[ANNOUNCEMENT] Apache SkyWalking Could on Kubernetes 0.7.0 Released

2022-09-16 Thread Ye Cao
Hi the SkyWalking Community

On behalf of the SkyWalking Team, I’m glad to announce that SkyWalking
Could on Kubernetes 0.7.0 is now released.

SkyWalking Could on Kubernetes: A bridge platform between Apache
SkyWalking and Kubernetes.

SkyWalking: APM (application performance monitor) tool for distributed
systems, especially designed for microservices, cloud native and
container-based (Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos) architectures.

Vote Thread: https://lists.apache.org/thread/1wth7f1grwdqogl5bkl4lfxpggf8vhql

Download Links: https://skywalking.apache.org/downloads/

Release Notes : https://github.com/apache/skywalking-swck/blob/v0.7.0/CHANGES.md

Website: https://skywalking.apache.org/

SkyWalking Could on Kubernetes Resources:
- Issue: https://github.com/apache/skywalking/issues
- Mailing list: d...@skywalkiing.apache.org
- Documents: https://github.com/apache/skywalking-swck/blob/v0.7.0/README.md

The Apache SkyWalking Team


[ANNOUNCE] Apache PDFBox 1.8.17 released

2022-09-16 Thread Andreas Lehmkuehler

The Apache PDFBox community is pleased to announce the release of
Apache PDFBox version 1.8.17. The release is available for download at:

https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.html

See the full release notes below for details about this release.

Release Notes -- Apache PDFBox -- Version 1.8.17

Introduction


The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF 
documents.


This is an incremental bugfix release based on the earlier 1.8.16 release. It
contains a couple of fixes and small improvements.

For more details on all fixes included in this release, please refer to the 
following issues on the PDFBox issue tracker at 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX.


Bug

[PDFBOX-1752] - Rendering PDF containing Jpeg2000 fails
[PDFBOX-4312] - Signature is not getting inserted into 0 area
[PDFBOX-4330] - NumberFormatException in CFFParser.readRealNumber()
[PDFBOX-4332] - XMP dates contain time zone, while document info dates do not, 
and this isn't detected by preflight (2)

[PDFBOX-4360] - ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in ASCIIHexFilter
[PDFBOX-4372] - Stack overflow around PDFStreamEngine.processStream
[PDFBOX-4404] - Input streams passed to Font.createFont() are not always closed
[PDFBOX-4453] - Encrypted string not decrypted
[PDFBOX-4461] - PDFunctionType0.eval() damages its input
[PDFBOX-4466] - Signature without /Type /Sig can't be read
[PDFBOX-4494] - Problem with google noto bold font and hungarian characters
[PDFBOX-4497] - dash phase start should be float
[PDFBOX-4551] - Prevent printing from CL applications when not authorized
[PDFBOX-4582] - PDJpeg should throw IOException if the image isn't a JPEG
[PDFBOX-4586] - Annotation widgets without AP not detected by preflight
[PDFBOX-4622] - Various exceptions in TTFParser.parse
[PDFBOX-4654] - PDFToImage shows reader image formats in usage
[PDFBOX-4683] - Could not find referenced cmap stream Adobe-Japan1-7
[PDFBOX-4722] - TestTextStripper doesn't detect when less output
[PDFBOX-4727] - ExtractEmbeddedFiles.java example uses name tree keys as file 
names
[PDFBOX-4822] - Off-by-one error in PDSignature.getConvertedContents()
[PDFBOX-4839] - Iphone IOS able to open password PDF file without password
[PDFBOX-4849] - FlateFilter Inflater leaks
[PDFBOX-4902] - PDF/A validation fails when system time zone has minutes
[PDFBOX-4907] - Signature not detected by Acrobat Reader
[PDFBOX-4910] - Build test failure on OpenJDK "Invalid argument to native 
writeImage"
[PDFBOX-4911] - isartor-6-2-2-t02-fail-a.pdf fails on OpenJDK with 
ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException

[PDFBOX-4913] - ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in ShadingContext.convertToRGB()
[PDFBOX-4969] - java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException
[PDFBOX-5028] - Partial field names must not contain period characters
[PDFBOX-5033] - CFF FontParser exits with illegal offset in font
[PDFBOX-5127] - Multithreading issue in JempBox's DateConverter
[PDFBOX-5129] - 1.8 build test fails in 
com.ibm.icu.util.VersionInfo.getInstance()
[PDFBOX-5240] - preflight SMask entry check incorrect
[PDFBOX-5393] - NegativeArraySizeException in pfb parser with 0 byte pfb font 
file
[PDFBOX-5459] - NullPointerException in PDFunctionType3.eval()

Improvement

[PDFBOX-3192] - Animal sniffer maven plugin doesn't detect non java 5 api usage 
within the 1.8 branch

[PDFBOX-4420] - Correct javadoc comment
[PDFBOX-4641] - Keywords created using PDFBox are not visible in Acrobat

Task

[PDFBOX-4933] - Correct PDFBOX-1777 to PDFBOX-1977 in tests
[PDFBOX-5165] - Exceedingly slow processing of XMPSchemaMediaManagement's 
getHistory in JempBox


Release Contents


This release consists of a single source archive packaged as a zip file.
The archive can be unpacked with the jar tool from your JDK installation.
See the README.txt file for instructions on how to build this release.

