracks for ApacheCon@Home include Big Data, Community, Content Delivery, Fintech, Integration, IoT, Machine Learning, Messaging, Mobile, Natural Language Programming, Observability, Programming Languages, Search, Servers, Streaming, and Usability, as well as emerging innovations from the Apache Incubator? Learn more, including featured projects, at https://www.apachecon.com/acah2020/tracks/  

 - Did you know that mobile transportation platform Didi Chuxing uses Apache Kylin to return exact distinct count on billions of rows of data with sub-second latency to generate the most accurate picture of its business? http://kylin.apache.org/ 

 - Did you know that the "Trillions and Trillions Served" documentary on The Apache Software Foundation comprised 65 hours of filming over 8 terrabytes of footage? https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature

Apache Community Notices

- Apache Month In Review: July 2020 https://s.apache.org/July2020 

- ASF FY2020 Annual Report https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport 

- "Trillions and Trillions Served" documentary on the ASF: 1) full feature https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature 2) "Apache Everywhere" https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere 3) "Why Apache" https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions 4) “Apache Innovation” 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

 - 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 02:17PM Aug 14, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 7 August 2020

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

Success at Apache – the monthly blog series that focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works".
 - "I Became an Apache Solr Committer in 4,662 Days. Here’s how you can do it faster!" by Eric Pugh https://s.apache.org/hney3

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 99.86%. 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, 399 Apache Committers changed 2,461,830 lines of code over 3,074 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Andrea Cosentino, Gary Gregory, Sebastian Bazley, Jean-Baptiste Onofré, and Claus Ibsen.    

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Application Performance Monitor --
 - Apache SkyWalking 8.1.0 released https://skywalking.apache.org/

Libraries --
 - Apache Commons Pool 2.8.1 released https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-pool/

Machine Learning --
 - Apache OpenNLP 1.9.3 released https://opennlp.apache.org/

Web Frameworks --
 - Apache Cocoon 2.1.13 released https://cocoon.apache.org/

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that the ASF stewards more than 227M+ lines of code, valued at more than $20B? https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport-PR

 - Did you know that the top 5 most active Apache projects over FY2020 were, in order: Apache Kafka, Hadoop, Lucene, POI, and ZooKeeper? https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport

 - 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

Apache Community Notices

- Apache Month In Review: July 2020 – overview of events that have taken place within the Apache community https://s.apache.org/July2020 

- "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

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