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| title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 19 February 2016' |
| date: '2016-02-19T00:00:00+00:00' |
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| <div>We've had quite a productive week! Here's what happened within the Apache community:</div>
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| <div>ASF Board –the ASF Board is responsible for management and oversight of the business and affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's Bylaws.<br /> - Next Board Meeting: 16 March 2016. Board calendar and minutes available at <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html">http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html</a></div>
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| <p>ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.<br /> - 6M+ weekly checks yields ongoing "three nines" performance at 99.92% uptime <a href="http://status.apache.org/">http://status.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p><a href="http://status.apache.org/"></a>ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation. Apache:Big Data + ApacheCon North America - Vancouver will take place 9-13 May 2016 <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a> --Early Registration ends 4 March.<br /> - How Apache Travel Assistance helped me get to ApacheCon <a href="http://www.apache.org/travel/stories/">http://www.apache.org/travel/stories/</a> <br /> - Travel Assistance applications close 2 March <a href="http://www.apache.org/travel/">http://www.apache.org/travel/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Accumulo™ –sorted, distributed key/value store is a robust, scalable, high performance data storage system that features cell-based access control and customizable server-side processing.<br /> - Apache Accumulo released <a href="http://accumulo.apache.org/downloads/">http://accumulo.apache.org/downloads/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Arrow™ –Open Source Big Data in-memory columnar layer.<br /> - The Apache® Software Foundation Announces Apache Arrow™ as a Top-Level Project <a href="https://s.apache.org/5Mc8">https://s.apache.org/5Mc8</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Bigtop™ –a project for the development of packaging and tests of the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. <br /> - Apache Bigtop 1.1.0 release <a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/bigtop/bigtop-1.1.0/repos/">http://www.apache.org/dist/bigtop/bigtop-1.1.0/repos/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Curator™ –keeper/custodian of Apache Zookeeper.<br /> - Apache Curator 2.10.0 and 3.1.0 released <a href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/curator/">http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/curator/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Hive™ –data warehouse software built atop Apache Hadoop facilitates querying and managing large datasets residing in distributed storage.<br /> - Apache Hive 2.0.0 released <a href="https://hive.apache.org/downloads.html">https://hive.apache.org/downloads.html</a><br /> - CVE-2015-7521: Apache Hive authorization bug disclosure (update) <a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201602.mbox/%3C20160218012659.A394618DA6%40minotaur.apache.org%3E">http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201602.mbox/%3C20160218012659.A394618DA6%40minotaur.apache.org%3E</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Jackrabbit™ Oak –a scalable, high-performance hierarchical content repository designed for use as the foundation of modern world-class Web sites and other demanding content applications. <br /> - Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.2.11 released <a href="http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html">http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html</a> </p>
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| <p>Apache MINA™ –a network application framework which helps users develop high performance and high scalability network applications easily by providing an abstract, event-driven, asynchronous API over various transports such as TCP/IP and UDP/IP vis Java NIO.<br /> - Apache MINA 2.0.13 released <a href="http://mina.apache.org/downloads.html">http://mina.apache.org/downloads.html</a></p>
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| <p>Apache NiFi™ –an easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and distribute data.<br /> - Apache NiFi 0.5.0 released <a href="http://nifi.apache.org/download.html">http://nifi.apache.org/download.html</a> </p>
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| <p>Apache Qpid™ Proton –an AMQP 1.0 messaging library.<br /> - Apache Qpid Proton 0.12.0 released <a href="http://qpid.apache.org/download.html">http://qpid.apache.org/download.html</a></p>
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| <p>Apache SystemML (incubating) –provides declarative large-scale machine learning (ML) that aims at flexible specification of ML algorithms and automatic generation of hybrid runtime plans ranging from single-node, in-memory computations, to distributed computations on Apache Hadoop MapReduce and Apache Spark.<br /> - Apache SystemML 0.9.0-incubating released <a href="http://systemml.apache.org/">http://systemml.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Tika™ –a toolkit for detecting and extracting metadata and structured text content from various documents using existing parser libraries.<br /> - Apache Tika 1.12 released <a href="http://tika.apache.org/">http://tika.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Tomcat™ –a Web server that is an Open Source software implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Expression Language and Java WebSocket technologies.<br /> - Apache Tomcat 6.0.45 and 7.0.68 released <font color="#bb0000"><a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi">http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi</a> </font>and <a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi">http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi</a></p>
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| <p>Apache UIMA™ Ruta (Rule-based Text Annotation) –a rule-based script language supported by Eclipse-based tooling.<br /> - Apache UIMA Ruta 2.4.0 released <a href="http://uima.apache.org/ruta.html">http://uima.apache.org/ruta.html</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Wicket™ –an Open Source Java component oriented Web application framework.<br /> - Wicket 6.22.0 and 7.2.0 released <a href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/6.22.0">http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/6.22.0</a> and <a href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/7.2.0">http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/7.2.0</a></p>
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| <p><strong><br />Did You Know?</strong></p>
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| <div> - Did you know that the Apache Community Development Help Wanted site allows interested parties to find out how they can participate with Apache projects and activities? <a href="https://helpwanted.apache.org/">https://helpwanted.apache.org/</a></div>
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| <p> - Did you know that Java creator James Gosling proclaimed that Apache "Zookeeper is just wonderful...I love Zookeeper"? <a href="https://s.apache.org/txVW">https://s.apache.org/txVW</a></p>
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| <div> - Did you know that gravitational waves can be analyzed with Apache Drill? <a href="http://drill.apache.org/">http://drill.apache.org/</a></div>
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| <p><strong><br />Apache Community Notices:</strong></p>
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| <p><strong></strong> - The list of Apache project-related MeetUps can be found at <a href="http://apache.org/events/meetups.html">http://apache.org/events/meetups.html</a></p>
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| <p> - The next CloudStack European User Group will be held 3 March 2016 in London <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cloudstack-european-user-group-tickets-19726408218">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cloudstack-european-user-group-tickets-19726408218</a></p>
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| <p> - Apache:Big Data North America will take place 9-12 May 2016 in Vancouver <a href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apache-big-data-north-america">http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apache-big-data-north-america</a></p>
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| <p> - ApacheCon:Core North America will take place 11-13 May 2016 in Vancouver <a href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/">http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/</a></p>
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| <p> - The next HBaseCon will take place 24 May in San Francisco --CFP and Early Bird Registration now open <a href="http://hbasecon.com/">http://hbasecon.com</a></p>
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| <p> - MesosCon will be held 1-2 June 2016 in Denver --CFP open through 9 March <a href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/mesoscon/">http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/mesoscon/</a></p>
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| <p> - The ASF Operations Summary: Second Quarter, Fiscal Year 2016 (August-October 2015) is available at <a href="http://s.apache.org/M0R">http://s.apache.org/M0R</a></p>
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