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The Apache Weekly News Round-up: week ending 21 January 2022

We're wrapping up another great week with the following 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: 16 February 2022. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

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

Apache Code Snapshot – Over the past week, 339 Apache Committers changed 2,470,884 lines of code over 3,505 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Gary Gregory, Claus Ibsen, Adam Kocoloski, Mark Thomas, and Tian Jiang. 

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

APIs --
 - Apache APISIX Java Plugin Runner 0.2.0 released

Application Servers/Middleware --
 - Apache Karaf runtime 4.2.15 and 4.3.6 released

Big Data --
 - Apache NiFi 1.15.3 released
 - Apache Flink 1.14.3 released
 - Apache ShardingSphere ElasticJob UI 3.0.1 released
 - Apache Knox 1.6.1 released
   -- CVE-2021-42357: DOM based XSS Vulnerability 

Content --
 - Apache POI 5.2.0 released 

Databases --
 - Apache Geode 1.12.8, 1.13.7 and Kafka Connector 1.1.0 released

Data Management Platform --
 - Apache Ignite 2.12.0 released 

Enterprise Processes Automation / ERP --
 - Apache OFBiz 17.12 End-Of-Life (EOL) announcement https://s.apache.org/hm5oe

Libraries --
 - Apache Log4j CVE-2022-23302: Deserialization of untrusted data in JMSSink in Apache Log4j 1.x
   -- CVE-2022-23305: SQL injection in JDBC Appender in Apache Log4j V1 
   -- CVE-2022-23307: A deserialization flaw in the Chainsaw component of Log4j 1 can lead to malicious code execution 

Orchestration --
 - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Open Source data orchestration platform Apache® Hop™ as a Top-Level Project https://s.apache.org/4s3ci

Observability --
 - Apache SkyWalking Could on Kubernetes 0.6.1 released

Servers --
 - Apache Tomcat 8.5.75, 9.0.58, 10.0.16, and 10.1.0-M10 (alpha) released 

Workflow --
 - Apache Airflow CVE-2021-45230: Creating DagRuns didn't respect Dag-level permissions in the Webserver 

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that the following Apache projects are celebrating anniversaries this month? Congratulations to Apache Cocoon, James, and Web Services (19 years); Lucene (17 years); ActiveMQ (15 years); Hadoop (14 years); River (11 years); Empire-db and Gora (10 years); OpenMeetings (9 years); Samza (7 years); Arrow (6 years); Ranger (5 years); and Gobblin (1 year) https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date

 - Did you know that Netflix and Target are building modern analytics applications to deliver interactive data experiences using Apache Druid? 

 - Did you know that Disney+Hotstar's streaming data lakes injest 1 million events per second using Apache Kafka, store 14tb of data per day in an Apache HBase warehouse, and stream using Apache Hudi? https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?category

Apache Community Notices

 - Apache in 2021 - By The Digits + Video highlights 

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

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

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

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success 

 - Foundation Reports and Statements

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

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

Posted at 02:06PM Jan 24, 2022 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache Weekly News Round-up: week ending 14 January 2022

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

ASF Security Report 2021 – the state of security across all Apache projects with key metrics, specific vulnerabilities, and the most common ways users of ASF projects were affected by security issues https://s.apache.org/SecurityReport2021

Apache Software Foundation statement on White House Open Source Security Summit https://s.apache.org/jri14

 - Next Board Meeting: 19 January 2022. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

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

Apache Code Snapshot – Over the past week, 322 Apache Committers changed 1,963,025 lines of code over 3,852 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Gary Gregory, Antoine Toulme, Claus Ibsen, Mark Thomas, and Dan Klco. 

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache Flink ML 2.0.0 released

Content --
 - Apache Jackrabbit 2.16.9 released

Machine Learning --
 - Apache TVM 0.8.0 released

Network Client --
 - Apache Guacamole 1.4.0 released
   -- CVE-2021-41767: Private tunnel identifier may be included in the non-private details of active connections 
   -- CVE-2021-43999: Improper validation of SAML responses 

Observability --
 - Apache SkyWalking Kong version 0.2.0 released

Workflow --
 - Apache DolphinScheduler 2.0.2 released
 - Apache Airflow Helm Chart 1.4.0 released

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that more than 630,000 individuals have contributed to Apache projects and initiatives since the ASF's incorporation in 1999? https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/apache-in-2021-by-the 

 - Did you know that Apache DolphinScheduler won a "2021 OSC Most Popular Projects" award from OSCHINA?

