The Apache News Round-up: week ending 8 January 2021

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

[this newsletter is available online at https://s.apache.org/8stxm ]

Happy Friday! Let's take a look at what the Apache community has been
up to over the past week:

Apache in 2020 - By The Digits – a look at the achievements from the
Apache Community over the past 12 months.
 - Summary and stats at https://s.apache.org/Apache2020Digits
 - Video highlights https://s.apache.org/Apache2020Digits-vid

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the
corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q2 FY2021
(August - October 2020) https://s.apache.org/Q2FY2021
 - Next Board Meeting: 20 January 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.
 - all videos from ApacheCon@Home are available at
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheApacheFoundation/

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps
the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 100%. 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, 348 Apache Committers
changed 1,594,281 lines of code over 2,987 commits. Top 5
contributors, in order, are: Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Gary Gregory, Mark
Thomas, Kartik Khare, and Andrea Cosentino.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Application Performance Monitoring --
 - Apache SkyWalking NodeJS v0.1.0 released https://skywalking.apache.org/

Big Data --
 - Apache ShardingSphere ElasticJob UI 3.0.0-RC1 released
http://shardingsphere.apache.org/elasticjob/
 - Apache Rya 4.0.1 released http://rya.apache.org/
 - Apache Flink CVE-2020-17518: Directory traversal attack: remote
file writing through the REST API https://s.apache.org/qxl48 , and
   CVE-2020-17519: Directory traversal attack: reading remote files
through the REST API https://s.apache.org/gith7

Network Client --
 - Apache Guacamole 1.3.0 released https://guacamole.apache.org/

Servers --
 - Apache Tomcat Native 1.2.26 released https://tomcat.apache.org/


Did You Know?

- Did you know that some of the latest podlings undergoing development
in the Apache Incubator include BlueMarlin (advertising), HOP
(orchestration), Pegasus (Big Data), Sedona (geospatial data
processing), and Wayang (analytics)?
http://incubator.apache.org/projects/

- Did you know that Apache Kafka is amongst the most popular streaming
platform for disseminating COVID-19 related clinical data, test
results, and caseload updates in real-time? http://kafka.apache.org/

- Did you know that the New Zealand Treasury Department, Prime
Minister and Cabinet, National Emergency Management Agency, and
Climate Change Commission's eRecruitment platform is powered by Apache
Wicket? http://wicket.apache.org/


Apache Community Notices

- Apache Month In Review: December 2020 https://s.apache.org/Dec2020

- Apache in 2020 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2020Digits

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

- The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: 1 August - 31
October 2020 https://s.apache.org/Q2FY2021

- 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

 - "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

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