ApacheCon US 2009: Early-bird registration + Travel assistance details and dates!
Two announcements regarding the upcoming ApacheCon US 2009: 1) Early-bird registration ends 14 August. Sign up today! Join us at ApacheCon US 2009, the ASF's official user conference and expo, 2-6 November in Oakland, California. This year’s show is anticipated be the largest gathering of the global Apache community, bringing together Foundation members, code contributors, users, developers, system administrators, business managers, service providers, and vendors for a week of training classes, seminars, sharing and hacking. In celebration of the ASF's milestone 10th Anniversary, this year's ApacheCon features the largest program to date, including special content tracks, MeetUps, GetTogethers, and a number of free events that are open to the public, such as the Hackathon and 2-day BarCampApache, in appreciation of their support over the past decade. We're excited to return to the San Francisco Bay Area, where we held our first ApacheCon, and hope that you will help us celebrate the ASF's success! For details on ApacheCon, including registration and sponsorship information, visit http://www.us.apachecon.com/ 2) Applications for Travel Assistance for ApacheCon US 2009 Now Open! The ASF Travel Assistance Committee (TAC) has opened applications to assist those seeking to attend ApacheCon US 2009, but are unable to do so for financial reasons. Assistance is open to all people involved in Open Source projects; financial support is available for flights, accommodation, subsistence and Conference fees, either in full or in part, depending on circumstances. There are limited places available, and all applications will be scored on their individual merit. Hurry -- the application period is 27 July-17 August 2009: be sure to complete the application form at http://www.apache.org/travel/ today! (Applicants will be informed of their status within two weeks of application closing date.) # # #
ApacheCon US Early Bird Discount Extended through 21 August
If you haven't registered for ApacheCon US yet, you're in luck! We've extended the Early Bird Discount through this Friday, 21 August, giving attendees the best rates available, with savings up to $200 on a full conference pass. Catch your favorite Apache projects, including Tomcat, Hadoop, and the world's favorite Web Server, and join us in celebrating the 10th Anniversary of The Apache Software Foundation! Sign up today at http://www.us.apachecon.com/c/acus2009/ # # #
Raise a Glass to Apache: Join us in celebrating the ASF's 10th Anniversary
As you know, the ASF turned 10 this year — our celebrations kicked off with cake at ApacheCon Europe this past March. We were thrilled to receive birthday wishes from so many members from the Apache community from across the world. Our festivities will continue at ApacheCon US (Oakland, California), where we will be holding the Big Feather Birthday Bash and related community events during the conference. We anticipate seeing many of you there! Some of you are unable to join us in person, but we don't want you to miss out on the fun. As such, we're inviting our global community to Raise a Glass to Apache and celebrate this landmark event at your own local gathering. Recognizing Apache developers and users as part of the ASF's 10th Anniversary is very important to us. We want you to join the fun, meet other Apache enthusiasts, make new friends, put faces to the names behind those emails, and, of course, engage in all things Apache. We understand that communities have their own local culture and preferences: you are welcome to host the type of event best suited to your needs. Preferably, this will take place during the week of ApacheCon (2-6 November, 2009; the Big Feather Birthday Bash is on Wednesday, 4 November) — your event can be held on any day of that week, at any time of the day or night that is most convenient for you. Events include but are not limited to: - Social Gatherings – getting together over coffee, lunch, drinks, or dinner - Tech Talks – individual or industry presentations given about ASF projects and actvities - Product Demos – showcasing how Apache technologies are powering creative and robust solutions - Hackathon – collaborating on Apache code bases with ASF Committers - MeetUps or GetTogethers – featuring talks or presentations on a specific Apache Project or activity - Networking and Job Match – connecting developers with users, employers with potential hires, clients with contractors/consultants, etc. Can't wait until ApacheCon? That's OK: we're always up for a celebration, so feel free to get started as soon as you'd like — you can Raise a Glass to Apache at an upcoming conference such as the OpenWorld Forum (Paris), SpringOne 2GX (New Orleans), CPOSC 2009 (Harrisburg, PA), FOSS4G 2009 (Sydney), NLUUG Open Web (Amsterdam), UTOSC 2009 (Sandy, UT), and OSMC 2009 (Nürnberg), among others. So let's get started! There are three steps to make your event happen: Step 1: Organize. Decide who will be the host(s)/main point(s) of contact, where the event will be held, the day and time, the format, and any costs. Step 2: Publicize. Spread the word to your coworkers, the press, and your friends. Post details on your event on blogs, mailing lists, event listings, etc. Drive enthusiasm by discussing the event details to the media and on podcasts. Ask people who will be there to invite other groups who may be interested. Step 3: Apprise. Share your goodwill with the Apache community. Wish the ASF a happy anniversary on the Foundation blog; post photos of your event online; and submit a MyApache video tribute (can be one or more of the following -- 1-2 minutes describing why you love Apache; 1-2 minutes of your group Raising a Glass to Apache/singing Happy Birthday; 2-5 minutes describing the cool ways you use ASF technologies ... be sure to mention which Apache projects you use as well as your results.) The important thing is to have fun! Get inspired by checking out the ASF's YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/TheApacheFoundation. MyApache submissions received by 2 October (midnight US Pacific time/GMT-8) will receive priority consideration to be featured in the ASF's ApacheWay channel and at the Big Feather Birthday Bash! A schedule of all confirmed events will be posted on the ApacheCon site. To be included in the list, please send a copy of your invitation (including the date, time, and location) to s...@apache.org. I will send you information on how to add your event in the ApacheCon network, how to submit your MyApache tributes, as well as suggestions on how to organize and publicize your event. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. We look forward to hearing from you! - Sally