 - Did you know that video recordings from the 2021 TVMCon (Apache TVM and Open Source ML acceleration conference) are now available online?

Apache Community Notices

 - Apache in 2021 - By The Digits + Video highlights 

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

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

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

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success 

 - Foundation Reports and Statements

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

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

Posted at 02:56PM Jan 17, 2022 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache Weekly News Round-up: week ending 7 January 2022

Welcome, 2022! 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:

 - Next Board Meeting: 19 January 2022. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.98%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. View the ASF's Infrastructure Uptime site to see the most recent averages.

Apache Code Snapshot – Over the past week, 280 Apache Committers changed 2,780,891 lines of code over 2,868 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Gary Gregory, Mark Thomas, Harikrishna Patnala, and Claus Ibsen. 

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache Avro 1.11.0 released
   -- CVE-2021-43045: Possible DOS vulnerabilities in C# Avro SDK

Enterprise Processes Automation / ERP --
 - Apache OFBiz 18.12.05 released

Integration --
 - Apache Camel 3.11.5 (LTS) released 

Mail --
 - Apache James 3.6.1 released
    -- CVE-2021-38542: STARTTLS command injection (IMAP and POP3)
    -- CVE-2021-40110: IMAP vulnerable to a ReDoS
    -- CVE-2021-40111: IMAP parsing Denial Of Service
    -- CVE-2021-40525: Sieve file storage vulnerable to path traversal attacks 

Network Client --
 - Apache Guacamole 1.4.0 released
 - Apache MINA FTPServer 1.1.2 released

Web Frameworks--
 - Apache Struts 2.5.28.3 released
 - Apache Portals 3.1.1 released
   -- CVE-2021-36737: XSS in V3 Demo Portlet
   -- CVE-2021-36738: XSS vulnerability in the JSP version of the Pluto Applicant MVCBean CDI portlet
   -- CVE-2021-36739: XSS vulnerability in the MVCBean JSP portlet maven archetype

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that in 2021, 724 individuals new to the ASF contributed to Apache projects and initiatives? https://s.apache.org/Apache2021Digits

 - Did you know that Apache Druid is frequently used for AdTech data? https://druid.apache.org/

 - Did you know that PulsarSummit Asia 2022 will be held online on January 15-16? https://pulsar-summit.org/

Apache Community Notices

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

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

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success 

 - Foundation Reports and Statements

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

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

Posted at 02:38PM Jan 10, 2022 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

Apache in 2021 - By The Digits

During 2021 the all-volunteer Apache community has demonstrated unwavering commitment to our tenet of "Community Over Code." Highlights over the past year include —[Read More]

Posted at 06:47PM Jan 03, 2022 by Sally Khudairi in Milestones  |   | 

The Apache Weekly News Round-up: week ending 31 December 2021

Here we are --the last day of the year-- we wish everyone a happy new year. Thank you for your dedicated readership: below is our final weekly round-up for 2021; we'll be back in your inbox in 2022:

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 19 January 2022. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

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

Apache Code Snapshot – Over the past week, 183 Apache Committers changed 8,306,446 lines of code over 2,124 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Gary Gregory, Claus Ibsen, Michael Osipov, Jacques Le Roux, and Tilman Hausherr.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Application Servers/Middleware --
 - Apache Karaf runtime 4.2.14 and 4.3.5 released 

Big Data --
 - Apache XMLBeans 5.0.3 released

IoT --
 - Apache IoTDB 0.12.4 released 

Eventing --
 - Apache EventMesh (incubating) 1.3.0 released 

Libraries --
 - Apache Log4j 2.3.2 and 2.12.4 released 

Messaging -- 
 - Apache Qpid ProtonJ2 1.0.0-M4 released
 - Apache Pulsar 2.7.4 released

Observability --
 - Apache SkyWalking Nginx LUA 0.6.0 and Satellite 0.5.0 released 

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

Testing --
 - Apache JMeter 5.4.3 released

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that the latest details on Apache Log4j vulnerabilities are available on the Apache Logging Services security page? https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/security.html

 - Did you know that dozens of organizations such as Amazon, AT&T, Facebook (Meta), Uber, and Zillow use Apache Sedona (incubating) for their geospatial data processing pipelines? 

