The Apache News Round-up: week ending 27 September 2021
We're closing September with another great week. Here are the latest updates on the Apache
community's activities:
ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
- Next Board Meeting: 20 October 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.
- Our 2021 events are complete: thanks to all speakers, sponsors, participants, and planners for their great turnout!
- Presentations for ApacheCon Asia are available on the ASF YouTube channel. ApacheCon@Home presentations will be posted shortly.
ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
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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. View the Apache Infrastructure Uptime site to see the most recent averages.
Apache Code Snapshot –
Over the past week, 328 Apache Committers changed 7,398,124 lines of
code over 2,924 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Harikrishna Patnala, Gary Gregory, Andy Seaborne, Daniel Gruno, and Mark Thomas.
Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.
Big Data --
- Apache Druid 0.22.0 released
-- CVE-2021-36749: The HTTP inputSource allows authenticated users to read data from other sources than intended
Cloud Computing --
- Apache Kafka 3.0.0 released
-- CVE-2021-38153: Timing Attack Vulnerability for Apache Kafka Connect and Clients
Data Management Platform --
- Apache Ignite 2.11.0 released
IDE --
- Apache NetBeans 12.5 released
Messaging --
- Apache Pulsar 2.8.1 released
Did You Know?
- Did you know that LinkedIn's 10,000-node cluster for Big Data analytics and machine learning workloads is considered the world's largest Apache Hadoop implementation?
- Did you know that Yelp's new search engine, Nrtsearch, is powered by Apache Lucene?
- Did you know that the Ignite Summit Cloud Edition CFP closes on 15 October?
Apache Community Notices
- Watch "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on the ASF 1) full feature [49 min] 2) "Apache Everywhere" [6 min] 3) "Why Apache" [2.5 min] 4) “Apache Innovation” [40 min]
- ASF Annual Report: FY2021 -- Press release and Report (PDF)
- The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success
- Foundation Reports and Statements
- Presentations from ApacheCon Asia are available on YouTube
- "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works."
- 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
- Follow the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter and The ASF page LinkedIn.
- Follow the Apache Community on Facebook and Twitter.
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