The Apache News Round-up: week ending 5 March 2021

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

[this newsletter is available online at https://s.apache.org/zos5w ]

Welcome, March! We've had a great week within the Apache community.
Here's what happened:

The Apache Month in Review – highlights of what we've accomplished
over the past month.
- February 2021 https://s.apache.org/Feb2021 + Video highlights
https://youtu.be/6TMuYglu2Cc

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the
corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 17 March 2021. Board calendar and minutes
https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

Apache Diversity & Inclusion – initiatives that promote diversity,
equity, and inclusion across the greater Apache community.
 - FINAL CALL for Apache project proposals and mentors: Outreachy Open
Source internship program May-Aug 2021 https://s.apache.org/s7tz2

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps
the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.99%. 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, 392 Apache Committers
changed 1,224,925 lines of code over 3,879 commits. Top 5
contributors, in order, are: Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Andrea Cosentino,
Gary Gregory, Andi Huber, and Daan Hoogland.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache NiFi MiNiFi C++ 0.9.0 released https://nifi.apache.org/minifi

Cloud Computing --
 - Apache CloudStack 4.14.1.0 LTS released https://cloudstack.apache.org/

Confidential Computing --
 - Apache Teaclave (incubating) 0.2.0 released https://teaclave.apache.org/

Libraries --
 - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Daffodil™ as a
Top-Level Project https://s.apache.org/18vob

Observability --
 - Apache SkyWalking Nginx LUA 0.4.0 released
https://skywalking.apache.org/Servers --
 - Apache Tomcat CVE-2021-25122: h2c request mix-up https://s.apache.org/29cq9
   and CVE-2021-25329: RCE via session persistence https://s.apache.org/9itds


Did You Know?

- Did you that the following Apache projects are celebrating
anniversaries this month? Many happy returns to Apache mod_perl (21
years); Maven (18 years); Struts (17 years); Jackrabbit (15 years);
Felix (14 years); Archiva (13 years); UIMA (11 years); Accumulo and
Sqoop (9 years); Bloodhound, CloudStack, and cTAKES (8 years); Allura
and Olingo (7 years); and FreeMarker (3 years)
https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date

- Did you know that the Apache Local Community - Beijing has
celebrated its one-year anniversary with numerous impressive
achievments? https://s.apache.org/gm9kv

- Did you know that your support helps offset the ASF's day-to-day
operating costs? https://s.apache.org/8foo2


Apache Community Notices

- The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q2 FY2021 (August
- October 2020) https://s.apache.org/Q2FY2021

- 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