NOTICE: Apache SpamAssassin Y2K10 Rule Bug - Update Your Rules Now
The following notice has been sent by Daryl C.W. O'Shea, VP of Apache SpamAssassin -- I've posted the following note on the Apache SpamAssassin website [1] about an issue with a rule that may cause wanted email to be classified as spam by SpamAssassin. If you're running SpamAssassin 3.2.x you are encouraged to update you rules (updates were released on sa-update around 1900 UTC Jan 1, 2010). Y2K10 Rule Bug - Update Your Rules Now! 2010-01-01: Versions of the FH_DATE_PAST_20XX [2] rule released with versions of Apache SpamAssassin 3.2.0 thru 3.2.5 will trigger on most mail with a Date header that includes the year 2010 or later. The rule will add a score of up to 3.6 towards the spam classification of all email. You should take corrective action immediately; there are two easy ways to correct the problem: 1) If your system is configured to use sa-update [3] run sa-update now. An update is available that will correct the rule. No further action is necessary (other than restarting spamd or any service that uses SpamAssassin directly). 2) Add score FH_DATE_PAST_20XX 0 without the quotes to the end of your local.cf file to disable the rule. If you require help updating your rules to correct this issue you are encouraged to ask for assistance on the Apache SpamAssassin Users' list. Users' mailing list info is here. [4] On behalf of the Apache SpamAssassin project I apologize for this error and the grief it may have caused you. [1] http://spamassassin.apache.org/ [2] http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/Rules/FH_DATE_PAST_20XX [3] http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/RuleUpdates [4] http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/MailingLists
Press Release: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache SpamAssassin Version 3.3.0
Leading Open Source Email Filtering Package Offers First Major Code Release Since 2007 FOREST HILL, MD – 26 January, 2010 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) today announced the release of Apache SpamAssassin 3.3.0, the first major code release from the Apache SpamAssassin Project since May 2007. Apache SpamAssassin v3.3.0 marks the Project's 4th major (and 24th overall release) since the SpamAssassin Project joined the ASF in December 2003. Apache SpamAssassin is an award winning, mature, wide-spectrum, extensible email filtering package deployed by hundreds of thousands of organizations world-wide. Apache SpamAssassin is the leading Open Source email spam filtering software package that is in use by national, regional and local ISPs, email service providers, Fortune Global 500 companies, small to enterprise businesses, all levels of the education sector, governments and private individuals, said Daryl C. W. O'Shea, Chair of the Apache SpamAssassin Project Management Committee (PMC) and Information Technology Coordinator at the Township of Tay in Ontario, Canada. SpamAssassin is also in use at the core of many commercial offerings of premier email and spam filtering firms: with its automatic update feature, sa-update, SpamAssassin now not only saves the time of end-users, it saves the time of email administrators, further increasing the software's ROI. We're very proud that SpamAssassin has become the standard for extensible and effective spam filtering software. Apache SpamAssassin 3.3.0 represents a major shift in how SpamAssassin rules (the actual patterns that help to identify spam) are updated. Starting with version 3.3.0, rules are now separate from the core product and are instead downloaded using sa-update, SpamAssassin's automatic update software. This method was optional with the 3.2.x series of releases and has proven to be very popular. SpamAssassin provides a comprehensive set of features and support for methods and standards such as text based patterns, bayesian scoring, DNS based black and white lists, DKIM and SPF sender authentication, and email signature clearing houses. The software utilizes a principle of identifying multiple reasons for classifying an email as spam to improve accuracy and decrease the chance of legitimate emails being incorrectly identified as spam. Les Tutkaluke, President of netGUARD Solutions said, NetGUARD Solutions has been utilizing SpamAssassin for 8 years starting with version 1.0. The advanced e-mail scanning functions within the processing engines of netGUARD Solutions manages in excess of 75 million messages per day for our vast customer subscriber base. SpamAssassin is an integral and admirable addition to our filtering system and is a significant part of the accurate identification of unwanted e-mail. The success of netGUARD Solutions is directly tied to SpamAssassin and the solid programming within it. Over the past 365 days, SpamAssassin has blocked 516,975 unsolicited junk mails while letting through 85,032 clean ones. Without SpamAssassin email would simply be unusable. It is an essential component to our business activities, said Jean-Yves Avenard, SysAdmin at Hydrix Pty Ltd, Australia. Released under the Apache Software Licence v2.0, Apache SpamAssassin 3.3.0 can be downloaded at http://spamassassin.apache.org/; additional user reviews and industry testimonials are available at http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/Testimonials About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than seventy leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world's most popular Web server software. Through The ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, nearly 300 individual Members and 2,000 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation’s official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Facebook, Google, HP, Microsoft, Progress Software, SpringSource/VMware, and Yahoo! For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/. # # #
