The Apache News Round-up: week ending 23 March 2018

It’s time to review our weekly activities! The Apache Community has been working on:

ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation’s bylaws.
 – Welcome new ASF Board of Directors http://s.apache.org/Opxf
 – The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: November 2017 – January 2018 https://s.apache.org/UtBD
 – Next Board Meeting: 18 April. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ –the ASF’s official global conference series.
 – ONE WEEK LEFT: CFP for ApacheCon 24-29 September in Montreal http://apachecon.com/
 – Welcome CloudStack Collaboration Conference and Geospatial Track to ApacheCon …we look forward to seeing your Apache communities there too!
 – Travel Assistance applications now being accepted for ApacheCon/Montreal https://www.apache.org/travel/

ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF’s infrastructure running around the clock.
 – 7M+ weekly checks yield stupendous performance at 99.97% uptime. http://status.apache.org/

ASF Operations Factoid –this week, 555 Apache contributors changed 961,293 lines of code over 3,660 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: James Clampffer, Carlos Sanchez Gonzalez, Andrea Cosentino, Claus Ibsen, and Hanisha Koneru.

Apache Arrow™ –a cross-language development platform for in-memory data.
 – A Native Go Library for Apache Arrow http://arrow.apache.org/blog/
 – Apache Arrow 0.9.0 released http://arrow.apache.org/

Apache Calcite™ –a framework for writing data management systems.
Apache Calcite 1.16.0 released https://calcite.apache.org/

Apache Drill™ – a distributed MPP query layer that supports SQL and alternative query languages against NoSQL and Apache Hadoop data storage systems.
 – Apache Drill 1.13.0 released https://drill.apache.org/

Apache HAWQ (incubating) –an advanced enterprise SQL on Apache Hadoop analytic engine.
 – Apache HAWQ 2.3.0.0-incubating released http://hawq.apache.org/

Apache Log4j™ –a well-known framework for logging application behavior.
 – Apache Log4j2 2.11.0 released https://logging.apache.org/log4j/

Apache MINA™ –a network application framework that helps users easily develop high performance and high scalability network applications.
 – Apache MINA 2.0.17 released http://mina.apache.org/

Apache ODE™ –a WS-BPEL 1.1/2.0 compliant Web Services orchestration engine.
 – Apache ODE 1.3.8 released http://ode.apache.org/

Apache Struts™ –an elegant, extensible framework for creating enterprise-ready Java Web applications.
 – Apache Struts 2.5.16 GA released http://struts.apache.org/

Apache Syncope™ –an Open Source system for managing digital identities in enterprise environments, implemented in Java EE technology.
 – Apache Syncope 1.2.11 and 2.0.8 released http://syncope.apache.org/
 – CVE-2018-1321: Remote code execution by administrators with report and template entitlements http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201803.mbox/%3C2412ad22-6e9a-04f4-996f-9f061b678b01%40apache.org%3E
 – CVE-2018-1322: Information disclosure via FIQL and ORDER BY sorting http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201803.mbox/%3Cc4057b57-bfac-7765-2a0a-4e726674ceef%40apache.org%3E

Apache Trafodion™ –a Web-scale SQL-on-Hadoop solution enabling transactional or operational workloads on Apache Hadoop.
 – Apache Trafodion 2.2.0 released https://trafodion.apache.org/

Apache UIMA™ DUCC –a component framework supporting development, discovery, composition, and deployment of multi-modal analytics tasked with the analysis of unstructured information. Distributed UIMA Cluster Computing.
 – Apache UIMA DUCC 2.2.2 released https://uima.apache.org/

Did You Know?

 – Did you know that Netflix run 400 microservices with 33,000 network connections per broker using Apache Kafka? http://kafka.apache.org/

 – Did you know that Apache CouchDB run a weekly news series? Catch up today at https://blog.couchdb.org/

 – Did you know that Apache Airflow (incubating) has a podcast series? https://soundcloud.com/the-airflow-podcast/

Apache Community Notices:

 – The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement https://s.apache.org/zqC3

 – Apache in 2017 – By The Digits https://s.apache.org/h8do

 – Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. https://s.apache.org/PIRA

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

 – Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation

 – Do friend and follow us on the Apache Community Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/ and Twitter account https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity

 – The list of Apache project-related MeetUps can be found at http://apache.org/events/meetups.html

 – Members of the Apache community will be presenting at DataWorks Summit 16-19 April 2018 in Berlin https://dataworkssummit.com/

 – Open Expo Europe – 6-7 June 2018 in Madrid https://openexpoeurope.com/

 – Meet members of the Apache community at Open Expo Madrid 6-7 June 2018 http://www.openexpo.es/en/

 – We’re teaming up with Berlin Buzzwords – 10-12 June 2018 (Apache Lounge dates: 11-12 June) https://berlinbuzzwords.de/

 – The 2018 Apache EU Roadshow will be held during FOSS Backstage in Berlin 13-14 June 2018 https://foss-backstage.de/

 – Apache Big Data project communities will be participating at DataWorks Summit 17-21 June 2018 in San Jose https://dataworkssummit.com/

 – ApacheCon North America will be held 24-29 September in Montreal http://apachecon.com/ **CFP IS OPEN!**

 – ASF Quarterly Report: Operations Summary Q2 FY2018 https://s.apache.org/j1GJ

 – ASF Annual Report is available at https://s.apache.org/FY2017AnnualReport

 – Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities –opportunities open with Apache HTTP Server, Avro, ComDev (community development), Directory, Incubator, OODT, POI, Polygene, Syncope, Tika, Trafodion, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/
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