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| title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 21 September 2018' |
| id: 7bf9c934-b355-4ce7-9f87-92dca190abd9 |
| date: '2019-01-22 02:00:42 -0500' |
| categories: foundation |
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| - news |
| - weekly |
| - foundation |
| - software |
| - community |
| - summary |
| - round-up |
| - apache |
| - projects |
| - initiatives |
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| <p>As another week draws to a close, let's take a look at the Apache community's activities from the past week:</p> |
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| <p>ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.<br /> - The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: May - July 2018 <a href="https://s.apache.org/qiKn">https://s.apache.org/qiKn</a><br /> - Next Board Meeting: 17 October. Board calendar and minutes <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html">http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html</a></p> |
| <p>ASF Fundraising –support through donations and Sponsorship help offset the ASF's day-to-day operating expenses and keep Apache software for everyone.<br /> - The Apache<sup>®</sup> Software Foundation Welcomes Tencent as its Newest Sponsor at the Platinum Level <a href="https://s.apache.org/KzEz">https://s.apache.org/KzEz</a></p> |
| <p>ApacheCon™ –the ASF's official global conference series, now in its 20th year.<br /> - 24-27 September: T-3 days to Montreal. 100+ Apache project and community sessions, from CloudStack to Spark to Tomcat to Geospatial to Hackathon, BarCamp, and more. See you there! <a href="http://apachecon.com/acna18/">http://apachecon.com/acna18/</a><br /> - Guest Post: looking forward to learning more about the wide array of projects in the Apache fold at ApacheCon <a href="https://s.apache.org/RkWd">https://s.apache.org/RkWd</a><br /> - 4 December: Apache Roadshow DC and Open Source Job Fair. CFP open through 15 October <a href="http://www.apachecon.com/usroadshow18/">http://www.apachecon.com/usroadshow18/</a></p> |
| <p>ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.<br /> - 7M+ weekly checks yield deft performance at 99.41% uptime. <a href="http://status.apache.org/">http://status.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>ASF Operations Factoid –this week, 504 Apache contributors changed 1,297,500 lines of code over <font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;">3,801</span></font> commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Radu Cotescu, Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Carsten Ziegeler, Hervé Boutemy, and Carlos Sanchez Gonzalez.</p> |
| <p>Apache Attic –provides process and solutions to make it clear when an Apache project has reached its end of life.<br /> - Apache Lucy has retired <a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201809.mbox/%3Cpony-a4cac82164ef67d9d07d379b5d5d8c4abe1e02ff-a56909df10a4d5ddf5298357d8c193a36e67aeb0%40announce.apache.org%3E">http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201809.mbox/%3Cpony-a4cac82164ef67d9d07d379b5d5d8c4abe1e02ff-a56909df10a4d5ddf5298357d8c193a36e67aeb0%40announce.apache.org%3E</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Atlas™ –a scalable and extensible set of core foundational governance services.<br /> - Apache Atlas 1.1.0 released <a href="http://atlas.apache.org/">http://atlas.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Calcite™ Avatica Go –framework for building database drivers; the Avatica Go client is a Go database/sql driver that enables Go programs to communicate with the Avatica server.<br /> - Apache Calcite Avatica Go 3.2.0 released <a href="https://calcite.apache.org/">https://calcite.apache.org/</a> </p> |
| <p>Apache Directory™ Studio –a complete directory tooling platform intended to be used with any LDAP server however it is particularly designed for use with ApacheDS.<br /> - Apache Directory Studio 2.0-0-M14 released <a href="https://directory.apache.org/">https://directory.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Flink™ –an Open Source stream processing framework for distributed, high-performing, always-available, and accurate data streaming applications.<br /> - Apache Flink 1.5.4 and 1.6.1 released <a href="https://flink.apache.org/">https://flink.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Jackrabbit™ –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 1.6.14 released <a href="http://jackrabbit.apache.org/">http://jackrabbit.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache JMeter™ –a 100% pure Java application designed to test server applications.<br /> - Apache JMeter 5.0 released <a href="http://jmeter.apache.org/">http://jmeter.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Kylin™ –an Open Source Distributed Analytics Engine designed to provide SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) on Apache Hadoop, supporting extremely large datasets.<br /> - Apache Kylin 2.5.0 released <a href="https://kylin.apache.org/">https://kylin.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Portable Runtime™ –software libraries that provide a predictable and consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations.<br /> - Apache Portable Runtime APR 1.6.5 released <a href="http://apr.apache.org/">http://apr.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Pulsar (incubating) –a highly scalable, low latency messaging platform running on commodity hardware.<br /> - Apache Pulsar 2.1.1-incubating released <a href="https://pulsar.incubator.apache.org/">https://pulsar.incubator.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Apache SpamAssassin™ –an extensible email filter used to identify spam.<br /> - Apache SpamAssassin 3.4.2 released <a href="https://spamassassin.apache.org/">https://spamassassin.apache.org/</a><br /> - Apache SpamAssassin 3.4.2 resolves CVE-2017-15705, CVE-2016-1238, CVE-2018-11780 & CVE-2018-11781 <a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201809.mbox/%3CCAMMMAUH38nTHLyjMkZQdhLHh6trT%2BEzd%3DMGhS%3D%2B%3DbTuGWcYJSA%40mail.gmail.com%3E">http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201809.mbox/%3CCAMMMAUH38nTHLyjMkZQdhLHh6trT%2BEzd%3DMGhS%3D%2B%3DbTuGWcYJSA%40mail.gmail.com%3E</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Tika™ –a toolkit for detecting and extracting metadata and structured text content from various documents using existing parser libraries.