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The Apache News Round-up: week ending 15 January 2021

It's Friday already --the week has zipped by. Let's take a look at what the Apache community has been up to:

Inside Infra – the interview series featuring members of the ASF Infrastructure team. - Chris Lambertus --Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-ChrisL

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: Q2 FY2021 (August - October 2020) https://s.apache.org/Q2FY2021
 - Next Board Meeting: 20 January 2021. 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 videos from ApacheCon@Home are 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 99.94%. 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, 395 Apache Committers changed 3,156,343 lines of code over 3,300 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Krzysztof Kopyściński, Gary Gregory, Andrea Cosentino, Duo Zhang, and Jean-Baptiste Onofré.  

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Application Performance Monitoring --
 - Apache SkyWalking Eyes v0.1.0 released https://skywalking.apache.org/

Big Data --
 - Apache Beam 2.27.0 released https://beam.apache.org/

Content --
 - Apache POI, XMLBeans CVE-2021-23926: XML Entity Expansion https://s.apache.org/vbzsd
 - Apache Jackrabbit 2.21.5 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/

Enterprise Processes Automation / ERP --
 - Apache OFBiz 17.12.05 released https://ofbiz.apache.org/

Servers --
 - Apache Tomcat CVE-2021-24122: Information Disclosure https://s.apache.org/huz9p

Did You Know?

- Did you know that the Apache geospatial community is partnering with the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) to hold a joint Virtual Code Sprint the last week of February 2021? Call for participation is open https://s.apache.org/kp6d8

- Did you know that DoorDash's Big Data platform is powered by Apache Beam, Cassandra, Druid, Flink, Pinot, Spark and other projects? https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?category

- Did you know that you can help Apache Pulsar better meet the needs of its user community? Complete the Pulsar user survey today https://s.apache.org/jvaji 

Apache Community Notices

- Apache in 2020 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2020Digits + Video highlights https://s.apache.org/Apache2020Digits-vid

- The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: 1 August - 31 October 2020 https://s.apache.org/Q2FY2021

- Apache Month In Review: December 2020 https://s.apache.org/Dec2020 

- 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 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 11:01AM Jan 15, 2021 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 8 January 2021

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

Apache in 2020 - By The Digits – a look at the achievements from the Apache Community over the past 12 months.
 - Summary and stats at https://s.apache.org/Apache2020Digits
 - Video highlights https://s.apache.org/Apache2020Digits-vid

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: Q2 FY2021 (August - October 2020) https://s.apache.org/Q2FY2021
 - Next Board Meeting: 20 January 2021. 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 videos from ApacheCon@Home are 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 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, 348 Apache Committers changed 1,594,281 lines of code over 2,987 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Gary Gregory, Mark Thomas, Kartik Khare, and Andrea Cosentino.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Application Performance Monitoring --
 - Apache SkyWalking NodeJS v0.1.0 released https://skywalking.apache.org/

Big Data --
 - Apache ShardingSphere ElasticJob UI 3.0.0-RC1 released http://shardingsphere.apache.org/elasticjob/
 - Apache Rya 4.0.1 released http://rya.apache.org/
 - Apache Flink CVE-2020-17518: Directory traversal attack: remote file writing through the REST API https://s.apache.org/qxl48 , and
   CVE-2020-17519: Directory traversal attack: reading remote files through the REST API https://s.apache.org/gith7

Network Client --
 - Apache Guacamole 1.3.0 released https://guacamole.apache.org/

Servers --
 - Apache Tomcat Native 1.2.26 released https://tomcat.apache.org/

Did You Know?

- Did you know that some of the latest podlings undergoing development in the Apache Incubator include BlueMarlin (advertising), HOP (orchestration), Pegasus (Big Data), Sedona (geospatial data processing), and Wayang (analytics)? http://incubator.apache.org/projects/

- Did you know that Apache Kafka is amongst the most popular streaming platform for disseminating COVID-19 related clinical data, test results, and caseload updates in real-time? http://kafka.apache.org/

- Did you know that the New Zealand Treasury Department, Prime Minister and Cabinet, National Emergency Management Agency, and Climate Change Commission's eRecruitment platform is powered by Apache Wicket? http://wicket.apache.org/

Apache Community Notices

- Apache Month In Review: December 2020 https://s.apache.org/Dec2020 

- Apache in 2020 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2020Digits

- Video highlights: Apache in 2020 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2020Digits-vid

- The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: 1 August - 31 October 2020 https://s.apache.org/Q2FY2021

- 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 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 10:38AM Jan 08, 2021 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 1 January 2021

Welcome, 2021! We hope that you have had a festive holiday season and are excited to kick off the new year. Here's what happened over the past week:

Apache in 2020 - By The Digits – a look at the achievements from the Apache Community over the past 12 months.
 - Summary and stats at https://s.apache.org/Apache2020Digits
 - Video highlights https://s.apache.org/Apache2020Digits-vid

The Apache Month in Review – highlights of what we've accomplished over the past month. 
- December 2020 https://s.apache.org/Dec2020

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: Q2 FY2021 (August - October 2020) https://s.apache.org/Q2FY2021
 - Next Board Meeting: 20 January 2021. 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 videos from ApacheCon@Home are 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 99.95%. 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, 214 Apache Committers changed 1,634,010 lines of code over 2,290 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Gary Gregory, Andreas Veithen, Chesnay Schepler, Rene Cordier, and Sylwester Lachiewicz.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Application Performance Monitoring --
 - Apache SkyWalking Python v0.5.0 released https://skywalking.apache.org/

Big Data --
 - Apache ShardingSphere ElasticJob 3.0.0-RC1 released http://shardingsphere.apache.org/elasticjob/
 - Apache Accumulo 1.10.1 and 2.0.1 released http://accumulo.apache.org/
 - Apache Accumulo CVE-2020-17533: Improper Handling of Insufficient Permission https://s.apache.org/ixwwc

Data Management Platform --
 - Apache Ignite 2.9.1 released http://ignite.apache.org/

Did You Know?

