The Apache News Round-up: week ending 9 September 2016

ASF Board –management and oversight of the business and affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation’s bylaws.
 – Next Board Meeting: 21 September 2016. Board calendar and minutes available at http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF’s infrastructure running around the clock.
 – 7M+ weekly checks yield "three nines" performance at 99.90% uptime http://status.apache.org/

ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation.
 – Join us! Apache: Big Data and ApacheCon Europe/Seville –hotel block details http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-europe/attend/hotel-travel
 – FINAL CALL: 9 September – CFPs close http://apachecon.com/ | 16 September – Travel Assistance applications due http://www.apache.org/travel/

Apache Accumulo™ –a robust, scalable, high performance data storage system that features cell-based access control and customizable server-side processing.
 – Apache Accumulo 1.8.0 released https://accumulo.apache.org/downloads/

Apache Apex™ –an enterprise grade native YARN big data-in-motion platform that unifies stream and batch processing.
 – Apache Apex Malhar 3.5.0 released http://apex.apache.org/downloads.html

Apache Chemistry™ –a collection of Java libraries, frameworks, and tools around the OASIS CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services) specification.
 – Apache Chemistry OpenCMIS 1.0.0 released https://chemistry.apache.org/java/download.html

Apache Jackrabbit™ –a fully compliant implementation of the Content Repository for Java(TM) Technology API, version 2.0 (JCR 2.0) as specified in the Java Specification Request 283 (JSR 283).
 – Apache Jackrabbit 2.12.2 and 2.12.4, and Jackrabbit Oak 1.5.9 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html

Apache mod_perl™ –brings together the full power of the Perl programming language and the Apache HTTP server.
 – Apache-Test 1.40 released https://metacpan.org/release/Apache-Test

Apache NiFi™ –an easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and distribute data.
 – Apache NiFi MiNiFI C++ 0.0.1 released http://nifi.apache.org/minifi/download.html

Apache OpenWebBeans™ –a CDI container (Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java) and targets the CDI-1.2 specification (JavaEE 7).
 – Apache OpenWebBeans-1.7.0 released http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/openwebbeans/1.7.0/

Apache Qpid™ –a cross-platform enterprise messaging solution which implements the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP).
 – Apache Qpid C++ 1.35.0 released http://qpid.apache.org/download.html

Apache Serf™ –high performance C-based HTTP client library built upon the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library.
 – Apache Serf 1.3.9 released https://serf.apache.org/download

Apache SINGA (incubating) –a general distributed deep learning platform for training big deep learning models over large datasets.
 – Apache SINGA (incubating) 1.0.0 released http://singa.apache.org/en/downloads.html

Apache Storm™ – a distributed, fault-tolerant, and high-performance realtime computation system that provides strong guarantees on the processing of data.
 -Apache Storm 0.9.7 released http://storm.apache.org/downloads.html

Apache Syncope™ –an Open Source system for managing digital identities in enterprise environments, implemented in Java EE technology.
 – Apache Syncope 2.0.0.M5 released http://syncope.apache.org/downloads.html

Apache MyFaces™ Tobago –a well designed set of user interface components based on JSF and run on MyFaces.
 – Apache Tobago 2.0.10 released http://myfaces.apache.org/tobago/

Apache Tomcat™ –an Open Source software implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Unified Expression Language, Java WebSocket and JASPIC technologies.
 – Apache Tomcat 8.0.37, 8.5.5, and 9.0.0.M10 released http://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi and http://tomcat.apache.org/download-90.cgi

Did You Know?

 – Did you know that Qunar, China’s top eCommerce travel site, uses Apache Flink, HDFS, Spark, and Zeppelin to processes more than 4.5 terabytes of data each day? http://flink.apache.org/ , http://hadoop.apache.org/ , http://spark.apache.org/ , http://zeppelin.apache.org/

 – Did you know that, according to The Apache Way, "if it didn’t happen on-list, it didn’t happen"? As demonstrated by 13M public emails, 5M email threads, by 306K authors https://lists.apache.org/

 – Did you know that Apache’s ~6K Committers collaborate across six continents? Here’s where some of them call home http://community.zones.apache.org/map.html

Apache Community Notices:

 – ApacheCon Europe will take place 14-18 November 2016 in Seville, Spain http://apachecon.com/