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


ASF Annual Report – a look back at our many achievements during the 2021 Fiscal Year

 - Press release https://s.apache.org/FY2021AnnualReport-pressrelease

 - Full report https://s.apache.org/FY2021AnnualReport

Apache Month in Review – a round-up of our Round-ups and other newsworthy bits over the past month.
 - August Month in Review https://s.apache.org/August2021

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 15 September 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 was held online 6-8 August; ApacheCon@Home is coming up next on 21-23 September:
 - The Apache® Software Foundation Announces Program for ApacheCon@Home 2021 https://s.apache.org/ACHome2021
 - Learn about the Community Track from Sharan Foga and Swapnil M Mane https://youtu.be/8cZF-gaE3a4
 - Register for ApacheCon@Home https://www.apachecon.com/acah2021/

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 100.00%. 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, 340 Apache Committers changed 2,033,185 lines of code over 3,224 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Mark Thomas, Andrea Cosentino, Andi Huber, Harikrishna Patnala, and Albumen Kevin.         

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

APIs --

 - Apache APISIX 2.9 released https://apisix.apache.org/

Big Data --

 - The Apache Drill Project Announces Apache® DrillTM v1.19 Milestone Release https://s.apache.org/bfhy6
 - Apache Qpid Broker-J 8.0.6 and Proton-J 0.33.9 released https://qpid.apache.org/
 - Apache Hudi 0.9.0 released https://hudi.apache.org/
 - Apache Zeppelin CVE-2021-36090: Bash command injection in spark interpreter https://s.apache.org/njaui
   -- CVE-2020-13929: Notebook permissions bypass https://s.apache.org/tx1s1
   -- CVE-2021-27578: Cross Site Scripting in markdown interpreter https://s.apache.org/701t0

Content --

 - Apache Tika 2.1.0 released https://tika.apache.org/

Libraries --
 - Apache Commons DBCP 2.9.0 released http://commons.apache.org/dbcp/

Servers --

 - Apache Tomcat Native 1.2.31 released https://tomcat.apache.org/


Did You Know?

 - Did you know that the following projects are celebrating anniversaries in September? Congratulations to Apache ServiceMix (14 years); Hive, Pig, and Shiro (11 years); Airavata, Bigtop, and SIS (9 years); Curator (8 years); Storm (7 years); Yetus (6 years); RocketMQ and Royale (4 years); Pulsar (3 years); Rya (2 years); IoTDB (1 year) https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date

 - Did you know that Apache Cordova will be archiving all older translated documentation? https://cordova.apache.org/announcements/2021/08/25/translations.html

 - Did you know that Flink Forward will be held 26-27 October? http://flink.apache.org/

Apache Community Notices

- Watch "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on the ASF 1) full feature [49 min] https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature 2) "Apache Everywhere" [6 min] https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere 3) "Why Apache" [2.5 min] https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions-WhyApache 4) “Apache Innovation” [40 min] 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

 - Presentations from ApacheCon Asia are available at https://s.apache.org/ApacheConAsia2021-talks

 - "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/InsideInfra-Drew
    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

 - 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

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