The Apache News Round-up: week ending 26 December 2014

[Sally Khudairi <sk...@apache.org>]

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The Apache Software Foundation's 200+ projects and initiatives and community of more than 4,000 contributors wish you a very happy and healthy 2015! Here's what we've been working on over the past week: 

Apache Commons™ –software library provides a generic configuration interface which enables an application to read configuration data from a variety of sources. 
- Commons Configuration 2.0-alpha2 Released http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/configuration/RELEASE-NOTES.txt 

Apache DeltaSpike™ –not a CDI-container, but a portable CDI extension. 
Apache DeltaSpike 1.2.1 released http://s.apache.org/DeltaSpike_1.2.1 

Apache Ivy™ –a tool for managing (recording, tracking, resolving and reporting) project dependencies, characterized by flexibility, configurability, and tight integration with Apache Ant. 
- Apache Ivy 2.4.0 released http://ant.apache.org/ivy/download.cgi 

Apache Jackrabbit™ –a scalable, high-performance hierarchical content repository designed for use as the foundation of modern world-class Web sites and other demanding content applications. 
- Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.0.9 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html 

Apache POI™ –Java APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon the Office Open XML standards (OOXML) and Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format (OLE2), such as Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and Word. 
- Apache POI 3.11 released http://poi.apache.org/ 

ASF Operations –behind the scenes of the day-to-day functions at The Apache Software Foundation 
- The ASF publishes long-overdue New Code of Conduct http://s.apache.org/dGR 

ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation 
- Call for Papers open until 1 February http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/program/cfp 
- Become involved with the program selection process --check out http://s.apache.org/60N 
- Applications accepted for Apache Travel Assistance through 6 February http://www.apache.org/travel/ 
- Sign up to receive ApacheCon updates and announcements http://www.apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html#foundation-apachecon 

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