<br /> - Apache Tika 1.19 released <a href="http://tika.apache.org/">http://tika.apache.org/</a><br /> - [CVE-2018-11761] Apache Tika DoS XML Entity Expansion Vulnerability <a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201809.mbox/%3CCAC1dCwVx2Z1haCnvYBhH7nQRN4kYKjwkLfjsCbeFHv2tRcBonA%40mail.gmail.com%3E">http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201809.mbox/%3CCAC1dCwVx2Z1haCnvYBhH7nQRN4kYKjwkLfjsCbeFHv2tRcBonA%40mail.gmail.com%3E</a><br /> - [CVE-2018-11762] Zip Slip Vulnerability in Apache Tika's tika-app <a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201809.mbox/%3CCAC1dCwV2-kTJKjNO1rV65bQrekkur7OWAu1x%2BpPRToRRYk%3DGPA%40mail.gmail.com%3E">http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201809.mbox/%3CCAC1dCwV2-kTJKjNO1rV65bQrekkur7OWAu1x%2BpPRToRRYk%3DGPA%40mail.gmail.com%3E</a><br /> - [CVE-2018-8017] Apache Tika Denial of Service Vulnerability -- Potential Infinite Loop in IptcAnpaParser <a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201809.mbox/%3CCAC1dCwVOEYsB1c4s2DYkhsafT8q3Fupt_OFugXj9J1RCZuf3UQ%40mail.gmail.com%3E">http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201809.mbox/%3CCAC1dCwVOEYsB1c4s2DYkhsafT8q3Fupt_OFugXj9J1RCZuf3UQ%40mail.gmail.com%3E</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 />- Apache Tomcat 7.0.91 released <a href="https://tomcat.apache.org/">https://tomcat.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>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.<br /> - Apache Wicket 8.1.0 released <a href="http://wicket.apache.org/">http://wicket.apache.org/</a></p></p> |
| <p><strong>Did You Know?</strong></p> |
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| <p> - Did you know that, according to a survey by DZone asking "What Open Source Software Do You Use?", the leading answer is "Apache"? <a href="https://projects.apache.org/">https://projects.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p> - Did you know that Apache CouchDB provides binaries (RPMs and debs)? <a href="http://couchdb.apache.org/">http://couchdb.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p> - Did you know that you can join us at BarCampApache next week during ApacheCon? <a href="https://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/BarCampApacheMontreal">https://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/BarCampApacheMontreal</a></p> |
| <p><strong>Apache Community Notices:</strong></p> |
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| <p> - ASF Annual Report for FY2018 <a href="https://s.apache.org/FY2018AnnualReport">https://s.apache.org/FY2018AnnualReport</a></p> |
| <p> - The Apache<span style="font-size: 10.8333px;"> </span>Software Foundation Celebrates 19 Years of Open Source Leadership "The Apache Way" <a href="https://s.apache.org/gK4Q">https://s.apache.org/gK4Q</a></p> |
| <p> - Read "Open – For Business – At the ASF" by Merv Adrian, VP Research at Gartner <a href="https://blogs.gartner.com/merv-adrian/2018/03/27/open-for-business-at-the-asf/">https://blogs.gartner.com/merv-adrian/2018/03/27/open-for-business-at-the-asf/</a></p> |
| <p> - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement <a href="https://s.apache.org/zqC3">https://s.apache.org/zqC3</a></p> |
| <p> - Apache in 2017 - By The Digits <a href="https://s.apache.org/h8do">https://s.apache.org/h8do</a></p> |
| <p> - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. <a href="https://s.apache.org/PIRA">https://s.apache.org/PIRA</a></p> |
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| <p> - "Success at Apache" focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works". <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache">https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache</a></p> |
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| <p> - Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter and on LinkedIn at <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation">https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation</a></p> |
| <p> - Do friend and follow us on the Apache Community Facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/">https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/</a>and Twitter account <a href="https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity">https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity</a></p> |
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| <p> - The list of Apache project-related MeetUps can be found at <a href="http://events.apache.org/event/meetups.html">http://events.apache.org/event/meetups.html</a></p> |
| <p> - ApacheCon North America will be held 24-27 September in Montreal <a href="http://apachecon.com/">http://apachecon.com/</a></p> |
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| <p><a href="http://apachecon.com/"></a> - The Apache Spark community will be presenting at In-Memory Computing Summit North America 2-3 October in San Francicso <a href="https://www.imcsummit.org/2018/us/">https://www.imcsummit.org/2018/us/</a></p> |
| <p> - The Apache Big Data community will be at DataWorks Summit 18-21 March 2019 in Barcelona and 20-23 May 2019 in Washington DC <a href="https://dataworkssummit.com/">https://dataworkssummit.com/</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, Polygene, Syncope, Tika, Trafodion, and more! <a href="https://helpwanted.apache.org/">https://helpwanted.apache.org/</a></p> |
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| <div>For real-time updates, sign up for Apache-related news by sending mail to announce-subscribe@apache.org and follow @TheASF on Twitter. For a broader spectrum from the Apache community, <a href="https://twitter.com/PlanetApache">https://twitter.com/PlanetApache</a> provides an aggregate of Project activities as well as the personal blogs and tweets of select ASF Committers.</div> |
| <p># # # </p> |
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