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

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

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

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
- The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q2 FY2021 (August - October 2020) https://s.apache.org/Q2FY2021
- Next Board Meeting: 20 January 2021. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
- all videos from ApacheCon@Home are available at https://www.youtube.com/c/TheApacheFoundation/

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
- 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.94%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – Over the past week, 395 Apache Committers changed 3,156,343 lines of
code over 3,300 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Krzysztof Kopyściński, Gary Gregory, Andrea Cosentino, Duo Zhang, and Jean-Baptiste Onofré.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Application Performance Monitoring --

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

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

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

Enterprise Processes Automation / ERP --

- Apache OFBiz 17.12.05 released https://ofbiz.apache.org/

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

Did You Know?

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

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

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

Apache Community Notices

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

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

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

- ASF FY2020 Annual Report https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport

- "Trillions and Trillions Served" documentary on the ASF: 1) full feature https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature 2) "Apache Everywhere" https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere 3) "Why Apache" https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions 4) “Apache Innovation” https://s.apache.org/ApacheInnovation

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

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

- "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works". https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache

- ASF Targeted Sponsor Manning Publications is offering special deals on the latest books on Apache Airflow, Pulsar, Spark, and Thrift, among other titles and eBooks https://deals.manning.com/the-latest-apache-innovations/

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