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| title: 'The Apache News Round-up: week ending 11 December 2020' |
| id: 36bb6bc0-5cfc-4927-807b-69982d612e7f |
| date: '2020-12-11 12:27:27 -0500' |
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| - december |
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| - community |
| - projects |
| - apache |
| - initiatives |
| - weekly |
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| <p>Happy Friday! Let's take a look at what the Apache community has been up to over the past week:</p> |
| <p><span style="font-weight: 700;">ASF Board</span> – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.<br> - Next Board Meeting: 16 December 2020. Board calendar and minutes <a href="https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html" target="_blank">https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html</a></p> |
| <p><span style="font-weight: 700;">ApacheCon™</span> – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.<br> - all videos from ApacheCon@Home are available at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/TheApacheFoundation/" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/c/TheApacheFoundation/</a> <br></p> |
| <p><span style="font-weight: 700;">ASF Infrastructure</span> – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.<br> - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.91%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. <a href="http://www.apache.org/uptime/" target="_blank">http://www.apache.org/uptime/</a><br></p> |
| <p><span style="font-weight: 700;">Apache Code Snapshot </span>– Over the past week, 398 Apache Committers changed 1,767,303 lines of<br /> |
| code over 3,476 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: <span>Hugh Miles, Andi Huber, Mark Thomas, Ganesh Murthy, and Claus Ibsen. </span> </p> |
| <p><span style="font-weight: 700;">Apache Project Announcements</span> – the latest updates by category.</p> |
| <p>API --<br><br /> |
| - Apache <span class="il">APISIX</span> Dashboard 2.1.1 released <a href="https://apisix.apache.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://apisix.apache.org/&source=gmail&ust=1607689625415000&usg=AFQjCNFyTI5yRcN1jEddwTwF2mlUgP-Xog">https://<span class="il">apisix</span>.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Big Data --<br> - Apache <span class="il">Avro</span> 1.10.1 released <a href="https://avro.apache.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://avro.apache.org/&source=gmail&ust=1607688929780000&usg=AFQjCNGZgSuaDHVrZmSjVKMa1LkRCx96Ew">https://<span class="il">avro</span>.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Content --<br> - <br /> |
| Apache Jackrabbit <span class="il">Oak</span> 1.8.24 released <a href="http://jackrabbit.apache.org/" target="_blank">http://jackrabbit.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Library --<br> - Apache <span class="il">Yetus</span> 0.13.0 released <a href="https://yetus.apache.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://yetus.apache.org/&source=gmail&ust=1607689551632000&usg=AFQjCNFaToduhMpdoxbHlwLgYIcGv-bgvA">https://<span class="il">yetus</span>.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Programming Languages --<br> - Apache <span class="il">Groovy</span> 2.4.21, 2.5.14, 3.0.7, and 4.0.0-alpha-2 released <a href="https://groovy.apache.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://groovy.apache.org/&source=gmail&ust=1607689160661000&usg=AFQjCNHhfcTGH-8V6A5q5BvK_Ih1oAvMkw">https://<span class="il">groovy</span>.apache.org/</a><br> - Apache Groovy CVE-2020-17521: Groovy Information Disclosure <a href="https://s.apache.org/k8n0d" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/k8n0d</a><br></p> |
| <p>Messaging --<br> - Apache <span class="il">Pulsar</span> 2.7.0 released <a href="https://pulsar.apache.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://pulsar.apache.org/&source=gmail&ust=1607688723803000&usg=AFQjCNHHQ--T_V8WpS0ZYQrviU7-4rP2hw">https://<span class="il">pulsar</span>.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Servers --<br> - Apache <span class="il">Traffic</span> <span class="il">Control</span> 4.1.1 released <a href="https://trafficcontrol.apache.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://trafficcontrol.apache.org/&source=gmail&ust=1607689135079000&usg=AFQjCNFXpr5iul4zeW_EdM8xQa7mW3Y4kA">https://trafficcontrol.apache.<wbr>org/</a><br> - Apache <span class="il">Tomcat</span> 8.5.61, 9.0.41, and 10.0.0 (beta) available <a href="http://tomcat.apache.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://tomcat.apache.org/&source=gmail&ust=1607690046290000&usg=AFQjCNGPQhiAIevHWc4_prwwOq_EWPHbUA">http://<span class="il">tomcat</span>.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Testing --<br> - Apache <span class="il">JMeter</span> 5.4 released <a href="https://jmeter.apache.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://jmeter.apache.org/&source=gmail&ust=1607689106832000&usg=AFQjCNFvZT-4EgEjoMOtVXczU4vePzAEfg">https://<span class="il">jmeter</span>.apache.org/</a></p> |
| <p>Web Conferencing --<br> - Apache <span class="il">OpenMeetings</span> 5.1.0 released <a href="https://openmeetings.apache.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://openmeetings.apache.org/&source=gmail&ust=1607689457992000&usg=AFQjCNF34Vd5vCB-3qxFtoXRi-_eWzXJ2g">https://<span class="il">openmeetings</span>.apache.or<wbr>g/</a></p> |
