The Apache News Round-up: week ending 15 February 2019

Mid-month already! Let’s see what Apache Community worked on last week:

A little Valentine’s appreciation to all our Sponsors, whose support demonstrates how they #LoveApache http://apache.org/foundation/thanks

ASF Board –management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation’s bylaws.
 – Next Board Meeting: 20 February. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ –the ASF’s official global conference series, now in its 21st year.
 – Join us: Apache Roadshow/DC and Open Source Career Fair 25 March 2019 http://www.apachecon.com/usroadshow18/
 – CFP CLOSING TODAY: Apache Roadshow/Chicago 13-14 May 2019 http://apachecon.com/chiroadshow19/index.html
 – Save the Date: ApacheCon North America 9-13 September in Las Vegas http://apachecon.com/

ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF’s infrastructure running around the clock.
 – 7M+ weekly checks yield 99.88% uptime. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot –this week, 477 Apache contributors changed 776,105 lines of code over 2,899 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Sean Busbey, Duo Zhang, Andrea Cosentino, Claus Ibsen, and Sebastian Bazley.

Apache Project Announcements –the latest updates by category.

Library —
 – Apache Apache Commons Collections 4.3 released http://commons.apache.org/

Logging —
 – Apache Log4j 2.11.2 released https://logging.apache.org/

Network/Server —
 – Apache Tomcat 8.5.38 released http://tomcat.apache.org/
– Apache
Qpid Proton 0.27.0 released http://qpid.apache.org/

Search —
 – Apache Lucene 7.7.0 and Solr 7.7.0 released http://lucene.apache.org/
 – CVE-2017-3164 SSRF issue in Apache Solr http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201902.mbox/%3CCAECwjAVjBN%3DwO5rYs6ktAX-5%3D-f5JDFwbbTSM2TTjEbGO5jKKA%40mail.gmail.com%3E

Did You Know?

 – Did you know that the following Apache projects are celebrating anniversaries this month? Apache HTTP Server (24 years –established prior to the ASF’s incorporation!); Gump and Portals (15 years); Directory, MyFaces, and Xerces (14 years); Tapestry (13 years); Roller (12 years); Cassandra and Subversion (9 years); Chemistry (8 years); BVa and OpenNLP (7 years); Clerezza and Crunch (6 years); Knox, Open Climate Workbench, and Spark (5 years); and DataFu (1 year). Many happy returns! https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date

 – Did you know that Apache Groovy was downloaded 30 million times during Q4 2018? http://groovy.apache.org/

 – Did you know that Apache Edgent (incubating) can be embedded in gateways and small footprint edge devices to enable real-time IoT data analytics? http://edgent.incubator.apache.org/

Apache Community Notices:

 – Apache in 2018 – By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2018Digits

 – ASF Operations Summary: Q2 FY2019 https://s.apache.org/d2Fq

 – ASF Annual Report for FY2018 https://s.apache.org/FY2018AnnualReport

 – The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement https://s.apache.org/zqC3

 – Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. https://s.apache.org/PIRA

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

 – Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation

 – Do friend and follow us on the Apache Community Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/and Twitter account https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity

 – The list of Apache project-related MeetUps can be found at http://events.apache.org/event/meetups.html

 – The Apache Big Data community will be at DataWorks Summit 18-21 March 2019 in Barcelona and 20-23 May 2019 in Washington DC https://dataworkssummit.com/

 – Future dates for Spark + AI Summit 2019 announced: 23-25 April/San Francisco and 15-17 October/Amsterdam https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/

 – CFP Now Open: Apache Roadshow Chicago 13-14 May 2019 http://apachecon.com/chiroadshow19/index.html

 – CFP now open for Berlin Buzzwords: 16-18 June 2019 https://berlinbuzzwords.de/

 – Save the date: ApacheCon North America 9-13 September 2019 http://apachecon.com/

 – Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities –opportunities open with Apache HTTP Server, Avro, ComDev (community development), Directory, Incubator, OODT, POI, Polygene, Syncope, Tika, Trafodion, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/

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