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The Apache News Round-up: week ending 8 July 2022
Happy Friday, everyone –let’s review the Apache community’s activities from over the past week:
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: 20 July 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, 271 Apache Committers and 752 contributors changed 1,776,706 lines of code over 3,430 commits. Top five contributors, in order, are: Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Gary Gregory, Liang Zhang, Jarek Potiuk, and Minghui Liu.
Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.
Attic – provides process and solutions when an Apache project has reached its end of life.
– Apache Chemistry is now retired https://s.apache.org/hqruj
Big Data —
– Apache Flink 1.15.1 released
– Apache Druid CVE-2022-28889: Clickjacking in the web console
Business Intelligence/Data Visualization —
– Apache Superset CVE-2021-37839: Improper access to dataset metadata information
– Apache Superset CVE-2021-37839: Improper access to dataset metadata information
Eventing —
– Apache EventMesh (incubating) 1.5.0 released
IoT —
– Apache IoTDB 0.14.0 released
Library —
– Apache Commons CVE-2022-33980: Configuration insecure interpolation defaults
Logging Services —
– Apache Log4j 2.18.0 released
Machine Learning —
– Apache SystemDS 3.0.0 released
Messaging —
– Apache Qpid ProtonJ2 1.0.0-M7 released
– Apache Curator 5.3.0 released
– Apache Pulsar 2.10.1 released
Middleware —
– Apache Linkis 1.1.2-RC2 (incubating) released
Release Auditing —
– Apache Creadur RAT 0.14 released on June 13
Web Frameworks —
– Apache Portals CVE-2022-32533: XSS, CSRF, SSRF, and XXE issues
Workflow —
– Apache DolphinScheduler 3.0.0-beta-2 released
Apache Community Notices
– Apache in 2021 – By The Digits + Video highlights
– Watch “Trillions and Trillions Served“, the documentary on the ASF 1) full feature [49 min] 2) “Apache Everywhere” [6 min] 3) “Why Apache” [2.5 min] 4) “Apache Innovation” [40 min]
– ASF Annual Report: FY2021 (PDF)
– 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.
– Are your software solutions Powered by Apache? Download & use our “Powered By” logos.
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Python 3.11.0b4 is now available
I cannot believe I am writing this, but Python 3.11.b4 is available!
https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3110b4/
This is a beta preview of Python 3.11
Python 3.11 is still in development. 3.11.0b2 is the second of four planned beta release previews. Beta release previews are intended to give the wider community the opportunity to test new features and bug fixes and to prepare their projects to support the new feature release.
We strongly encourage maintainers of third-party Python projects to test with 3.11 during the beta phase and report issues found to the Python bug tracker as soon as possible. While the release is planned to be feature complete entering the beta phase, it is possible that features may be modified or, in rare cases, deleted up until the start of the release candidate phase (Monday, 2021-08-02). Our goal is have no ABI changes after beta 4 and as few code changes as possible after 3.11.0rc1, the first release candidate. To achieve that, it will be extremely important to get as much exposure for 3.11 as possible during the beta phase.
Please keep in mind that this is a preview release and its use is not recommended for production environments.
Major new features of the 3.11 series, compared to 3.10
Among the new major new features and changes so far:
- PEP 657 – Include Fine-Grained Error Locations in Tracebacks
- PEP 654 – Exception Groups and except*
- PEP 673 – Self Type
- PEP 646 – Variadic Generics
- PEP 680 – tomllib: Support for Parsing TOML in the Standard Library
- PEP 675 – Arbitrary Literal String Type
- PEP 655 – Marking individual TypedDict items as required or potentially-missing
- bpo-46752 – Introduce task groups to asyncio
- PEP 681 – Data Class Transforms
- bpo-433030– Atomic grouping ((?>…)) and possessive quantifiers (
*+, ++, ?+, {m,n}+) are now supported in regular expressions. - The Faster Cpython Project is already yielding some exciting results. Python 3.11 is up to 10-60% faster than Python 3.10. On average, we measured a 1.22x speedup on the standard benchmark suite. See Faster CPython for details.
(Hey, fellow core developer, if a feature you find important is missing from this list, let Pablo know.)
The next pre-release of Python 3.11 will be 3.11.0b5, currently scheduled for Monday, 2022-07-25.
More resources
- PEP 664, 3.11 Release Schedule
- Report bugs at https://bugs.python.org.
And now for something completely different
The Planck temperature is 1.416784×10**32 K. At this temperature, the wavelength of light emitted by thermal radiation reaches the Planck length. There are no known physical models able to describe temperatures greater than the Planck temperature and a quantum theory of gravity would be required to model the extreme energies attained. Hypothetically, a system in thermal equilibrium at the Planck temperature might contain Planck-scale black holes, constantly being formed from thermal radiation and decaying via Hawking evaporation; adding energy to such a system might decrease its temperature by creating larger black holes, whose Hawking temperature is lower.
Rumours say the Planck temperature can be reached in some of the hottest parts of Spain in summer.
We hope you enjoy the new releases!
Thanks to all of the many volunteers who help make Python Development and these releases possible! Please consider supporting our efforts by volunteering yourself or through organization contributions to the Python Software Foundation.
Your friendly release team,
Ned Deily @nad
Steve Dower @steve.dower
Pablo Galindo Salgado @pablogsal
Hendrick and Jarvis Talk Software Security
Stephen Hendrick and Matt Jarvis discuss the new report, Addressing Cybersecurity Challenges in Open Source Software.
The post Hendrick and Jarvis Talk Software Security appeared first on Linux Foundation.
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Atari open-source Linux DRM graphics driver being worked on in 2022
In addition to the OpenChrome DRM/KMS driver hoping to be finally mainlined in 2022 for supporting aging VIA graphics hardware from the long-ago days of their x86 chipsets, separately there is a DRM/KMS kernel driver in the works for something even older… A Linux DRM graphics driver for the Atari Falcon from the early 90’s. Over the past two years a DRM driver has been in the works for the Atari graphics hardware with its built-in graphics chipset. This is not to be confused with the 2021-launched Atari VCS mini PC / game console, but the Atari Falcon personal computers out of the Atari Corporation from the early 90’s that featured Motorola 68000 series processors and a programmable video controller. It’s not yet in mainline, so it’ll be fun to see if Torvalds is up for including such an old and niche driver once it’s matured. I’ve always wanted an Atari Falcon, but they’re even more expensive than most other classic computers, so that’s most likely never going to happen.
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