| <p>Web Frameworks --<br> - Apache <span class="il">Struts</span> 2.5.26 released <a href="https://struts.apache.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://struts.apache.org/&source=gmail&ust=1607689161485000&usg=AFQjCNH6-o6zB2Opu1dNr5MSlGBSxQyNNA">https://<span class="il">struts</span>.apache.org/</a><br> - Apache <span class="il">Struts</span> CVE-2020-17530: Potential RCE when using forced evaluation <a href="https://s.apache.org/hwr92">https://s.apache.org/hwr92</a></p></p> |
| <p><span style="font-weight: 700;"> <br>Did You Know?</span></p> |
| <p>- Did you know that when we founded the ASF 21 years ago, we made a commitment to ensure our software is freely available to all users worldwide at 100% no cost? Today the ASF provides more than $21B worth of software developed by an all-volunteer community. Your tax-deductible contribution helps us continue our effort. <a href="https://donate.apache.org/" target="_blank">https://donate.apache.org/</a> <br></p> |
| <p>- Did you know that the Financial Times' real-time batch processing, stream processing, and analytics are powered by Apache Airflow, Avro, Kafka, Parquet, and Spark? <a href="https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?category#big-data" target="_blank">https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?category#big-data</a> <br></p> |
| <p>- Did you know that Airbnb uses Apache Druid, Hadoop, Hive, Kafka, Spark, Superset, ZooKeeper, and other Apache projects to power 1.5 petabytes of data in real-time? <a href="https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?category#big-data" target="_blank">https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?category#big-data</a> <br><br></p> |
| <p><span style="font-weight: 700;">Apache Community Notices</span><br></p> |
| <p>- Apache Month In Review: November 2020 <a href="https://s.apache.org/Nov2020" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/Nov2020</a><br></p> |
| <p>- ASF FY2020 Annual Report <a href="https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport</a> </p> |
| <p>- "Trillions and Trillions Served" documentary on the ASF: 1) full feature <a href="https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature</a> 2) "Apache Everywhere" <a href="https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere</a> 3) "Why Apache" <a href="https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions</a> 4) “Apache Innovation” <a href="https://s.apache.org/ApacheInnovation" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/ApacheInnovation</a> </p> |
| <p> - The Apache Software Foundation Statement on the COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak <a href="https://s.apache.org/COVID-19" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/COVID-19</a> </p> |
| <p> - The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 21 Years of Open Source Leadership <a href="https://s.apache.org/21stAnniversary" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://s.apache.org/21stAnniversary&source=gmail&ust=1586580638108000&usg=AFQjCNHhBfHrSsg8TFX4Lwsa4GFZdonhcA">https://s.apache.org/21stAnniv<wbr>ersary</a></p> |
| <p> - Apache in 2019 - By The Digits <a href="https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits">https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits</a></p> |
| <p> - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success <a href="https://s.apache.org/GhnI">https://s.apache.org/GhnI</a></p> |
| <p> - Foundation Reports and Statements <a href="http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html" target="_blank">http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html</a><br></p> |
| <p> - "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works". <a href="https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache" target="_blank">https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache</a><br></p> |
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| <p> - Inside Infra: the new interview series with members of the ASF infrastructure team --meet <br> Chris Thistlethwaite <a href="https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Chris" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Chris</a><br> Drew Foulks <a href="https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Drew" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Drew&source=gmail&ust=1588339104628000&usg=AFQjCNF9dVEn48pV7o9HBG14sP9uprU8Xw">https://s.apache.org/InsideInf<wbr>ra-Drew</a><br> Greg Stein Part I <a href="https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg</a><br> ...Part II <a href="https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg2" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg2</a> and Part III <a href="https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg3" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg3</a><br> Daniel Gruno Part I <a href="https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Daniel1" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Daniel1</a> and Part II <a href="https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Daniel2" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Daniel2</a><br> Gavin McDonald Part I <a href="https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Gavin" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Gavin</a> and Part II <a href="https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Gavin2" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Gavin2</a><br> Andrew Wetmore Part I <a href="https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Andrew" target="_blank">https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Andrew</a></p> |
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