The Apache Software Foundation Announces 15th Anniversary of the Apache HTTP Server
ASF Flagship Project is World's Most Popular Web Server, Powering More than 112 Million Websites FOREST HILL, MD, 23 February, 2010 -- The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) -- developers, stewards, and incubators of 138 Open Source projects -- today announced the 15th anniversary of the Apache HTTP Web Server. The ASF's first project became the world's most popular Web server software within the first six months of its inception. The Apache HTTP Server today powers nearly 112 million Websites world-wide. A triumph for the all-volunteer Foundation, the Apache HTTP Server reliably delivers petabytes of data across the world’s most demanding uses, including real-time news sources, Fortune 100 enterprise portals, cloud computing clusters, financial services platforms, mission-critical military intelligence applications, aerospace communications networks, and more. The server software can be downloaded, modified and installed by anyone free of charge. History The Apache Server started as a fork (an independent development stream) of the NCSA httpd, a Web server created by Rob McCool at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Further development to the server ceased after McCool's departure from NCSA in 1994, so an online community of individuals was formed to support and enhance its software via email collaboration. The founding members of that community (the Apache Group) included Brian Behlendorf, Roy Fielding, Rob Hartill, David Robinson, Cliff Skolnick, Randy Terbush, Robert Thau, and Andrew Wilson. Within less than a year of the Apache Group's formation, the Apache server surpassed NCSA httpd as the #1 server on the Internet. In March 1999, members of the Apache Group formed The Apache Software Foundation to provide organizational, legal, and financial support for the Apache HTTP Server. An additional goal for the Foundation was to serve as a neutral, trusted platform for the development of community-driven software. Growth, the Apache Way Beyond the Apache HTTP Server, dozens of ASF projects – from build tools to Web services to cloud computing and more – lead the way in Open Source technology. At the ASF, community plays a vital role in the collaborative development of consensus-driven, enterprise-grade solutions. The number of projects led by the Apache community has grown from the singular Apache HTTP Server at the ASF's inception in 1999 to nearly 140 projects today. The ASF's commitment to fostering a collaborative approach to development has long served as a model for producing consistently high quality software and helping advance the future of open development. Through its leadership, robust community, and meritocratic process known as the Apache Way, the ASF continues to gain recognition as one of the most successful influencers in Open Source. Through the Apache Way, the ASF is able to spearhead new projects that meet the demands of the marketplace and help users achieve their business goals. With the Apache Incubator mentoring more projects than ever before, the ASF continues to meet the growing demand for quality Open Source products. Community Over Code: among the Foundation's core tenets is open collaboration through respectful, honest, technically-focused interaction. The ASF's success is testament to its outstanding community efforts that serve as best practices widely embraced by organizations and individuals alike. If it didn't happen on-list, it didn't happen: building upon the transparency-oriented culture of the Apache Group, whose collaboration took place on email lists, millions of messages are archived on Apache publicly-accessible mailing lists, documenting the ASF's achievements over the past decade. Meritocracy in Action: the ASF's tagline reflects an average of 10,000 code contributions (commits) made each month. The ASF is responsible for millions of lines of code by more than 2,000 ASF Committers and countless contributors across the Open Source landscape. Nearly 500 community-driven modules have been developed to extend functionality of the Apache HTTP Server alone. Milestones February 23, 1994: Individual patch authors around the world are invited to join the new-httpd mailing list to discuss enhancements and future releases of NCSA httpd. The Apache name was chosen for this new effort within the first few days of discussion, along with basic rules for email-based collaboration and a mission to replace the existing server with a standards-based, open source, and extensible software system. March 15, 1994: Apache-style voting created (+1, 0, -1; with '-1' meaning 'no', '0' meaning 'neutral', and '+1' meaning 'yes.') March 18, 1994: First Apache Group release (Apache 0.2) Apache server v.1.0 was released in December 1995. Four years later, Apache HTTP Server v.1.3.0 was released, and rapidly becoming the most popular Web server on the planet. Apache HTTP Server v.2.0 alpha was released
Press Release: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Cassandra Release 0.6
Newest version of leading Open Source, NoSQL distributed database management system now available. FOREST HILL, MD – 13 April, 2010 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) --developers, stewards, and incubators of 138 Open Source projects-- today announced Apache Cassandra version 0.6, the Project's latest release first since its graduation from the ASF Incubator in February 2010. Apache Cassandra is an advanced, second-generation “NoSQL” distributed data store that has a shared-nothing architecture. The Cassandra decentralized model provides massive scalability, and is highly available with no single point of failure even under the worst scenarios. In response to the growing need for scalable, high-throughput databases, we are pleased to release Cassandra 0.6, said Jonathan Ellis, Apache Cassandra Project Management Committee Chair. It's fantastic seeing the Project's community at the ASF grow to match the promise of the technology. Originally developed at Facebook and submitted to the ASF Incubator in 2009, the Project has added more than a half-dozen new committers, and is deployed by dozens of high-profile users such as Cisco WebEx, Cloudkick, Digg, Facebook, Rackspace, Reddit, and