 - Did you know that tax-deductible donations support the ASF's day-to-day operations that benefit 350+ Apache Projects and their communities? Donate online using ACH, credit card, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Microsoft Pay https://donate.apache.org/

Apache Community Notices

 - The Apache Month in Review: November 2021 https://s.apache.org/November2021 and video highlights https://youtu.be/L1qMXw5MxJQ

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

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

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success 

 - Foundation Reports and Statements

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

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

Posted at 03:25PM Jan 03, 2022 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache Weekly News Round-up: week ending 24 December 2021

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

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 19 January 2022. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.99%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. View the ASF's Infrastructure Uptime site to see the most recent averages.

Apache Code Snapshot – Over the past week, 317 Apache Committers changed 9,133,089 lines of code over 3,258 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Gary Gregory, Harikrishna Patnala, Claus Ibsen, Duo Zhang, and Andi Huber.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache NiFi 1.15.2 released
 - Apache HBase 3.0.0-alpha-2 released
 - Apache Parquet 1.11.2 and 1.12.2 released
   -- CVE-2021-41561: Potential DoS in case of malicious Parquet file

Build Management --
 - Apache Archiva 2.2.7 released

Content --
 - Apache JSPWiki 2.11.1 released
 - Apache Traffic Control 6.0.2 released
 - Apache Jackrabbit FileVault 3.5.8  released
 - Apache Tika 1.28 and 2.2.1 released

Databases --
 - Apache Geode 1.12.7, 1.13.6, and 1.14.2 released 

Data Management Platform --
 - Apache Ignite 2.11.1 released

IoT --
 - Apache PLC4X 0.9.1 released
   -- CVE-2021-43083: Buffer overflow in PLC4C via crafted server response 

Enterprise Processes Automation / ERP --
 - Apache OFBiz 18.12.04 released 

Libraries --
 - Apache Log4j 2.3.1, 2.12.3, and 2.17.0 released
   -- CVE-2021-45105: Log4j2 does not always protect from infinite recursion in lookup evaluation
 - Apache MXNet (Incubating) 1.9.0 released
 - Apache Daffodil 3.2.1 released

Mail --
  - Apache James 3.6.1 released 

Messaging -- 
 - Apache Qpid JMS 0.60.1, 0.61.0, 1.4.1, and 1.5.0 released
 - Apache Pulsar 2.9.1 released 

Search --
 - Apache Lucene 8.11.1 released
 - Apache Solr 8.11.1 released
   -- CVE-2021-44548: Apache Solr information disclosure vulnerability through DataImportHandler 

Servers --
 - Apache HTTP Server 2.4.52 released
   -- CVE-2021-44790: Possible buffer overflow when parsing multipart content in mod_lua
   -- CVE-2021-44224: Possible NULL dereference or SSRF in forward proxy configurations
 - Apache HttpComponents Core 5.1.3 GA released

Web Frameworks--
- Apache Struts 2.5.28.1 and 2.5.28.2 released 

Workflow --
 - Apache DolphinScheduler 2.0.1 released
 - Apache Airflow 2.2.3 released

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that ASF Security posted the status of more than three dozen Apache Projects in relation to the recent Apache Log4j vulnerability? https://blogs.apache.org/security/entry/cve-2021-44228 (please check individual projects not included in this list for updates)

 - Did you know that Apache Roller (which powers blogs.apache.org) new v6.1.0 contains upgrades for more than a dozen dependencies (including Log4j), along with many bug fixes and improvements to the code base? https://roller.apache.org/

 - Did you know that tax-deductible donations support the ASF's day-to-day operations that benefit 350+ Apache Projects and their communities? Donate online using ACH, credit card, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Microsoft Pay https://donate.apache.org/

Apache Community Notices

 - The Apache Month in Review: November 2021 https://s.apache.org/November2021 and video highlights https://youtu.be/L1qMXw5MxJQ

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

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

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success 

 - Foundation Reports and Statements

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

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

Posted at 02:38PM Dec 27, 2021 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache Weekly News Round-up: week ending 17 December 2021

We're wrapping up another great week with the following 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: 19 January 2022. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.99%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. View the ASF's Infrastructure Uptime site to see the most recent averages.

Apache Code Snapshot – Over the past week, 346 Apache Committers changed 1,957,663 lines of code over 3,699 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Sebastian Bazley, Claus Ibsen, Owen Nichols, Gary Gregory, and Daniel Gruno.  

