The Apache News Round-up: week ending 30 July 2021

We're closing out July with a review of our activities 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: 18 August 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. ApacheCon Asia (6-8 August) and ApacheCon@Home (21-23 September) are being held online and free-of-charge:
- NEXT WEEK: ApacheCon Asia https://s.apache.org/ACAsia2021
-- Learn more about ApacheCon Asia from Sheng Wu and Willem Jiang at https://youtube.com/watch?v=hfRCrpnbDhc
- Program, registration, and Sponsorship opportunities available for both events https://www.apachecon.com/

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
- 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.82%. 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, 310 Apache Committers changed 1,088,088 lines of
code over 3,479 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Bertrand Delacretaz, Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Mark Thomas, Gary Gregory, and Daniel Sun.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
- Apache HBase 1.7.1 released https://hbase.apache.org/
- Apache Arrow 5.0.0 released https://arrow.apache.org/
- Apache ShardingSphere ElasticJob UI 3.0.0 released https://shardingsphere.apache.org/elasticjob/

Blockchain --
- Apache Tuweni (Incubating) 2.0.0 released https://tuweni.apache.org/

Data Management Platform --
- Apache Unomi 1.5.7 released http://unomi.apache.org/

Databases --
- The Apache Cassandra Project Releases Apache® Cassandra™ v4.0, the Fastest, Most Scalable and Secure Cassandra Yet https://s.apache.org/d30v9
- Apache Geode 1.12.4 released http://geode.apache.org/

Identity Management --

- Apache Directory Studio 2.0-0-M17 released https://directory.apache.org/studio/
-- CVE-2021-33900: StartTLS and SASL confidentiality protection bypass https://s.apache.org/6mvzr

IoT --

- Apache StreamPipes (Incubating) 0.68.0 released https://streampipes.apache.org/

Messaging --
- Apache Curator 5.2.0 released https://curator.apache.org/

Did You Know?

- Did you know that Telemedicine Technologies' global clinical trials management solution uses Apache Wicket? https://wicket.apache.org/

- Did you know that Zoba uses Apache Airflow to more easily scale their on-demand mobility solutions worldwide? https://airflow.apache.org/

- Did you know that Capgemini uses Apache Druid to run analytics over large amounts of event-based data? https://druid.apache.org/

Apache Community Notices

- The Apache Month in Review: June 2021 https://s.apache.org/June2021 and video highlights https://youtu.be/yIE8SSHw2iw

- 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-WhyApache 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/

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