The Apache News Round-up: week ending 15 November 2019

Greetings all. It's time to review the Apache community's activities from the past week:

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: May - July 2019 https://s.apache.org/a6s40
 - Next Board Meeting: 20 November 2019. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998
 - ApacheCon 2019 events are complete: catch the latest from Berlin, including 
    -- interviews on Feathercast https://feathercast.apache.org/
    -- session slide decks at https://aceu19.apachecon.com/sessions
    -- select plenaries, keynotes, and presentations on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/TheApacheFoundation
    -- photos on ApacheCon https://photos.apachecon.com/ and Flickr https://www.flickr.com/groups/apachecon/pool/

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at a rocking 99.99%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 878 Apache contributors changed 1,385,567 lines of code over 3,657 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Tellier Benoit, Alex Herbert, Mark Thomas, Claus Ibsen, and Andi Huber.   

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache BookKeeper 4.10.0 released http://bookkeeper.apache.org

Content --
 - Apache Jackrabbit 2.18.4 and Oak 1.10.6 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org
 - Apache UIMA Java SDK 3.1.1 released http://uima.apache.org

Libraries --
 - Apache ServiceComb Service-Center 1.3.0 released http://servicecomb.apache.org
 - Apache Commons RNG Version 1.3 released https://commons.apache.org

Messaging --
 - Apache Qpid JMS 0.47.0 released http://qpid.apache.org

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that the Federal Aviation Administration is Powered by Apache? System-wide information management enables every airplane take off and land in US airspace using Apache Camel and Apache ActiveMQ. https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?category

- Did you know that Lyft's real-time data querying and alerting is powered by Apache Druid (incubating), Flink, and Kafka? http://druid.apache.org/

 - Did you know that 9M+ source code downloads from Apache mirrors (excluding convenience binaries)? https://s.apache.org/w7bw1

Apache Community Notices:

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

 - Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary

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

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

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

 - ASF Annual Report for FY2019 https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport

 - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement https://s.apache.org/zqC3

 - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. https://s.apache.org/PIRA

Posted at 06:53AM Nov 15, 2019 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 8 November 2019

Happy Friday: it's time to look back at our activities 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: 20 November 2019. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998
 - ApacheCon 2019 events are complete: catch the latest from Berlin, including 
    -- interviews on Feathercast https://feathercast.apache.org/
    -- session slide decks at https://aceu19.apachecon.com/sessions
    -- select plenaries, keynotes, and presentations on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/TheApacheFoundation
    -- photos on ApacheCon https://photos.apachecon.com/ and Flickr https://www.flickr.com/groups/apachecon/pool/

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

Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 830 Apache contributors changed 939,092 lines of code over 3,390 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Andrea Cosentino, Daniel Sun, Eroma Abeysinghe, Andrew Palumbo, and Mark Thomas. 

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache NiFi 1.10.0 released https://nifi.apache.org/
 - Apache Kudu 1.11.0 released https://kudu.apache.org/

IDE --
 - Apache NetBeans 11.2 released http://netbeans.apache.org/

Machine Learning --
 - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® SINGA™ as a Top-Level Project https://s.apache.org/j40py

Search --
 - Apache Lucene Solr 8.3.0 released http://lucene.apache.org/

Servers --
 - Apache HttpComponents Core 5.0 beta10 (GA candidate) released http://hc.apache.org

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that the following Apache projects are celebrating anniversaries this month? Ant (17 years); Labs (13 years); HttpComponents (12 years); Attic, Buildr, CouchDB, Qpid (11 years); Community Development (10 years); OODT and ZooKeeper (9 years); Kafka and Syncope (7 years); Ambari and Marmotta (6 years); BookKeeper, Drill, and MetaModel (5 years); Brooklyn, Groovy, Kylin, and REEF (4 years); Geode (3 years); Guacamole, Impala, and Mnemonic (2 years); Griffin (1 year) --many happy returns! https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date

 - Did you know that Apache CouchDB http://couchdb.apache.org/ powered a vaccination trial software that led to the first Ebola vaccine? Learn more at https://www.ibm.com/cloud/blog/new-builders/database-deep-dives-couchdb

 - Did you know that the apache.org has 35M page views per week? https://s.apache.org/w7bw1

Apache Community Notices:

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

 - Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary

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

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

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

 - ASF Annual Report for FY2019 https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport

 - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement https://s.apache.org/zqC3

 - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. https://s.apache.org/PIRA

Posted at 09:52AM Nov 08, 2019 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 1 November 2019

Welcome, November! We're wrapping up another great week with the following activities:

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 20 November 2019. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998
 - ApacheCon 2019 events are complete: catch the latest from Berlin, including
    -- interviews on Feathercast https://feathercast.apache.org/
    -- session slide decks at https://aceu19.apachecon.com/sessions
    -- select plenaries, keynotes, and presentations on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/TheApacheFoundation
    -- photos on ApacheCon https://photos.apachecon.com/ and Flickr https://www.flickr.com/groups/apachecon/pool/

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at a rocking 99.99%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 886 Apache contributors changed 3,674,625 lines of code over 3,745 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Etienne Chauchot, Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Till Rohrmann, Oleh Martushevskyi, and Eric Milles.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache HBase 1.3.6, 1.4.11, and 2.2.2 released https://hbase.apache.org/
 - Apache Kafka 2.3.1 released https://kafka.apache.org/

Build Management --
 - Apache Ivy 2.5.0 released https://ant.apache.org/ivy

Databases --
 - Apache IoTDB (Incubating) 0.8.1 released http://iotdb.apache.org

Libraries --
 - Apache Groovy 3.0.0-rc-1 released http://groovy.apache.org/

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that you can add your photos from ApacheCon to https://photos.apachecon.com/ ? Register at http://s.apache.org/photos and share!

 - Did you know that you can stream analytics and scoring to deliver customizable insights based on billions of data points in real-time using Apache Flink, Cassandra, and Druid (incubating)? https://flink.apache.org/ https://cassandra.apache.org/ https://druid.apache.org/

 - Did you know that the top 5 Apache repositories by lines of code are: NetBeans, OpenOffice, Flex (combined), Mynewt (combined), and Trafodion? https://s.apache.org/w7bw1

Apache Community Notices:

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

 - Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary

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

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

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

 - ASF Annual Report for FY2019 https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport

 - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement https://s.apache.org/zqC3

 - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. https://s.apache.org/PIRA

Posted at 06:24AM Nov 01, 2019 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 25 October 2019

Happy Friday! We're wrapping up another great week with the following activities:

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 20 November 2019. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998
 - ApacheCon Europe has wrapped: catch the latest from Berlin, including
    -- interviews on Feathercast https://feathercast.apache.org/
    -- session slide decks at https://aceu19.apachecon.com/sessions
    -- select plenaries, keynotes, and presentations on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/TheApacheFoundation
    -- photos on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/groups/apachecon/pool/

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at a rocking 99.38%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 857 Apache contributors changed 8,355,896 lines of code over 3,516 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Etienne Chauchot, Mark Robert Miller, Andrea Cosentino, Gary Gregory, and Jean-Baptiste Onofré.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Blockchain --
 - Apache Tuweni (Incubating) 0.9.0 released http://tuweni.apache.org

Content --
 - Apache POI 4.1.1 released https://poi.apache.org/

Web Frameworks --
 - Apache MyFaces Core 2.3.5 released http://myfaces.apache.org/

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that, 16 years ago, the European Commission ran their first Apache Web Server for internal use, and today are using numerous Apache projects for various public services, including 1,500 Tomcat servers, nearly 1,000 Apache HTTP Servers, and approximately 300 Lucene search engines in their data centers? https://youtu.be/2EvCF4XKLso

 - Did you know that ApacheCon Media Partner Manning Books are offering 40% off all books and videos online using discount code ctwapacheconeu19 ? Shop at https://manning.com

 - Did you know that the top 5 Apache repositories by number of commits are: Camel, Hadoop, HBase, Beam, and Flink? https://s.apache.org/w7bw1

Apache Community Notices:

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

 - Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary

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

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

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

 - ASF Annual Report for FY2019 https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport

 - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement https://s.apache.org/zqC3

 - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. https://s.apache.org/PIRA

Posted at 06:47AM Oct 25, 2019 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 18 October 2019

Greetings all. It's time to review the Apache community's activities from the past week:

