The Apache News Round-up: week ending 30 April 2021

So long, April --the Apache community has had a productive last week of the month. Let's review what happened:

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
- Next Board Meeting: 19 May 2021. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998. Two events held in 2021 are: ApacheCon Asia (6-8 August) and ApacheCon@Home (21-23 September).
- Registration for both ApacheCons is open https://www.apachecon.com/
- CFP CLOSING for both events: your last chance to submit your proposal by 3 May
- Sponsorships available https://www.apachecon.com/acah2021/2021_ApacheCon_prospectus.pdf

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
- 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.98%. Performance checks across 50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – Over the past week, 377 Apache Committers changed 902,863 lines of code over 3,113 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Shad Storhaug, Daan Hoogland, Andrea Cosentino, Dan Haywood, and Duo Zhang.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
- Apache Druid 0.21.0 released https://druid.apache.org/

Build Management --
- Apache Maven CVE-2021-26291: Block repositories using http by default https://s.apache.org/9f9ta

Enterprise Processes Automation / ERP --
- Apache OFBiz 17.12.07 released https://ofbiz.apache.org/
- Apache OFBiz CVE-2021-29200: RCE vulnerability due to Java serialization using RMI https://s.apache.org/rsj6t
and CVE-2021-30128: Unsafe deserialization in OFBiz https://s.apache.org/asi93

Mail --
- Apache James MIME4J 0.8.4 released https://james.apache.org/

Web Frameworks --
- Apache MyFaces Core 2.3.9 released http://myfaces.apache.org/

Did You Know?

- Did you know that one of the world's largest retailers with tens of thousands of stores uses Apache Pinot (incubating) as their unified analytics platform for mission-critical applications across billions of transactions in real time? http://pinot.apache.org/

- Did you know that the Apache CloudStack community will be holding the European CloudStack User Group online on 27 May? http://cloudstack.apache.org/

- Did you know that the Apache Flink community will be holding the Flink Summer Camp online 17-21 May? https://flink.apache.org/

Apache Community Notices

- The Apache Month in Review: March 2021 https://s.apache.org/Mar2021 and video highlights https://youtu.be/wq2HXN4z9W0

- The Apache® Software Foundation Celebrates 22 Years of Open Source Leadership – world’s largest Open Source foundation advances community-led innovation "The Apache Way" https://s.apache.org/22ndAnniversay

- The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q3 FY2021 (November 2020 - January 2021) https://s.apache.org/Q3FY2021 + Video highlights https://youtu.be/S6FWqAuA_8M

- Apache in 2020 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2020Digits + Video highlights https://s.apache.org/Apache2020Digits-vid

- ASF Security Report 2020 https://s.apache.org/SecurityReport2020 + Video highlights https://youtu.be/Z7yudar_da0

- ASF FY2020 Annual Report https://s.apache.org/FY2020AnnualReport

- "Trillions and Trillions Served" documentary on the ASF: 1) full feature https://s.apache.org/Trillions-Feature 2) "Apache Everywhere" https://s.apache.org/ApacheEverywhere 3) "Why Apache" https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions 4) “Apache Innovation” https://s.apache.org/ApacheInnovation

- The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI

- Foundation Reports and Statements http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html

- All presentations from ApacheCon@Home are available at https://www.youtube.com/c/TheApacheFoundation/

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

- ASF Targeted Sponsor Manning Publications is offering special deals on the latest books on Apache Airflow, Pulsar, Spark, and Thrift, among other titles and eBooks https://deals.manning.com/the-latest-apache-innovations/

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