[this announcement is available online at https://s.apache.org/rnWO ]

Greetings, December: counting down to the end of the calendar year. All the 
while, the brilliant Apache community remains productive:

Support Apache –help keep Apache software for everyone.
 - Join 730+ generous contributors who have donated nearly $80,000 to the ASF 
as part of our Individual Giving campaigns. Giving to the ASF feels great and 
is so easy --every dollar counts! http://donate.apache.org

Success at Apache –a monthly blog series that focuses on the processes behind 
why the ASF "just works".
 - Success at Apache: Cookie Monster by Isabel Drost-Fromm 
https://s.apache.org/cnSe

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

ApacheCon™ –the ASF's official global conference series, now in its 20th year.
 - SAVE THE DATE: ApacheCon North America 2019 will take place 9-13 September 
in Las Vegas http://apachecon.com/

ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's 
infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield impressive performance at 99.53% uptime. 
http://status.apache.org/

Apache Code Snapshot –this week, 470 Apache contributors changed 835,412 lines 
of code over 3,025 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Jean-Baptiste 
Onofré, Andrea Cosentino, Andrzej Kaczmarek, Jan Piotrowski, and Tilman 
Hausherr.

Apache Bahir™ –provides extensions to multiple distributed analytic platforms, 
such as Apache Spark, to extend their reach with diverse streaming connectors 
and SQL data sources.
 - Apache Bahir 2.3.2 released http://bahir.apache.org

Apache BookKeeper™ –a scalable, fault-tolerant, and low-latency storage service 
optimized for real-time workloads.
 - Apache BookKeeper 4.8.1 released https://bookkeeper.apache.org

Apache CouchDB™ –Open Source NoSQL document database using HTTP, JSON, and 
MapReduce.
 - Apache CouchDB 2.3.0 released https://couchdb.apache.org/

Apache Crail (incubating) –a high-performance distributed data store designed 
for fast sharing of ephemeral data in distributed data processing workloads.
 - Apache Crail 1.1-incubating released https://crail.incubator.apache.org/

Apache HBase™ –Open Source, distributed, versioned, non-relational database.
 - Apache HBase 2.0.3 released https://hbase.apache.org/

Apache Impala™ –a high-performance distributed SQL engine.
 -  Apache Impala 3.1.0 released https://impala.apache.org/

Apache Ignite™ –a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing 
platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads delivering 
in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.
 - Apache Ignite 2.7.0 Vulnerable Dependecies Updates 
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201812.mbox/%3CCALUCNEsCwE0fC2XCHi996%3DOdUCZZLK8WzF2KOdaLPYkZzWE_8A%40mail.gmail.com%3E

Apache Jackrabbit™ –a fully compliant implementation of the Content Repository 
for Java(TM) Technology API, version 2.0 (JCR 2.0) as specified in the Java 
Specification Request 283 (JSR 283).
 - Apache Jackrabbit 2.18.0 and Jackrabbit Oak 1.9.12 released 
http://jackrabbit.apache.org/

Apache Kylin™ –an Open Source Distributed Analytics Engine designed to provide 
SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) on Apache Hadoop, 
supporting extremely large datasets.
 - Apache Kylin 2.5.2 released https://kylin.apache.org/

Apache PDFBox™ –an Open Source Java tool for working with PDF documents.
 - Apache PDFBox 2.0.13 released http://pdfbox.apache.org/

Apache PLC4X (incubating) –a set of libraries for communicating with industrial 
programmable logic controllers (PLCs) using a variety of protocols but with a 
shared API.
 - Apache PLC4X 0.2.0 released http://plc4x.apache.org

Apache POI™ –Java library for reading and writing Microsoft Office file 
formats, such as Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, Publisher and Outlook.
 - Apache POI 4.0.1 released https://poi.apache.org/

Apache Qpid™ –the latest release of the newer JMS client supporting the 
Advanced Message Queuing Protocol 1.0 (AMQP 1.0, ISO/IEC 19464), based around 
the Apache Qpid Proton protocol engine and implementing the AMQP JMS Mapping as 
it evolves at OASIS.
 - Apache Qpid JMS 0.39.0 released http://qpid.apache.org/

Apache ServiceComb™ –a microservice framework that provides a set of tools and 
components to make Cloud application development and deployment easier.
 - Apache ServiceComb Service-Center 1.1.0, ServiceComb Saga 0.2.1, and 
Java-Chassis 1.1.0 released http://servicecomb.apache.org/

Apache Tomcat™ Native Library –provides portable API for features not found in 
contemporary JDKs.
 - Apache Tomcat Native 1.2.19 released http://tomcat.apache.org/

Apache UIMA™ –supports the community working on the analysis of unstructured 
information with a unifying Java and C++ framework, tooling, and analysis 
components, guided by the OASIS UIMA (Unstructured Information Management 
Architecture) standard.
 - Apache UIMA Java SDKs and versions 2.10.3 and 3.0.1 released 
http://uima.apache.org

Apache Wicket™ –Open Source Java component oriented Web application framework 
that powers thousands of applications and sites for governments, stores, 
universities, cities, banks, email providers, and more.
 - Apache Wicket 7.11.0 released http://wicket.apache.org/


Did You Know?

 - Did you know that Apache Omid (incubating) was selected as the transaction 
management provider for Apache Phoenix? http://omid.incubator.apache.org/ and 
http://phoenix.apache.org

 - Did you know that you can see a top-level overview of each Apache project, 
the category they fall under, timelines, evolution, and overall commit history 
at https://projects.apache.org/ ?

 - Did you know that Apache Cayenne is an Open Source Java object-to-relational 
mapping framework? Check out v4.0 of the "ORM superpower" 
https://cayenne.apache.org/


Apache Community Notices:

 - ASF Operations Summary: Q2 FY2019 https://s.apache.org/d2Fq

 - ASF Annual Report for FY2018 https://s.apache.org/FY2018AnnualReport

 - The Apache Software Foundation 2018 Vision Statement 
https://s.apache.org/zqC3

 - Foundation Statement –Apache Is Open. https://s.apache.org/PIRA

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

 - Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter and 
on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation

 - Do friend and follow us on the Apache Community Facebook page 
https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/and Twitter account 
https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity

 - The list of Apache project-related MeetUps can be found at 
http://events.apache.org/event/meetups.html

 - Flink Forward China will take place 21-22 December 2018 in Beijing 
https://china-2018.flink-forward.org/call-for-presentations-submit-talk/

 - The Apache Big Data community will be at DataWorks Summit 18-21 March 2019 
in Barcelona and 20-23 May 2019 in Washington DC https://dataworkssummit.com/

 - Future dates for Spark + AI Summit 2019 announced: 23-25 April/San Francisco 
and 15-17 October/Amsterdam https://databricks.com/sparkaisummit/

 - Block your calendars for ApacheCon North America: taking place in September 
2019; announcing dates and details soon. http://apachecon.com/

 - Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities 
--opportunities open with Apache HTTP Server, Avro, ComDev (community 
development), Directory, Incubator, OODT, POI, Polygene, Syncope, Tika, 
Trafodion, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/

 - Are your software solutions Powered by Apache? Download & use our "Powered 
By" logos http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby

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