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* Vulnerability report and fix: CVE-2020-1949: Apache Sling CMS Reflected XSS Vulnerability (March 24th, 2020), see [http://s.apache.org/CVE-2020-1949](http://s.apache.org/CVE-2020-1949) * The [adaptTo() 2019 conference](https://adapt.to/2019/) took place in Berlin, Germany. (September 2-4, 2019). * Released [Apache Sling 11](/news/sling-11-released.html) (October 23rd, 2018). * The [adaptTo() 2018 conference](https://adapt.to/2018/) took place in Potsdam, Germany. (September 10-12, 2018). * Released [Apache Sling Pipes 2.0.2](/documentation/bundles/sling-pipes.html) (February 7th, 2018). * Released [Apache Sling 10](/news/sling-10-released.html) (February 6th, 2018). * Released [Apache Sling IDE Tooling for Eclipse 1.2.0](/news/sling-ide-tooling-12-released.html) (January 21st, 2018). * Sling has moved to Git (October 20, 2017) * The [adaptTo() 2017 conference](https://adapt.to/2017/en.html) took place in Berlin. (September 25-27, 2017). * Released [Apache Sling 9](/news/sling-launchpad-9-released.html) (June 12th, 2017) * The [adaptTo() 2016 conference](https://adapt.to/2016/en.html) took place in Berlin. (September 26-28, 2016). * Released [Apache Sling IDE Tooling for Eclipse 1.1.0](/news/sling-ide-tooling-11-released.html) (March 14th, 2016) * Released [Apache Sling 8](/news/sling-launchpad-8-released.html) (October 16th, 2015) * The [adaptTo() 2015 conference](https://adapt.to/2015/en.html) took place in Berlin. (September 28-30, 2015). * Released Apache Sling 7 (October 3th, 2014) * The [adaptTo() 2014 conference](https://adapt.to/2014/en.html) took place in Berlin. (September 22-24, 2014). * The [adaptTo() 2013 conference](https://adapt.to/2013/en.html) took place in Berlin. (September 23-25, 2013). * The [adaptTo() 2012 conference](https://adapt.to/2012/en.html) took place in Berlin. (September 26-28, 2012). * Vulnerability report and fix: CVE-2012-2138 Apache Sling denial of service vulnerability (July 6th, 2012), see [http://s.apache.org/CVE-2012-2138](http://s.apache.org/CVE-2012-2138) * The [adaptTo() 2011 conference](https://adapt.to/2011/en.html) took place in Berlin. (September 15-16, 2011). * Released [Apache Sling 6](http://markmail.org/thread/hv5vd5774ofwqu6j) (March 28, 2011) * Sling site at http://sling.apache.org live (June 29, 2009) * Mailing lists moved to dev(a)sling.apache.org and commits(a)sling.apache.org (June 29, 2009) * SVN moved to http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/sling (June 18, 2009) * Apache Sling has graduated into a top level project! (June 17, 2009) # History Sling started as an internal project at [Day Software](http://www.day.com) , and entered the Apache Incubator in September 2007. As of June, 17th, 2009 Apache Sling is a top level project of the Apache Software Foundation. The name "Sling" has been proposed by Roy Fielding who explained it like this: > \[The name is\] Biblical in nature. The story of David: the weapon he > uses to slay the giant Goliath is a sling. Hence, our David's > \[David Nuescheler, CTO of Day Software\] favorite weapon. > It is also the simplest device for delivering content very fast.