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache Druid 0.22.1 released
 - Apache Calcite Avatica 1.20.0 released
 - Apache NiFi 1.15.1 released
 - Apache Flink 1.14.2, 1.13.5, 1.12.7, and 1.11.6 released 

Build Management --
 - Apache Archiva 2.2.6 released

Content --
 - Apache Jackrabbit 2.21.9  released
 - Apache Tika 2.2.0 released
 - Apache PDFBox 2.0.25 released 

Databases --
 - Apache Geode 1.12.6, 1.13.5, and 1.14.1 released 

Enterprise Processes Automation / ERP --
 - Apache OFBiz 18.12.03 released

Identity Management --
 - Apache Fortress 2.0.7 released 

Integration --
 - Apache Camel 3.14.0 released

Libraries --
 - Apache Log4j 2.12.2 and 2.16.0 released
   -- CVE-2021-4104: Deserialization of untrusted data in JMSAppender in Apache Log4j 1.2
   -- CVE-2021-45046: Thread Context Message Pattern and Context Lookup Pattern vulnerable to a denial of service attack

Search --
 - Apache Solr 8.11.1 released 

Servers --
 - Apache HttpComponents HttpAsyncClient 4.1.5 GA released 

Testing --
 - Apache JMeter 5.4.2 released 

Web Frameworks --
 - Apache Struts 2.5.28 released

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that the Apache Logging Services Project Management Committee (PMC) worked around the clock to release v.2.15.0 and v2.16.0 to address the critical Log4j RCE vulnerability? https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/

 - Did you know that many Apache Projects and their communities have provided patches, fixes, or guidelines for their users to mitigate the recent Apache Log4j Zero Day vulnerability? Check the list of Apache Projects affected by the Log4j CVE https://blogs.apache.org/security/entry/cve-2021-44228 , and read our published statement and FAQs at https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/apache-log4j-cves for more information.

 - Did you know that the Apache Local Chapter/Beijing recently celebrated its 2-year anniversary, joining Indore (2.5 years), Warsaw and Budapest (1.5 years), Lagos (4 months), and Shenzhen (launching this week!)? 

- Did you know that individuals and organizations can support the ASF through one-time and recurring tax-deductible donations online using ACH, credit card, and PayPal, as well as Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Microsoft Pay (using your mobile device)? https://donate.apache.org/

Apache Community Notices

 - The Apache Month in Review: November 2021 https://s.apache.org/November2021 and video highlights https://youtu.be/L1qMXw5MxJQ

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

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

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success 

 - Foundation Reports and Statements

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

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

Posted at 02:14PM Dec 20, 2021 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache Weekly News Round-up: week ending 10 December 2021

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

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 15 December 2021. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.80%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. View the ASF's Infrastructure Uptime site to see the most recent averages.

Apache Code Snapshot – Over the past week, 286 Apache Committers changed 2,227,208 lines of code over 2,986 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Mark Thomas, Sylwester Lachiewicz, Andi Huber, and Claus Ibsen.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Apache Attic --provides process and solutions when an Apache project has reached its end of life.
 - Apache Joshua is now retired

Big Data --
 - Apache Kyuubi (incubating) 1.4.0-incubating released

IDE --
 - Apache NetBeans 12.6 released

Libraries --
 - Apache Daffodil 3.2.0 released
 - Apache Log4j 2.15.0 released
   -- CVE-2021-44228: JNDI features do not protect against attacker controlled LDAP and other JNDI related endpoints

Observability --
- Apache SkyWalking 8.9.0, Satellite 0.4.0, and Kubernetes 4.2.0 released

Programming Languages --
 - Apache Groovy 4.0.0-rc-1 released

Search --
 - Apache Lucene 9.0.0 released

Servers --
 - Apache Tomcat 10.1.0-M8 (alpha), 10.0.14, and 9.0.56 released
 - Apache HttpComponents Core 4.4.15 released

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that Banco Central Do Brasil uses Apache Wicket for its Central Bank's Circulation Management System?

 - Did you know that the Apache Pinot Annual Recap and Roadmap MeetUp has been rescheduled to 13 December?