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 20 November 2019. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998
 - *T-4 days* to ApacheCon Europe
    --TRACKS: Big Data, Cloud, Community, IoT, Machine Learning, Open Source Design, Servers, and more.
    --KEYNOTES: European Commission DG DIGIT Director Thomas Gageik; Mastercard EVP for Global Cities Miguel A. Gamiño; writer/political analyst/activist Nanjala Nyabola; and ASF Founders Lars Eilebrecht, Cliff Skolnick, and Dirk-Willem van Gulik. 
    --SPECIAL EVENTS: BarCampApache, Hackathon, Movie Night, and more!
    --JOIN US: https://www.apachecon.com/

 - ApacheCon/Las Vegas presentations now available, exclusively on Feathercast https://feathercast.apache.org/ and YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/TheApacheFoundation

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at a rocking 99.99%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 857 Apache contributors changed 2,044,524 lines of code over 3,121 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Mark Thomas, Claus Ibsen, Gary Gregory, Tilman Hausherr, and Eric Milles.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
- Apache Kylin 2.6.4 released http://kylin.apache.org

Blockchain --
 - Apache Tuweni (Incubating) 0.9.0 released http://tuweni.apache.org

Content --
 - Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.6.18 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org

Libraries --
 - Apache MXNet (Incubating) 1.5.1 released http://mxnet.incubator.apache.org
 - Apache Commons Daemon 1.2.2 released http://commons.apache.org

Messaging --
 - Apache Qpid Broker-J 7.1.5 released http://qpid.apache.org

Servers --
 - Apache Tomcat 8.5.47 and 9.0.27 released http://tomcat.apache.org

Web Crawler --
 - Apache Nutch 1.16 and 2.4 released http://nutch.apache.org

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that the Apache Feather is on its way to Berlin? Be a part of Open Source history --the community is signing the feather and celebrating 20 years of The Apache Way-- join us next week at ApacheCon Europe! https://twitter.com/TheASF/status/1185016927632183298

 - Did you know that our new "Build a Badge" app lets you adopt the #LoveApache badge (and the customized version for ApacheCon Europe)? Many people and projects are jumping on the bandwagon: give it a try! https://apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#badges

 - Did you know that the top 5 most active/visited Apache projects: Hadoop, Kafka, Lucene, POI, ZooKeeper https://s.apache.org/w7bw1

Apache Community Notices:

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

 - Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary

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

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

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

 - ASF Annual Report for FY2019 https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport

 - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement https://s.apache.org/zqC3

 - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. https://s.apache.org/PIRA

Posted at 06:02AM Oct 18, 2019 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 11 October 2019

Happy Friday, everyone --let's review what the Apache community has been up to over the past week:

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - The ASF welcomes Dave Fisher as a Director https://s.apache.org/vlu1t
 - Next Board Meeting: 16 October 2019. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998
 - *T-11 days* to ApacheCon Europe
    --TRACKS: Big Data, Cloud, Community, IoT, Machine Learning, Open Source Design, Servers, and more.
    --KEYNOTES: European Commission DG DIGIT Director Thomas Gageik; Mastercard EVP for Global Cities Miguel A. Gamiño; writer/political analyst/activist Nanjala Nyabola; and ASF Founders Lars Eilebrecht, Cliff Skolnick, and Dirk-Willem van Gulik. 
    --SPECIAL EVENTS: BarCampApache, Hackathon, Movie Night, and more!
    --JOIN US: https://www.apachecon.com/

 - ApacheCon/Las Vegas presentations now available, exclusively on Feathercast https://feathercast.apache.org/ and YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/TheApacheFoundation

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

Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 402 Apache contributors changed 877,602 lines of code over 2,173 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Gary Gregory, Andi Huber, Krisztián Szűcs, Joel Bernstein, and Jiajun Wang.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache Arrow 0.15.0 released http://arrow.apache.org/
 - Apache Beam 2.16.0 released https://beam.apache.org
 - Apache HBase 2.1.7 released https://hbase.apache.org/

Content --
 - Apache Allura 1.12.0 released https://allura.apache.org/
 - Apache Jackrabbit 2.19.5 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/

Servers --
 - HttpComponents Core 5.0 beta9 (GA candidate) and HttpComponents Client 5.0 beta6 (GA candidate) released http://hc.apache.org/
 - HTTP Server mod_perl-2.0.11 released https://perl.apache.org/

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that ApacheCon Europe Community Partners include the European Commission Directorate-General for Informatics (DIGIT), and whose director, Thomas Gageik, will be keynoting the event? https://aceu19.apachecon.com/

