The Apache News Round-up: week ending 31 October 2014

Noteworthy items from The Apache Software Foundation’s more than 200 projects and initiatives that have taken place over the past week include:

Apache Camel™ –powerful Open Source integration framework based on known Enterprise Integration Patterns.
 – Apache Camel 2.12.5 released http://camel.apache.org/download.html

Apache Flex™ –a highly productive, Open Source application framework for building and maintaining expressive Web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops and devices (including smartphones, tablets and TV).
 – Apache Flex Squiggly 1.1 released http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/flex/squiggly/1.1/RELEASE_NOTES

Apache jclouds™ –Open Source multi-cloud toolkit for the Java platform that gives you the freedom to create applications that are portable across clouds while giving you full control to use cloud-specific features.
 – Apache jclouds 1.8.1 released https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS/fixforversion/12327548

Apache Kafka™ –a single Kafka broker can handle hundreds of megabytes of reads and writes per second from thousands of clients. Kafka is designed to allow a single cluster to serve as the central data backbone for a large organization, and can be elastically and transparently expanded without downtime.
 – Apache Kafka 0.8.2-beta released https://archive.apache.org/dist/kafka/0.8.2-beta/RELEASE_NOTES.html

Apache MINA™ –a network application framework which helps users develop high performance and high scalability network applications easily.
 – Apache MINA 2.0.9 released http://mina.apache.org/downloads.html

Apache Onami™ –focused on the development and maintenance of a set of Google Guice extensions.
 – Apache Onami Persist 1.0.1 released http://onami.apache.org/

Apache Tomcat™ –a web server that is an Open Source software implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies.
 – Apache Tomcat Native 1.1.32 released http://tomcat.apache.org/native-doc/miscellaneous/changelog.html

Apache Software Foundation Graphics –graphical assets that can be used by third parties when referring to The Apache Software Foundation or one of its projects.
 – Download new "Powered By Apache" general and project logos http://apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby

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