Author: Michael G

Farewell, July –we’re wrapping
up the month with another great week. Here are the latest updates on
the Apache community’s activities:

ApacheCon™ – the ASF’s official global conference series, bringing Tomorrow’s Technology Today since 1998.

• Registrations are open for ApacheCon North America, 2022 https://www.apachecon.com/acna2022/register.html

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation’s bylaws.

• Next Board Meeting: 17 August 2022. Running Board calendar and minutes are available.

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF’s infrastructure running around the clock.

• 7M+
  weekly checks yield uptime at 100.00%. Performance checks across 50
  different service components spread over more than 250 machines in data
  centers around the world. View the ASF’s Infrastructure Uptime site to see the most recent averages.

Apache Code Snapshot
– Over the past week, 274 Apache Committers and 819 contributors
changed 2,862,825 lines of code over 3,389 commits. Top five
contributors, in order, are: Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Gary Gregory, Claus
Ibsen, Robbie Gemmell, and Dan Haywood.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Attic – provides process and solutions when an Apache project has reached its end of life.

• Apache Clerezza is now retired

APIs–

• The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® ShenYu™ as a Top-Level Project
• Apache APISIX 2.15.0 released

Big Data–

• Apache Calcite Avatica 1.22.0 released
  • CVE-2022-36364: Avatica JDBC driver httpclient_impl connection property can be used as an RCE vector

Content –

• Apache OpenOffice 4.1.13 released

Identity Management –

• Apache Fortress 2.0.8 released

Libraries–

• Apache MXNet CVE-2022-24294: ReDoS in RTC Module

Network Client –

• Apache MINA 2.2.1 released

Programming Languages –

• Apache Groovy 2.5.18, 3.0.12, and 4.0.4 released

RPC –

• Apache bRPC 1.2.0 released

Search –

• Apache Lucene 9.3.0 released

Servers–

• Apache Tomcat 10.0.23 released

Apache Community Notices

• Apache in 2021 – By The Digits + Video highlights

• The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success

• Foundation Reports and Statements

• Presentations from 2021’s ApacheCon Asia and ApacheCon@Home are available on the ASF YouTube channel.

• “Success at Apache” focuses on the people and processes behind why the ASF “just works.”

• Follow the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter and The ASF page LinkedIn.

• Follow the Apache Community on Facebook and Twitter.

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