The Apache News Round-up: week ending 19 June 2015

The week has zipped by with many Apache activities happening over the past week:

ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation.
 – CFP open for two new Apache events in Europe –"Apache: Big Data" and "ApacheCon: Core"– 28 September – 2 October 2015 in Budapest http://apachecon.com/

ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF’s infrastructure running around the clock.
  – Uptime over the past week has been a snappy 99.54% http://status.apache.org/

Apache Allura™ –an Open Source implementation of a software "forge", a web site that manages source code repositories, bug reports, discussions, wiki pages, blogs and more for any number of individual projects.
 – Apache Allura 1.3.0 released http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/allura/allura-1.3.0.tar.gz

Apache Buildr™ –a build system for Java-based applications, including support for Scala, Groovy and a growing number of JVM languages and tools.
 – Apache Buildr 1.4.23 released http://buildr.apache.org/

Apache Commons™ – CLI library –provides an API for parsing command line options passed to programs. It’s also able to print help messages detailing the options available for a command line tool.
 – Apache Commons CLI 1.3.1 released http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-cli/download_cli.cgi

Apache Directory™ Studio –a complete directory tooling platform intended to be used with any LDAP server however it is particularly designed for use with ApacheDS.
 – Apache Directory Studio 2.0-0-M9 released http://directory.apache.org/studio/downloads.html

Apache Hama™ –a High-Performance BSP computing engine, which can be used to perform compute-intensive general scientific BSP applications, Google’s Pregel-like graph applications, and machine learning algorithms.
 – Apache Hama v0.7 released https://hama.apache.org/

Apache Jackrabbit™ Oak –a scalable, high-performance hierarchical content repository designed for use as the foundation of modern world-class web sites and other demanding content applications.
 – Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.3.0 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html

Apache Lucene™ –a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java.
 – Apache Lucene 5.2.1 released http://lucene.apache.org/core/mirrors-core-latest-redir.html

Apache Solr™ –the popular, blazing fast, open source NoSQL search platform from the Apache Lucene project.
 – Apache Solr 5.2.1 released http://lucene.apache.org/solr/mirrors-solr-latest-redir.html

Apache Storm™ –a distributed, fault-tolerant, and high-performance realtime computation system that provides strong guarantees on the processing of data.
 – Apache Storm 0.10.0-beta released http://storm.apache.org/downloads.html

Apache Wicket™ –with proper mark-up/logic separation, a POJO data model, and a refreshing lack of XML, Apache Wicket makes developing web-apps simple and enjoyable again.
 – Apache Wicket 6.20.0 released http://wicket.apache.org/

Apache UIMA™ Ruta –a rule-based script language supported by Eclipse-based tooling.
 – Apache UIMA Ruta 2.3.0 released http://uima.apache.org/ruta.html


Did You Know?

 – Did you know that the Incubator currently has 43 Apache projects (a.k.a. podlings) in development?

 – Did you know that most of Netflix’s Data Warehouse is stored using Apache Parquet?

 – Did you know that @PlanetApache now follows the Twitter accounts of Apache project Committers and contributors?


Apache Community Notices:

 – New listing of more than 70 Apache project-related MeetUps can be found at http://apache.org/events/meetups.html

 – Reminder: How to Safely Download Apache OpenOffice http://s.apache.org/a1R

 – Audio recordings from select tracks from ApacheCon Austin are available at http://feathercast.apache.org/ includes Cloud, Community, httpd, and Apache HTTP Server Founder’s panel; presentation slides are also up online http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/program/slides

 – Apache CouchDB is seeking design and editorial assistance in English http://markmail.org/thread/dgvjpwnxie6pji5j

 – The second OFBiz Community Day will take place 20 June https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/OFBiz+Community+Days

 – The Berlin Apache Flink MeetUp will be held 23 June http://www.meetup.com/Apache-Flink-Meetup/events/223037790/

 – Catch Apache Bigtop, Hadoop, Spark, Geode (Incubating) and Ignite (Incubating) in action at the In-Memory Computing Summit 29-30 June in San Francsico http://imcsummit.org/

 – The Chicago Apache Flink MeetUp will be held 30 June http://www.meetup.com/Chicago-Apache-Flink-Meetup/

 – MesosCon will be held 20-21 August in Seattle https://mesoscon2015.sched.org/

 – Apache: Big Data and ApacheCon: Core Europe will be held 28 September – 1 October in Budapest http://apachecon.com/

 – The first Apache Flink Conference, Flink Forward, will be held 12-13 October in Berlin http://flink-forward.org

 – CFP open for Lucene/Solr Revolution, to be held 13-16 October in Austin http://www.lucenerevolution.org

 – The ASF FY 2014-2015 Annual Report is available at http://s.apache.org/ZVp

 – Are your software solutions Powered by Apache? Download & use our "Powered By" logos http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby

 – Show your support for Apache with ASF-approved swag from http://www.zazzle.com/featherwear and http://s.apache.org/landsend –all proceeds benefit the ASF! 

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