The Apache News Round-up: week ending 28 October 2016
Look how productive the Apache community has been over the past week!
ASF Board –management and oversight of the business and affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
- Next Board Meeting: 16 November 2016. Board calendar and minutes available at http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html
ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
- 7M+ weekly checks yield steady performance at 99.61% uptime http://status.apache.org/
ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation.
- Register today for Apache: Big Data and ApacheCon Europe/Seville --early incentives end 3 November http://apachecon.com/
Apache Bahir™ –provides extensions for Apache Spark.
- Apache Bahir 2.0.1 released http://bahir.apache.org
Apache Fineract (incubating) –an Open Source system for core banking as a platform.
- Apache Fineract 0.4.0-incubating released https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/incubator/fineract/0.4.0-incubating/
Apache Geode (incubating) –a data management platform that provides a database-like consistency model, reliable transaction processing and a shared-nothing architecture to maintain very low latency performance with high concurrency processing.
- Apache Geode 1.0.0-incubating released http://geode.incubator.apache.org/releases/
Apache Jackrabbit™ –a fully compliant implementation of the Content Repository for Java(TM) Technology API, version 2.0 (JCR 2.0) as specified in the Java Specification Request 283 (JSR 283).
- Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.4.9 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html
Apache Juneau (incubating) –a toolkit for marshalling POJOs to a wide variety of content types using a common framework, and for creating sophisticated self-documenting REST interfaces and microservices using very little code.
- Juneau 6.0.0-incubating released http://juneau.incubator.apache.org/
Apache Lens™ –provides an Unified Analytics interface.
- Apache Lens 2.6.1 released http://lens.apache.org/releases/download.html
Apache mod_perl™ –an Apache HTTP Server module for embedding a Perl interpreter in your Web server, giving you super-fast dynamic content by avoiding the overhead of starting an external interpreter.
- Apache mod_perl-2.0.10 released http://perl.apache.org/download/index.html
Apache Parquet™ –a general-purpose columnar file format for nested data.
- Apache Parquet MR 1.9.0 released https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/parquet/
Apache Syncope™ –an Open Source system for managing digital identities in enterprise environments, implemented in Java EE technology.
- Apache Syncope 2.0.1 released http://syncope.apache.org/downloads.html
Apache Tomcat™ –Open Source software implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Unified Expression Language, Java WebSocket and JASPIC technologies.
- CVE-2016-0762 Apache Tomcat Realm Timing Attack https://s.apache.org/hhGa
- CVE-2016-5018 Apache Tomcat Security Manager Bypass https://s.apache.org/otM1
- CVE-2016-6794 Apache Tomcat Security System Property Disclosure https://s.apache.org/lxjd
- CVE-2016-6796 Apache Tomcat Security Manager Bypass https://s.apache.org/GKT4
- CVE-2016-6797 Apache Tomcat Unrestricted Access to Global Resources https://s.apache.org/qjWl
Apache Wicket™ –an Open Source Java component oriented Web application framework that powers thousands of Web applications and Web sites for governments, stores, universities, cities, banks, email providers, and more.
- Apache Wicket 6.25.0, 7.5.0, and 8.0.0-M2 released http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/
Did You Know?
- Did you know that you can share what you're planning to work on at ApacheCon? https://blogs.apache.org/conferences/entry/what_are_you_working_on
- Did you know that IBM Graph is built on top of Apache Tinkerpop's Gremlin graph query language? http://tinkerpop.apache.org/
- Did you know that Walmart Labs uses Apache Kafka for real-time retail? http://kafka.apache.org/
Apache Community Notices:
- The list of Apache project-related MeetUps can be found at http://apache.org/events/meetups.html
- Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache HTTP Server, Avro, ComDev (community development), Directory, Incubator, OODT, POI, Syncope, Tika, Trafodion, Zest, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/
- ApacheCon Europe will take place 14-18 November 2016 in Seville, Spain http://apachecon.com/
- The ASF Q1 FY2017 Report is available at https://s.apache.org/1BsV
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