- Did you know that the following Apache projects are celebrating anniversaries this month? Many happy returns to Apache Cocoon, James, and Web Services (17 years); Lucene (15 years); ActiveMQ (13 years); Hadoop (12 years); River (9 years); Empire-db and Gora (8 years); OpenMeetings (7 years); Samza (5 years); Arrow (4 years); and Ranger (3 years)! https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date 

- Did you know that the Top Ten of Fortune's "Future 50" companies --ServiceNow, Veeva Systems, Atlassian, Workday, Splunk, Adyen, MercadoLibre, DexCom, Square, and Spotify-- are all Powered by Apache? Everyone is welcome to use ASF and Apache Project badges to show that your projects are Powered by Apache http://apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby

- Did you know that ASF Targeted Sponsor Manning Publications is offering special deals on the latest books on Apache Airflow, Pulsar, Spark, and Thrift, among other titles and MEAP (Manning Early Access Program) eBooks? https://deals.manning.com/the-latest-apache-innovations/

Apache Community Notices

- Apache Month In Review: November 2020 https://s.apache.org/Nov2020

- 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 03:44PM Jan 01, 2021 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

Apache in 2020 - By The Digits

Whilst 2020 has been quite a challenging year world-wide, the all-volunteer Apache community has demonstrated commendable strength, resilience, and commitment to our tenet of "Community Over Code" — 

• 238 Apache Projects, sub-projects, incubating podlings, and their communities produced nearly 3,500 releases across dozens of categories. Release Categories: API Gateways, Application Performance Management, Big Data, Blockchain, Build Management Cloud Computing, Content, Cryptography, Customer Profile Platform, Databases, eMail, Enterprise Resource Planning, FinTech, Identity Management, Integrated Development Environments, Integration, IoT, Libraries, Logging, Machine Learning, Messaging, Natural Language Processing, Operating Systems, Programming Languages, Remote Desktop Gateway, Search, Security Frameworks, Servers, Services Framework, Templating, Testing, Version Control, Web Conferencing, Web Crawlers, Web Frameworks, and more.

• We produced the "Trillions and Trillions Served" documentary that showcases how The Apache Way skyrocketed the ASF from overseeing a single project two decades ago to 350+ projects that produce $22B+ worth of software today.

• Apache events moved online, and attracted our most diverse and greatest number of participants. ApacheCon@Home drew nearly 5,750 participants from more than 150 countries, who enjoyed 300+ sessions across 27 tracks. A staggering 1.5M+ viewers tuned in to the Apache Roadshow/China over its 2-day online event.

Additional highlights:

Apache Projects —https://projects.apache.org/

• Total number of projects + sub-projects - 342
• Top-Level Projects - 199
• Podlings undergoing development in the Apache Incubator - 41
• New Top-Level Projects that graduated from the Incubator - 10 

Community/People —http://home.apache.org/

The ASF’s merit-driven "Contributor-Committer-Member" progression is the central governing process across the Apache ecosystem. The core Apache Group of 21 individual Members grew with developers who contributed code, patches, or documentation. Some of these contributors were subsequently granted Committer status by the Membership, and provided access to: 1) commit code directly to Apache repositories; 2) vote on community-related decisions; and 3) propose an active user for Committership. Today, ASF Committers contribute not just code and documentation, but also an array of initiatives that provide value across the greater Apache ecosystem, including Project promotion and community development through mentoring, events, and diversity and inclusion programs. Those Committers who demonstrate merit in the Foundation's growth, evolution, and progress are nominated for ASF Membership by existing members.

The Apache community continues to grow: 

• We welcomed 3,612 contributors in 2020, 51.87% of whom were newcomers to Apache
• 905 individuals earned Committer status, totalling 8,022. 
• 34 individuals were elected as new ASF Members, totalling 813.

Apache Projects/Code —https://projects.apache.org/statistics.html

3,258 Apache Committers changed 117,350,563 lines of code over 247,451 commits.

Top 5 Committers

• Andrea Cosentino (6,357 commits; 2,003,123 lines changed)
• Jean-Baptiste Onofré (3,120 commits; 735,656 lines changed)
• Claus Ibsen (2,838 commits; 1,919,860 lines changed)
• Mark Thomas (2,360 commits; 185,548 lines changed)
• Gary Gregory (2,188 commits; 234,845 lines changed)

Top 5 Apache Project Repositories by Size (Lines of Code)

• Tuweni (incubating; 7,822,771 --Tuweni is Apache's first project in the Blockchain space)
• Flex (7,007,693)
• NetBeans (6,582,707)
• OpenOffice (6,376,683)
• Hadoop (3,521,559)

Top 5 Apache Project Repositories by Commits

• Camel
• Flink
• Airflow
• Lucene/Solr
• Spark

GitHub: Top 5 Most Active Apache Project Sources (clones)

• Thrift
• Beam
• Arrow
• Geode
• Cordova

GitHub: Top 5 Most Active Apache Project Sources (visits)

• Spark
• Flink
• Kafka
• Beam
• Camel

Mailing Lists —https://lists.apache.org/

"If it didn’t happen on-list, it didn’t happen"

The ASF’s day-to-day operations, including Apache project and community development, takes place on ~1,450 public and ~700 private mailing lists. 

In 2020, 18,388 authors sent 2,139,458 emails on 774,364 topics.

Top 5 most active Apache Project user@ mailing lists

• Flink
• Lucene-Solr
• OpenMeetings
• Ignite
• Tomcat

Top 5 most active Apache Project dev@ mailing lists

• Tomcat
• Flink
• Royale
• James
• Beam

Contributor License Agreements and Software Grants —https://www.apache.org/licenses/

Individuals who are granted write access to the Apache repositories must submit an Individual Contributor License Agreement (ICLA). Corporations that have assigned employees to work on Apache projects as part of an employment agreement may sign a Corporate CLA (CCLA) for contributing intellectual property via the corporation. Individuals or corporations donating a body of existing software or documentation to one of the Apache projects need to execute a formal Software Grant Agreement (SGA) with the ASF. Over the past year, the ASF had received: 

• ICLAs - 708
• CCLAs - 35
• Grants - 35

Sponsorship and Individual Support —http://apache.org/foundation/contributing.html

The ASF benefits from the generosity of hundreds of individual donors and corporate Sponsors, whose support helps offset the ASF's day-to-day expenses for Accounting, Fundraising, Infrastructure, Legal, Marketing & Publicity, and other services.

