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title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 3 November 2017'
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date: '2017-11-03 11:59:54 -0400'
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<div>Enter November! The Apache community has been working on the following over the past week:</div>
<p>ASF Board &ndash;management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.<br />&nbsp;- Next Board Meeting: 15 November. Board calendar and minutes <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html">http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html</a></p>
<p>ASF Infrastructure &ndash;our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.<br />&nbsp;- 7M+ weekly checks yield pert performance at 99.02% uptime <a href="http://status.apache.org/">http://status.apache.org/</a></p>
<p>ASF Operations Factoid&nbsp;&ndash;this week, 460 Apache contributors changed 915,743 lines of code over 2,359 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Stephen Mallette, Daniel Templeton, Gary Gregory, Tilman Hausherr, and Paul King.</p>
<p>Apache Any23&trade; &ndash;Anything To Triples is a library, a Web service, and a command line tool that extracts structured data in RDF format from a variety of Web documents.<br />&nbsp;-&nbsp;Apache Any23 2.1&nbsp;<a href="https://any23.apache.org">https://any23.apache.org</a></p>
<p>Apache Geode&trade; &ndash;low latency, high concurrency data management solutions.<br />&nbsp;- Apache Geode 1.3.0 released&nbsp;<a href="http://geode.apache.org/">http://geode.apache.org/</a></p>
<p>Apache Hive&trade; &ndash;Big Data warehouse that facilitates querying and managing large datasets residing in distributed storage.<br />&nbsp;- CVE-2017-12625 Apache Hive information disclosure vulnerability for column masking&nbsp;<a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201710.mbox/%3C3791103E-80D5-4E75-AF23-6F8ED54DDEBE%40apache.org%3E">http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201710.mbox/%3C3791103E-80D5-4E75-AF23-6F8ED54DDEBE%40apache.org%3E</a></p></p>
<p>Apache Ignite&trade; &ndash;in-memory computing platform that is durable, strongly consistent, and highly available with powerful SQL, key-value and processing APIs.<br />&nbsp;-&nbsp;Apache Ignite 2.3.0 released&nbsp;<a href="https://ignite.apache.org/">https://ignite.apache.org/</a></p>
<p>Apache Jackrabbit&trade; &ndash;a fully conforming implementation of the Content Repository for Java Technology API (JCR).<br />&nbsp;-&nbsp;Apache Jackrabbit 2.14.4 and Jackrabbit Oak 1.6.6 released&nbsp;<a href="http://jackrabbit.apache.org/">http://jackrabbit.apache.org/</a></p>
<p>Apache Juneau&trade; &ndash;Open Source framework for quickly and easily creating Java-based REST microservices and APIs.<br />&nbsp;- The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache&reg; Juneau&trade; as a Top-Level Project https://s.apache.org/IvJH&nbsp;</p>
<p>Apache Kafka&trade; &ndash;Open Source enterprise-grade scalable streaming platform.<br />&nbsp;-&nbsp;The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache&reg; Kafka&reg; v1.0.0&nbsp;<a href="https://s.apache.org/8jww">https://s.apache.org/8jww</a><br />&nbsp;- Apache Kafka 1.0.0 released&nbsp;<a href="https://kafka.apache.org/">https://kafka.apache.org/</a></p>
<p>Apache Lucene&trade; &ndash;a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java.<br />&nbsp;- Solr Reference Guide for Solr 7.1 released&nbsp;<a href="https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/ref-guide/apache-solr-ref-guide-7.1.pdf">https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/ref-guide/apache-solr-ref-guide-7.1.pdf</a></p>
<p>Apache MXNet (incubating)&nbsp;&ndash;a deep learning framework designed for both efficiency and flexibility.<br />&nbsp;-&nbsp;Apache MXNet (incubating) 0.12.0 released&nbsp;<a href="http://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/">http://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/</a></p>
<p>Apache OpenNLP&trade; &ndash;a Machine Learning-based toolkit for the processing of natural language text.<br />&nbsp;-&nbsp;Language Detector Model 1.8.3 released&nbsp;<a href="http://opennlp.apache.org/">http://opennlp.apache.org/</a> </p>
<p>Apache PDFBox&trade; &ndash;an Open Source Java tool for working with PDF documents.<br />&nbsp;-&nbsp;Apache PDFBox 2.0.8 released&nbsp;<a href="http://pdfbox.apache.org/">http://pdfbox.apache.org/</a></p>
