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| title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 25 November 2016' |
| author: |
| display_name: Sally Khudairi |
| login: sk |
| email: sk@haloworldwide.com |
| author_login: sk |
| author_email: sk@haloworldwide.com |
| id: 3d6d351a-b22d-4b8a-bbff-05fcb840c91b |
| date: '2016-11-25 15:50:51 -0500' |
| categories: |
| - General |
| tags: |
| - the |
| - november |
| - news |
| - '18' |
| - week |
| - apache |
| - '2016' |
| - ending |
| - 'round-up:' |
| comments: [] |
| permalink: foundation/entry/the_apache_news_round_up113 |
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| <p>We're closing out quite a productive month with the following activities:</p> |
| <div> |
| <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: 21 December 2016. Board calendar and minutes available at <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html">http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html</a></p> |
| <p>ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.<br /> - 7M+ weekly checks yield perky performance at 99.83% uptime <a href="http://status.apache.org/">http://status.apache.org/</a></p> |
| </p></div> |
| <div> |
| <p><a href="http://status.apache.org/"></a>ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation.<br /> - CFP OPEN: Apache: Big Data and ApacheCon North America 16-18 May 2017/Miami <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a><br /> - Recordings of sessions are being processed and posted at Feathercast <a href="http://feathercast.org">http://feathercast.org</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Community Development –helps those new to the ASF and Apache Projects take their first steps towards being a part of the Apache community.<br /> - The Apache Community Development Team Prepares to Send Out its First Diversity Survey <a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201611.mbox/%3Cpony-31e1cbf2b23a01ea035ee3323fe2ab95950c8284-dc1f345f30800e5cbef086a8801c55be77bc49c3%40announce.apache.org%3E">http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201611.mbox/%3Cpony-31e1cbf2b23a01ea035ee3323fe2ab95950c8284-dc1f345f30800e5cbef086a8801c55be77bc49c3%40announce.apache.org%3E</a> </p> |
| <p>Apache CloudStack™ CloudMonkey –can be used both as an interactive shell and as a command line tool that enables cloud administrators and users to easily manage configuration and management of Apache CloudStack clouds.<br /> - Apache CloudStack CloudMonkey 5.3.3 released <a href="http://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html">http://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Geode™ –Big Data in-memory data grid used by hundreds of enterprises to power mission-critical low latency, high concurrency transactional applications at extreme scale.<br /> - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Geode™ as a Top-Level Project https://s.apache.org/vS44</p> |
| <p>Apache Jackrabbit™ Oak –a fully conforming implementation of the Content Repository for Java Technology API (JCR)<br />- Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.2.21 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html </p> |
| <p>Apache jclouds™ –an Open Source multi-cloud toolkit for the Java platform that gives you the freedom to create applications that are portable across clouds while giving you full control to use cloud-specific features.<br /> - Apache jclouds 1.9.3 released <a href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/jclouds">http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/jclouds</a></p> |
| <p>Apache JMeter™ –a 100% pure Java application designed to test server applications.<br /> - Apache JMeter 3.1 released <a href="http://jmeter.apache.org/download_jmeter.cgi">http://jmeter.apache.org/download_jmeter.cgi</a></p> |
| <p>Apache POI™ –a Java library for reading and writing Microsoft Office files.<br /> - Apache POI 3.16 released <a href="https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/poi/release/RELEASE-NOTES.txt">https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/poi/release/RELEASE-NOTES.txt</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Tomcat™ –an Open Source software implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Unified Expression Language, Java WebSocket and JASPIC technologies.<br /> - CVE-2016-6816 Apache Tomcat Information Disclosure <a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201611.mbox/%3C60944c86-3492-4e03-4d2b-fd4d9736f0d9%40apache.org%3E">http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201611.mbox/%3C60944c86-3492-4e03-4d2b-fd4d9736f0d9%40apache.org%3E</a><br /> - CVE-2016-8735 Apache Tomcat Remote Code Execution <a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201611.mbox/%3Cac0f27e5-121b-ceac-eb1e-954ee54d65ac%40apache.org%3E">http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201611.mbox/%3Cac0f27e5-121b-ceac-eb1e-954ee54d65ac%40apache.org%3E</a><br /> - CVE-2016-6817 Apache Tomcat Denial of Service <a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201611.mbox/%3Ca9a2bf36-012a-2d10-28eb-4d2c33db3ddf%40apache.org%3E">http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201611.mbox/%3Ca9a2bf36-012a-2d10-28eb-4d2c33db3ddf%40apache.org%3E</a></p> |
| <p><strong><br />Did You Know?</strong></p> |
| <p><a href="http://qpid.apache.org/download.html"></a></p> |
| <p> - Did you know that Apache Groovy is one of the most widely used alternative languages for the JVM (Java virtual machine) with ~12M annual downloads per year? <a href="http://groovy.apache.org/">http://groovy.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p> - Did you know that Airbnb uses Apache Kafka in their billing system? <a href="http://kafka.apache.org/">http://kafka.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p> - Did you know that Apache SenSoft (incubating) is a Software-as-a-Sensor™ usability testing platform? <a href="http://incubator.apache.org/projects/senssoft.html">http://incubator.apache.org/projects/senssoft.html</a></p> |
| <p><strong><br />Apache Community Notices:</strong></p> |
| </p></div> |
| <div> |
| <div> |
| <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> |
| <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, Syncope, Tika, Trafodion, Zest, and more! <a href="https://helpwanted.apache.org/">https://helpwanted.apache.org/</a></p> |
| </p></div> |
| <p> - ApacheCon North America and Apache:BigData will be held 16-18 May 2017 in Miami <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a></p> |
| <p> - The ASF Q1 FY2017 Report is available at <a href="https://s.apache.org/1BsV">https://s.apache.org/1BsV</a></p> |
| <div> - Are your software solutions Powered by Apache? Download & use our "Powered By" logos <a href="http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby">http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby</a></div> |
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| <div> - Show your support for Apache with ASF-approved swag from<a href="http://www.zazzle.com/featherwear">http://www.zazzle.com/featherwear</a>and <a href="http://s.apache.org/landsend">http://s.apache.org/landsend</a>--all proceeds benefit the ASF! </div> |
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| <div>For real-time updates, sign up for <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html#foundation-announce">Apache-related news</a> by sending mail to announce-subscribe@apache.org and follow <a href="https://twitter.com/TheASF">@TheASF on Twitter</a>. For a broader spectrum from the Apache community, <a href="http://s.apache.org/landsend">https://twitter.com/PlanetApache</a> provides an aggregate of Project activities as well as the personal blogs and tweets of select ASF Committers.</div> |
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