ASF Sponsors provide financial backing for the ASF's operations. They are:

PLATINUM: Amazon Web Services, Facebook, Comcast, Google, Huawei, Pineapple Fund, Tencent, and Verizon Media.

GOLD: Anonymous, Baidu, Bloomberg, Cloudera, Handshake, IBM, Reprise Software, Union Investment, and Workday.

SILVER: Aetna, Alibaba Cloud Computing, Budget Direct, Capital One, Cerner, Inspur, Red Hat, and Target.

BRONZE: Airport Rentals, The Blog Starter, Bookmakers. Cash Store, Bestecasinobonussen.nl, Casino2k, Curity, The Economic Secretariat, Gundry MD, Host Advice, HostChecka.com, Indian Online Casino, Journal Review, LeoVegas, Miro-Kredit AG, Mutuo Kredit AG, Online Holland Casino, ProPrivacy, PureVPN, RX-M, SCAMS.info, SevenJackpots.com, Software Guru, Start a Blog by Ryan Robinson, Talend, The Best VPN, Top10VPN, Twitter, and Xplenty.

ASF Targeted Sponsors provide the Foundation with non-financial contributions for specific operational activities or programs. They include:

TARGETED PLATINUM: Amazon Web Services, CloudBees, DLA Piper, JetBrains, LeaseWeb, Microsoft, OSU Open Source Labs, Sonatype, and Verizon Media.

TARGETED GOLD: Atlassian, The CrytpoFund, Datadog, PhoenixNAP, and Quenda.

TARGETED SILVER: HotWax Systems, Manning Publications, and Rackspace.

TARGETED BRONZE: Bintray, Education Networks of America, Friend of Apache Cordova, Google, Hopsie, No-IP, PagerDuty, Peregrine Computer Consultants Corporation, Sonic.net, SURFnet, and Virtru.

Apache Members, Committers, contributors, users, supporters, and Sponsors further the ASF’s mission of providing Open Source software for the public good. Help keep Apache software accessible to everyone by making a contribution* to the ASF https://donate.apache.org/ , becoming a Sponsor, or adding us to your Corporate Giving program. Please visit http://apache.org/foundation/contributing.html for more information.

Best wishes for a stellar 2021!

* The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) not-for-profit charitable organization, whose tax identification number is 47-0825376. The ASF is recognized by Charity Navigator and cited with the Gold Seal of Transparency by GuideStar.

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Posted at 01:07PM Jan 01, 2021 by Sally in Milestones  |   | 

Apache Month in Review: December 2020

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

Support Apache --

When we founded the ASF 21 years ago, we made a commitment to ensure Apache software is freely available to everyone worldwide at 100% no cost. Today the ASF provides more than $21B worth of software developed by an all-volunteer community. 

 - from Individual and Corporate donations to online shopping, Corporate Charitable Giving, Matching Gifts, and Sponsorship, There are many ways to help the ASF with a tax-deductible contribution https://s.apache.org/2020SupportApache

New this month --

 - ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
   -- Videos of all ApacheCon@Home sessions, including Plenaries and Keynotes, are available https://www.youtube.com/c/TheApacheFoundation/

 - Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q2 FY2021 (August - October 2020) https://s.apache.org/Q2FY2021

 - "Inside Infra" – the interview series featuring members of the ASF Infrastructure team
   -- Meet Andrew Wetmore --Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Andrew and Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Andrew2

 - Apache Month in Review: November 2020 https://s.apache.org/Nov2020

Important Dates --

  - Next Board Meeting: 20 January 2021. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

Infrastructure --

In December, 837 Apache Committers changed 11,192,118 lines of code over 18,775 commits. The Committers with the top 5 highest contributions, in order, were: Andrea Cosentino, Xiang Xiao, Hugh Miles, Andi Huber, and Gary Gregory.

Project Releases and Updates --

New releases from Apache Accumulo (Big Data); Airflow (Big Data); APISIX (API); Avro (Big Data); Beam (Big Data); Bigtop (Big Data); Camel (Integration); Flink (Big Data); Groovy (Programming Languages); HBase (Big Data); HttpComponents Core (Servers); IoTDB (IoT); Jackrabbit (Content); JMeter (Testing); JSPWiki (Content); Kafka (Big Data); Knox (Big Data); OpenMeetings (Web Conferencing); PDFBox (Content); Pulsar (Messaging); Rya (Big Data); ShardingSphere (Big Data); SINGA (Machine Learning); Skywalking (Application Performance Management); Struts (Web Frameworks); Syncope (Identity Management); Tika (Big Data); Tomcat (Servers); Traffic Control (Servers); Traffic Server (Servers); Yetus (Library).

The Apache Incubator is the primary entry path for projects wishing to become an official part of the ASF. New to the Apache Incubator in December: Wayang (Big Data). 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 10:35AM Jan 01, 2021 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

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

Hurrah for Friday: Happy Christmas to those who celebrate! We've had a great week within the Apache community. Here's what happened:

Support Apache – final days to make a tax-deductible, year end donation! Help the ASF continue to provide $20B+ worth of software –at 100% no cost– for the public good https://s.apache.org/2020SupportApache

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: Q2 FY2021 (August - October 2020) https://s.apache.org/Q2FY2021
 - Next Board Meeting: 20 January 2021. 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 videos from ApacheCon@Home are 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 99.98%. 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 – Over the past week, 301 Apache Committers changed 1,718,280 lines of code over 2,668 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Andi Huber, Michael Stack, Sylwester Lachiewicz, Andrea Cosentino, and Claus Ibsen.                              

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache Kafka 2.7.0 released https://kafka.apache.org/

Content --
 - Apache PDFBox 2.0.22 released https://pdfbox.apache.org/
 - Apache JSPWiki 2.11.0.M8 released https://jspwiki-wiki.apache.org/

Identity Management --
 - Apache Syncope 2.1.8 released https://syncope.apache.org/

Integration --
 - Apache Camel 3.4.5 released https://camel.apache.org/

Did You Know?