Twitter, among others. The services we provide to customers are only as good the systems they are built on, said Eric Evans, Apache Cassandra committer and Systems Architect at The Rackspace Cloud. With Cassandra, we get the fault-tolerance and availability our customers demand, and the scalability we need to make things work. Cassandra 0.6 features include: - Support for Apache Hadoop: this allows running analytics queries with the leading map/reduce framework against data in Cassandra. Digg is very excited to see Cassandra mature in the last year and graduate to a top-level Apache project. Cassandra is powering our next generation infrastructure, and allowing us to run in an environment that demands data access in datacenters around the world, said Chris Goffinet, Performance and Availability Architect at social news website Digg. - Integrated row cache: this eliminates the need for a separate caching layer, thereby simplifying architectures. Powering more than 10 billion pages, Twitter switched to Apache Cassandra because it can run on large server clusters and is capable of taking in very large amounts of data at a time. Storage Team Technical Lead Ryan King explained, At Twitter, we're deploying Cassandra to tackle scalability, flexibility and operability issues in a way that's more highly available and cost effective than our current systems. - Increased speed: this builds on Cassandra's highly-launded ability to process thousands of writes per second, allowing solutions of all kinds to cope with increasing write loads. Apache Cassandra 0.6 is 30% faster across the board, building on our already-impressive speed, added Ellis. It achieves scale-out without making the kind of design compromises that result in operations teams getting paged at 2 AM. Availability Released under the Apache Software License v2.0, Apache Cassandra 0.6 can be downloaded at http://cassandra.apache.org/. About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than seventy leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world's most popular Web server software. Through The ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, nearly 300 individual Members and 2,000 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Facebook, Google, HP, Microsoft, Progress Software, SpringSource/VMware, and Yahoo! For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/. # # #
Call for Participation: Technical Talks -- ApacheCon North America 2010
ApacheCon North America 2010 1-5 November 2010 -- Westin Peachtree in Atlanta Technical Tracks: Call For Participation All submissions must be received by Friday, 28 May 2010 at midnight Pacific Time. The official conference, trainings, and expo of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) returns to Atlanta this November, with dozens of technical, business, and community-focused sessions at the beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels. Over the past decade, the ASF has gone from strength to strength, developing and shepherding nearly 150 Top-Level Projects and new initiatives in the Apache Incubator and Labs. This year's ApacheCon celebrates how Apache technologies have sparked creativity, challenged processes, streamlined development, improved collaboration, launched businesses, bolstered economies, and improved lives. We are proud of our achievements and recognize that the global Apache community --both developers and users-- are responsible for the success and popularity of our products. The ApacheCon Planning Team are soliciting 50-minute technical presentations for the next conference, which will focus on the theme “Servers, the Cloud, and Innovation”. We are particularly interested in highly-relevant, professionally-directed presentations that demonstrate specific probrlems and real-world solutions. Part of the technical program has already been planned; we welcome proposals based on the following Apache Projects and related technical areas: - Cassandra/NoSQL - Content Technologies - (Java) Enterprise Development - Felix/OSGi - Geronimo - Hadoop + friends/Cloud Computing - Lucene, Mahout + friends/Search - Tomcat - Tuscany Submissions are open to anyone with relevant expertise: ASF affiliation is not required to present at, attend, or otherwise participate in ApacheCon. Please keep in mind that whilst we encourage submissions that the highlight the use of specific Apache solutions, we are unable to accept marketing/commercially-oriented presentations. Other proposals, such as panels, or those longer than 50 minutes in duration have been considered in the past. You are welcome to submit an alternate presentation, however, such sessions are accepted under exceptional circumstances. Please be as descriptive as possible, including names/bios of proposed panelists and any related details. All accepted speakers (not co-presenters) qualify for general conference admission and a minimum of two nights lodging at the conference hotel. Additional hotel nights and travel assistance are possible, depending on the number of presentations given and type of assistance needed. To submit a presentation proposal, please send an email to submissions AT apachecon DOT com containing the following information in plaintext (no attachments, please): 1. Your full name, title, and organization 2. Contact information, including your address 3. The name of your proposed session (keep your title simple and relevant to the topic) 4. The technical category of the intended presentation (Cassandra/NoSQL; Content Technologies; (Java) Enterprise Development; Felix/OSGi; Geronimo; Hadoop + friends/Cloud Computing; Lucene, Mahout + friends/Search; Tomcat; or Tuscany) 5. The classification for each presentation (Servers, Cloud, or Innovation) – some presentations may have more than one theme (e.g., a next-generation server can be classified both as Servers and Innovation 6. The intended audience level (beginner, intermediate, advanced) 7. A 75-200 word overview of your presentation 8. A 100-200-word speaker bio that includes prior conference speaking or related experience 9. Feedback or references (with contact information) on presentations given within the last three years To be considered, proposals must be received by Friday, 28 May 2010 at midnight Pacific Time. Please email any questions regarding proposal submissions to cfp AT apachecon DOT com. Technical Tracks Key Dates 23 April 2010: Call For Participation Open 28 May 2010: Call For Participation Closes 11 June 2010: Speaker Acceptance/Rejection Notification 1-5 November 2010: ApacheCon NA 2010 We look forward to seeing you in Atlanta! For the ApacheCon Planning team, Sally Khudairi, Program Lead
