The Apache News Round-up: week ending 29 May 2020

Farewell, May –we’re wrapping up the
month with another great week. Here are the latest updates on the Apache
community’s activities:

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation’s bylaws.
 – Next Board Meeting: 17 June 2020. 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.
 – Notice on Apache 2020 Conferences https://s.apache.org/zgm8m 
 – CFP EXTENDED for ApacheCon North America: submissions due 1 June https://www.apachecon.com/

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF’s infrastructure running around the clock.
 –
7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.74%. 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, 900 Apache contributors changed 2,695,384 lines of code over
3,697 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Manfred Moser, Andrea
Cosentino, Gary Gregory, Congxian Qiu, and Claus Ibsen.        

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data —
 – Apache Arrow 0.17.1 released https://arrow.apache.org/
 – Apache Calcite 1.23.0 released https://calcite.apache.org/
 – Apache Ignite 2.8.1 released https://ignite.apache.org/
 – Apache Beam 2.21.0 released https://beam.apache.org/

Cloud Computing —
 – The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache CloudStack v 4.14 https://s.apache.org/l5ps8

Content —
 – Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.8.22 released https://jackrabbit.apache.org/

IoT —
 – Apache PLC4X 0.7.0 released https://plc4x.apache.org/ 

Search —
 – Apache Lucene 8.5.2 and Solr 8.5.2 released https://lucene.apache.org/

Version Control —
 – The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Subversion 1.14.0-LTS https://s.apache.org/osr65

Did You Know?

 – Did you know that Apache OpenOffice now features new extensions for Danish spellcheck and hyphenation dictionaries? https://openoffice.apache.org/

 –
Did you know that due to the coronavirus, Pulsar Summit is virtual this year? Catch live & interactive sessions by Splunk, Verizon Media, Iterable, Yahoo! JAPAN, TIBCO, OVHcloud, Clever Cloud and many more! https://pulsar-summit.org/

 – Did you know that Japanese work-life site Haken-EN is powered by Apache Wicket? https://wicket.apache.org/ 
 

Apache Community Notices

 – The Apache Software Foundation Statement on the COVID-19 Coronavirus Outbreak https://s.apache.org/COVID-19  

 – The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 21 Years of Open Source Leadership https://s.apache.org/21stAnniversary

 – Apache Month In Review: April 2020 – overview of events that have taken place within the Apache community https://s.apache.org/Apr2020

 – The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q3 FY2020 (November 2019 – January 2020) https://s.apache.org/r6s5u  

 – “Trillions and Trillions Served”, the documentary on the ASF, is in post-production. Catch the teaser at https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions and “Apache Everywhere”, the first “Trillions” “short” filmed onsite at
ApacheCon Las Vegas and Berlin this past year https://youtu.be/nXtIti9jMFI

 – Apache in 2019 – By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits

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

 – ASF Operations Summary: Q2 FY2020 (August – October 2019) https://s.apache.org/2kv2n

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

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

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

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