The Apache News Round-up: week ending 12 March 2021

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

[this newsletter is available online at https://s.apache.org/0499p ]

Hello, Friday. Let's review the Apache community's activities from
over the past week:

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the
corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Announcing New ASF Board of Directors https://s.apache.org/NewBoard2021
 - Next Board Meeting: 17 March 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.
 - CFP open for ApacheCon@Home 2021: proposals now accepted for 20
tracks that include API/Microservices, Big Data, Cassandra, Content
Delivery & Management, Community, Drill, Fineract/Fintech, Geospatial,
Groovy, Incubator, Integration, IoT, Karaf, Observability, Royale,
RDF/Linked Data, Search, Social Data, Tomcat, and more.
https://www.apachecon.com/acah2021/cfp.html

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, 389 Apache Committers
changed 3,798,169 lines of code over 3,471 commits. Top 5
contributors, in order, are: Andrea Cosentino, Daan Hoogland, Gary
Gregory, Claus Ibsen, and Tilman Hausherr.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

APIs --
 - Apache APISIX 2.4 released https://apisix.apache.org/

Big Data --
 - Apache Flink 1.12.2 released https://flink.apache.org/Content --
 -  Apache Jackrabbit 2.14.9 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/

IDE --
 - Apache NetBeans 12.3 released http://netbeans.apache.org/

Integration --
 - Apache Camel 3.7.3 released https://camel.apache.org/

Libraries --
 - Apache Commons Lang 3.12 released
https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/
 - Apache Velocity Engine 2.3 and Tools 3.1 released
https://velocity.apache.org/
 - Apache Velocity CVE-2020-13936: Velocity Sandbox Bypass
https://s.apache.org/qmlqf
   and CVE-2020-13959: Tools XSS Vulnerability https://s.apache.org/iaoq5

Servers --
 - Apache Tomcat 8.5.64, 9.0.44, and 10.0.4 released https://tomcat.apache.org/

Web Conferencing --
 - Apache OpenMeetings 6.0.0 released https://openmeetings.apache.org/


Did You Know?

- Did you know that the ASF has been chosen to be a Google Summer of
Code mentoring organization for the 16th consecutive year?
https://community.apache.org/gsoc.html

- Did you know that Facebook and Uber build streaming SQL applications
for unified processing using Apache Flink and Pulsar? Learn more at
https://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Apache-Flink-Meetup/events/276579450/

- Did you know that the Airflow Summit is accepting submissions
through 12 April? https://airflowsummit.org/


Apache Community Notices

- The Apache Month in Review: February 2021
https://s.apache.org/Feb2021 + Video highlights
https://youtu.be/6TMuYglu2Cc

- 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