Press Release: The Apache Software Foundation Announces New Top-Level Projects
Record Number of Projects Launched via Apache Incubator and Current Initiatives FOREST HILL, MD – 4 May, 2010 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) –-the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of 143 Open Source projects and initiatives-- today announced the creation of six new Top-Level Projects (TLPs), setting an all-time record of the most new TLPs launched in a single month. A Top-Level Project signifies that a Project's community and products have been well-governed under the ASF's meritocratic, consensus-driven process and principles. Whilst a project is developing within the Apache Incubator or as a sub-project of an existing TLP, it benefits from hands-on mentoring from other Apache contributors, as well as the Foundation’s widely-emulated process, stewardship, outreach, support, and community events. Becoming a Top-Level Project is a vote of confidence from the Foundation at-large, demonstrating a project has proven its ability to be properly self-governed, said ASF Chairman Jim Jagielski. We are proud of our Committers' dedication in building robust communities under the ASF process known as 'The Apache Way'. All Apache Projects are overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. Upon a Project's maturity to a TLP, a Project Mangement Committee (PMC) is formed to oversee its day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. The six new TLPs include both a graduating project from the Apache Incubator as well as sub-projects of existing TLPs. They are: Graduating from the Apache Incubator - Apache Traffic Server is a richly-featured, fast, scalable, and extensible HTTP/1.1 compliant caching proxy server. Formerly a commercial product, Yahoo! submitted Traffic Server to the Apache Incubator in 2009. Traffic Server is widely recognized as an “edge” service in cloud computing; an example of its use is to serve static content such as images and JavaScript, CSS, and HTML files, and route requests for dynamic content to a Web server such as the Apache HTTP Server. Highly performant, Apache Traffic Server has been benchmarked to handle in excess of 75,000 requests per second (RPS), and is used in production in large-scale deployments such as Yahoo!, where it handles 400 terrabytes of traffic per day, and serves more than 30 billion objects daily across its various properties including the Yahoo! homepage, and its Sports, Mail, and Finance sites. Former Sub-projects of Existing Top-Level Projects - Apache Mahout provides scalable implementations of machine learning algorithms on top of Apache Hadoop and other technologies. It offers collaborative filtering, clustering, classification, feature reduction, data mining algorithms, and more. Begun as a sub-project of Lucene in 2008, Mahout's team of nearly a dozen contributors is now actively working towards release 0.4. - Apache Tika is an embeddable, lightweight toolkit for content detection, and analysis. Powering by MIME standards from IANA, advanced language detection features and on the ability to rapidly unify existing parser libraries, Tika provides a one-stop shop for navigating the modern information landscape. Tika entered the Incubator in 2007 and graduated to a Lucene sub-project in 2008. Tika is used in a broad range of Lucene products ranging from Solr, to Nutch and Mahout and is in deployment at NASA, Day Software, the Internet Archive, and at a number of Web startups including Bixo labs. - Apache Nutch is a highly-modular, Web searching engine based on Lucene Java with added Web-specifics, such as a crawler, a link-graph database, and parsers for HTML and other document formats. Its architecture allows developers to create plugins for media-type parsing, data retrieval, querying, clustering, and more. Following a successful 100 million page demo system, the project graduated the Apache Incubator in 2005 to become a sub-project of Apache Lucene. - Apache Avro is a fast data serialization system that includes rich and dynamic schemas in all its processing. A sub-project of Apache Hadoop, Avro features rich data structures; a compact, fast, binary data format; a container file to store persistent data; remote procedure call (RPC); and simple integration with dynamic languages. Not only is code generation not required to read or write data files nor to use or implement RPC protocols, it is an optional optimization, only worth implementing for statically typed languages. - Apache HBase is a distributed database modeled after Google's Bigtable. The project started at Powerset and became a sub-project of Apache Hadoop in 2007. Apache HBase adds random read/write access to the Hadoop stack, extending offline processing capabilities and enabling realtime serving of very large datasets. The project's goal is the hosting of big tables -- billions of rows X millions of columns -- running atop commodity hardware. HBase
[ANNOUNCE] Press Release: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache FOP Version 1.0
