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| title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 16 October 2015' |
| id: 132b668b-d3dc-4ce6-9ed0-e906e17e7bfd |
| date: '2015-10-16 16:26:57 -0400' |
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| - summary |
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| <p>Here's what the Apache Community has been up to over the past week:</p> |
| <p>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: 21 October. Board calendar and minutes available at <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html">http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html</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 /> - 6M weekly checks yielded a smashing 99.81% uptime over the past week <a href="http://status.apache.org/">http://status.apache.org/</a> Check against established SLAs <a href="http://status.apache.org/sla/">http://status.apache.org/sla/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Curator™ –Java libraries that make using Apache ZooKeeper much easier and more reliable.<br /> - Apache Curator 3.0.0 released <a href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/curator/">http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/curator/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Derby™ –a subproject of the Apache DB project, Derby is a pure Java relational database engine that conforms to the ISO/ANSI SQL and JDBC standards.<br /> - Apache Derby 10.12.1.1 released <a href="http://db.apache.org/derby/derby_downloads.html">http://db.apache.org/derby/derby_downloads.html</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Log4j™ –a well known framework for logging application behavior, Log4j 2 provides many modern features such as support for Markers, property substitution using Lookups, and asynchronous Loggers.<br /> - Apache Log4j 2.4.1 released <a href="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/">http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/</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 1.3.8 released <a href="http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html">http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Tomcat™ –an Open Source software implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Unified Expression Language and Java WebSocket technologies.<br /> - Apache Tomcat 8.0.28 released <a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi">http://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi</a></p> |
| <p><strong>Did You Know?</strong></p> |
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| <p> - Did you know that the Apache HTTP Web Server Project released v2.4.17 this week? <a href="http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/Announcement2.4.html">http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/Announcement2.4.html</a></p> |
| <p> - Did you know that 13 Apache projects are celebrating their anniversary this month? Apache Incubator (13 years); Xalan and XML Graphics (11 years); MINA and Velocity (9 years); PDF Box (6 years); Thrift (5 years); JMeter (4 years); Cordova, Isis, and OpenOffice (3 years); Chukwa and JClouds (2 years)! <a href="https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?date">https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?date</a></p> |
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| <div> - Did you know that Uber uses Apache Hadoop, Kafka, and Spark for data management across 300+ cities in 60+ countries?</div> |
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| <p><strong>Apache Community Notices:</strong></p> |
| <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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| <div> - The next Lucene/Solr Revolution will be held 13-16 October in Austin <a href="http://www.lucenerevolution.org/">http://www.lucenerevolution.org</a></div> |
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| <p> - The Apache Roadshow returns to China: Containers/Cloud/Big Data/Incubation & more 24-25 Oct in Beijing <a href="http://www.huodongxing.com/event/9291887966700">http://www.huodongxing.com/event/9291887966700</a></p> |
| <p> - Apache CloudStack will hold a MeetUp in London on 12 November <a href="http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cloudstack-european-user-group-tickets-18631038939?aff=es2">http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cloudstack-european-user-group-tickets-18631038939?aff=es2</a></p> |
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| <p> - The ASF will be at FOSDEM 2016 in Brussels 6-8 February 2016 <a href="https://fosdem.org/">https://fosdem.org/</a></p> |
| <p> - The ASF Operations Summary: First Quarter, Fiscal Year 2016 (May-July 2015) is available at <a href="http://s.apache.org/c2P">http://s.apache.org/c2P</a></p> |
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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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