The Apache News Round-up: week ending 18 December 2020

And it’s Friday! Let’s take a look at what the Apache community has been up to over the past week:

Inside Infra – the interview series featuring members of the ASF Infrastructure team.
 – Andrew Wetmore –Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Andrew2

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation’s bylaws.
 – Next Board Meeting: 20 January 2021. 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 99.93%. 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, 356 Apache Committers changed 1,752,073 lines of
code over 3,151 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Gary Gregory, Andi Huber, Claus Ibsen, Tilman Hausherr, and Tomaz Muraus.                          

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

API —
 – Apache APISIX Dashboard 2.2 released https://apisix.apache.org/

Big Data —
 – Apache Beam 2.26.0 released https://beam.apache.org/
 – Apache Knox 1.5.0 released http://knox.apache.org/
 – Apache Flink 1.12.0 and 1.11.3 released https://flink.apache.org/
 – Apache Qpid JMS 0.56.0 released https://qpid.apache.org/
 – Apache Bigtop 1.5.0 released https://bigtop.apache.org/
 – Apache HBase 2.4.0 released https://hbase.apache.org/
 – Apache Airflow 1.10.14 released https://airflow.apache.org/
 – Apache Airflow CVE-2020-17513: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in Charts & Query View https://s.apache.org/162rf , and
   CVE-2020-17511: Airflow admin password gets logged in plain text https://s.apache.org/2bbfj

Integration —
 – Apache Camel 3.7.0 released https://camel.apache.org/

IoT —
 – Apache IoTDB 0.11.1 released https://iotdb.apache.org/

Messaging —
 – Apache Pulsar CVE-2020-17520: Pulsar Manager security bug (bypass admin interceptor) https://s.apache.org/4fj8c

 
Did You Know?

– Did you know that the Apache Roadshow/China drew more than 1.5M viewers online? Sessions were organized by ASF Members and Apache Local Community Beijing Chapter participants, and featured Apache eCharts, IoTDB, SkyWalking, and more https://www.bagevent.com/event/6844986/p/431034  

– Did you know that Apache Airflow, Druid, Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, Kafka, Superset, and other projects power more than 1.5 petabytes of data at Airbnb? https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?category

– Did you know that ASF Corporate Giving Contributors Bloomberg Philanthropy, IBM, Microsoft, PayPal, Charles Schwab, Vanguard, and other supporting organizations help the ASF’s all-volunteer community provide $20B+ worth of software 100% free-of-charge? Support Apache today with a one-off, recurring, matching gift, or other corporate contributions? Consider a year-end gift to benefit the ASF http://apache.org/foundation/contributing.html  

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