Redesigned, Stable Version of Pioneering XSL Formatting Objects Processor Rounds Out Apache XML Software Stack FOREST HILL, MD – 21 July, 2010 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) -–the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives-– today announced the Version 1.0 release of Apache FOP, the Open Source XSL Formatting Objects Processor. An Apache project since 1999, FOP is one of the industry's first print formatters driven by W3C-standard XSL Formatting Objects created to display, convert, and print to formats such as PDF, PostScript, SVG, RTF, and XML. In addition, FOP is among the most commonly-used output-independent formatters. The Apache FOP code base has grown over the past decade under the guidance of a Project Management Committee (PMC) who oversee its day-to-day activities and community development. FOP v.1.0 provides a good subset of the W3C XSL-FO 1.0/1.1 specification. Its stable, 1.0 designation provides added recognition as the productive tool it has been for years, said Jeremias Märki, member of the Apache XML Graphics Project Management Committee. Its redesign and improved features in the layout engine makes it an even better experience for the many developers and users who produce millions of pages each year. Apache FOP is in use at Accenture, Airbus, Australia Post, BNP Paribas, Capgemini, Credit Suisse, CSC, Denic, European Patent Office, FedEx, Ford, HP, IBM, IntelliData, Marriot International, Morgan Stanley, Polaris, Siemens, Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, Tecra, US Army, US House of Representatives, and Wyona, among many others. In addition, FOP is the default implementation bundled in XML editors such as XSLfast, Oxygen, and XMLSpy. Thunderhead relies on open standards, and FOP is at the heart of our innovative NOW platform. We are proud to have been able to play a part in its development, said Glen Manchester, CEO of Thunderhead. As long-time supporters of FOP, our congratulations go to the whole FOP team at Apache on reaching the Version 1.0 milestone. The release of FOP v.1.0 completes a free XML software stack, comprising: Apache Xerces, Apache Xalan, and Apache FOP. The ability to to insert graphics into one's print output is possible using Apache Batik. The Apache XML stack makes transforming and formatting XML data (for example DocBook XML) a viable option for individual and start-up users without business cash flow. Some 'overnight successes' take ten years or more, said James Governor, Analyst and Founder of RedMonk. Apache FOP seems to be one of them. The training wheels are long gone, said Apache XML Graphics PMC Chair Simon Pepping. FOP's popularity is undisputed; FOP is used from an individual developer's pet project to large-scale document production. FOP is not yet 'feature complete', and work on it is continuing. We hope this important step forward will motivate skilled developers to jump in and help us make Apache FOP even better. Availability FOP v.1.0 is released under the Apache Software License v2.0. Downloads, documentation, and related resources are available at http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ . About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, more than 300 individual Members and 2,300 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Basis Technology, Facebook, Google, HP, Microsoft, Progress Software, SpringSource/VMware, and Yahoo!. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/. # # #
The ASF Hits its Millionth Commit!
The Apache Software Foundation reached its millionth revision milestone today with a commit by ASF Member Yonik Seeley on behalf of the Apache Lucene Project: lucene/ r100 yonik SOLR-2128: full param substitution for function queries The all-volunteer ASF oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world's most popular Web server software, powering more than 130 Million Websites worldwide. Today, more than 300 individual Members and 2,300 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo, taking place 1-5 November 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia. The ASF is funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors that include AMD, Basis Technology, Facebook, Google, HP, Microsoft, Progress Software, VMware, and Yahoo!. Additional sponsors include Matt Mullenweg, AirPlus International, BlueNog, Intuit, Joost, and Two Sigma Investments. Infrastructure at the ASF is overseen by the Apache Infrastructure team, with server hosting and bandwidth provided by Oregon State University Open Source Lab (USA) and SURFnet (EU), and VM hosting and bandwith for AU svn mirror provided by Neural Networks (AU). Secondary DNS provided by No-IP Managed DNS, develooper.com manages the bitnames DNS services. Hyperreal.org is our other provider. Apache servers have been donated by Sun and IBM. More information is available at http://www.apache.org/ , the announce@apache.org mailing list, the ASF Blog, and the @TheASF feed on Twitter. # # # CONTACT: Sally Khudairi VP Marketing Publicity pr...@apache.org +1 617 921 8656
Announcing ApacheCon Keynote Presentations/Early Registration ends Fri 8 October
ApacheCon Announces Keynote Presentations by Thought Leaders Dana Blankenhorn of ZDNet, Daniel Crichton of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Bob Sutor of IBM Corporation FOREST HILL, MD — 6 October, 2010 — ApacheCon, the official conference, trainings, expo, hackathon, barcamp and meetups of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), today announced the keynote presenters and sponsors for ApacheCon North America. This year's event takes place 1-5 November 2010 at the Westin Peachtree in Atlanta, Georgia, with numerous early registration incentives available through Friday, 8 October 2010. The conference theme, Servers, The Cloud, and Innovation, showcases an array of ASF-developed Open Source projects, community practices, and business solutions. Keynote addresses will be presented by: - Dana Blankenhorn, Linux and Open Source Writer, ZDNet – Wednesday, 3 November, 9AM - Daniel Crichton, Program Manager and Principal Computer Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory – Thursday, 4 November 11.30AM - Dr. Bob Sutor, Vice President of Open Systems and Linux, IBM Corporation - Friday, 4 November 12.30PM Apache developers, users, enthusiasts, software architects, administrators, executives, and community managers will learn to successfully develop, deploy, and leverage existing and emerging Open Source technologies critical to their businesses. Hands-on trainings and general conference sessions will cover in-depth dozens of Apache products such as Cassandra, Geronimo, Hadoop, Lucene, Tomcat, and the Apache HTTP Server. Special events during the week include BarCampApache, Hackathon, MeetUps, expo hall, receptions, and ample networking opportunities with peers and new connections. Both BarCampApache and ASF Project MeetUps are open to the public free of charge. ApacheCon Gold sponsor HotWax Media and Silver sponsor Hewlett-Packard are joined by exhibitors and sponsors that include: CollabNet, Day Software, Facebook, Hippo, IBM, Lucid Imagination, Ning, Progress Fuse, Rackspace, SpringSource, The Apache Software Foundation, WSO2, and Yahoo!. For sponsor, exhibitor, and community partnership opportunities, contact Delia Frees at de...