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| title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 7 April 2017' |
| date: '2017-04-07T00:00:00+00:00' |
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| <p>Welcome, April! The Apache community is starting the month with great progress:</p>
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| <p>Support Apache –if Apache software has helped you, please consider making a donation, no matter the size. Every dollar counts. <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/contributing.html">http://apache.org/foundation/contributing.html</a></p>
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| <p>ASF Board –management and oversight of the business and affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.<br /> - Next Board Meeting: 19 April 2017. Board calendar and minutes available at <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html">http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html</a><br /> - ASF Operations Summary - Q3 FY2017 <a href="https://s.apache.org/NKFz">https://s.apache.org/NKFz</a></p>
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| <p>Success at Apache –our fifth installment in the new monthly blog series that focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works".<br /> - JFDI --the unconditional love of contributors by Daniel Gruno <a href="https://s.apache.org/4pjM">https://s.apache.org/4pjM</a></p>
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| <p>ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.<br /> - 7M+ weekly checks yield kicking performance at 97.27% 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™ –Tomorrow's Technology Today.<br /> - Learn the latest in Big Data, Cloud, Flex, IoT, Tomcat, and dozens of other leading Apache projects across 200+ sessions, 150+ speakers, 4 subconferences, BarCampApache and more. <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a> Sign up today and save $200!<br /> - Become an Apache Community Sponsor at ApacheCon <a href="http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/sponsors/community-sponsor">http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/sponsors/community-sponsor</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Attic™ –provides process and solutions to make it clear when an Apache project has reached its end of life.<br /> - Apache Abera retired <a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201704.mbox/%3CCAK2iWdQ7w2DQgAxL6snQnwX3P%3DSqFOBBQW6M469VUzz-F83pUw%40mail.gmail.com%3E">http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201704.mbox/%3CCAK2iWdQ7w2DQgAxL6snQnwX3P%3DSqFOBBQW6M469VUzz-F83pUw%40mail.gmail.com%3E</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 1.7.3 released <a href="https://accumulo.apache.org/downloads/">https://accumulo.apache.org/downloads/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Apex™ Malhar –an enterprise grade big data-in-motion platform that unifies stream and batch processing.<br /> - Apache Apex Malhar 3.7.0 released <a href="http://apex.apache.org/downloads.html">http://apex.apache.org/downloads.html</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Buildr™ –a build system for Java-based applications, including support for Scala, Groovy and a growing number of JVM languages and tools.<br /> - Apache Buildr 1.5.2 released <a href="http://buildr.apache.org/">http://buildr.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Flex™ –application framework for expressive Web applications that deploy to all major browsers, desktops and devices.<br /> - Apache Flex BlazeDS 4.7.3 released <a href="http://flex.apache.org/">http://flex.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Geode™ –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.<br /> - Apache Geode 1.1.1 released <a href="http://geode.apache.org/releases/">http://geode.apache.org/releases/</a><br /> - [CVE-2017-5649] Apache Geode information disclosure vulnerability <a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201704.mbox/%3CCAEwge-E4y%3DEVfhwpfRwsbnBH_hBS3Q-BJS%2B1BX5omYGW4dnR1w%40mail.gmail.com%3E">http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201704.mbox/%3CCAEwge-E4y%3DEVfhwpfRwsbnBH_hBS3Q-BJS%2B1BX5omYGW4dnR1w%40mail.gmail.com%3E</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Groovy™ –a multi-faceted language for the Java platform.<br /> - Apache Groovy 2.5.0-alpha-1 released <a href="http://www.groovy-lang.org/download.html">http://www.groovy-lang.org/download.html</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Guacamole (incubating) –a clientless remote desktop gateway that supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH.<br /> - Apache Guacamole 0.9.12-incubating released <a href="http://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/releases/0.9.12-incubating/">http://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/releases/0.9.12-incubating/</a></p>
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| <p>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).<br /> - Apache Jackrabbit 2.12.7 released <a href="https://jackrabbit.apache.org/jcr/downloads.html#v2.12">https://jackrabbit.apache.org/jcr/downloads.html#v2.12</a><br /> - Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.4.15 released <a href="http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html">http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html</a></p>
