[Pulsar Community Weekly Update] 2020-06-20 ~ 2020-06-26

[Yu Liu <yu...@streamnative.io>]

Dear Pulsar enthusiast,

This is the Pulsar community weekly update for 2020-06-20 ~ 2020-06-26,
with updates on Pulsar 2.6.0 release, Pulsar Go client 0.1.1 release,
Pulsar Manager 0.2.0 release, and so on.

This Pulsar community weekly update is also available at
https://streamnative.io/weekly/2020/2020-06/2020-06-26-pulsar-weekly.

*All Pulsar community weekly updates are available at
**https://streamnative.io/weekly/
<https://streamnative.io/weekly/>.*

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Development
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- [Release] Apache Pulsar 2.6.0 is released.


https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r3bbe7e31a0c7645c7dd77ce97141973c274c8e4dde787b471433c9f0%40%3Cdev.pulsar.apache.org%3E

    https://streamnative.io/blog/tech/2020-06-18-pulsar-260

- [Release] Apache Pulsar Go Client 0.1.1 is released.


https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r02a974daea1d26472ee1b9e9c4f5989633c1eb07886d6f17aff17fc7%40%3Cdev.pulsar.apache.org%3E

    https://github.com/apache/pulsar-client-go/releases/tag/v0.1.1

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Notable Feature
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- [Helm] Remove helm chart since the helm chart is already moved to
[pulsar-helm-chart](https://github.com/apache/pulsar-helm-chart).

    https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/7320

- [Function] Re-work Function MetaDataManager to make all metadata writes
only by the leader.

    https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/7255

- [Function] Add statistics and Prometheus to Go Function instances for
production readiness.

    https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/6105

- [Function] Add an endpoint to check whether function worker service is
initialized.

    https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/7350

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Notable Bug Fix
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- [Security] Fix the authorization regression in `isSupperUser`.

    https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/7241

- [Storage] Fix the issue of producers are stuck on creating ledger timeout.

    https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/7319

- [Functions] Fix race condition in which `exitFuture` in
`FunctionAssignmentTailer` never gets completed even though the tailer
thread has exited.

    https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/7351

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Ecosystem
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- [Pulsar Manager] Apache Pulsar Manager 0.2.0 release is under discussion.


https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4aef9dfedb4991a3ba7981d4065d717e436d8d3b2d2455cf6796cf87%40%3Cdev.pulsar.apache.org%3E

- [Pulsarctl] "Accept Pulsarctl as a part of Apache Pulsar project" is
under discussion and in the vote.


https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8bbe89753c1162938086ad088f9267e1139f5d04108c872f3e34feec%40%3Cdev.pulsar.apache.org%3E

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Event / News
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- [Pulsar Summit] The first-ever Pulsar Summit Virtual Conference 2020 was
held on June 17 - 18. This two-day digital event featured more than 30
sessions from top Pulsar contributors and developers.

    All recordings and slides are available at [here](
https://streamnative.io/resource#pulsar-summit).

- [Meetup] Andreas Koestler gave a talk about "Scaling out WebSockets,
Streams, Communicating FSMs and Apache Pulsar!" at Scala in the City
Conference.


https://www.signifytechnology.com/blog/2020/06/connecting-millions-of-users-by-andreas-koestler-at-scala-in-the-city-conference

- [TGIP] Weekly live stream about Pulsar and its ecosystem

    - 014: Pulsar Schema and Flink Integration - Sijie Guo

        - Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc6vwyzzsh4&t=293s

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Blog / Article
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- Event-driven Functions with Apache Pulsar & Project Flogo - Matt Ellis


https://hackernoon.com/event-driven-functions-with-apache-pulsar-and-project-flogo-wag3y4u

- Creating an External Scaler for KEDA - Krishnaraj Varma


https://medium.com/@krvarma/creating-an-external-scaler-for-keda-31b314b5c4a3

*If we miss anything, welcome to reply to this thread, thank you.*



Cheers,


Jia Zhai, Yu Liu