<p>Apache Yetus&trade; &ndash;a collection of libraries and tools that enable contribution and release processes for software projects.&nbsp;<br />&nbsp;-&nbsp;Apache Yetus 0.6.0 released&nbsp;<a href="https://yetus.apache.org/">https://yetus.apache.org/</a></p>
<p><strong>Did You Know?</strong></p>
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<p>&nbsp;- Did you know that you can learn about Open Source governance, community leadership, open development, and more from dozens of members of the Apache community at&nbsp;FOSS Backstage Micro-Summit in Berlin on 20 November?&nbsp;https://berlinbuzzwords.de/17/news/foss-backstage-micro-summit-registration-open-now&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;- Did you know that Apache Struts has new documentation?&nbsp;<a href="http://struts.apache.org/docs/">http://struts.apache.org/docs/</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- Did you know that Yelp runs massively parallel integration tests on Apache Mesos with Task Processing?&nbsp;<a href="http://mesos.apache.org/">http://mesos.apache.org/</a></p>
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<div><strong><br />Apache Community Notices:</strong></div>
<p>&nbsp;- Foundation Statement &ndash;Apache Is Open. <a href="https://s.apache.org/PIRA">https://s.apache.org/PIRA</a></p>
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<p>&nbsp;- "Success at Apache" 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%20">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> 6) Meritocracy and Me <a href="https://s.apache.org/tQQh">https://s.apache.org/tQQh</a> 7) Learning to Build a Stronger Community <a href="https://s.apache.org/x9Be">https://s.apache.org/x9Be</a>&nbsp;8) Meritocracy. <a href="https://s.apache.org/DiEo">https://s.apache.org/DiEo</a>&nbsp;9) Lowering Barriers to Open Innovation&nbsp;<a href="https://s.apache.org/dAlg">https://s.apache.org/dAlg</a>&nbsp;10) All My Roads Led to Apache&nbsp;<a href="https://s.apache.org/l9OO">https://s.apache.org/l9OO</a>&nbsp;11) Scratch Your Own Itch.&nbsp;<a href="https://s.apache.org/7Amk">https://s.apache.org/7Amk</a></p>
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<div>&nbsp;- Follow 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> (re-tweets/shares/likes most appreciated!)</div>
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<p>&nbsp;- Presentations from ApacheCon <a href="https://s.apache.org/Hli7">https://s.apache.org/Hli7</a> and Apache: Big Data <a href="https://s.apache.org/tefE">https://s.apache.org/tefE</a> are available; as well as videos <a href="https://s.apache.org/AE3m">https://s.apache.org/AE3m</a> and audio recordings <a href="https://feathercast.apache.org/">https://feathercast.apache.org/</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- 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><a href="https://feathercast.apache.org/"></a></p>
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<p>&nbsp;- The list of Apache project-related MeetUps can be found at <a href="https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity">http://apache.org/events/meetups.html</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- Apache community members share leadership best practices on Open Source governance, community leadership, open development, and more at FOSS Backstage in Berlin on 20 November 2017 <a href="https://berlinbuzzwords.de/17/news/foss-backstage-micro-summit-registration-open-now">https://berlinbuzzwords.de/17/news/foss-backstage-micro-summit-registration-open-now</a></p>
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<p>&nbsp;- Meet members of the Apache CloudStack community at the&nbsp;CloudStack European User Group on 21 November in&nbsp;Leipzig&nbsp;<a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cloudstack-european-user-group-tickets-38657799519?aff=estw">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cloudstack-european-user-group-tickets-38657799519?aff=estw</a> </p>
<p>&nbsp;- Members of the Apache community will be out in force at Open Source Summit Paris 6-7 December 2017 <a href="http://www.opensourcesummit.paris/">http://www.opensourcesummit.paris/</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- ASF Quarterly Report: Operations Summary Q1 FY2018&nbsp;<a href="https://s.apache.org/cEUm">https://s.apache.org/cEUm</a></p>
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<p>&nbsp;- ASF Annual Report is available at&nbsp;<a href="https://s.apache.org/FY2017AnnualReport">https://s.apache.org/FY2017AnnualReport</a></p>
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