The Apache News Round-up: week ending 2 April 2021

Welcome, April –we’re opening the month with another great week. Here’s what the Apache community has been up to:

Apache Month-in-Review – a look back at our activities over the past month. 
– March 2021 https://s.apache.org/Mar2021 and video highlights https://youtu.be/wq2HXN4z9W0

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation’s bylaws.
 – 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 https://www.apachecon.com/ 
 – Event Sponsorship available for both ApacheCon@Home and ApacheCon Asia 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 99.78%. 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, 383 Apache Committers changed 2,210,334 lines of
code over 3,572 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Andrea Cosentino, Daniel Gruno, Mark Thomas, and  Thomas Vandahl.       

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data —
 – Apache Druid 0.20.2 released https://druid.apache.org/
 – Apache Druid CVE-2021-26919: Authenticated users can execute arbitrary code from malicious MySQL database systems https://s.apache.org/xgi7a

Content —
 – Apache Tika 1.26 released https://tika.apache.org/
 – Apache Tika CVE-2021-28657: Infinite loop in MP3 parser https://s.apache.org/9vlh2

Database —
 – Apache ZooKeeper 3.7.0 released https://zookeeper.apache.org/
 – Apache Geode 1.13.2 released http://geode.apache.org/

Integration —
 – Apache Camel 3.9.0 released https://camel.apache.org/

Libraries —
 – Apache MXNet (Incubating) 1.8.0 released http://mxnet.incubator.apache.org

Observability —
 – Apache SkyWalking Python 0.6.0 and NodeJS 0.2.0 released https://skywalking.apache.org/

Web Frameworks —
 – Apache Wicket 9.3.0 released https://wicket.apache.org/

Did You Know?

– Did you know that this year’s ApacheCon Platinum sponsorships are sold out? Great options and combo packages available for both events https://www.apachecon.com/acah2021/2021_ApacheCon_prospectus.pdf

– Did you know that Apache Druid will be holding their Ecosystems MeetUp on 6 April and DataEng MeetUp on 7 April? http://druid.apache.org/ 

– Did you know that the Apache CloudStack community will hold its virtual European User Group on 27 May? http://cloudstack.apache.org/

Apache Community Notices

– The Apache® Software Foundation Celebrates 22 Years of Open Source Leadership – world’s largest Open Source foundation advances community-led innovation “The Apache Way” https://s.apache.org/22ndAnniversay

– The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q3 FY2021 (November 2020 – January 2021) https://s.apache.org/Q3FY2021 + Video highlights https://youtu.be/S6FWqAuA_8M

– 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

 – Inside Infra: the new interview series with members of the ASF infrastructure team –meet 
    Chris Thistlethwaite https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Chris
    Drew Foulks https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Drew
    Greg Stein Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg
      …Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg2 and Part III https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Greg3
    Daniel Gruno Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Daniel1 and Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Daniel2
    Gavin McDonald Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Gavin and Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Gavin2
    Andrew Wetmore Part I https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Andrew and Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-Andrew2
    Chris Lambertus Part I  https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-ChrisL  and Part II https://s.apache.org/InsideInfra-ChrisL2

 – ASF Targeted Sponsor Manning Publications is offering special deals on the latest books on Apache Airflow, Pulsar, Spark, and Thrift, among other titles and eBooks https://deals.manning.com/the-latest-apache-innovations/

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