The Apache News Round-up: week ending 11 December 2020

Happy 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.
 – Next Board Meeting: 16 December 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 videos from ApacheCon@Home are available at 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 99.91%. 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, 398 Apache Committers changed 1,767,303 lines of
code over 3,476 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Hugh Miles, Andi Huber, Mark Thomas, Ganesh Murthy, and Claus Ibsen.                   

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

API —
 – Apache APISIX Dashboard 2.1.1 released https://apisix.apache.org/

Big Data —
 – Apache Avro 1.10.1 released https://avro.apache.org/

Content —
 – 
Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.8.24 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/

Library —
 – Apache Yetus 0.13.0 released https://yetus.apache.org/

Programming Languages —
 – Apache Groovy 2.4.21, 2.5.14, 3.0.7, and 4.0.0-alpha-2 released https://groovy.apache.org/
 – Apache Groovy CVE-2020-17521: Groovy Information Disclosure https://s.apache.org/k8n0d

Messaging —
 – Apache Pulsar 2.7.0 released https://pulsar.apache.org/

Servers —
 – Apache Traffic Control 4.1.1 released https://trafficcontrol.apache.org/
 – Apache Tomcat 8.5.61, 9.0.41, and 10.0.0 (beta) available http://tomcat.apache.org/

Testing —
 – Apache JMeter 5.4 released https://jmeter.apache.org/

Web Conferencing —
 – Apache OpenMeetings 5.1.0 released https://openmeetings.apache.org/

Web Frameworks —
 – Apache Struts 2.5.26 released https://struts.apache.org/
 – Apache Struts CVE-2020-17530: Potential RCE when using forced evaluation https://s.apache.org/hwr92

 
Did You Know?

– Did you know that when we founded the ASF 21 years ago, we made a commitment to ensure our software is freely available to all users worldwide at 100% no cost? Today the ASF provides more than $21B worth of software developed by an all-volunteer community. Your tax-deductible contribution helps us continue our effort. https://donate.apache.org/  

– Did you know that the Financial Times’ real-time batch processing, stream processing, and analytics are powered by Apache Airflow, Avro, Kafka, Parquet, and Spark? https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?category#big-data 

– Did you know that Airbnb uses Apache Druid, Hadoop, Hive, Kafka, Spark, Superset, ZooKeeper, and other Apache projects to power 1.5 petabytes of data in real-time? https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?category#big-data 

Apache Community Notices

– Apache Month In Review: November 2020 https://s.apache.org/Nov2020

– 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