- Did you know that some of the latest podlings to enter the Apache Incubator include BlueMarlin (advertising), Hop (orchestration), Liminal (Machine Learning), Sedona (geospatial), and Wayang (Big Data)? http://incubator.apache.org/projects/

- Did you know that the top 5 languages of all Apache projects are (in order): Java, C, Python, C++, and JavaScript? https://projects.apache.org/

- Did you know that ASF Targeted Sponsor Manning Publications is offering special deals on the latest books on Apache Airfow, Pulsar, Spark, and Thrift, among other titles and MEAP (Manning Early Access Program) eBooks? https://deals.manning.com/the-latest-apache-innovations/

Apache Community Notices

- Apache Month In Review: November 2020 https://s.apache.org/Nov2020

- 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 11:26AM Dec 25, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: 1 August - 31 October 2020

FOUNDATION OPERATIONS SUMMARY

Second Quarter, Fiscal Year 2021 (August - October 2020)

"The Apache Way ensures all participants have equal representation and footing, and developers are valued based on their contributions' merits. Bloomberg developers first got involved as Open Source community collaborators and contributors seven years ago, and we've been involved with –and a sponsor of– the ASF almost this entire time, as it’s the home of dozens of projects that are incredibly important to us."
—Kevin Fleming, Head of Open Source Community Engagement and Member of the CTO Office at Bloomberg (ASF Gold Sponsor)

> President's Report

This has been a largely quiet quarter for The Apache Software Foundation. By quiet, I mean that the operations side of the ASF has just been working with little drama, despite the fact that we're in the midst of a global pandemic. Whether it's been Apachecon@Home, the publication of research from Diversity and Inclusion, the day-to-day operations of Fundraising, Marketing, and Infrastructure continue unabated.

In some ways, I guess that is boring. There were no disasters that we had to deal with. While I was getting ready for my Apachecon@Home keynote, I was thinking about the impact of the pandemic on the ASF and the world. If you look at the statistics you'd be hard pressed to find much in terms of impact of the pandemic. In many ways, our distributed, asynchronous, consensus-based method of getting things done has set us up for success.

Maybe 'boring' is the definition of success for the ASF. A 'boring' status where our project communities deliver innovative Open Source software unabated.

> Conferences and Events http://apachecon.com/ 

During this time we held ApacheCon @Home 2020, September 28th through October 1st. This was our first virtual conference, and the largest conference we have yet held in our 22 years of running ApacheCon.

We have provided some statistics in our post-event report, at https://blogs.apache.org/conferences/entry/apachecon-home-2020-was-a

Some highlights include:

• 5743 registrations
• 66.7% of speakers were first time speakers
• 82.9% of attendees were at their first ApacheCon ever
• 306 sessions (all now on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/theapachefoundation )
• 26 tracks of content
• Sessions in German, Hindi and Mandarin, in addition to English
• Attendees, and speakers, from 6 continents

ApacheCon was made possible by our sponsors. Platinum sponsors were Instaclustr, Red Hat, DataStax, VMWare, Apple, Amazon, IBM, and Imply. Gold sponsors were OpenLogic, Cerner, and RX-M. Bronze sponsors were Codethink, US Postgresql Association, and Muse.dev. A huge thank you to them!

In the coming months we hope to have some smaller, project/topic focused events, but planning for these is still in the early stages, and we have no specific plans yet.

We are also cautiously looking at plans for 2021: We assume, at this point, based on the employee travel policies of major tech companies, that we will be holding ApacheCon 2021 online also. We hope to have details in early 2021.

The Pulsar Summit Asia will be held November 28th and 29th, also online. Details are available at https://pulsar-summit.org/  

> Community Development http://community.apache.org/ 

The main focus of this quarter was preparing for and participating in ApacheCon@Home. Our Community track ran over 3 days and 2 time zones and began with a presentation in Hindi. This was very significant for us as it was the first time that we have presented community content at ApacheCon in a language other than English. Being accessible in other languages is helping reach other potential contributors. Our track attracted a good audience and many of the sessions achieved a good interaction and participation via questions from the audience. 

During the event we showed the recently released ASF documentary video "Trillions and Trillions Served" at our online booth. We need to continue to investigate new ways for managing an online booth as it was difficult to understand when and how we could interact with the community at the same time being focussed on our own track.

Our Apache Local Communities (ALC) were strongly represented at ApacheCon@Home and the Indore Chapter held a range of meetings focussed on promoting the Apache Way.

All the videos from all the community sessions are now available on the ASF Youtube channel.

We have started preparing for GSoC 2021 and will once again be applying to become a mentoring organisation. In parallel we have sent out communications to all ASF project to begin gathering ideas for potential GSoC projects.

We are continuing to look for events where we can participate such as our Apache Roadshow China and FOSS Backstage.

Our mailing list has seen a significant decrease in traffic compared with the previous quarter. Even with the decrease we did get a lot of community involvement and activity during ApacheCon@Home which is not reflected in the mailing list statistics.

> Committers and Contributions http://apache.org/licenses/contributor-agreements.html 

Over the past quarter, 1,540 contributors committed 61,208 changes that amount to 28,336,795 lines of code across Apache projects. The top 5 contributors, in order, were: Andrea Cosentino (1,813 commits), Mark Miller (926 commits), Claus Ibsen (790 commits), Mark Thomas (771 commits), and Jean-Baptiste Onofré (742 commits).

All individuals who are granted write access to the Apache repositories must submit an Individual Contributor License Agreement (ICLA). Corporations that have assigned employees to work on Apache projects as part of an employment agreement may sign a Corporate CLA (CCLA) for contributing intellectual property via the corporation. Individuals or corporations donating a body of existing software or documentation to one of the Apache projects need to execute a formal Software Grant Agreement (SGA) with the ASF.

During Q2 FY2021, the ASF Secretary processed 151 ICLAs, 9 CCLAs, and 5 Software Grants. History of Apache committer growth can be seen at https://projects.apache.org/timelines.html

> Brand Management http://apache.org/foundation/marks/ 

Operations —the work of the Brand Management team falls broadly into one of three categories:

• trademark transfers and registrations
• granting permission to use our marks
• addressing potential infringements of our marks

The volume of work this quarter is about half of what it was last quarter. This may be an impact of Covid-19 (fewer events), part of the natural fluctuation in activity or a combination of the two.

This quarter has seen the usual collection of requests to use Apache marks for user groups, events, merchandise and publications with nearly all requests being granted, subject to our Trademark Usage Policy.