 - Did you know that individuals and organizations can support the ASF through one-time and repeat donations (weekly/monthly/quarterly/annually) online using ACH, credit card, and PayPal, as well as Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Microsoft Pay (using your mobile device)? https://donate.apache.org/

Apache Community Notices

 - The Apache Month in Review: November 2021 https://s.apache.org/November2021 and video highlights https://youtu.be/L1qMXw5MxJQ

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

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

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success 

 - Foundation Reports and Statements

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

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

Posted at 09:43PM Dec 13, 2021 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache Weekly News Round-up: week ending 3 December 2021

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

Apache Month in Review – a round-up of our Round-ups and other newsworthy bits over the past month.
 - November Month in Review

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 15 December 2021. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.74%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. View the ASF's Infrastructure Uptime site to see the most recent averages.

Apache Code Snapshot – Over the past week, 286 Apache Committers changed 9,525,136 lines of code over 4,725 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Krist Wongsuphasawat, Jesse Yang, Yongjie Zhao, Gary Gregory, and Ville Brofeldt.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

APIs --
 - Apache APISIX 2.11.0 released

Web Frameworks -
 - Apache Wicket 9.7.0 released

Did You Know?

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

 - Did you know that Apache Hudi enables streaming of hundreds of terabytes of data into data lakes each day?

 - Did you know that individual and corporate donations help the all-volunteer ASF continue to steward 350+ Apache Projects and their communities, and provide more than $22B worth of Apache software to the public good at 100% no charge? https://donate.apache.org/

Apache Community Notices

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

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

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success 

 - Foundation Reports and Statements

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

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

Posted at 02:50PM Dec 06, 2021 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

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

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

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 15 December 2021. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

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

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

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

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

Big Data --
 - Apache Beam 2.34.0 released

Cloud Computing --
 - Apache Kafka 2.6.3 released 

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

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

Integration --
 - Apache Camel 3.11.4 (LTS) released

Messaging --
 - Apache Qpid Dispatch 1.18.0 released

Did You Know?

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

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

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

Apache Community Notices

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

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

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

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success 

 - Foundation Reports and Statements

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

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

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

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

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

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 15 December 2021. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

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

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

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

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

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

Cloud Computing --
 - Apache CloudStack 4.16.0.0 released

Content --
 - Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.6.22 released

Integration --
 - Apache Camel 3.13.0 released

IoT --
 - Apache IoTDB 0.12.3 released

Observability --

- Apache SkyWalking Infra E2E 1.1.0 released

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

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

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

Web Frameworks --
 - Apache Struts 2.5.27 released

Did You Know?

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

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

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

Apache Community Notices

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

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

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

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success 

 - Foundation Reports and Statements

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

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

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

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

Messaging --
 - Apache Qpid Proton 0.36.0 released

Did You Know?

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

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

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

Apache Community Notices

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

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

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

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success 

 - Foundation Reports and Statements

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

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

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

Success at Apache: from Mentee to PMC

by Ephraim Anierobi

This post is about how I became a committer and a Project Management Committee (PMC) member of Apache Airflow, and provides guidance to those new to programming, are new to contributing to open-source projects, and want to become committers and PMC members in their respective Apache projects.

About a year and a half after changing my career from electrical engineering to software development, I became a committer and a Project Management Committee member of Apache Airflow. Becoming a committer and a PMC member is a reward and a kind of validation that you are on the right part of your journey.

On February 16, 2021, I accepted an invitation to become a committer in Apache Airflow. It came as a surprise, as I was not expecting it. Six months down the line, I received another surprise invitation to become a PMC member in Apache Airflow.

These are impressive feats for me because before contributing to Apache Airflow, I didn't have experience working with other programmers. I was making websites and taught a few friends of mine how to make their own. I didn't have a mentor, and no one has ever seen my code to advise whether to continue on my journey or drop the idea of becoming a programmer.

While I desired to work with experienced programmers to improve my skills, I feared people seeing my code would talk me down. I almost gave up on my journey only to come across an Outreachy post on Twitter looking for interns for open source projects. Outreachy is a tech diversity program that provides three months of paid, remote internships to people underrepresented in tech.

I was ready to change my career and was looking for mentorship, but couldn't find an internship that could help me get started in my journey. In Nigeria where I'm living, your location affects your chances of getting an entry-level job. I was not close to the major cities. 

So I applied for an internship through Outreachy. 

There are two application processes. The initial application involves explaining your background and why you should be accepted into the program. You must pass the initial application before you could proceed to the next. The second application process (called the contribution period) is where you choose an open source project that matches your skill sets and then contribute to it. You must have some minimum contributions before you could be accepted.

That was how I found Apache Airflow.

You could imagine the joy I had when I was accepted into the program.

