The Apache News Round-up: week ending 19 April 2019

Mid-month Friday review, on a holiday weekend! Let’s see what the Apache community has been up to over the past week:

ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation’s bylaws.
 – Next Board Meeting: 15 May. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ –the ASF’s official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow’s Technology Today since 1998.
 – REGISTRATION OPEN: Apache Roadshow/Chicago 13-14 May http://apachecon.com/chiroadshow19/
 – CFP + REGISTRATION OPEN for both ApacheCons: 1) North America/Las Vegas 9-12 September; 2) Europe/Berlin 22-24 October http://apachecon.com/

ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF’s infrastructure running around the clock.
 – 7M+ weekly checks yield 99.85% uptime. 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 –this week, 438 Apache contributors changed 1,121,934 lines of code over 2,427 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Jan Piotrowski, wujimin, Qian Zhang, Andrea Cosentino, and Ash Berlin-Taylor.

Apache Project Announcements –the latest updates by category.

Big Data —
 – Apache Kylin 3.0.0-alpha released https://kylin.apache.org/
 – Apache Myriad (incubating) 0.3.0 released https://myriad.apache.org/
 – Apache UIMA uimaFIT 3.0.0 released http://uima.apache.org/

Build Management —
 – Apache Maven Version 3.6.1 released https://maven.apache.org/

Databases —
 – Apache Jackrabbit 2.18.1 as well as Jackrabbit Oak 1.6.17 and 1.12.0 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/

Libraries —
 – Apache Commons Pool 2.6.2 released https://commons.apache.org/
 – Apache Commons Lang 3.9 released https://commons.apache.org/

Messaging —
 – Apache Pulsar 2.3.1 released http://pulsar.apache.org/

Microservices —
 – Apache ServiceComb Java-Chassis version 1.2.0 released http://servicecomb.apache.org/

Network-Client —
 – Apache MINA 2.0.21 and 2.1.1 released http://mina.apache.org/
 – [CVE-2019-0231] MINA SSLFilter security issue https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8acbf44a72befe0cae16f22d77da2ee4231f1cb08e9d266e09594eae@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
 – Apache Qpid Dispatch 1.7.0 released http://qpid.apache.org

Servers —
 – Apache Tomcat 7.0.94, 8.5.40, and 9.0.19 released http://tomcat.apache.org/
 – Apache Traffic Control 3.0.1 released http://trafficcontrol.apache.org/

Web Frameworks —
 – Apache Wicket 9.0.0-M1 released http://wicket.apache.org/

Did You Know?

 – Did you know that the Open Source Design community will be holding a track at ApacheCon in Berlin this year? CFP is open! https://www.apachecon.com/

 – Did you know that ASF co-Founders  Sameer Parekh Brenn, Mark Cox, Lars Eilebrecht, Jim Jagielski, Aram Mirzadeh, Bill Stoddard, Randy Terbush, and Dirk-Willem van Gulik have shared their thoughts on the ASF’s 20th Anniversary? https://s.apache.org/YnHi

 – Did you know that the ASF codebase is conservatively valued at least $20B, using the COCOMO 2 model? https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary

Apache Community Notices:

 – Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary

 – ASF Founders look back on 20 Years of the ASF https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on

 – The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI

 – Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html

 – ApacheCon: Tomorrow’s Technology Today since 1998 http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon

 – Apache in 2018 – By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2018Digits

 – ASF Operations Summary: Q2 FY2019 https://s.apache.org/d2Fq

 – ASF Annual Report for FY2018 https://s.apache.org/FY2018AnnualReport

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

 – 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://events.apache.org/event/meetups.html

 – Spark + AI Summit 2019 will be held 23-25 April/San Francisco and 15-17 October/Amsterdam https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/

 – Apache Roadshow/Chicago will be held 13-14 May 2019 http://apachecon.com/

 – The Apache Big Data community will be at DataWorks Summit in Washington DC 20-23 May 2019 https://dataworkssummit.com/

 – CFP and Registration open for ApacheCon North America 9-12 September 2019 http://apachecon.com/

 – CFP and Registration open for ApacheCon Europe 22-24 October 2019 http://apachecon.com/

 – 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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