[ANNOUNCE] Apache Commons DBCP 2.8.0

2020-09-25 Thread Gary Gregory
The Apache Commons DBCP team is pleased to announce the release of Apache
Apache Commons DBCP 2.8.0.

Apache Commons DBCP software implements Database Connection Pooling.

This is a minor release, including bug fixes and enhancements.

Changes in this version include:

New features:
o DBCP-564:  Fix BasicManagedDataSource leak of connections opened after
transaction is rollback-only #39. Thanks to Florent Guillaume.
o DBCP-566:  Add clearStatementPoolOnReturn #42. Thanks to Robert Paschek,
Gary Gregory, Phil Steitz.
o DBCP-559:  Add start, restart methods to BasicDataSource. #50. Thanks to
Phil Steitz.

Fixed Bugs:
o DBCP-555:  NPE when creating a SQLExceptionList with a null list. Thanks
to Gary Gregory.
o DBCP-558:  Fix DelegatingConnection readOnly and autoCommit caching
mechanism #35. Thanks to louislatreille.
oFix regression introduced by unreleased code clean-up #63.
Thanks to Sebastian Haas.

Changes:
oUpdate to PR#36 - PrepareStatement and prepareCall methods are
extracted #37. Thanks to DoiMasayuki, Alexander Norz, Gary Gregory.
oMask out user name and password from
DriverAdapterCPDS.toString(). Thanks to Gary Gregory.
o DBCP-650:  Update Apache Commons Pool from 2.7.0 to 2.8.1, #48. Thanks to
Gary Gregory, Dependabot.
oUpdate tests from H2 1.4.199 to 1.4.200. Thanks to Gary
Gregory.
oUpdate tests from Mockito 3.0.0 to 3.5.11 #47, #60, #64.
Thanks to Gary Gregory, Dependabot.
oUpdate tests from jboss-logging 3.4.0.Final to 3.4.1.Final.
Thanks to Gary Gregory.
oUpdate tests from narayana-jta 5.9.5.Final to 5.10.6.Final,
#61. Thanks to Gary Gregory.
oUpdate tests from junit-jupiter 5.5.1 to 5.7.0 #62. Thanks to
Gary Gregory.
oUpdate tests from org.slf4j:slf4j-simple 1.7.26 to 1.7.30.
Thanks to Gary Gregory.
oUpdate build from
com.github.siom79.japicmp:japicmp-maven-plugin 0.13.1 to 0.14.3. Thanks to
Gary Gregory.
oUpdate build from maven-javadoc-plugin 3.1.1 to 3.2.0. Thanks
to Gary Gregory.
oUpdate build from maven-pmd-plugin 3.12.0 to 3.13.0. Thanks to
Gary Gregory.
oUpdate org.apache.commons:commons-parent from 48 to 51. Thanks
to Gary Gregory.
oUpdate jacoco-maven-plugin from 0.8.4 to 0.8.6. Thanks to Gary
Gregory.
oUpdate maven-checkstyle-plugin from 3.0.0 to 3.1.1. Thanks to
Gary Gregory.
oUpdate actions/checkout from v1 to v2.3.2, #44, #51. Thanks to
Dependabot.
oUpdate actions/setup-java from v1.4.0 to v1.4.2 #58. Thanks to
Dependabot.

For complete information on Apache Commons DBCP, including instructions on
how to submit bug reports,
patches, or suggestions for improvement, see the Apache Apache Commons DBCP
website:

https://commons.apache.org/dbcp/

Download page: https://commons.apache.org/dbcp/download_dbcp.cgi
Gary Gregory
on Behalf of the Apache Commons Team


The Apache News Round-up: week ending 25 September 2020

2020-09-25 Thread Swapnil M Mane
[this newsletter is available online at https://s.apache.org/73kif ]

Farewell, September --we're wrapping up the month with another great
week. Here are the latest updates on the Apache community's
activities:

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the
corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 21 October 2020. Board calendar and minutes
https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

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Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
 - Registration is open (and free) for ApacheCon@Home 29 September - 1
October https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/
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https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/sponsors.html
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Online at ApacheCon@Home https://s.apache.org/74zbx
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Apache Code Snapshot – Over the past week, 397 Apache Committers
changed 2,254,525 lines of code over 3,335 commits. Top 5
contributors, in order, are: Andrea Cosentino, Gary Gregory, Andi
Huber, Claus Ibsen, and Duo Zhang.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

Big Data --
 - Apache CouchDB 3.1.1 released https://couchdb.apache.org/
 - Apache Flink 1.10.2 released https://flink.apache.org/
 - Apache Beam 2.24.0 released https://beam.apache.org/
 - Apache Kudu 1.13.0 released https://kudu.apache.org/

Cloud Computing --
 - Apache Libcloud 3.2.0 released http://libcloud.apache.org/

FinTech --
 - Apache Fineract 1.4.0 released http://fineract.apache.org/

IoT --
 - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® IoTDB™ as a
Top-Level Project https://s.apache.org/3xv3c

Messaging --
 - Apache Qpid Broker J 7.1.9 and J 8.0.1 released https://qpid.apache.org/

Servers --
 - Apache HttpComponents Core 5.1 BETA1 released https://hc.apache.org/
 - Apache Tomcat 7.0.106 released https://tomcat.apache.org/

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 - Apache OpenMeetings 5.0.1 released https://openmeetings.apache.org/


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