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| <p><font color="#000000">Apache Lucene</font>™ Solr –the popular, blazing-fast, Open Source enterprise search platform built on Apache Lucene.<br /><font color="#000000"> - </font>Apache Solr Reference Guide for Solr 6.5 released <a href="https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/ref-guide/apache-solr-ref-guide-6.5.pdf">https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/ref-guide/apache-solr-ref-guide-6.5.pdf</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Nutch™ –a well matured, production ready Web crawler.<br /> - Apache Nutch 1.13 released <a href="http://nutch.apache.org/downloads.html">http://nutch.apache.org/downloads.html</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Tomcat™ –an Open Source software implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Unified Expression Language, Java WebSocket and JASPIC technologies.<br /> - Apache Tomcat 7.0.77 released <a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi">http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi</a><br /> - Apache Tomcat 8.0.43 released <a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi">http://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi</a></p>
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| <p>Apache UIMA™ –a component architecture and framework for the analysis of unstructured content like text, video and audio data.<br /> - Apache UIMA Java SDK 2.10.0 released <a href="http://uima.apache.org">http://uima.apache.org</a></p>
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| <p>Apache Zeppelin™ –a collaborative data analytics and visualization tool for distributed, general-purpose data processing system such as Apache Spark, Apache Flink, etc.<br /> - Apache Zeppelin 0.7.1 released <a href="http://zeppelin.apache.org/download.html">http://zeppelin.apache.org/download.html</a></p>
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| <p><strong><br />Did You Know?</strong></p>
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| <p><strong></strong> - Did you know that the following Apache projects have anniversaries in April? Apache CXF (9 years); Avro, HBase, Mahout, Nutch, Tika, and Traffic Server (7 years); Creadur, Jena (5 years); DeltaSpike (4 years), ORC, Parquet (2 years); Apex, AsterixDB, Johnzon (1 year) --Many Happy Returns! <a href="https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date">https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date</a></p>
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| <p> - Did you know that Redfin sends thousands of notifications per minute and millions of emails each day using Apache Kafka and Samza? <a href="http://kafka.apache.org/">http://kafka.apache.org/</a> and <a href="http://samza.apache.org/">http://samza.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p> - Did you know that we are experiencing a greater influx of participants, with nearly 300 new code contributors and 300-400 new people filing issues each month? <a href="https://projects.apache.org/statistics.html">https://projects.apache.org/statistics.html</a></p>
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| <p><strong><br />Apache Community Notices:</strong></p>
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| <p> - "Success at Apache" is a new monthly blog series that focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works". 1) Project Independence <a href="https://s.apache.org/CE0V">https://s.apache.org/CE0V</a> 2) All Carrot and No Stick <a href="https://s.apache.org/ykoG">https://s.apache.org/ykoG</a> 3) Asynchronous Decision Making <a href="https://s.apache.org/PMvk">https://s.apache.org/PMvk</a> 4) Rule of the Makers <a href="https://s.apache.org/yFgQ">https://s.apache.org/yFgQ</a> 5) JFDI --the unconditional love of contributors <a href="https://s.apache.org/4pjM">https://s.apache.org/4pjM</a></p>
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| <p> - We have been chosen as a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) Mentoring Organization for the 12th consecutive year --Apache Committer Mentors wanted! <a href="https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/5416945173135360/">https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/5416945173135360/</a></p>
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| <p> - Feedback from The Apache Software Foundation on the Free and Open Source Security Audit (FOSSA) <a href="https://s.apache.org/romf">https://s.apache.org/romf</a></p>
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| <p> - ASF Operations Summary - Q3 FY2017 <a href="https://s.apache.org/NKFz">https://s.apache.org/NKFz</a></p>
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| <p> - The new Apache Community Facebook page is <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/">https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/</a> Do friend and follow us. </p>
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| <p> - 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> - 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, Polygene, Syncope, Tika, Trafodion, and more! <a href="https://helpwanted.apache.org/">https://helpwanted.apache.org/</a></p>
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| <p> - ApacheCon North America + Apache: BigData, CloudStack Collaboration Conference, FlexJS Summit, Apache: IoT, and TomcatCon will be held 16-18 May 2017 in Miami <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a></p>
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