 - Did you know that Apache Airflow and Druid (incubating), plus solutions based on Apache Ignite and Spark, won 2019 InfoWorld Bossie Awards? https://infoworld.com/article/3444198/the-best-open-source-software-of-2019.html

 - Did you know that during ApacheCon North America, we collaborated with technologist/photographer Peter Adams on "Community Over Code. Code Over Community"? https://blogs.apache.org/press/entry/community-over-code-code-over

Apache Community Notices:

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

 - Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary

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

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

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

 - ASF Annual Report for FY2019 https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport

 - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement https://s.apache.org/zqC3

 - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. https://s.apache.org/PIRA

Posted at 02:01PM Oct 11, 2019 by Sally in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 4 October 2019

Well hello, October --we're off to a great start with the latest 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 October 2019. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998
 - *T-18 days* to ApacheCon Europe
    --TRACKS in Big Data, Cloud, Community, IoT, Machine Learning, Open Source Design, Servers, and more.
    --KEYNOTES by European Commission Director for Digital Business Solutions at the Directorate-General for Informatics (DG DIGIT) Thomas Gageik; Mastercard Executive Vice President for Global Cities Miguel A. Gamiño; and writer, political analyst, and activist Nanjala Nyabola. Plus special keynote panel with ASF Founders Lars Eilebrecht, Cliff Skolnick, and Dirk-Willem van Gulik. 
    --SPECIAL EVENTS include BarCampApache, Hackathon, Movie Night, and more!
    --REGISTER TODAY and SAVE: EARLY REGISTRATION ends soon! Group rates available too :-) https://www.apachecon.com/

 - ApacheCon/Las Vegas presentations now available, exclusively on Feathercast https://feathercast.apache.org/ and YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/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 – this week, 385 Apache contributors changed 527,624 lines of code over 2,168 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Andrea Cosentino, Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Dan Haywood, Wei-Chiu Chuang, and Mark Thomas.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Content --
 - Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.18.0 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/

Geospatial --
 - Apache SIS 1.0 released http://sis.apache.org/

Libraries --
 - Apache Commons BCEL Version 6.4.1 released https://commons.apache.org/

Messaging --
 - Apache Qpid JMS 0.46.0 released http://qpid.apache.org

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that ApacheCon Europe Community Partners include the European Commission Directorate-General for Informatics (DIGIT), and whose director, Thomas Gageik, will be keynoting the event? https://aceu19.apachecon.com/

 - Did you know that during ApacheCon/Las Vegas, Apache projects added 406 new committers, and Apache Calcite, Camel, Flink, Maven, SkyWalking,Syncope, Tapestry, and Wicket issued new releases? https://projects.apache.org

 - Did you know that during ApacheCon North America, we resumed principal photography on "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on The Apache Software Foundation that first began 10 years ago. Filming will continue at ApacheCon in Berlin --https://s.apache.org/ek3h8

Apache Community Notices:

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

 - Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary

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

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

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

 - ASF Annual Report for FY2019 https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport

 - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement https://s.apache.org/zqC3

 - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. https://s.apache.org/PIRA

Posted at 01:22PM Oct 04, 2019 by Sally in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 27 September 2019

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

Success at Apache – the monthly blog series that focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works".
 - "Why you'd want to become an Apache Committer" by Dmitriy Pavlov https://s.apache.org/iflt2
 - "Mentor Your Mentor" by Patricia Shanahan https://s.apache.org/orco1

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 16 October 2019. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998
 - *T-26 days* to ApacheCon Europe --register TODAY! https://www.apachecon.com/
 - The Apache^® Software Foundation Announces Program Highlights for ApacheCon™ Europe https://s.apache.org/0ovfn
 - ApacheCon/Las Vegas presentations now available, exclusively on Feathercast https://feathercast.apache.org/

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. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 803 Apache contributors changed 9,613,292 lines of code over 3,213 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Till Rohrmann, Andrea Cosentino, Stephen Mallette, Tellier Benoit, and Mark Thomas.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Rya™ as a Top-Level Project https://s.apache.org/0xc4g
 - Apache Ignite 2.7.6 released http://ignite.apache.org/

Content --
 - Apache JSPWiki 2.11.0.M5 released https://jspwiki-wiki.apache.org/
 - Apache PDFBox 2.0.17 released http://pdfbox.apache.org/
 - Apache OpenOffice 4.1.7 released http://openoffice.apache.org/

