FOUNDATION OPERATIONS SUMMARY Third Quarter, Fiscal Year 2020 (November 2019 - January 2020) " The Foundation's unique approach has created many industry standards and will likely continue to do so for many more years. Apache projects are famous not just for great technology, but... [Read more...]
Posted at 08:36PM Mar 04, 2020 by Sally in General
Infra member Daniel Gruno writes : To better provide our millions of users with downloads, the Apache Infrastructure Team has been restructuring the way downloads work for our main distribution channels over the past few weeks. For users, this will largely go unnoticed, and for projects likely the same; but we did want to mention the changes we've made:... [Read more...]
Posted at 03:43PM Mar 04, 2020 by andreww in Notices
The Apache NetBeans team is pleased to announce the release of Apache NetBeans 11.3. Apache NetBeans is a full IDE for Java SE, Java EE, PHP and JavaScript development with some Groovy language support. Apache NetBeans 11.3 is the third Apache NetBeans release outside the Apache Incubator and the third release of the new quarterly release cycle . The... [Read more...]
Posted at 02:55PM Mar 04, 2020 by Geertjan in General
by Sanyam Goel & Kevin A. McGrail Sanyam first came to the ASF as a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) student in 2017; since then he has become a committer and contributor to Apache Fineract and active participant with Apache community initiatives. Sanyam, along with Kevin (a.k.a. “KAM”), a long-time ASF Member involved with the Apache Incubator... [Read more...]
Posted at 12:42AM Mar 04, 2020 by Sally in SuccessAtApache
Advanced Open Source framework for modelling, monitoring, and managing applications used by global systems integrators, Cloud software and service providers, and major enterprises across financial services, supply chain management, and more. Wakefield, MA —3 March 2020— The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and... [Read more...]
Posted at 11:00AM Mar 03, 2020 by Sally in General
Welcome to the second monthly overview of events from the Apache community, brought to you by the just-released Apache Roller, v.6.0 (Roller is our blogging software that we use every day). Here's a summary of what happened in February: New this month -- - Happy 25th Anniversary, Apache HTTP Server! http://httpd.apache.org/ -... [Read more...]
Posted at 11:58PM Mar 01, 2020 by Sally in Newsletter
The Apache Log4j 2 team is pleased to announce the Log4j 2.13.1 release! Apache Log4j is a well known framework for logging application behavior. Log4j 2 is an upgrade to Log4j that provides significant improvements over its predecessor, Log4j 1.x, and provides many other modern features such as support for Markers, lambda expressions for lazy... [Read more...]
Posted at 08:07PM Mar 01, 2020 by rgoers in General
Farewell, February --we're wrapping up the month with another great week. Here are the latest updates on the Apache community's activities: Happy 20th Anniversary Apache Subversion! Huzzah to the community-led version control software and source code management tool https://s.apache.org/ApacheSVN20 ASF Board – management... [Read more...]
Posted at 07:01AM Feb 28, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter
Community-led Version Control Software and Source Code Management Tool Available on Most Integration Servers, Integrated Development Environments, Issue Tracking Systems, and more. Wakefield, MA —27 February 2020— The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects... [Read more...]
Posted at 11:00AM Feb 27, 2020 by Sally in General
After some bumpy DNS issues, Roller 6.0 is live! [Read more...]
Posted at 10:16PM Feb 25, 2020 by christ in General
The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Doxia Site Tools Version 1.9.2, Released Doxia Sitetools is an extension of base Doxia component that generates either HTML sites, consisting of decoration and content that was generated by Doxia, or documents like RTF or PDF. You can download the appropriate sources etc. from... [Read more...]
Posted at 11:16PM Feb 23, 2020 by khmarbaise in Plugin Release
The Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Checkstyle Plugin, version 3.1.1 . The Checkstyle Plugin generates a report regarding the code style used by the developers. For more information about Checkstyle, see http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/. You should specify the version in your project’s plugin... [Read more...]
Posted at 10:32AM Feb 23, 2020 by khmarbaise in Plugin Release
It's Friday already! We're wrapping up another great week with the following activities: Happy 25th Anniversary Apache HTTP Server! Raise a glass to the project and community that started it all. Hats off for its longevity as the world's most popular Web server for a quarter century. Many happy returns http://httpd.apache.org/ ... [Read more...]
Posted at 06:18AM Feb 21, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter
We have identified some issues with the previous release of Apache Samza 1.3.0. To addressed those identified problems, we have released Apache Samza 1.3.1 with the specific bug fixes listed below: SAMZA-2447 Checkpoint dir removal should only search in valid store dirs (#1261) SAMZA-2446 Invoke onCheckpoint only for registered SSPs (#1260) ... [Read more...]
Posted at 04:51PM Feb 20, 2020 by Hai Lu in General
Happy Friday (and Valentine's Day for those who celebrate) --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. - Next Board Meeting: 19 February 2020. Board calendar and minutes ... [Read more...]
Posted at 05:44AM Feb 14, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter
The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Shade Plugin, version 3.2.2 . This plugin provides the capability to package the artifact in an uber-jar, including its dependencies and to shade – i.e. rename – the packages of some of the dependencies. You should specify the version in your... [Read more...]
Posted at 11:24PM Feb 13, 2020 by khmarbaise in Plugin Release
Groovy 3 Highlights General Improvements Groovy has both a dynamic nature (supporting code styles similar to Ruby and Python) as well as a static nature (supporting styles similar to Java, Kotlin and Scala). Groovy continues to improve both those natures - filling in any feature gaps. As just one example, Groovy has numerous facilities for... [Read more...]
Posted at 02:28AM Feb 13, 2020 by paulk in Technology
Welcome, February! We're wrapping up another great week with the following activities: ASF Security Report 2019 – 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/tbyxg Success at Apache – the... [Read more...]
Posted at 05:20AM Feb 07, 2020 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter
We're pleased to introduce a new monthly overview of events that have taken place within the Apache community. Below is the wrap-up of our activities in January: New this month -- - Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits - Apache Software Foundation 2019 Security Report ... [Read more...]
Posted at 06:58PM Feb 05, 2020 by Sally in Newsletter