Registrations —This quarter was also a relatively quiet one for registrations. We made progress on a number of our pending registrations, particularly in China, but we did not complete any registrations this quarter.

Infringements —Potential infringements are brought to our attention from both internal and external sources. The majority of infringements we see are accidental and our project communities are able to resolve these quickly and informally with occasional input from the Brand Management team. A small number of issues take longer to resolve. We made progress on some of these this quarter and hope that that progress will continue next quarter.

We have continued to address the infringements reported to us relating to products using our marks being sold through various online stores. We hope to resolve a number of these in the coming quarter.

And finally…

The Brand Management team welcomes your comments and suggestions as well as any questions you might have. Please see https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/contact for our contact details.

> Security http://apache.org/security/ 

We continued to work on handling incoming security issues, keeping projects reminded of their outstanding issues, allocation of CVE names, and other general oversight and advice.

For Q2 we tracked 124 new vulnerability reports across 48 projects. (Q2 last year for comparison was 116 reports). Those reports led to 23 published CVE vulnerabilities.

> Privacy http://apache.org/foundation/policies/privacy.html 

This quarter ends without any complaints from users, committers or other parties.

The VP Privacy can be reached in private with the new email alias vp-privacy@apache.org.

A check of our privacy policy showed that we have several issues with our main site which needs to be addressed (not exhaustive):

• We need to add Youtube, Google Fonts etc to the privacy statement
• We need to update the policy to give the correct contact for complaints (no longer dev@)
• We need to check if we actually need AdSense code 

Also, we should make sure to apply cookie laws.

The reason for the check is the open issue around status.apache.org since we need to cover that site with our privacy policy as well.

In another finding, Apache Whimsy shows all kinds of email addresses (i.e. personal ones) to all committers. This should be an option, so committers can decide if they want their email address shown and also the possibility to remove email addresses. Same issue is with the postal address shown. This issue has not yet been addressed and needs to be communicated to the Apache Whimsy team.

We have open discussion how ICLA (and similar documents) should be stored.

> Treasury and Financial Statement --map against https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport 

The Foundation is in excellent fiscal shape with all tax and compliance forms filed on time. Latest public filings can be found at http://www.apache.org/foundation/records/ . I have advised that officers minimize expenses until there is more certainty in global economic outlooks.  Officers have done so by delaying new investments.  This quarter we conducted ApacheCon@Home which operated with a profit via our generous sponsors.

We made a technical adjustment to our accounting to recognize the income of $892,882 from the very generous Pineapple fund donation as a public donation. The donation was originally made at the beginning of 2018. Removing this one-time donation from consideration, our losses this quarter were $141,848.

The majority of our cash remains in a CDARS account at Boston Private which provides FDIC insurance for the full amount. See below for income and expenses:

> Diversity and Inclusion http://diversity.apache.org/

Important milestones were accomplished for two of the major projects driven by the Diversity and Inclusion committee as follows: 

Project 1: Research on the current status of Diversity and Inclusion at the ASF

This project was composed of two initiatives: The ASF Community Survey and a User Experience Research for contributors of underrepresented groups. These two initiatives concluded in Q2 and we are now working on a final report, expected to be published and shared with the ASF membership in Q3. 

For the ASF Community Survey, we recorded a read out, which you can watch in our official YouTube channel https://s.apache.org/pnkzw , and read the slides shared in the D&I wiki https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/EDI/**+Files+and+Resources .

In the User Experience research, we conducted 19 one-on-one interviews, which provided insightful information on how we can help our community to ease the challenges experienced by contributors in our Apache community, especially those coming from under-represented backgrounds. You can find early results on these interviews in our public mailing list https://s.apache.org/ibs4z . 

In Q3, the work will be focused on publishing the official reports, which will include recommendations for our projects and the community in general, to enable the participation of folks from diverse backgrounds. 

Project 2: Internships for underrepresented groups (Outreachy)

The second round of internships for the Outreachy program concluded in August. We had four participants, which brought the total number of interns to 5 in our first year of participation. 

The third period of internships starts this December, we’ll have six interns for six different Apache projects, you can see the full list of interns and projects in the Outreachy working group notes https://s.apache.org/8ahu8 .

This program has provided opportunities to learn about the experience of new contributors to the participation project, and we look forward to analyzing them in the same context as the scientific data gathered with the survey and user experience interviews. 

> Fundraising http://apache.org/foundation/contributing.html

This past quarter has been fairly quiet for the Fundraising team aside from the wonderful success of ApacheCon@Home. We are ecstatic to report that eight Sponsors joined the ApacheCon family this year for the event. Feel free to check out our YouTube channel for recordings of all the talks.

Despite the pandemic and challenges it brings, we continue to see strong support from the community. Individual donations have been particularly strong this quarter (see https://whimsy.apache.org/board/minutes/Fundraising.html  for month by month playlist). We have also had a few Sponsors either increase or decrease their support level this quarter and are pleased to welcome two new Bronze sponsors to the Apache family.

As always, we are immensely thankful to our sponsors, who make it possible for our communities to build world-changing software -- 

PLATINUM: Amazon Web Services, Comcast, Facebook, Google, LeaseWeb, Pineapple Fund, Verizon Media, Tencent

GOLD: Anonymous, ARM, Bloomberg, Cloudera, Handshake, Huawei, IBM, Indeed, Union Investment, Workday

SILVER: Aetna, Alibaba Cloud Computing, Baidu, Budget Direct, Capital One, Cerner, Inspur, Red Hat, Target

BRONZE: Airport Rentals, The Blog Starter, Bookmakers, Cash Store, Bestecasinobonussen.nl, CarGurus, Casino2k, The Economic Secretariat, Emerio, Footprints Recruiting, Gundry MD, HostChecka.com, Host Advice, HostingAdvice.com, Journal Review, LeoVegas Indian Online Casino, Mutuo Kredit AG, Online Holland Casino, ProPrivacy, PureVPN, RX-M, SCAMS.info, Site Builder Report, Start a Blog by Ryan Robinson, Talend, The Best VPN, Top10VPN, Twitter, Web Hosting Secret Revealed, Xplenty

TARGETED PLATINUM: CloudBees, DLA Piper, JetBrains, Microsoft, OSU Open Source Labs, Sonatype, Verizon Media

TARGETED GOLD: Atlassian, The CrytpoFund, Datadog, PhoenixNAP, Quenda

TARGETED SILVER: Amazon Web Services, HotWax Systems, Rackspace

TARGETED BRONZE: Bintray, Education Networks of America, Google, Hopsie, No-IP, PagerDuty, Peregrine Computer Consultants Corporation, Sonic.net, SURFnet, Virtru

To sponsor The Apache Software Foundation, visit http://apache.org/foundation/sponsorship.html . To make a one-time or monthly recurring donation, please visit https://donate.apache.org/ .