Database --
 - Apache Druid (Incubating) 0.16.0 released http://druid.incubator.apache.org
 - Apache Geode 1.10.0 released http://geode.apache.org/

Libraries --
 - Apache Tuweni (Incubating) 0.8.2 released http://tuweni.incubator.apache.org/
 - Apache Juneau 8.1.1 released http://juneau.apache.org
 - Apache Commons BCEL 6.4.0 released http://commons.apache.org/
 - Apache Qpid Dispatch 1.9.0 released http://qpid.apache.org/

Servers --
 - Apache Tomcat 8.5.46 and 9.0.26 released http://tomcat.apache.org

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that ApacheCon Europe Community Partners include the European Commission Directorate-General for Informatics (DIGIT) and the Open Source Design community? Join us and connect! https://aceu19.apachecon.com/

 - Did you know that the ApacheCon Europe team have evolved our #LoveApache badges and created an awesome icon generator so you can easily customize your own? Give it a try https://aceu19.apachecon.com/enhance-your-social-media-avatar

 - Did you know that during ApacheCon North America, we shot "Community Over Code. Code Over Community", a special project in collaboration with technologist/photographer Peter Adams in celebration of the 20th Anniversary of The ASF? https://s.apache.org/fo9n2

Apache Community Notices:

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

 - Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary

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

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

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

 - ASF Annual Report for FY2019 https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport

 - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement https://s.apache.org/zqC3

 - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. https://s.apache.org/PIRA

Posted at 09:16AM Sep 27, 2019 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

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The Apache News Round-up: week ending 20 September 2019

Happy Friday, everyone. Let's take a look at how the past week has progressed:

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
- Next Board Meeting: 16 October 2019. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998
 - Countdown to ApacheCon Europe --REGISTER TODAY! https://www.apachecon.com/
 - NEW! The latest presentations from ApacheCon/Las Vegas exclusively on Feathercast https://feathercast.apache.org/

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 – this week, 825 Apache contributors changed 2,115,070 lines of code over 2,959 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Mark Robert Miller, Andrea Cosentino, Stephen Mallette, Mark Thomas, and Daniel Keir Haywood.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Content --
 - Apache Jackrabbit 2.14.8 and Oak 1.8.17, 1.10.5 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org

Identity Management --
 - Apache Syncope 2.0.14 and 2.1.5 released http://syncope.apache.org

Libraries --
 - Apache Commons Configuration 2.6 released https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-configuration

Web Frameworks --
 - Apache Wicket 8.6.1 and 9.0.0-M3 released http://wicket.apache.org

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that the Open Source Design community (ApacheCon Europe Community Partners) are holding a FREE workshop on October 25th (immediately following ApacheCon)? Register today, as space is limited! https://aceu19.apachecon.com/open-source-design-workshop

 - Did you know the four things "Father of Java" James Gosling loves about Apache? Learn more in "My personal journey to Open Source", James's keynote at ApacheCon North America https://s.apache.org/0q20b

 - Did you know that the ASF exceeded 7,000 code Committers https://s.apache.org/w7bw1

Apache Community Notices:

 - Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary

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

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

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

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

 - ASF Annual Report for FY2019 https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport

 - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement https://s.apache.org/zqC3

 - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. https://s.apache.org/PIRA

Posted at 08:51AM Sep 20, 2019 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 13 September 2019

Happy Friday! We're wrapping up another great week with the following activities:

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
- Next Board Meeting: 18 September 2019. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998
 - Countdown to ApacheCon Europe -- we look forward to seeing you in Berlin -- REGISTER TODAY! https://www.apachecon.com/
 - NEW! Catch the latest presentations from ApacheCon/Las Vegas exclusively on Feathercast https://feathercast.apache.org/

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. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 857 Apache contributors changed 4,388,161 lines of code over 3,161 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Mark Thomas, Gary Gregory, Stephen Mallette, Andrea Cosentino, and Michael Stack.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache Calcite 1.21.0 released http://calcite.apache.org/

Build Management --
 - Apache Maven 3.6.2 released http://maven.apache.org

Content --
 - Apache Traffic Control 3.0.2 released http://trafficcontrol.apache.org

Data Management Platform --
 - Apache Geode 1.9.1 released http://geode.apache.org

