The Apache News Round-up: week ending 26 December 2014

The Apache Software Foundation’s 200+ projects and initiatives and community of more than 4,000 contributors wish you a very happy and healthy 2015! Here’s what we’ve been working on over the past week:

Apache Commons™ –software library provides a generic configuration interface which enables an application to read configuration data from a variety of sources.
 – Commons Configuration 2.0-alpha2 Released http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/configuration/RELEASE-NOTES.txt

Apache DeltaSpike™ –not a CDI-container, but a portable CDI extension.
Apache DeltaSpike 1.2.1 released http://s.apache.org/DeltaSpike_1.2.1

Apache Ivy™ –a tool for managing (recording, tracking, resolving and reporting) project dependencies, characterized by flexibility, configurability, and tight integration with Apache Ant.
 – Apache Ivy 2.4.0 released http://ant.apache.org/ivy/download.cgi

Apache Jackrabbit™ –a scalable, high-performance hierarchical content repository designed for use as the foundation of modern world-class Web sites and other demanding content applications.
 – Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.0.9 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html

Apache POI™ –Java APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon the Office Open XML standards (OOXML) and Microsoft’s OLE 2 Compound Document format (OLE2), such as Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and Word.
 – Apache POI 3.11 released http://poi.apache.org/

ASF Operations –behind the scenes of the day-to-day functions at The Apache Software Foundation
 – The ASF publishes long-overdue New Code of Conduct http://s.apache.org/dGR

ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation
 – Call for Papers open until 1 February http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/program/cfp
 – Become involved with the program selection process –check out http://s.apache.org/60N
 – Applications accepted for Apache Travel Assistance through 6 February http://www.apache.org/travel/
 – Sign up to receive ApacheCon updates and announcements http://www.apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html#foundation-apachecon

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