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Report prepared by Sally Khudairi, Vice President Marketing & Publicity, with contributions by David Nalley, President; Rich Bowen, Vice President Conferences; Mark Cox, Vice President Security; Sharan Foga, Vice President Community Development; Christian Grobmeier, Vice President Data Privacy; Myrle Krantz, Treasurer; Griselda Cuevas, Vice President Diversity & Inclusion, Vice President Fundraising; and Mark Thomas, Vice President Brand Management.

For more information, subscribe to the announce@apache.org mailing list http://apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html#foundation-announce and visit http://www.apache.org/ , the ASF Blog at http://blogs.apache.org/ , the @TheASF on Twitter https://twitter.com/TheASF , and LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation .

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Posted at 02:30PM Dec 22, 2020 by Sally in General  |   | 

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

And it's 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.
 - Andrew Wetmore --Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Andrew2

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 20 January 2021. 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 videos from ApacheCon@Home are 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, 356 Apache Committers changed 1,752,073 lines of code over 3,151 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Gary Gregory, Andi Huber, Claus Ibsen, Tilman Hausherr, and Tomaz Muraus.                          

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

API --
 - Apache APISIX Dashboard 2.2 released https://apisix.apache.org/

Big Data --
 - Apache Beam 2.26.0 released https://beam.apache.org/
 - Apache Knox 1.5.0 released http://knox.apache.org/
 - Apache Flink 1.12.0 and 1.11.3 released https://flink.apache.org/
 - Apache Qpid JMS 0.56.0 released https://qpid.apache.org/
 - Apache Bigtop 1.5.0 released https://bigtop.apache.org/
 - Apache HBase 2.4.0 released https://hbase.apache.org/
 - Apache Airflow 1.10.14 released https://airflow.apache.org/
 - Apache Airflow CVE-2020-17513: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in Charts & Query View https://s.apache.org/162rf , and
   CVE-2020-17511: Airflow admin password gets logged in plain text https://s.apache.org/2bbfj

Integration --
 - Apache Camel 3.7.0 released https://camel.apache.org/

IoT --
 - Apache IoTDB 0.11.1 released https://iotdb.apache.org/

Messaging --
 - Apache Pulsar CVE-2020-17520: Pulsar Manager security bug (bypass admin interceptor) https://s.apache.org/4fj8c

 
Did You Know?

- Did you know that the Apache Roadshow/China drew more than 1.5M viewers online? Sessions were organized by ASF Members and Apache Local Community Beijing Chapter participants, and featured Apache eCharts, IoTDB, SkyWalking, and more https://www.bagevent.com/event/6844986/p/431034  

- Did you know that Apache Airflow, Druid, Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, Kafka, Superset, and other projects power more than 1.5 petabytes of data at Airbnb? https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?category

- Did you know that ASF Corporate Giving Contributors Bloomberg Philanthropy, IBM, Microsoft, PayPal, Charles Schwab, Vanguard, and other supporting organizations help the ASF's all-volunteer community provide $20B+ worth of software 100% free-of-charge? Support Apache today with a one-off, recurring, matching gift, or other corporate contributions? Consider a year-end gift to benefit the ASF http://apache.org/foundation/contributing.html  

Apache Community Notices

- Apache Month In Review: November 2020 https://s.apache.org/Nov2020

- 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 04:06PM Dec 18, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 11 December 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 December 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 videos from ApacheCon@Home are 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 99.91%. 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, 398 Apache Committers changed 1,767,303 lines of code over 3,476 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Hugh Miles, Andi Huber, Mark Thomas, Ganesh Murthy, and Claus Ibsen.                   

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

API --
 - Apache APISIX Dashboard 2.1.1 released https://apisix.apache.org/

Big Data --
 - Apache Avro 1.10.1 released https://avro.apache.org/

Content --
 -  Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.8.24 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/

Library --
 - Apache Yetus 0.13.0 released https://yetus.apache.org/

Programming Languages --
 - Apache Groovy 2.4.21, 2.5.14, 3.0.7, and 4.0.0-alpha-2 released https://groovy.apache.org/
 - Apache Groovy CVE-2020-17521: Groovy Information Disclosure https://s.apache.org/k8n0d

Messaging --
 - Apache Pulsar 2.7.0 released https://pulsar.apache.org/

Servers --
 - Apache Traffic Control 4.1.1 released https://trafficcontrol.apache.org/
 - Apache Tomcat 8.5.61, 9.0.41, and 10.0.0 (beta) available http://tomcat.apache.org/

Testing --
 - Apache JMeter 5.4 released https://jmeter.apache.org/

Web Conferencing --
 - Apache OpenMeetings 5.1.0 released https://openmeetings.apache.org/

Web Frameworks --
 - Apache Struts 2.5.26 released https://struts.apache.org/
 - Apache Struts CVE-2020-17530: Potential RCE when using forced evaluation https://s.apache.org/hwr92

 
Did You Know?

- Did you know that when we founded the ASF 21 years ago, we made a commitment to ensure our software is freely available to all users worldwide at 100% no cost? Today the ASF provides more than $21B worth of software developed by an all-volunteer community. Your tax-deductible contribution helps us continue our effort. https://donate.apache.org/  

- Did you know that the Financial Times' real-time batch processing, stream processing, and analytics are powered by Apache Airflow, Avro, Kafka, Parquet, and Spark? https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?category#big-data 

- Did you know that Airbnb uses Apache Druid, Hadoop, Hive, Kafka, Spark, Superset, ZooKeeper, and other Apache projects to power 1.5 petabytes of data in real-time? https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?category#big-data 

Apache Community Notices

- Apache Month In Review: November 2020 https://s.apache.org/Nov2020

- 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 12:27PM Dec 11, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

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

Welcome, December --we're opening the month with another great week. Here's what the Apache community has been up to:

Inside Infra – the interview series featuring members of the ASF Infrastructure team.
 - Andrew Wetmore --Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Andrew

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 16 December 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 videos from ApacheCon@Home 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 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, 407 Apache Committers changed 1,758,756 lines of code over 3,611 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Paul King, Daniel Sun, Hugh Miles, and Jarek Potiuk.                    