@apachecon.com. Media registration is available for members of the press with valid credentials. Contact Sally Khudairi at s...@apache.org for more information. Early-bird registration incentives include savings of up to $150 with the Hotel+Registration package, 20% off Full-Conference+Trainings Immersion, and group registration rates. For the complete list of sessions and to register, visit http://apachecon.com/ and follow the @ApacheCon feed on Twitter. About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer ASF oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world's most popular Web server software, powering more than 130 Million Websites worldwide. Today, more than 300 individual Members and 2,300 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide through thousands of software solutions distributed under the Apache License. The community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors that include AMD, Basis Technology, Facebook, Google, HP, Microsoft, Progress Software, VMware, and Yahoo!. Additional sponsors include Matt Mullenweg, AirPlus International, BlueNog, Intuit, Joost, and Two Sigma Investments. More information is available at http://www.apache.org/, the announce@apache.org mailing list, the ASF Blog, and the @TheASF feed on Twitter. # # #
Media Alert: The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Maven Version 3.0
Who: The Apache Software Foundation (ASF): all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives. What: In development for nearly 10 years, and an ASF Top-Level Project since 2003, Apache Maven is the build system of choice for millions of developers and thousands of organizations world-wide. Why: Maven 3 represents the culmination of nearly two years of work re-architecting the internals of the system based on experience gained over the last five years with Maven 2.x. Maven 3 is faster, more reliable, and more extensible, with users already reporting 10-40% improvements in build time over Maven 2. A key priority for our users was backward compatibility, said Brian Fox, Vice President of Apache Maven. We've invested a significant amount of time and effort to ensure a smooth transition while maintaining backward compatibility with Maven 2 builds and plugins. Highlights of the release include: * Parallel build capability * Conversion of IoC system from Plexus to Guice, including a Plexus compatibility layer * Rewritten dependency resolution logic, designed to be extensible and embedded in other applications * Improved POM validation during the build to warn users of potential problems * Improved error handling and messages * Decoupled reporting engine from the core * New inheritance and interpolation code designed to be extensible and allow composition of POMs in future releases * More robust handling of local repository data * True plugin classpath isolation * Massively improved regression test suite for Maven core and plugins Further details are available at http://maven.apache.org/docs/3.0/release-notes.html When: Apache Maven 3 was released on 8 October 2010 In addition, Apache Maven training will be held on 1 November at ApacheCon in Atlanta, Georgia. Where: Apache Maven 3 is released under the Apache License v2.0, and available for download at http://maven.apache.org/ For details on Maven training visit http://apachecon.com # # #
Apache News Roundup from the ApacheCon Show Floor
The following newsworthy events took place during the course of ApacheCon North America 1-5 November: 1) Foundation Updates - Membership count: 330 (31 new Members; 52 emeritus) - Committer count: +2,500 (approximately 200 additional Committers over the past year) The ASF is governed by the community it most directly serves -- the people collaborating within its projects. Apache Committers are developers who contribute (individuals who commit or write code, patches, or documentation) directly to the Apache code repository. Apache Members are Committers who have demonstrated merit in the Foundation’s growth, evolution, and progress, and have been nominated for and elected to be awarded ASF Membership by existing Members. ASF Members have the right to vote on community-related decisions; and and the ability propose an active user for Committership. - Sponsors: the ASF welcomed new Sponsors AMD and IBM at the Gold level, and Lucid Imagination at the Bronze level. - Java Community Process: the ASF's seat on the JCP Executive Committee was ratified on 2 November 2010. 2) Apache Projects - Apache Top-level Projects: 82 total; new Apache Projects added are Avro, Axis, Cassandra, Click, HBase, Hive, Karaf, Mahout, Nutch, Pivot, Shindig, Subversion, Tika, Traffic Server, UIMA. Project updates include Apache Hive v0.6.0; Apache James Server 3.0-M1; Apache Jackrabbit v2.0.3 and v2.1.2; Apache Tomcat Connectors v1.2.31; and Apache Mahout v0.4. - Apache Incubator: 41 projects are currently under development. New to the Apache Incubator are: Alois, Clerezza, Deltacloud, Etch, Isis, libcloud, Lucene Connector Framework, Lucy, Nuvem, OODT, Whirr, and Zeta Components. - Apache Labs: 32 initiatives being sandboxed. Apache Labs projects are created to quickly explore technical viability without the necessity of community building. 3) Events - BarCampApache: the ASF will be hosting its first event in Australia at the University of Sydney on 11 December 2010. - ApacheCon: the next North American conference will be in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 7-11 November 2011. For more information, contact Sally Khudairi, VP Marketing Publicity at pr...@apache.org. # # #
Announcing BarCampApache Sydney, Australia: 11 December 2010