Here are things I did which I believe would help you in your journey to becoming an Apache committer and a PMC member.

Asking Questions

Asking questions is the fastest way to learn. Don't be afraid to ask questions if you do not understand something. I ask questions a lot and I always get answers, but I didn't start by asking questions: I made 40 commits to the repository without understanding what Airflow does. It was not until I joined my new employer Astronomer that I learned what DAG is and what a data pipeline is. Now I can easily reproduce issues following someone's descriptions. I wish I had asked questions earlier --I could have had more experience by now!

Start small

If you are like me, with little experience, start contributing from the minor issues. Find good first issues and work on them. You don't have to wait to contribute a large change before contributing.

While working on the REST API project, which I got hired by Outreachy to do, I was looking at the codebase. I started with Airflow providers because it was easy for me to understand. There were so many requests about providers at the time and I started looking into it, reading the code base, and helping with the providers. I didn't go into the core straight up; I avoided it. My first PR was on simple database migration during the Outreachy contribution period.

Refactor codes

Airflow is complex. Till now, I'm still learning it. Just last week I learned about how the execution date works. I know there are a lot of other things I have not understood very well but refactoring helped me to understand a lot.

When I was to work in the scheduler, I found the file was so large that I went back and forth without progress. I worked on separating the files and I'm glad I did because after that I could contribute. I recommend refactoring code but do not go into large refactoring. A little at a time, with the hope to understand the project. Avoid the core of the project if you are just starting.

Issues

One thing about issues is that most reporters would tell you how to reproduce them. Most times, you would find that the issue is quite easy to fix. I usually jump on those and fix them. Other times, I had to contact my superiors before I could fix it.

Looking at reported issues gives an added advantage that you could learn how the software works in the real world. Try to reproduce as many issues as possible. It adds to your knowledge.

Pull Requests

Here's where you can learn a great deal. I start my day by looking at the PRs. Most PRs link to issues. I read the issues and study PRs. I must admit that some of these PRs are just too complex for me. If I don't understand it, sometimes I ask questions, other times I go to the next PR. When I jump to the next PR, I record the topic that made me jump to the next and plan on reading about it some other time.

When you make a PR, ask for reviews in the community channel of communication. Airflow uses Slack and the mailing list for communications. You should ask for reviews in the slack channel and not the mailing list. The reviews not only give information on how to fix the problem but also teach you best practices in programming.

Culture

The ASF has a code of conduct that covers the Foundations activities as well as the projects. Read it first.

Among many other things, you would learn in Apache Airflow is communication. How to communicate with people in a civil manner. Spend time reading PR reviews, you will learn a lot and especially how to ask people to make changes to their code.

Conclusion

You don't have to wait for an invitation to contribute to an Apache project. You don't have to become an Outreachy intern to get involved with something you're interested in.

Don't be afraid to make a PR because nobody will penalize you if you're wrong. I know the feeling that people may think you are not good enough, forget it, they know you are new to the field and if you are thinking that they don't know your level in the language, forget it too, they know you are still a junior because it says so in your code. I can't count how many times I have had code reviews that showed me a better way to implement the code. Be open-minded, make mistakes, and excel.

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Ephraim Anierobi started to work on the Apache Airflow project as an Outreachy Intern in May 2020. He became a committer in February 2021 and a member of the Apache Airflow Project Management Committee (PMC) in August 2021. He is a software engineer at Astronomer.

Posted at 02:32PM Sep 16, 2021 by Sally Khudairi in SuccessAtApache  |   | 

The Apache Drill Project Announces Apache® Drill(TM) v1.19 Milestone Release

Open Source, enterprise-grade, schema-free Big Data SQL query engine used by thousands of organizations, including Ant Group, Cisco, Ericsson, Intuit, MicroStrategy, Tableau, TIBCO, TransUnion, Twitter, and more.

Wilmington, DE —30 August 2021— The Apache Drill Project announced the release of Apache® DrillTM v1.19, the schema-free Big Data SQL query engine for Apache Hadoop®, NoSQL, and Cloud storage.

"Drill 1.19 is our biggest release ever," said Charles Givre, Vice President of Apache Drill. "With an already short learning curve, Drill 1.19 makes it even easier for users to quickly query, analyze, and visualize data from disparate sources and complex data sets.”