The source archive is accompanied by SHA512 checksum and a PGP signature
that you can use to verify the authenticity of your download. The public
key used for the PGP signature can be found at
https://www.apache.org/dist/pdfbox/KEYS.

About Apache PDFBox
---

Apache PDFBox is an open source Java library for working with PDF documents.
This project allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing
documents and the ability to extract content from documents. Apache PDFBox
also includes several command line utilities. Apache PDFBox is published
under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

For more information, visit https://pdfbox.apache.org/

About The Apache Software Foundation


Established in 1999, The Apache Software Foundation provides organizational,
legal, and financial support for more than 100 freely-available,
collaboratively-developed Open Source projects. The pragmatic Apache License
enables individual and commercial users to easily deploy Apache software;
the Foundation's intellectual property framework limits the legal exposure
of its 2,500+ cont

[ANN] Apache Struts ver. 6.0.3 GA

2022-09-16 Thread Lukasz Lenart
The Apache Struts group is pleased to announce that Apache Struts
6.0.3 is available as a “General Availability” release. The GA
designation is our highest quality grade.
https://struts.apache.org/announce-2022#a20220915

Below is a full list of all changes.

Bug:
WW-5185 - TilesDefinition is not found and the request for a Struts
action fails after an upgrade from Struts 2.5.30 to Struts 6.0.
WW-5189 - Add missing struts-6.0.dtd
WW-5190 - StackOverflowError when dispatching to JSP
WW-5191 - template/simple/textarea.ftl not rendering parameters correctly
WW-5192 - radiomap.ftl not setting enum key values
WW-5194 - UIBean.evaluateParams() throws an IllegalStateException when
getting the nonce out of a session that has been invalidated.
WW-5195 - Dispatcher: Infinite loop with dispatcher FORWARD
WW-5197 - java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException in the date component
WW-5198 - textarea’s maxlength attribute displays in tag’s body
WW-5203 - lazyPolicyBuilder in DefaultCspSettings is not lazy
WW-5205 - REST plugin cannot start due to injection error
WW-5207 - Convention Plugin - support for ASM 9
WW-5215 - CspInterceptor assumes Session was already created
WW-5216 - Freemarker Checkbox error after migrating from Struts 2.5.29 to 2.5.30

New Feature:
WW-5187 - java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
org/apache/struts2/views/velocity/VelocityManager Improvement
WW-5173 - Implement additional OGNL cache configuration controls
WW-5188 - Use 6.0 marker instead of 2.6
WW-5218 - Allow to disable CSP related interceptors

Dependency:
WW-5193 - Use proper hibernate-validator groupId and upgrade to
version 6.1.3.Final
WW-5201 - Bump Log4j2 to 2.18.0
WW-5202 - Update jasperreports to 6.19.1 and exclude optional itext
from jasperreports
WW-5204 - Upgrade to OGNL 3.3.3
WW-5208 - Update hibernate-validator to 6.2.4
WW-5212 - Upgrade Spring to version 5.3.22

Version Notes
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WW/Version+Notes+6.0.3

**All developers are strongly advised to perform this upgrade.**

The 6.x series of the Apache Struts framework has a minimum
requirement of the following specification versions: Servlet API 3.1,
JSP API 2.1, and Java 8.

Should any issues arise with your use of any version of the Apache
Struts framework, please post your comments to the user list, and, if
appropriate, file a tracking ticket.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/WW/

You can download this version from our download page
https://struts.apache.org/download.cgi#struts-ga


Regards
-- 
Łukasz
+ 48 606 323 122 http://www.lenart.org.pl/


The Apache Weekly News Round-up: week ending 16 September 2022

2022-09-16 Thread Swapnil M Mane
We’re wrapping up another great week with the following activities
from the Apache community:

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: 21 September 2022. Running Board calendar and
minutes are available.
https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps
the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.97%. 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.
http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – Over the past week, 296 Apache Committers and
782 contributors changed 5,465,405 lines of code over 4,300 commits.
Top five contributors, in order, are: Robbie Gemmell, Clebert Suconic,
Mark Thomas, Andi Huber, and Claus Ibsen.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache Calcite 1.32.0 released https://calcite.apache.org
 - CVE-2022-39135: Potential XEE attacks https://s.apache.org/h3qdi

Content --
 - Apache Jackrabbit 2.16.10 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org
 - Apache Tika 1.28.5 released https://tika.apache.org

Observability --
 - Apache SkyWalking Rover 0.3.0 released http://skywalking.apache.org

Programming Languages --
 - Apache Groovy 4.0.5 released https://groovy.apache.org

Servers --
 - Apache Tomcat Migration tool for Jakarta EE 1.0.3 released
http://tomcat.apache.org


Apache Community Notices

 - Apache in 2021 - By The Digits
https://s.apache.org/Apache2021Digits + Video highlights
https://youtu.be/GU0SV_2tWkU

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

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

 - Presentations from 2021's ApacheCon Asia and ApacheCon@Home are
available on the ASF YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheApacheFoundation/ .

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

 - Follow the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter
https://twitter.com/TheASF and The ASF page LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation .

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