Enterprise Processes Automation
 - Apache OFBiz 16.11.06 released http://ofbiz.apache.org

Libraries --
 - Apache Flagon UserALE.js 2.0.2 (Incubating) released http://flagon.incubator.apache.org
 - Apache HttpComponents Client 4.5.10 GA released http://hc.apache.org
 - Apache Commons Daemon 1.2.1 released http://commons.apache.org
 - Apache Milagro Crypto C & JS Libraries (Incubating) 1.0.0 released http://milagro.apache.org

Messaging Platform --
 - Apache Pulsar 2.4.1 released http://pulsar.apache.org

Web Frameworks --
 - Apache Wicket 7.15.0 and 8.6.0 released http://wicket.apache.org

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that Apple have been successfully using Apache CloudStack for the past 6 years to power their virtual machine service for hundreds of mission-critical internal and external applications? http://cloudstack.apache.org/

 - Did you know that during this week's ApacheCon, Apache projects added 406 new committers, and Apache Calcite, Camel, Flink, Maven, SkyWalking, Syncope, Tapestry, and Wicket issued new releases? https://projects.apache.org/

 -  Did you know that 35 new individual ASF Members elected, totaling 766 https://s.apache.org/w7bw1

Apache Community Notices:

 - Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary

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

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

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

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

 - ASF Annual Report for FY2019 https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport

 - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement https://s.apache.org/zqC3

 - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. https://s.apache.org/PIRA

Posted at 03:43PM Sep 13, 2019 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 6 September 2019

Happy September! Let's take a look at the activities from the Apache community 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: 18 September 2019. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998
 - Countdown to ApacheCon North America and Europe -- we look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas and Berlin -- REGISTER TODAY! https://www.apachecon.com/
 - Catch the latest on ApacheCon™,  Q&A With Community Track Leader, Sharan Foga, ASF’S VP of Apache Community Development exclusively on https://feathercast.apache.org/

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.75%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 800 Apache contributors changed 1,666,694 lines of code over 3,132 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Stephen Mallette, Andrea Cosentino, Gary Gregory, and Chesnay Schepler.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache Myriad 0.4.0 (Incubating) released http://myriad.apache.org

Build Management --
 - Apache Ant 1.10.7 released http://ant.apache.org

Content --
 - Apache Jackrabbit 2.16.5 and 2.18.3 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org

Databases --
 - Apache HBase 2.1.6 released http://hbase.apache.org

Libraries --
 - Apache Juneau 8.1.0 released http://juneau.apache.org
 - Apache Commons Text 1.8 released http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-text
 - Apache Flagon UserALE.js 2.0.2 (Incubating) released http://flagon.incubator.apache.org

Servers --
 - Apache HttpComponents Core 4.4.12 released http://hc.apache.org

Did You Know?

 -  Did you know that the ASF's day-to-day operating expenses are offset by the generous donations of our Sponsors? The ASF is supported by 10 Platinum Sponsors, 9 Gold Sponsors, 11 Silver Sponsors, 25 Bronze Sponsors, and 6 Platinum Targeted Sponsors, 5 Gold Targeted Sponsors, 3 Silver Targeted Sponsors, and 10 Bronze Targeted Sponsors https://s.apache.org/w7bw1

 - Did you know the following Apache projects are celebrating anniversaries this month? Many Happy Returns to Apache ServiceMix (12 years); Hive, Pig, and Shiro (9 years); Airavata, Bigtop, SIS, and Stanbol (7 years); Curator (6 years); Storm (5 years); Yetus (4 years); DRAT, RocketMQ, and Royale (2 years); and Pulsar (1 year). https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date

 - Did you know that ApacheCon sponsors and community partners include Aiven, AWS, Comcast. CrowdStrike, DataStax, Google Cloud, IBM, HotWax Systems, Instaclustr, Linode, LinuxMagic, Manning Publications, Red Hat, PCCC, ShapeBlue, SK Telecom, StreamNative, The Last Pickle, and more? Learn more at https://www.apachecon.com/

Apache Community Notices:

 - Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary

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

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

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

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

 - ASF Annual Report for FY2019 https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport

 - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement https://s.apache.org/zqC3

 - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. https://s.apache.org/PIRA

Posted at 06:05AM Sep 06, 2019 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 30 August 2019

