The Apache News Round-up: week ending 2 April 2021
Welcome, April --we're opening the month with another great week. Here's what the Apache community has been up to:
Apache Month-in-Review – a look back at our activities over the past month.
- March 2021 https://s.apache.org/Mar2021 and video highlights https://youtu.be/wq2HXN4z9W0
ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
- Next Board Meeting: 21 April 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.
- CFPs open for ApacheCon@Home AND ApacheCon Asia https://www.apachecon.com/
- Event Sponsorship available for both ApacheCon@Home and ApacheCon Asia https://www.apachecon.com/acah2021/2021_ApacheCon_prospectus.pdf
ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
- 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.78%. 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, 383 Apache Committers changed 2,210,334 lines of
code over 3,572 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Andrea Cosentino, Daniel Gruno, Mark Thomas, and Thomas Vandahl.
Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.
Big Data --
- Apache Druid 0.20.2 released https://druid.apache.org/
- Apache Druid CVE-2021-26919: Authenticated users can execute arbitrary code from malicious MySQL database systems https://s.apache.org/xgi7a
Content --
- Apache Tika 1.26 released https://tika.apache.org/
- Apache Tika CVE-2021-28657: Infinite loop in MP3 parser https://s.apache.org/9vlh2
Database --
- Apache ZooKeeper 3.7.0 released https://zookeeper.apache.org/
- Apache Geode 1.13.2 released http://geode.apache.org/
Integration --
- Apache Camel 3.9.0 released https://camel.apache.org/
Libraries --
- Apache MXNet (Incubating) 1.8.0 released http://mxnet.incubator.apache.
Observability --
- Apache SkyWalking Python 0.6.0 and NodeJS 0.2.0 released https://skywalking.apache.org/
Web Frameworks --
- Apache Wicket 9.3.0 released https://wicket.apache.org/
Did You Know?
- Did you know that this year's ApacheCon Platinum sponsorships are sold out? Great options and combo packages available for both events https://www.apachecon.com/acah2021/2021_ApacheCon_prospectus.pdf
- Did you know that Apache Druid will be holding their Ecosystems MeetUp on 6 April and DataEng MeetUp on 7 April? http://druid.apache.org/
- Did you know that the Apache CloudStack community will hold its virtual European User Group on 27 May? http://cloudstack.apache.org/
Apache Community Notices
- The Apache® Software Foundation Celebrates 22 Years of Open Source Leadership – world’s largest Open Source foundation advances community-led innovation "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/22ndAnniversay
- The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q3 FY2021 (November 2020 - January 2021) https://s.apache.org/Q3FY2021 + Video highlights https://youtu.be/S6FWqAuA_8M
- Apache in 2020 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2020Digits + Video highlights https://s.apache.org/Apache2020Digits-vid
- ASF Security Report 2020 https://s.apache.org/SecurityReport2020 + Video highlights https://youtu.be/Z7yudar_da0
- 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
- All presentations from ApacheCon@Home are available at https://www.youtube.com/c/TheApacheFoundation/
- "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works". https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache
- Inside Infra: the new interview series with members of the ASF infrastructure team --meet
Chris Thistlethwaite https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Chris
Drew Foulks https://s.apache.org/InsideInf
Greg Stein Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg
...Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg2 and Part III https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg3
Daniel Gruno Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Daniel1 and Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Daniel2
Gavin McDonald Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Gavin and Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Gavin2
Andrew Wetmore Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Andrew and Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Andrew2
Chris Lambertus Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-ChrisL and Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-ChrisL2
- 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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