An "SQL-on-Hadoop" engine, Apache Drill is easy to deploy, highly performant, able to quickly process trillions of records, and scalable from a single laptop to a 1000-node cluster. With its schema-free JSON model (the first distributed SQL query engine of its kind), Drill is able to query complex semi-structured data in situ without requiring users to define schemas or transform data. It provides plug-and-play integration with existing Hive and HBase deployments, and is extensible out-of-the-box to access multiple data sources, such as S3 and Apache HDFS, HBase, and Hive. Additionally, Drill can directly query data from REST APIs to include platforms like SalesForce and ServiceNow. 

Drill supports the ANSI SQL 2003 standard syntax ecosystem as well as dozens of NoSQL databases and file systems, including Apache HBase, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, REST APIs, , HDFS, MapR-FS, Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, NAS,  local files, and more. Drill leverages familiar BI tools (such as Apache Superset, Tableau, MicroStrategy, QlikView and Excel) as well as data virtualization and visualization tools, and runs interactive queries on Hive tables with different Hive metastores.

Apache Drill v1.19
Drill is designed from the ground up to support high-performance analysis on rapidly evolving data on modern Big Data applications. v1.19 reflects more than 100 changes, improvements, and new features that include:

• New Connectors for Apache Cassandra, Elasticsearch, and Splunk.
  
  
• New Format Reader for XML without schemas
  
  
• Added Avro support for Kafka plugin
  
  
• Integrated password vault for secure credential storage
  
  
• Support for Linux ARM64 systems
  
  
• Added limit pushdowns for file systems, HTTP REST APIs and MongoDB
  
  
• Added streaming for Drill's REST API
  
  
• Integration with Apache Airflow

Developers, analysts, business users, and data scientists use Apache Drill for data exploration and analysis for its enterprise-grade reliability, security, and performance. Drill's flexibility and ease-of-use have attracted thousands of users that include Ant Group, Cardlytics, Cisco, Ericsson, Intuit, MicroStrategy, Qlik, Tableau, TIBCO, TransUnion, Twitter, National University of Singapore, and more.

"Individuals, businesses, and organizations of all types rely on Apache Drill's rich functionality," added Givre. "We invite everyone to participate in our user and developer lists as well as our Slack channel, and contribute to the project to build on our momentum and help improve the future experience for all Drill users."

Catch Apache Drill in action at ApacheCon@Home, taking place online 21-23 September 2021. For more information and to register, visit https://www.apachecon.com/ .

Availability and Oversight
Apache Drill software is released under the Apache License v2.0 and is overseen by a volunteer, self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases.

About Apache Drill
Apache Drill is the Open Source, schema-free Big Data SQL query engine for Apache Hadoop, NoSQL, and Cloud storage. For more information, including documentation and ways to become involved with Apache Drill, visit http://drill.apache.org/ , https://twitter.com/ApacheDrill , and https://apache-drill.slack.com/ .

© The Apache Software Foundation. "Apache", "Drill", "Apache Drill", and "ApacheCon" are registered trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Posted at 01:00PM Aug 30, 2021 by Sally Khudairi in General  |   | 

The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Gobblin™ as a Top-Level Project

Open Source distributed Big Data integration framework in use at Apple, CERN, Comcast, Intel, LinkedIn, Nerdwallet, PayPal, Prezi, Roku, Sandia National Labs, Swisscom, Verizon, and more.

Wilmington, DE —16 February 2021— The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today Apache® Gobblin™ as a Top-Level Project (TLP).

Apache Gobblin is a distributed Big Data integration framework used in both streaming and batch data ecosystems. The project originated at LinkedIn in 2014, was open-sourced in 2015, and entered the Apache Incubator in February 2017.

"We are excited that Gobblin has completed the incubation process and is now an Apache Top-Level Project," said Abhishek Tiwari, Vice President of Apache Gobblin and software engineering manager at LinkedIn. "Since entering the Apache Incubator, we have completed four releases and grown our community the Apache Way to more than 75 contributors from around the world."

Apache Gobblin is used to integrate hundreds of terabytes and thousands of datasets per day by simplifying the ingestion, replication, organization, and lifecycle management processes across numerous execution environments, data velocities, scale, connectors, and more.

"Originally creating this project, seeing it come to life and solve mission-critical problems at many companies has been a very gratifying experience for me and the entire Gobblin team," said Shirshanka Das, Founder and CTO at Acryl Data, and member of the Apache Gobblin Project Management Committee.

