18 November 2018 - Apache OpenOffice, the leading Open Source office document productivity suite, announced today Apache OpenOffice 4.1.6, as usual available in 41 languages for Windows, macOS and Linux. Apache OpenOffice 4.1.6 is a maintenance release aimed at correcting some regressions and delivering the latest English dictionary. All users of... [Read more...]
Posted at 08:29PM Nov 18, 2018 by marcus in General
Mid-month already! Here's what happened with the Apache community over the past week: Support Apache –help offset the ASF's day-to-day operating expenses and keep Apache software for everyone. - Join Bloomberg, Google, Microsoft, and other organizations who have established workplace giving programs that benefit the ASF. Supporting... [Read more...]
Posted at 03:04PM Nov 16, 2018 by Sally in General
The Apache OpenWebBeans Team is proud to announce the release of Apache OpenWebBeans-2.0.8. Apache OpenWebBeans-2.0.x is an Apache License v2 licensed implementation of the JSR-365 CDI-2.0 specification. OpenWebBeans has a modular structure and provides Dependency Injection scaling from Java SE environments up to Java EE8 server clusters with... [Read more...]
Posted at 12:49PM Nov 12, 2018 by struberg in General
The Windows installer for Groovy 2.5.4 (community artifact) is available from: https://bintray.com/groovy/Distributions/Windows-Installer/groovy-2.5.4-installer . [Read more...]
Posted at 11:43AM Nov 12, 2018 by Remko Popma in General
Dear community, The Apache Groovy team is pleased to announce version 2.5.4 of Apache Groovy. Apache Groovy is a multi-facet programming language for the JVM. Further details can be found at the http://groovy.apache.org website. This release is a maintenance release of the GROOVY_2_5_X branch. It is strongly encouraged that all users using... [Read more...]
Posted at 11:42AM Nov 12, 2018 by Remko Popma in General
Happy Friday to all! Let's review what the Apache community has been up to this week: Success at Apache –a monthly blog series that focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works". - Success at Apache: Wearing Small Hats by Rich Bowen https://s.apache.org/TGuO ASF Board –management and oversight of... [Read more...]
Posted at 03:24PM Nov 09, 2018 by Sally in General
Apache NetBeans 10vc3 is the third voting candidate of Apache NetBeans (incubating) 10 and has been created for purposes of NetCAT activities: NetCAT 10.0 Schedule Apache NetBeans Release Roadmap New and noteworthy in Apache NetBeans 10 Build artifacts: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/netbeans/incubating-netbean... [Read more...]
Posted at 11:01AM Nov 07, 2018 by Geertjan in General
In Kafka, a topic can have multiple partitions to which records are distributed. Partitions are the unit of parallelism. In general, more partitions leads to higher throughput. However, there are some factors that one should consider when having more partitions in a Kafka cluster. I am happy to report that the recent Apache Kafka 1.1.0 release has... [Read more...]
Posted at 01:10AM Nov 07, 2018 by junrao in Technology
by Rich Bowen Within The Apache Software Foundation, many of us have different roles. I am a committer on the Apache httpd project , and also a PMC member on that project. I am the Vice President, Conferences . I am a board member. And I’m a member of the Foundation. I'm also an employee of Red Hat, and may, at times, be perceived to... [Read more...]
Posted at 09:21PM Nov 05, 2018 by Sally in SuccessAtApache
The Apache community opens November 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: 21 November. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html ApacheCon™ –the... [Read more...]
Posted at 02:17PM Nov 02, 2018 by Sally in General
The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Plugin Tools, version 3.6.0 . The Maven Plugin Tools contains the necessary tools to generate rebarbative content like descriptor, help and documentation. In addition, it provides tools to write Maven Plugins in scripting languages like Ant or Beanshell. The Maven... [Read more...]
Posted at 01:10PM Nov 01, 2018 by khmarbaise in Plugin Release
The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven 3.6.0. Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project’s build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information. You can find out more about... [Read more...]
Posted at 01:05PM Nov 01, 2018 by khmarbaise in Maven Core Release
The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Remote Resources Plugin, version 1.6.0 This plugin is used to retrieve JARs of resources from remote repositories, process those resources, and incorporate them into JARs you build with Maven. You should specify the version in your project’s plugin configuration:... [Read more...]
Posted at 12:55PM Nov 01, 2018 by khmarbaise in Plugin Release
The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Jarsigner, version 3.0.0 . This component provides some utilities to sign/verify jars/files in your Mojos. You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page . You should specify the component in your pom file like this: 1 2 3... [Read more...]
Posted at 09:05PM Oct 31, 2018 by khmarbaise in Share Component Release
Popular Open Source version control system used by millions across an array of applications worldwide. Wakefield, MA —31 October 2018— The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today Apache® Subversion® v1.11.0, the latest version... [Read more...]
Posted at 10:00AM Oct 31, 2018 by Sally in General
Load Balancing Data Across a NiFi Cluster Mark Payne - @dataflowmark With each release of Apache NiFi, we tend to see at least one pretty powerful new application-level feature, in addition to all of the new and improved Processors that are added. And the latest release of NiFi, version 1.8.0, is no exception! Version... [Read more...]
Posted at 04:08PM Oct 29, 2018 by markap14@apache.org in Dataflow
The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven PMD Plugin, version 3.11.0 A Maven plugin for the PMD toolkit, that produces a report on both code rule violations and detected copy and paste fragments, as well as being able to fail the build based on these metrics. You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the ... [Read more...]
Posted at 01:30PM Oct 26, 2018 by khmarbaise in Plugin Release
Let's close out the 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: 21 November. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html ... [Read more...]
Posted at 12:38PM Oct 26, 2018 by Sally in General
The Apache Groovy team congratulates long-time Groovy committer Graeme Rocher on receiving his Groundbreaker award at Oracle Code One. Graeme has made numerous significant contributions to Apache Groovy and has also founded two of the most important frameworks using Groovy: Grails and Micronaut . " Grails pioneered truly rapid web... [Read more...]
Posted at 11:33PM Oct 24, 2018 by paulk in General