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

API --
 - Apache APISIX 2.1 released https://apisix.apache.org/

Application Performance Monitoring --
 - Apache SkyWalking 8.3.0 and CLI 0.5.0 released https://skywalking.apache.org/

Content --
 - Apache Tika 1.25 released https://tika.apache.org/
 - Apache Jackrabbit 2.18 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/

IoT --
 - Apache IoTDB 0.11.0 released https://iotdb.apache.org/

Programming Languages --
 - Apache Groovy 2.4.21 released https://groovy.apache.org/

Machine Learning --
 - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® TVM™ as a Top-Level Project https://s.apache.org/59g4a
 - Apache SINGA 3.1.0 released http://singa.apache.org/

Servers --
 - Apache HttpComponents Core 4.4.14, 5.0.3 GA, and 5.1 BETA2 released https://hc.apache.org/
 - Apache Traffic Server 8.1.1 and 7.1.12 released https://trafficserver.apache.org/

 
Did You Know?

- Did you know that 17 Apache projects are celebrating anniversaries this month? Many happy returns to Apache Portable Runtime (APR; 20 years); Logging Services (17 years); Cayenne and OFBiz (14 years); Synapse (13 years); Camel (12 years); Axis, OpenWebBeans, Pivot (11 years); Aries (10 years); Flex (8 years); Helix (7 years); Flink (6 years); Beam (4 years); Trafodion (3 years); Airflow (2 years); and Druid (1 year)! https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date

- Did you know that organizations wishing to support Apache do so through Sponsorship, Corporate Giving Programs, Matching Gifts, and more. Thank you for considering a one-time tax-deductible donation today! http://apache.org/foundation/contributing.html 

- Did you know that Apache TVM is the ASF's first full stack software and hardware co-optimization project? http://tvm.apache.org/

Apache Community Notices

- Apache Month In Review: November 2020 https://s.apache.org/Nov2020

- 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 10:35AM Dec 04, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

Apache Month in Review: November 2020

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

New this month --

 - 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
   -- Videos of all sessions, including Plenaries and Keynotes, are available https://www.youtube.com/c/TheApacheFoundation/

 - Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q1 FY2021 (May - July 2020) https://s.apache.org/2mefr

 - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® TVM™ as a Top-Level Project https://s.apache.org/59g4a 

 - "Inside Infra" – the interview series featuring members of the ASF Infrastructure team
   -- Meet Gavin McDonald --Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Gavin and Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Gavin2
   -- Meet Andrew Wetmore --Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Andrew 

 - Apache Month in Review: October 2020 https://s.apache.org/Oct2020

Important Dates --

  - Next Board Meeting: 16 December 2020. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

Infrastructure --

In November, 762 Apache Committers changed 11,586,940 lines of code over 14,829 commits. The Committers with the top 5 highest contributions, in order, were: Jarek Potiuk, Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Gary Gregory, Andrea Cosentino, and Kaxil Naik.      

Project Releases and Updates --

New releases from Apache APISIX (API); BookKeeper (Big Data); Commons VFS (Libraries); CXF(Libraries); HBase (Big Data); Jackrabbit (Content); Log4j (Libraries); Lucene (Search); Oak (Content); Qpid Proton (Messaging); ShardingSphere (Big Data); Shiro (Security Framework); Skywalking (Application Performance Management); Tomcat (Servers); Unomi (Data Management Platform); Wicket (Web Frameworks);

The Apache Incubator is the primary entry path for projects wishing to become an official part of the ASF. 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 Daffodil (Incubating; Libraries); NLPCraft (Incubating; Natural Language Processing); Tuweni (Incubating; Blockchain);

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Posted at 01:33PM Dec 01, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in General  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 27 November 2020

Farewell, November --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 December 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 videos from ApacheCon@Home 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 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, 291 Apache Committers changed 503,622 lines of code over 2,498 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Gary Gregory, Oleg Kalnichevski, Pavel Tupitsyn, Till Rohrmann, and Andrea Cosentino.                

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

API --
 - Apache APISIX Dashboard 2.0 and Dashboard 2.1 released https://apisix.apache.org/

Application Performance Monitoring --
 - Apache SkyWalking Python 0.4.0 released http://skywalking.apache.org/

Big Data --
 - Apache ShardingSphere UI 5.0.0-alpha released http://shardingsphere.apache.org/

Blockchain --
 - Apache Tuweni (Incubating) 1.3.0 released https://tuweni.apache.org/

Data Management Platform --
 - Apache Unomi CVE-2020-13942 Remote Code Execution in Unomi https://s.apache.org/u0gg5

Libraries --
 - Apache Daffodil (Incubating) 3.0.0 https://daffodil.apache.org/

Messaging --
 - Apache Qpid Proton 0.33.0 and JMS 0.55.0 released http://qpid.apache.org/

Servers --
 - Apache Tomcat 7.0.107 available http://tomcat.apache.org/

Web Frameworks --
 - Apache Wicket 8.11.0 and 9.2.0 released https://wicket.apache.org/

 
Did You Know?

- Did you know that you can help secure the future of Apache? Your tax-deductible contribution helps the ASF steward, develop, incubate, and make $20B+ worth of Apache software free to all at 100% no cost. Thank you for making a one-time or monthly donation https://donate.apache.org

- Did you know that Pulsar Summit Asia is taking place this weekend? Join the Apache Pulsar community 28-29 November online: sign up today --free-of-charge https://pulsar-summit.org/

- Did you know that the Apache TVM (incubating) community is holding its annual TVM Conference online 2-4 December 2020? Register for this free-to-participate event https://tvmconf.org/ 

Apache Community Notices

- Apache Month In Review: October 2020 https://s.apache.org/Oct2020

- 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 12:29PM Nov 27, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 20 November 2020

Happy Friday! Here's what the Apache community has been up to this week:

Inside Infra – the interview series featuring members of the ASF Infrastructure team.
 - Gavin McDonald --Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Gavin2 

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 16 December 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 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 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 – Over the past week, 310 Apache Committers changed 806,646 lines of code over 3,127 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Jarek Potiuk, Kaxil Naik, Andrea Cosentino, Mark Miller, and Maruan Sahyoun.            

