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Welcome, August –we’re opening the month with another great week. Here’s what the Apache community has been up to:

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, 244 Apache Committers and 725 contributors
changed 7,148,073 lines of code over 2,945 commits. Top five
contributors, in order, are: Claus Ibsen, Dan Haywood, Jinrui Zhang,
Andi Huber, and Mark Thomas.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data –

• Apache NiFi 1.17.0 released
• Apache Arrow 8.0.0 and 9.0.0 released

Cloud Computing –

• Apache Kafka 3.2.1 released

Content –

• Apache JSPWiki 2.11.3 released
  • CVE-2022-27166: XSS vulnerability on XHRHtml2Markup.jsp in JSPWiki 2.11.2
  • CVE-2022-28730: Cross-site scripting vulnerability on AJAXPreview.jsp
  • CVE-2022-28731: CSRF in UserPreferences.jsp
  • CVE-2022-28732: Cross-site scripting vulnerability on WeblogPlugin
  • CVE-2022-34158: User Group Privilege Escalation

Databases –

• Apache Kvrocks (Incubating) 2.1.0 released

Middleware –

• Apache Linkis 1.1.3 (Incubating) 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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