The Apache News Round-up: week ending 2 April 2021

[Swapnil M Mane <sw...@apache.org>]

[this newsletter is available online at https://s.apache.org/75r6y ]

Welcome, April --we're opening the month with another great week.
Here's what the Apache community has been up to:

Apache Month-in-Review – a look back at our activities over the past month.
- March 2021 https://s.apache.org/Mar2021 and video highlights
https://youtu.be/wq2HXN4z9W0

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the
corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 21 April 2021. Board calendar and minutes
https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing
Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
 - CFPs open for ApacheCon@Home AND ApacheCon Asia https://www.apachecon.com/
 - Event Sponsorship available for both ApacheCon@Home and ApacheCon
Asia https://www.apachecon.com/acah2021/2021_ApacheCon_prospectus.pdf

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps
the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.78%. Performance checks across
50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in
data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – Over the past week, 383 Apache Committers
changed 2,210,334 lines of code over 3,572 commits. Top 5
contributors, in order, are: Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Andrea Cosentino,
Daniel Gruno, Mark Thomas, and  Thomas Vandahl.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache Druid 0.20.2 released https://druid.apache.org/
 - Apache Druid CVE-2021-26919: Authenticated users can execute
arbitrary code from malicious MySQL database systems
https://s.apache.org/xgi7a

Content --
 - Apache Tika 1.26 released https://tika.apache.org/
 - Apache Tika CVE-2021-28657: Infinite loop in MP3 parser
https://s.apache.org/9vlh2

Database --
 - Apache ZooKeeper 3.7.0 released https://zookeeper.apache.org/
 - Apache Geode 1.13.2 released http://geode.apache.org/

Integration --
 - Apache Camel 3.9.0 released https://camel.apache.org/

Libraries --
 - Apache MXNet (Incubating) 1.8.0 released http://mxnet.incubator.apache.org

Observability --
 - Apache SkyWalking Python 0.6.0 and NodeJS 0.2.0 released
https://skywalking.apache.org/

Web Frameworks --
 - Apache Wicket 9.3.0 released https://wicket.apache.org/


Did You Know?

- Did you know that this year's ApacheCon Platinum sponsorships are
sold out? Great options and combo packages available for both events
https://www.apachecon.com/acah2021/2021_ApacheCon_prospectus.pdf

- Did you know that Apache Druid will be holding their Ecosystems
MeetUp on 6 April and DataEng MeetUp on 7 April?
http://druid.apache.org/

- Did you know that the Apache CloudStack community will hold its
virtual European User Group on 27 May? http://cloudstack.apache.org/

Apache Community Notices

- The Apache® Software Foundation Celebrates 22 Years of Open Source
Leadership – world’s largest Open Source foundation advances
community-led innovation "The Apache Way"
https://s.apache.org/22ndAnniversay

- The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q3 FY2021
(November 2020 - January 2021) https://s.apache.org/Q3FY2021 + Video
highlights https://youtu.be/S6FWqAuA_8M

- Apache in 2020 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2020Digits
+ Video highlights https://s.apache.org/Apache2020Digits-vid

- ASF Security Report 2020 https://s.apache.org/SecurityReport2020 +
Video highlights https://youtu.be/Z7yudar_da0

- ASF FY2020 Annual Report https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport

- "Trillions and Trillions Served" documentary on the ASF: 1) full
feature https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature 2) "Apache Everywhere"
https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere 3) "Why Apache"
https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions 4) “Apache Innovation”
https://s.apache.org/ApacheInnovation

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI

 - Foundation Reports and Statements
http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html

 - All presentations from ApacheCon@Home are available at
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheApacheFoundation/

 - "Success at Apache" focuses on the people and processes behind why
the ASF "just works".
https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache

 - Inside Infra: the new interview series with members of the ASF
infrastructure team --meet
    Chris Thistlethwaite https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Chris
    Drew Foulks https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Drew
    Greg Stein Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg
      ...Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg2 and Part III
https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg3
    Daniel Gruno Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Daniel1 and
Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Daniel2
    Gavin McDonald Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Gavin and
Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Gavin2
    Andrew Wetmore Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Andrew and
Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Andrew2
    Chris Lambertus Part I  https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-ChrisL
and Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-ChrisL2

 - ASF Targeted Sponsor Manning Publications is offering special deals
on the latest books on Apache Airflow, Pulsar, Spark, and Thrift,
among other titles and eBooks
https://deals.manning.com/the-latest-apache-innovations/

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Best regards,
Swapnil M Mane,
www.apache.org