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Application Performance Monitoring --
 - Apache SkyWalking Could on Kubernetes 0.1.0 and SkyWalking Client JS version 0.2.0 released http://skywalking.apache.org/ 

Big Data --
 - Apache BookKeeper 4.11.1 released http://bookkeeper.apache.org/ 
 - Apache ShardingSphere 5.0.0-alpha released http://shardingsphere.apache.org/ 

Content --
 - Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.36 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/ 

Libraries --
 - Apache Log4j 2.14.0 released http://logging.apache.org/
 - Apache CXF CVE-2020-13954 Reflected XSS in the services listing page via the styleSheetPath https://s.apache.org/tsb9p

Messaging --
 - Apache Qpid Proton-J 0.33.8 released http://qpid.apache.org/

Servers --
 - Apache Tomcat 8.5.60, 9.0.40, and 10.0.0-M10 available http://tomcat.apache.org/

 
Did You Know?

- Did you know that the following Apache projects are celebrating their anniversaries this month? Three cheers to Apache Ant (18 years); HttpComponents (13 years); Attic, Buildr, CouchDB, and Qpid (12 years); Community Development ("ComDev", 11 years); OODT and ZooKeeper (10 years); Kafka and Syncope (8 years); Ambari (7 years); BookKeeper, Drill, and MetaModel (6 years); Brooklyn, Groovy, Kylin, and REEF (5 years); Geode (4 years); Guacamole, Impala, and Mnemonic (3 years); Griffin (2 years); and Petri (1 year). Many happy returns! https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date 

- Did you know that you can make a tax-deductible individual or corporate contribution to the ASF to help us continue to provide more than $20B worth of software to the public at 100% no cost? Donate today at https://donate.apache.org/ 

- Did you know that Alibaba’s real-time computing platform processed data streams totaling 4 billion items per second during Singles Day, the largest global online shopping event, using Apache Flink? https://flink.apache.org/ 

- Did you know that more than 300 videos from ApacheCon@Home are now available, including keynotes, plenaries, and sessions on Big Data, Clinical Data, Community, Content Delivery, Fintech, Incubator, Integration, IoT, Machine Learning, Mobile, Observability, Search, Servers, Streaming, and more are now available? https://www.youtube.com/c/TheApacheFoundation/ 

Apache Community Notices

- Apache Month In Review: October 2020 https://s.apache.org/Oct2020

- 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 01:44PM Nov 20, 2020 by Sally in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 13 November 2020

It's Friday already --the week has zipped by. 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: 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 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 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, 407 Apache Committers changed 2,336,295 lines of code over 3,425 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Jarek Potiuk, Mark Miller, Andrea Cosentino, Mark Thomas, and Kaxil Naik.            

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Libraries --
 - Apache Log4j 2.14.0 released http://logging.apache.org/
 - Apache CXF CVE-2020-13954 Reflected XSS in the services listing page via the styleSheetPath https://s.apache.org/tsb9p

Did You Know?

- Did you know that more than 300 videos from ApacheCon@Home are now available, including keynotes, plenaries, and sessions on Big Data, Clinical Data, Community, Content Delivery, Fintech, Incubator, Integration, IoT, Machine Learning, Mobile, Observability, Search, Servers, Streaming, and more are now available? https://www.youtube.com/c/TheApacheFoundation/ 

- Did you know that Tencent uses Apache Pulsar to power federated learning with trillions of concurrent training? http://pulsar.apache.org/ 

- Did you know that the Norwegian Agency for International Cooperation and Quality Enhancement in Higher Education is powered by Apache Wicket? http://wicket.apache.org/

Apache Community Notices

- Apache Month In Review: October 2020 https://s.apache.org/Oct2020

- 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 10:31AM Nov 13, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 6 November 2020

Welcome, November --we're opening the month with another great week. Here's what the Apache community has been up to:

The Apache Month in Review – highlights of what we've accomplished over the past month.  
 - October 2020 https://s.apache.org/Oct2020 

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

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - 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 99.77%. 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, 401 Apache Committers changed 4,517,272 lines of code over 3,562 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Claus Ibsen, Gary Gregory, Andrea Cosentino, and Adrian Cole.      

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Application Performance Monitor --
 - Apache SkyWalking 8.2.0, Client JS 0.1.0, and Kubernetes Helm Chart 4.0.0 released https://skywalking.apache.org/

Big Data --
 - Apache HBase 2.3.3 released https://hbase.apache.org/
 - Apache ShardingSphere ElasticJob 3.0.0-beta released http://shardingsphere.apache.org/elasticjob/

Content --
  - Apache Jackrabbit 2.20.2 released https://jackrabbit.apache.org/

Libraries --
 - Apache Commons VFS 2.7.0 released http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-vfs/

Natural Language Processing --
 - Apache NLPCraft 0.7.1 (incubating) released https://nlpcraft.apache.org/

Search --
 - Apache Lucene 8.7.0 and Solr 8.7.0 released http://lucene.apache.org/

Security Framework --
 - Apache Shiro 1.7.0 released https://shiro.apache.org/
 - Apache Shiro CVE-2020-17510 Shiro with Spring, a specially crafted HTTP request may cause an authentication bypass https://s.apache.org/lxsuw

Did You Know?

- Did you know that you can support the ASF's day-to-day operations with a one-time or recurring donation? http://donate.apache.org/ 

- Did you know that Omnichannel Order Management Systems handle real-time inventory visibility and synchronization using Apache OFBiz? https://ofbiz.apache.org/

- Did you know that the Call for Presentations is open for Apache MXNet Day? Submissions are due by 16 November https://s.apache.org/4jbhx 

- Did you know that Virtual Druid Summit will be held on 18 November? See "Upcoming Events" at http://druid.apache.org/

Apache Community Notices

- 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 12:04PM Nov 06, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   |