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title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 5 October 2018'
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date: '2018-10-05 14:42:27 -0400'
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- apache
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- round-up
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<p>Happy October! Let's jump into a review of Apache business from the past week:</p>
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<p>Success at Apache &ndash;a monthly blog series that focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works".<br />&nbsp;- Carrying forward the benefits. by&nbsp;Mikael St&aring;ldal <a href="https://s.apache.org/kXez">https://s.apache.org/kXez</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;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: 17 October. Board calendar and minutes <a href="http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html">http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html</a></p>
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<p>ApacheCon&trade; &ndash;the ASF's official global conference series, now in its 20th year.<br />&nbsp;- Catch ApacheCon North America presentations and interviews via Feathercast&nbsp;<a href="https://feathercast.apache.org/">https://feathercast.apache.org/</a> and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/TheApacheFoundation">https://www.youtube.com/user/TheApacheFoundation</a><br />&nbsp;- View, tag, and post #apachecon photos under a Creative Commons license on Flickr&nbsp;<a href="https://www.flickr.com/groups/apachecon/pool/">https://www.flickr.com/groups/apachecon/pool/</a><br />&nbsp;- CFP closes soon: Apache Roadshow DC and Open Source Job Fair 4 December. CFP open through 15 October; registration open&nbsp;<a href="http://www.apachecon.com/usroadshow18/">http://www.apachecon.com/usroadshow18/</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 reliable performance at 97.42% uptime.&nbsp;<a href="http://status.apache.org/">http://status.apache.org/</a></p>
<p>ASF Operations Factoid&nbsp;&ndash;this week, 472 Apache contributors changed 1,343,215 lines of code over <font color="#333333" face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px;">3,200</span></font>&nbsp;commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Derek Gelinas, Wes McKinney, Om, Robert Newson, and Colm O hEigeartaigh.</p></p>
<p>Apache Geode&trade; &ndash;low latency, high concurrency Big Data management solutions.<br />&nbsp;-&nbsp;Apache Geode 1.7.0 released&nbsp;<a href="http://geode.apache.org/">http://geode.apache.org/</a></p>
<p>Apache HTTP Server&trade; &ndash;the world's most popular Web server since 1996.<br />&nbsp;- Apache HTTP Server 2.4.35 released&nbsp;<a href="http://httpd.apache.org/">http://httpd.apache.org/</a></p>
<p>Apache Jackrabbit&trade; &ndash;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 />&nbsp;-&nbsp;Apache Jackrabbit 2.17.6 and Jackrabbit Oak 1.4.23 released&nbsp;<a href="http://jackrabbit.apache.org/">http://jackrabbit.apache.org/</a> </p>
<p>Apache OpenWebBeans&trade; Meecrowave &ndash;a small java enterprise application server framework fully based on Apache Tomcat9 and other JavaEE 8 technologies.<br />&nbsp;-&nbsp;Apache Meecrowave 1.2.4 released&nbsp;<a href="https://openwebbeans.apache.org/">https://openwebbeans.apache.org/</a></p>
<p>Apache PDFBox&trade; &ndash;an Open Source Java tool for working with PDF documents.<br />&nbsp;-&nbsp;Apache PDFBox 1.8.16 and 2.0.12 released&nbsp;<a href="http://pdfbox.apache.org/">http://pdfbox.apache.org/</a></p>
<p>Apache Qpid&trade; &ndash;Multiple language implementation of the latest Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)<br />&nbsp;- Apache Qpid JMS 0.37.0 released&nbsp;<a href="http://qpid.apache.org">http://qpid.apache.org</a></p>
<p>Apache Subversion&trade; &ndash;the popular&nbsp;Open Source, centralized version control system.<br />&nbsp;- Apache Subversion 1.11.0-rc2 released&nbsp;<a href="https://subversion.apache.org/">https://subversion.apache.org/</a></p>
<p>Apache Tomcat&trade; &ndash;an Open Source software implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Unified Expression Language, Java WebSocket and JASPIC technologies.<br />&nbsp;-&nbsp;CVE-2018-11784 Apache Tomcat - Open Redirect&nbsp;<a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201810.mbox/%3C4cf697b0-db03-9eab-f2aa-54c2026d0e88%40apache.org%3E">http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201810.mbox/%3C4cf697b0-db03-9eab-f2aa-54c2026d0e88%40apache.org%3E</a></p></p>
<p><strong>Did You Know?</strong></p>
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<p>&nbsp;- Did you know that Apache Syncope's&nbsp;end-user UI is accessible to the visually impaired?&nbsp;<a href="https://ci.apache.org/projects/syncope/2_1_X/reference-guide.html#accessibility">https://ci.apache.org/projects/syncope/2_1_X/reference-guide.html#accessibility</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- Did you know that the first candidate for Apache NetBeans 10 (incubating) is available for users to try and provide feedback?&nbsp;<a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/10vc1">https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/10vc1</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- Did you know that OrientDB 3.1.0 M1 supports Apache TinkerPop 3?&nbsp;<a href="http://tinkerpop.apache.org/">http://tinkerpop.apache.org/</a></p>
<p><strong>Apache Community Notices:</strong></p>
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<p>&nbsp;- ASF Operations Summary: Q1 FY2019 <a href="https://s.apache.org/qiKn">https://s.apache.org/qiKn</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- ASF Annual Report for FY2018&nbsp;<a href="https://s.apache.org/FY2018AnnualReport">https://s.apache.org/FY2018AnnualReport</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- The Apache<span style="font-size: 10.8333px;"> </span>Software Foundation Celebrates 19 Years of Open Source Leadership "The Apache Way"&nbsp;<a href="https://s.apache.org/gK4Q">https://s.apache.org/gK4Q</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- Read "Open &ndash; For Business &ndash; At the ASF" by Merv Adrian, VP Research at Gartner&nbsp;<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>&nbsp;- The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement&nbsp;<a href="https://s.apache.org/zqC3">https://s.apache.org/zqC3</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- Apache in 2017 - By The Digits&nbsp;<a href="https://s.apache.org/h8do">https://s.apache.org/h8do</a></p>
<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". <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache">https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache</a></p>
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<p>&nbsp;- 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>&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></p>
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<p>&nbsp;- 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>
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<p>&nbsp;- The Apache Big Data community will be at&nbsp;DataWorks Summit 18-21 March 2019 in Barcelona and&nbsp;20-23 May 2019 in Washington DC&nbsp;<a href="https://dataworkssummit.com/">https://dataworkssummit.com/</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;- 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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