The Apache News Round-up: week ending 7 May 2021

Welcome, May --we're opening the month with another great week. Here's what the Apache community has been up to:

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
- Next Board Meeting: 19 May 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. Two events held in 2021 are: ApacheCon Asia (6-8 August) and ApacheCon@Home (21-23 September).
- Registration is open for both ApacheCons https://www.apachecon.com/
- Sponsorships available 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 99.95%. 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 – Over the past week, 339 Apache Committers changed 1,251,406 lines of code
over 2,937 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Tilman Hausherr, Andrea Cosentino, Claus Ibsen, and Sylwester Lachiewicz.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
- Apache Flink 1.13.0 released https://flink.apache.org/

Content --
- Media Alert: Apache OpenOffice Recommends upgrade to v4.1.10 to mitigate legacy vulnerability https://s.apache.org/4gj2y
- Apache OpenOffice 4.1.10 released https://www.openoffice.org/
- Apache UIMA Java SDK 3.2.0 released https://uima.apache.org/
- Apache Jackrabbit 2.12 retired http://jackrabbit.apache.org/

Integration --
- Apache Camel 3.7.4 released https://camel.apache.org/

Servers --
- Apache HttpComponents Core 5.1.1 GA released https://hc.apache.org/

Workflow --
- Apache Airflow CVE-2021-28359: Apache Airflow Reflected XSS via Origin Query Argument in URL https://s.apache.org/f5bfx

Did You Know?

- Did you know that the following Apache projects are celebrating anniversaries this week? Many happy returns to Geronimo (17 years); Tomcat (16 years); OpenJPA, POI, TomEE, and Turbine (14 years); Libcloud (10 years); Giraph and ManifoldCF (9 years); Phoenix (7 years); Whimsy (6 years); Bahir, TinkerPop, and Zeppelin (5 years); SystemDS (4 years); Dubbo (2 years); Hudi and Iceberg (1 year). https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date

- Did you know that eBay uses Apache Flink to power Big Data streaming for its recommendation engine in real-time? https://flink.apache.org/

- Did you know that Norwegian business management solutions provider Visma powers its Enterprise Suite to serve more than 1 Million customers and 12,500+ employees using Apache Wicket? http://wicket.apache.org/

Apache Community Notices

- The Apache Month in Review: April 2021 https://s.apache.org/Apr2021 and video highlights https://youtu.be/EOA1L1PjCYg

- 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

- 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/

- Follow the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter (https://twitter.com/TheASF) and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation

- Follow the Apache Community on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/ and Twitter https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity

- Are your software solutions Powered by Apache? Download & use our "Powered By" logos http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby

= = =

For real-time updates, sign up for Apache-related news by sending mail to announce-subscribe@apache.org and follow @TheASF on Twitter. For a broader spectrum from the Apache community, https://twitter.com/PlanetApache provides an aggregate of Project activities as well as the personal blogs and tweets of select ASF Committers.