As a highly scalable data management solution for structured and byte-oriented data in heterogeneous data ecosystems, Apache Gobblin makes the arduous task of creating and maintaining a modern data lake easy. It supports the three main capabilities required by every data team: 

• Ingestion and export of data from a variety of sources and sinks into and out of the data lake while supporting simple transformations. 
• Data Organization within the lake (e.g. compaction, partitioning, deduplication).
• Lifecycle and Compliance Management of data within the lake (e.g. data retention, fine-grain data deletions) driven by metadata.

"Apache Gobblin supports deployment models all the way from a single-process standalone application to thousands of containers running in cloud-native environments, ensuring that your data plane can scale with your company’s growth," added Das.

Apache Gobblin is in use at Apple, CERN, Comcast, Intel, LinkedIn, Nerdwallet, PayPal, Prezi, Roku, Sandia National Laboratories, Swisscom, and Verizon, among many others.

"We chose Apache Gobblin as our primary data ingestion tool at Prezi because it proved to scale, and it is a swiss army knife of data ingestion," said Tamas Nemeth, Tech Lead and Manager at Prezi. "Today, we ingest, deduplicate, and compact more than 1200 Apache Kafka topics with its help, and this number is still growing. We are looking forward to continuing to contribute to the project and helping the community enable other companies to use Apache Gobblin."

"Apache Gobblin has been at the center stage of the data management story at LinkedIn. We leverage it for various use-cases ranging from ingestion, replication, compaction, retention, and more," said Kapil Surlaker, Vice President of Engineering at LinkedIn. "It is battle-tested and serves us well at exabyte scale. We firmly believe in the data wrangling capabilities that Gobblin has to offer, and we will continue to contribute heavily and collaborate with the Apache Gobblin community. We are happy to see that Gobblin has established itself as an industry standard and is now an Apache Top-Level Project."

"Open community and meritocracy are the key drivers for Apache Gobblin's success," added Tiwari. "We invite everyone interested in the data management space to join us and help shape the future of Gobblin."

Catch Apache Gobblin in action in the upcoming hackathon planned for late Q1 2021. Details will be posted on the Apache Gobblin mailing lists and Twitter feed listed below.

Availability and Oversight
Apache Gobblin software is released under the Apache License v2.0 and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. For downloads, documentation, and ways to become involved with Apache Gobblin, visit https://gobblin.apache.org/ and https://twitter.com/ApacheGobblin 

About the Apache Incubator
The Apache Incubator is the primary entry path for projects and codebases wishing to become part of the efforts at The Apache Software Foundation. All code donations from external organizations and existing external projects enter the ASF through the Incubator to: 1) ensure all donations are in accordance with the ASF legal standards; and 2) develop new communities that adhere to our guiding principles. Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF. For more information, visit http://incubator.apache.org/ 

About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
Established in 1999, The Apache Software Foundation is the world’s largest Open Source foundation, stewarding 227M+ lines of code and providing more than $20B+ worth of software to the public at 100% no cost. The ASF’s all-volunteer community grew from 21 original founders overseeing the Apache HTTP Server to 813 individual Members and 206 Project Management Committees who successfully lead 350+ Apache projects and initiatives in collaboration with nearly 8,000 Committers through the ASF’s meritocratic process known as "The Apache Way". Apache software is integral to nearly every end user computing device, from laptops to tablets to mobile devices across enterprises and mission-critical applications. Apache projects power most of the Internet, manage exabytes of data, execute teraflops of operations, and store billions of objects in virtually every industry. The commercially-friendly and permissive Apache License v2 is an Open Source industry standard, helping launch billion dollar corporations and benefiting countless users worldwide. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) not-for-profit charitable organization funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Aetna, Alibaba Cloud Computing, Amazon Web Services, Anonymous, Baidu, Bloomberg, Budget Direct, Capital One, Cloudera, Comcast, Didi Chuxing, Facebook, Google, Handshake, Huawei, IBM, Microsoft, Pineapple Fund, Red Hat, Reprise Software, Target, Tencent, Union Investment, Verizon Media, and Workday. For more information, visit http://apache.org/ and https://twitter.com/TheASF 

© The Apache Software Foundation. "Apache", "Gobblin", "Apache Gobblin", "Hadoop", "Apache Hadoop", "MapReduce", "Apache MapReduce", "Mesos", "Apache Mesos", "YARN", "Apache YARN", and "ApacheCon" are registered trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Posted at 02:00PM Feb 16, 2021 by Sally Khudairi in General  |   |