And it’s Friday! Let’s take a look at 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.
 – The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q1 FY2021 (May – July 2020) https://s.apache.org/2mefr
 – Next Board Meeting: 18 November 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.
 – All sessions, including Plenaries and Keynotes from ApacheCon@Home are available https://www.youtube.com/c/TheApacheFoundation/ 

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF’s infrastructure running around the clock.
 – 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.86%. 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, 380 Apache Committers changed 2,506,459 lines of code over 3,325 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Andrea
Cosentino, Claus Ibsen, Andi Huber, Łukasz Dywicki, and Mark Miller.    

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data —
 – Apache Druid 0.20.0 released https://druid.apache.org/
 – Apache Kylin 3.1.1 released https://kylin.apache.org/
 – Apache Arrow 2.0.0 released https://arrow.apache.org/
 – Apache NiFi Registry 0.8.0 released https://nifi.apache.org/registry.html
 – Apache BookKeeper 4.11.1 released http://bookkeeper.apache.org
 – Apache Hadoop CVE-2018-11764 Privilege escalation in web endpoint https://s.apache.org/jjdpq

Blockchain —
 – Apache Tuweni (Incubating) 1.2.0 released https://tuweni.apache.org/

Content —
  – Apache Jackrabbit 2.21.4 released https://jackrabbit.apache.org/

Integration —
 – Apache Camel 3.6.0 released https://camel.apache.org/

Library —
 – Apache XMLBeans 4.0.0 released  https://xmlbeans.apache.org/
 – Apache Commons Net 3.7.2 released https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-net/

Messaging —
 – Apache Qpid Broker J 7.1.10 and J 8.0.2 released https://qpid.apache.org/

Did You Know?

– Did you know that the ASF Infrastructure team have added more self-serve features to .asf.yaml? https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/even-more-github-features-added

– Did you know that Salesforce uses Apache Druid as their real-time analytical database to store application performance metrics extracted from billions to trillions of log lines per day? http://druid.apache.org/ 

– Did you know that the Apache OFBiz community is deliberating deployment on AWS production environments? http://s.apache.org/yvu54

Apache Community Notices

– Apache Month In Review: September 2020 https://s.apache.org/Sep2020

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

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

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

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