The Apache News Round-up: week ending 19 March 2021

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: Q3 FY2021 (November 2020 – January 2021) https://s.apache.org/Q3FY2021
 – Next Board Meeting: 21 April 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.
 – CFPs open for ApacheCon@Home AND ApacheCon Asia: proposals now accepted for both events! Tracks include API/Microservices, Big Data, Cassandra, Community, Content Delivery & Management, Culture, Drill, Fineract/Fintech, Geospatial, Groovy, Incubator, Integration, IoT/IIoT, Karaf, Messaging, Middleware, Observability, Royale, RDF/Linked Data, Search, Social Data, Streaming, Tomcat, and more. https://www.apachecon.com/ 
 – Event Sponsorship available, including package deals for a global presence at both events! https://www.apachecon.com/acah2021/2021_ApacheCon_prospectus.pdf

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF’s infrastructure running around the clock.
 – 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.38%. 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, 400 Apache Committers changed 3,004,173 lines of
code over 3,661 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Andrea Cosentino, Claus Ibsen, Daan Hoogland, Gary Gregory, and Mark Thomas.                           

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data —
 – Apache NiFi 1.13.1 released http://nifi.apache.org/
 – Apache Avro 1.10.2 released https://avro.apache.org/

Libraries —
 – Apache Log4j 2.14.1 released http://logging.apache.org/
 – Apache XMLBeans 5.0.0 released  https://xmlbeans.apache.org/

Servers —
 – Apache HttpComponents Core 5.1 GA released https://hc.apache.org/

Web Conferencing —
 – Apache OpenMeetings CVE-2021-27576: Bandwidth can be overloaded with public web service https://s.apache.org/2pj12

Did You Know?

– Did you know that the ASF provides a comprehensive list of Export Control Classification Numbers (ECCNs) for more than 50 Apache projects subject to export controls? https://apache.org/licenses/exports/

– Did you know that the CFP for Airflow Summit (8-16 July 2021) is now open? https://airflowsummit.org/ 

– Did you know that the Apache Druid community will be holding “drop-in” MeetUps on 23 and 31 March? http://druid.apache.org/

Apache Community Notices

– The Apache Month in Review: February 2021 https://s.apache.org/Feb2021 + Video highlights https://youtu.be/6TMuYglu2Cc

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

– ASF Security Report 2020 https://s.apache.org/SecurityReport2020 + Video highlights https://youtu.be/Z7yudar_da0

– 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

 – All presentations from ApacheCon@Home are available at https://www.youtube.com/c/TheApacheFoundation/ 

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