Happy Friday, everyone. The Apache community has had another great week. Let's review what we've been up to: ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws. - Next Board Meeting: 20 October 2021. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board... [Read more...]
Posted at 01:17PM Oct 18, 2021 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter
It’s not enough to create and release useful software. As an open source foundation, a major part of the Apache Software Foundation’s (ASF) job is to help get that software into the hands of users. To do so, we’ve relied for many years on the contributions of individuals and organizations to provide mirror infrastructure to distribute our software.... [Read more...]
Posted at 07:13PM Oct 14, 2021 by jzb in General
We're wrapping up another great week with the following activities from the Apache community: ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws. - Next Board Meeting: 20 October 2021. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html ... [Read more...]
Posted at 08:08PM Oct 11, 2021 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter
Updates to security and availability of leading Open Source office document productivity suite Wilmington, DE —7 October 2021— The Apache ® Software Foundation (ASF), the world’s largest Open Source foundation, announced today Apache OpenOffice ® 4.1.11, the popular Open Source office-document productivity suite. Used by millions of organizations,... [Read more...]
Posted at 01:00PM Oct 07, 2021 by Sally Khudairi in General
Wakefield, DE - 06 October 2021 - Apache OpenOffice, a leading Open Source office document productivity suite, announced today Apache OpenOffice 4.1.11, as usual available in 41 languages for Windows, macOS and Linux. Apache OpenOffice 4.1.11 is a Security release incorporating other bug fixes and little enhancements. All users of Apache... [Read more...]
Posted at 06:04PM Oct 06, 2021 by Carl Marcum in General
An HBase & HDFS Short-Circuit Read Odyssey Huaxiang Sun and Michael Stack We were asked to consult on an Apache HBase cluster. This deploy had RegionServers that were ABORTing under high-load. On occasion, a RegionServer would hang without crashing holding its allotment of data temporarily offline. HDFS’s Short-Circuit Read (SCR) ... [Read more...]
Posted at 03:51PM Oct 05, 2021 by stack in General
# Apache CloudStack CloudMonkey v6.2.0 Release Apache CloudStack, proven as one of the most scalable, free, and open source cloud computing operating system for large scale private, public, and hybrid clouds, today announced the availability of the latest release of Apache CloudMonkey v6.2.0, the latest version of the turnkey enterprise Cloud... [Read more...]
Posted at 08:47AM Oct 05, 2021 by Rohit Yadav in News
Welcome October --we've closed September with another great week. Here are the latest updates on the Apache community's activities: Apache Month in Review – a round-up of our Round-ups and other newsworthy bits over the past month. - September Month in Review https://s.apache.org/September2021 --video highlights at ... [Read more...]
Posted at 05:02PM Oct 04, 2021 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter
Welcome to the latest monthly overview of events from the Apache community. Here's a summary of what happened in September [ video highlights available] : New this month -- - Success at Apache - This series focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works." The most recent entry is " From Mentee to PMC... [Read more...]
Posted at 06:19PM Oct 01, 2021 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter
We're closing September with another great week. Here are the latest updates on the Apache community's activities: ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws. - Next Board Meeting: 20 October 2021. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundati... [Read more...]
Posted at 06:41AM Sep 27, 2021 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter
Introduction A recent industry analyst report by GigaOm and sponsored by Immuta comparing Apache Ranger to Immuta paints an incorrect picture on the complexities of using Apache Ranger. We believe the report contains a number of errors and inconsistencies. Unfortunately the Apache Ranger Project Management Committee (PMC) was not contacted by the... [Read more...]
Posted at 06:41PM Sep 21, 2021 by Madhan in General
I'm pleased to announce the release of Apache Kafka 3.0 on behalf of the Apache Kafka® community. Apache Kafka 3.0 is a major release in more ways than one. Apache Kafka 3.0 introduces a variety of new features, breaking API changes, and improvements to KRaft—Apache Kafka’s built-in consensus mechanism that will replace Apache... [Read more...]
Posted at 03:56PM Sep 21, 2021 by Konstantine Karantasis in Technology
The Apache NetBeans team is pleased to announce that Apache NetBeans 12.5 was released on September 13th 2021*. Apache NetBeans is a full IDE for Java SE, Java EE, PHP, JavaScript, HTML5 and more, including some support for Groovy and C/C++. Apache NetBeans 12.5 is a quarterly feature update. The LTS release of the current cycle is Apache NetBeans... [Read more...]
Posted at 11:14AM Sep 21, 2021 by Geertjan in General
The new Apache Ignite 2.11 was released on September 17, 2021. It can be considered to be a greater extent as a stabilization release that closed a number of technical debts of the internal architecture and bugs. Out of more than 200 completed tasks, 120 are bug fixes. However, some valuable improvements still exist, so let's take a quick look at... [Read more...]
Posted at 04:53PM Sep 20, 2021 by Maxim Muzafarov in General
We're wrapping up another great week with the following activities from the Apache community: Success at Apache This series focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF "just works." The most recent entry is " From Mentee to PMC " by Ephraim Anierobi. ASF Annual Report The ASF annual report is a look... [Read more...]
Posted at 02:36PM Sep 20, 2021 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter
# Apache CloudStack LTS Maintenance Release 4.15.2.0 The Apache CloudStack project is pleased to announce the release ofCloudStack 4.15.2.0. The CloudStack 4.15.2.0 release is a maintenance release as part of its 4.15.x LTS branch and contains more than 75 fixes and improvements since the CloudStack 4.15.0.0 release. CloudStack LTS branches... [Read more...]
Posted at 06:35AM Sep 20, 2021 by Rohit Yadav in Announcements
by Ephraim Anierobi This post is about how I became a committer and a Project Management Committee (PMC) member of Apache Airflow, and provides guidance to those new to programming, are new to contributing to open-source projects, and want to become committers and PMC members in their respective Apache projects. About a year and a half after changing... [Read more...]
Posted at 02:32PM Sep 16, 2021 by Sally Khudairi in SuccessAtApache
When Apache Ignite entered the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Incubator in 2014, it took less than a year for the project and its community to graduate from the Incubator and become a top-level project for the ASF. Since then, Ignite has experienced a significant and steady growth in popularity, and it has been used by thousands of application developers... [Read more...]
Posted at 06:40PM Sep 14, 2021 by Denis Magda in General
Jakarta EE is the evolution of Java EE, a set of specifications that enables the world wide community of java developers to work on cloud native java enterprise applications. With Jakarta EE, the community now has an open source project to collaborate on advancing enterprise Java. Jakarta EE’s goal is to accelerate business application development for... [Read more...]
Posted at 12:46PM Sep 10, 2021 by Domenico Francesco Bruscino in Artemis