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| title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 14 April 2017' |
| id: 9b5094bd-d59c-4148-865b-310834179d93 |
| date: '2017-04-14 12:01:43 -0400' |
| categories: foundation |
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| - weekly |
| - initiatives |
| - news |
| - foundation |
| - software |
| - community |
| - round-up |
| - summary |
| - apache |
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| <p>The Apache community salutes the ASF's 18 years of Open Source leadership with ongoing productivity:</p> |
| <p>Support Apache –Apache projects benefit billions of users worldwide for less than $5K/project/year. 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></p> |
| <p>Apache Community Development –helps guide newcomers towards becoming a part of the Apache community.<br /> - Introducing the new Apache Community Newsletter <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/comdev/entry/community-development-news-march-2017">https://blogs.apache.org/comdev/entry/community-development-news-march-2017</a> and Twitter account <a href="https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity">https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity</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 twinkling performance back in the "three nines" at 99.89% 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. We're looking forward to seeing you the week of 15 May in Miami.<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> Register by 17 April and save $200!<br /> - PREVIEWS on ApacheCon and Apache: Big Data, exclusively on Feathercast –featuring Roman Shaposhnik on IoT; Ismaël Mejia & Etienne Chauchot on Apache Beam; Mark Thomas on Tomcat; and Shawn McKinney on Java security <a href="https://feathercast.apache.org/">https://feathercast.apache.org/</a><br /> - Support your favorite Apache project and community at ApacheCon by becoming an Apache Community Sponsor <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> |
| <p>Apache Ignite™ –in-Memory Data Fabric providing in-memory data caching, partitioning, processing, and querying components.<br /> - [CVE-2016-6805] Arbitrary File Read due to eXternal Xml Entity attack in Apache Ignite <a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201704.mbox/%3CB39FC5C0-9AC5-4E84-A450-AFF690B74D9C%40apache.org%3E">http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201704.mbox/%3CB39FC5C0-9AC5-4E84-A450-AFF690B74D9C%40apache.org%3E</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Libcloud™ –a Python library that abstracts away the differences among multiple Cloud provider APIs.<br /> - Apache Libcloud 2.0.0rc2 released <a href="http://libcloud.apache.org/downloads.html">http://libcloud.apache.org/downloads.html</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Log4j™ –provides logging services for Java.<br /> - Apache Log4j 2.8.2 released <a href="https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/">https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/</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 6.0.53 released <a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi">http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi</a><br /> - [SECURITY] CVE-2017-5651 Apache Tomcat Information Disclosure <a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201704.mbox/%3C63a584ba-4db7-85d3-0206-c1164b9d26c6%40apache.org%3E">http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201704.mbox/%3C63a584ba-4db7-85d3-0206-c1164b9d26c6%40apache.org%3E</a><br /> - [SECURITY] CVE-2017-5650 Apache Tomcat Denial of Service <a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201704.mbox/%3C6d8077ef-1bcb-d07b-0bd0-f70ab0043faf%40apache.org%3E">http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201704.mbox/%3C6d8077ef-1bcb-d07b-0bd0-f70ab0043faf%40apache.org%3E</a><br /> - [SECURITY] CVE-2017-5648 Apache Tomcat Information Disclosure <a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201704.mbox/%3C8a78e8fe-616e-1959-3c0e-26704fc72766%40apache.org%3E">http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201704.mbox/%3C8a78e8fe-616e-1959-3c0e-26704fc72766%40apache.org%3E</a></p> |
| <p>Apache Twill™ –an abstraction over Apache Hadoop® YARN that reduces the complexity of developing distributed applications, allowing developers to focus instead on their application logic.<br /> - Apache Twill 0.11.0 released <a href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/twill/0.11.0/src">http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/twill/0.11.0/src</a></p> |
| <p><strong><br />Did You Know?</strong></p> |
| <p><strong></strong> - Did you know that, over the past week, 518 Apache Committers changed 917,176 lines of code over 2,740 commits? <a href="http://status.apache.org/#commits">http://status.apache.org/#commits</a></p> |
| <p> - Did you know that Apache innovation will be highlighted at ApacheCon and Apache: Big Data with presentations on numerous podlings, including Edgent, Gossip, Hivemall, iota, Mynewt, OpenWhisk, RocketMQ + more? <a href="http://incubator.apache.org/">http://incubator.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p> - Did you know that HBaseCon ASIA will be held on 4 August in Shenzhen, China? <a href="http://hbase.apache.org/">http://hbase.apache.org/</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> |
| <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> |
| <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> |
| <p> - ASF Operations Summary - Q3 FY2017 <a href="https://s.apache.org/NKFz">https://s.apache.org/NKFz</a></p> |
| <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> |
| <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> |
| </p></div> |
| <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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| <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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