The Apache News Round-up: week ending 15 December 2017

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

[this announcement is available online at https://s.apache.org/XY9c ]

Just two weeks left in 2017! Let's review the many things that the
Apache Community has been working over the past week:

Support Apache –in the final days of the year, please consider making an
individual donation or encouraging your employer to participate in our
many Corporate Giving options, from ASF Sponsorship to Matching Gifts
and more. Not only does Apache benefit from your contribution, you may
also benefit with a tax deduction. Every dollar counts.
http://apache.org/foundation/contributing.html

"Success at Apache" –the blog series from the Apache Community that
focuses on why the ASF "just works".
 - What a Long Strange (and Great) Trip It's Been by Jim Jagielski
 https://s.apache.org/gVuN

ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the
corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 20 December. Board calendar and minutes
 http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on three continents keeps the
ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield great performance at 99.64% uptime
 http://status.apache.org/

ASF Operations Factoid –this week, 93 Apache contributors changed
112,695 lines of code over 435 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order,
are: Satish Saley, Attila Magyar, Antoine Duprat, Tilman Hausherr, and
Francesco Chicchiriccò.

Apache Calcite™ –a dynamic data management framework.
 - Apache Calcite 1.15.0 released http://calcite.apache.org/

Apache Commons™ BCEL –Byte Code Engineering Library (BCEL) gives users a
convenient way to analyze, create, and manipulate compiled .class files.
 - Apache Commons BCEL 6.2 released http://commons.apache.org/bcel

Apache Commons™ Text –Open Source software library that provides a host
of algorithms focused on working with strings and blocks of text.
 - Apache Commons Text 1.2
 http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-text/

Apache Hadoop™ –Ubiquitous Open Source enterprise Big Data framework.
 - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Hadoop® v3.0.0
 General Availability https://s.apache.org/UghA

Apache HBase™ –an Open Source, distributed, versioned, non-relational
database.
 - Apache HBase 1.1.13 released https://hbase.apache.org/

Apache Jackrabbit™ –a fully compliant implementation of the Content
Repository for Java(TM) Technology API, version 2.0 (JCR 2.0) as
specified in the Java Specification Request 283 (JSR 283).
 - Apache Jackrabbit 2.10.7 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/

Apache Knox™ –a REST API Gateway for providing secure access to the data
and processing resources of Hadoop clusters.
 - Apache Knox 0.14.0 released http://knox.apache.org/

Apache Kudu™ –Open Source storage engine for structured data.
 - Apache Kudu 1.6.0 released https://kudu.apache.org/

Apache Mnemonic™ –Open Source storage-class memory oriented durable
object platform for Java application developers.
 - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Mnemonic™ as a
 Top-Level Project https://s.apache.org/58zm

Apache MXNet (incubating) –a deep learning framework designed for both
efficiency and flexibility.
 - Apache MXNet 1.0.0 released http://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/

Apache MyFaces™ Tobago –a component library for JavaServer Faces (JSF)
that allows to write Web applications without the need of coding HTML,
CSS, and JavaScript.
 - Apache Tobago 4.0.0 released http://myfaces.apache.org/tobago/

Apache Mynewt™ –a community-driven module OS for constrained, embedded
applications.
 - Apache Mynewt 1.3.0 released http://mynewt.apache.org/

Apache Olingo™ –a Java library that enables developers to implement
OData producers and OData consumers.
 - Apache Olingo 2.0.10 released http://olingo.apache.org/

Apache OpenMeetings™ –provides video conferencing, instant messaging,
white board, collaborative document editing, and other groupware tools.
 - Apache OpenMeetings 4.0.1 released http://openmeetings.apache.org/

Apache Phoenix™ –enables OLTP and SQL-based operational analytics for
Apache Hadoop.
 - Apache Phoenix 4.13.1 released http://phoenix.apache.org/

Apache Qpid™ Proton –a messaging library for the Advanced Message
Queuing Protocol 1.0 (AMQP 1.0, ISO/IEC 19464, http://www.amqp.org).
 - Apache Qpid Proton-J 0.24.0 released http://qpid.apache.org/

Apache Struts™ –an elegant, extensible framework for creating
enterprise-ready Java Web applications.
 - Security Bulletin S2-055: impact increased to High (related to
 CVE-2017-7525 - JSON Jackson library)
 http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201712.mbox/%3CCAMopvkMb_CDw9UNZMUec8UApNZ8Xmr2M-wTCXPuhB9fCTr2Eqg%40mail.gmail.com%3E

Apache Tika™ –a toolkit for detecting and extracting metadata and
structured text content from various documents using existing parser
libraries.
 - Apache Tika 1.17 released http://tika.apache.org/

Apache Tomcat™ –an Open Source software implementation of the Java
Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Unified Expression Language and Java
WebSocket technologies.
 - Apache Tomcat 8.0.48 released http://tomcat.apache.org/


Did You Know?

 - Did you know that Apache Syncope is now enlisted as SCIM (System for
 Cross-domain Identity Management) 2.0-compliant implementation?
 http://syncope.apache.org/

- Did you know that Slack's job queue uses Apache Kafka to robustly
scale to handle billions of tasks in milliseconds?
http://kafka.apache.org/

 - Did you know that you can help the Apache Tika community by testing
 Tika 1.17-rc1 (the last major version using Java 7)?
 http://tika.apache.org/


Apache Community Notices:

 - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. https://s.apache.org/PIRA

 - "Success at Apache" focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just
 works". 1) Project Independence https://s.apache.org/CE0V 2) All Carrot
 and No Stick https://s.apache.org/ykoG 3) Asynchronous Decision Making
 https://s.apache.org/PMvk4) Rule of the Makers
 https://s.apache.org/yFgQ 5) JFDI --the unconditional love of
 contributors https://s.apache.org/4pjM 6) Meritocracy and Me
 https://s.apache.org/tQQh 7) Learning to Build a Stronger Community
 https://s.apache.org/x9Be 8) Meritocracy. https://s.apache.org/DiEo 9)
 Lowering Barriers to Open Innovation https://s.apache.org/dAlg 10) All
 My Roads Led to Apache https://s.apache.org/l9OO 11) Scratch Your Own
 Itch. https://s.apache.org/7Amk 12) What a Long Strange (and Great)
 Trip It's Been https://s.apache.org/gVuN

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 https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/and Twitter account
 https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity

 - The list of Apache project-related MeetUps can be found at
 http://apache.org/events/meetups.html

 - Meet members of the Apache community at Open Expo Madrid 6-7 June
 2018 http://www.openexpo.es/en/

 - ASF Quarterly Report: Operations Summary Q2 FY2018
 https://s.apache.org/j1GJ

 - ASF Annual Report is available at
 https://s.apache.org/FY2017AnnualReport

 - 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!
 https://helpwanted.apache.org/

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