The Apache News Round-up: week ending 22 January 2021

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.
 – The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q2 FY2021 (August – October 2020) https://s.apache.org/Q2FY2021
 – Next Board Meeting: 17 February 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 100.00%. 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, 385 Apache Committers changed 3,309,050 lines of
code over 5,192 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Rohit Yadav, Wei Zhou, Kaxil Naik, Gary Gregory, and Andrea Cosentino.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data —
 – Apache Flink 1.12.1 released https://flink.apache.org/
 – Apache Qpid Broker J 7.1.11 and J 8.0.3 released https://qpid.apache.org/
 – The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Superset™ as a Top-Level Project https://s.apache.org/scefo

Cloud Computing —
 – The Apache CloudStack Project Releases Apache® CloudStack® v4.15 https://s.apache.org/vi0v8

Content —
 – Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.22.6 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/
 – Apache Tika 2.0.0-ALPHA released https://tika.apache.org/

Integration —
 – Apache Camel 3.7.1 released https://camel.apache.org/

Network Client —
 – Apache Guacamole CVE-2020-11997: Inconsistent restriction of connection history visibility https://s.apache.org/i80o1

Servers —
 – Apache Tomcat CVE-2020-17527: Apache Tomcat HTTP/2 Request header mix-up https://s.apache.org/wqss6

Did You Know?

– Did you know that the Apache Maven projects has action cards for their community to promote their activities on social media? https://maven.apache.org/resource/branding/actioncards.html

– Did you know that US Top 10 retailer Target’s enterprise-scale analytics (delivered to all levels of the organization) is powered by Apache Druid? http://druid.apache.org/

– Did you know that K&H Bank, one of the largest commercial banks in Hungary, uses Apache Wicket for their consumer banking and insurance site? http://wicket.apache.org/ 

Apache Community Notices

– Apache in 2020 – By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2020Digits + Video highlights https://s.apache.org/Apache2020Digits-vid

– The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: 1 August – 31 October 2020 https://s.apache.org/Q2FY2021

– Apache Month In Review: December 2020 https://s.apache.org/Dec2020 

– 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 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