Farewell, August --we're wrapping up the month with another great week. Here are updates on 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: 18 September 2019. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998
 - Countdown to ApacheCon North America and Europe -- we look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas and Berlin -- REGISTER TODAY! https://www.apachecon.com/
 - Catch the latest on ApacheCon™,  Q&A With Community Track Leader, Sharan Foga, ASF’S VP of Apache Community Development exclusively on https://feathercast.apache.org/

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.97%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 923 Apache contributors changed 13,694,508 lines of code over 3,419 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Tilman Hausherr, Jun Zhao, Radu Cotescu, Christofer Dutz, and Claus Ibsen.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache Flink 1.9.0 released http://flink.apache.org
 - Apache NiFi Registry 0.5.0 released http://nifi.apache.org/registry

Content --
 - Apache Jackrabbit 2.19.4 and Oak 1.8.16 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org

Databases --
 - Apache IoTDB (Incubating) 0.8.0 released http://iotdb.apache.org

Libraries --
 - Apache Qpid JMS 0.45.0 released http://qpid.apache.org
 - Apache Libcloud 2.6.0 released http://libcloud.apache.org
 - Apache ServiceComb 0.5.0 released http://servicecomb.apache.org

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that the ASF continued guardianship of 190M+ lines of code in the Apache repositories https://s.apache.org/w7bw1

 - Did you know that ApacheCon North America is featuring 19 Tracks overseen by Apache Projects and their communities? From Big Data, Community, Content Delivery, Geospatial, Graphs, Integration, IoT, Machine Learning, Mobile, Observability, Streaming, Servers & more --plus Apache project events such as Beam Summit, CloudStack Collaboration Conference, and special workshops-- there's Apache goodness for everyone. Join us! https://www.apachecon.com/acna19/

 - Did you know that "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on The Apache Software Foundation, will resume filming at ApacheCon Las Vegas and Berlin https://youtu.be/UvuyBz1qMCE ? Support this project https://s.apache.org/trillions

Apache Community Notices:

 - Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary

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

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

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

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

 - ASF Annual Report for FY2019 https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport

 - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement https://s.apache.org/zqC3

 - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. https://s.apache.org/PIRA

Posted at 06:03AM Aug 30, 2019 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   | 

The Apache News Round-up: week ending 23 August 2019

Greetings all. It's time to review the Apache community's activities from the past week:

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
- Next Board Meeting: 18 September 2019. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998
 - Countdown to ApacheCon North America and Europe -- we look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas and Berlin -- REGISTER TODAY! https://www.apachecon.com/
 - Catch the latest on ApacheCon™,  Q&A With Community Track Leader, Sharan Foga, ASF’S VP of Apache Community Development exclusively on https://feathercast.apache.org/

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

Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 882 Apache contributors changed 1,664,749 lines of code over 3,669 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Shad Storhaug, Tilman Hausherr, Claus Ibsen, Liang Zhang, and Andrea Cosentino.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Content --
 - Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.10.4 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org
 - Apache UIMA Java SDK 3.1.0 released http://uima.apache.org

Databases --
 - Apache HBase 2.0.6 released http://hbase.apache.org
 - Apache Impala 3.3.0 released http://impala.apache.org/

Libraries --
 - Apache Qpid Proton 0.29.0 released http://qpid.apache.org

Templating --
 - Apache FreeMarker 2.3.29 released http://freemarker.apache.org

Servers --
 - Apache Tomcat 8.5.45 and 9.0.24 released http://tomcat.apache.org
 - Apache Traffic Server 8.0.5 and 7.1.8 released http://trafficserver.apache.org

Did You Know?

 -  Did you know that ASF codebase is conservatively valued at least $20B, using the COCOMO 2 model? https://s.apache.org/w7bw1

 - Did you know that workshops at ApacheCon North America will include Apache Beam, Apache OpenWhisk, Apache Spark and Scala, as well as the Apache-licensed Ballerina programming language? Join us! https://www.apachecon.com/acna19/

 - Did you know that "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on The Apache Software Foundation, will resume filming at ApacheCon Las Vegas and Berlin https://youtu.be/UvuyBz1qMCE ? Support this project https://s.apache.org/trillions

Apache Community Notices:

 - Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary

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

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

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

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

 - ASF Annual Report for FY2019 https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport

 - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement https://s.apache.org/zqC3

 - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. https://s.apache.org/PIRA

Posted at 09:16AM Aug 23, 2019 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter  |   |