Announcing BarCampApache Sydney, Australia The Apache Software Foundation is happy to announce BarCampApache Sydney, Australia, the first ASF-backed event in the Southern Hemisphere! Taking place 11th December 2010 at the University of Sydney's Darlington Centre, the BarCampApache unconference will be attendee-driven, facilitated by members of the Apache community and will focus on the Apache Way of developing software. The event is open to the public free of charge. Those interested in using Apache products, how projects are developed within the ASF, open development techniques and best practices, Web 2.0-style data mashups, engaging with The Apache Software Foundation, and the general BarCamp experience are welcome to participate. As the Apache community comprises thousands of committed individuals from around the world, there are always opportunities for attendees to help. And with all BarCamps, BarCampApache Sydney seeks active participation at all levels, including assisting with the physical set up to pre-event promotion to proposing discussion topics and blogging/tweeting during the event. BarCampApache Sydney sponsors include the University of Sydney, Alfresco, IBM, and MaestroDev. Sponsorship opportunities are available. For more information, contact Brett Porter at brett AT apache DOT org, or Nick Burch at nick AT apache DOT org. For more details about BarCampApache Sydney, its related activities, and to sign up, please visit the event wiki at http://barcamp.org/BarCampApacheSydney and follow the #barcampsydney tag. We look forward to seeing you there! # # #
The ASF Launches Apache Extras to Accelerate Innovation
Google-hosted site provides a home-away-from-home for code associated with Apache projects Forest Hill, MD – 14 December 2010 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) today announced apache-extras.org, the Google-hosted site for code associated with Apache projects that are not part of the Foundation's more than eighty Top-level Projects and dozens of initiatives in the Apache Incubator and Labs. The Apache Software Foundation has a long history of software innovation through collaboration; the larger the pool of potential contributors the more innovation we see, said Ross Gardler, ASF Vice President of Community Development. Apache Extras provides a home for Apache related software which is not formally a part of the ASF itself. Having these projects on a single hosting platform will help to further accelerate innovation involving Apache software. Among the ASF's strengths are its well-established requirements relating to intellectual property management, license use, and community management. Apache-extras.org provides a home for projects that are unable to, or do not wish to, conform to those rules yet still want to signal their relationship to official Apache projects. As projects on the new Google-hosted service will not be managed by The Apache Software Foundation, participants are allowed to use whatever license and project management process they desire. Apache-extras.org will provide a level of visibility for these projects that is unavailable on other code-hosting forges. Existing Google Code projects related to Apache products can be easily migrated to the new apache-extras.org site, whilst those involved with new Apache-related projects can start quickly by filling out a simple form. The ASF Community Development team will work directly with Apache Extras to ensure innovation around Apache projects is accelerated. Technical queries regarding the ASF's relationship with apache-extras.org can be directed to the ASF Community Development team at d...@community.apache.org. For information on migrating or setting up new projects, visit http://www.apache-extras.org About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, more than 300 individual Members and 2,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including AMD, Basis Technology, Facebook, Google, IBM, HP, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, SpringSource/VMware, and Yahoo!. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/. # # # Contact: Sally Khudairi The Apache Software Foundation pr...@apache.org +1 617 921 8656 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: announce-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: announce-h...@apache.org
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache OODT as a Top-Level Project
leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, more than 300 individual Members and 2,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including AMD, Basis Technology, Cloudera, Facebook, Google, IBM, HP, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, SpringSource, and Yahoo!. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/. # # # MEDIA CONTACT: Sally Khudairi The Apache Software Foundation pr...@apache.org +1 617 921 8656 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: announce-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: announce-h...@apache.org
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Cassandra 0.7
Highly-scalable Open Source Distributed Database for Handling Large Amounts of Data is a Key Component in Cloud Computing Forest Hill, MD – 11 January 2011 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced Apache Cassandra v0.7, the highly-scalable, second generation Open Source distributed database. Apache Cassandra is a key component in cloud computing and other applications that deal with massive amounts of data and high query volumes, said Jonathan Ellis, Vice President of Apache Cassandra. It is particularly successful in powering large web sites with sharp growth rates. Apache Cassandra is successfully deployed at organizations with active data sets and large server clusters, including Cisco, Cloudkick, Digg, Facebook, Rackspace, and Twitter. The largest Cassandra cluster to date contains over 400 machines. Running any large website is a constant race between scaling your user base and scaling your infrastructure to support it, said David King, Lead Developer at Reddit. Our traffic more than tripled this year, and the transparent scalability afforded to us by Apache Cassandra is in large part what allowed us to do it on our limited resources. Cassandra v0.7 represents the real-life operations lessons learned from installations like ours and provides further features like column expiration that allow us to scale even more of our infrastructure. Among the new features in Apache Cassandra v0.7 are: - Secondary Indexes, an expressive, efficient way to query data through node-local storage on the client side; - Large Row Support, up to two billion columns per row; - Online Schema Changes – automated online schema changes from the client API allow adding and modifying object definitions without requiring a cluster restart. Oversight and Availability Apache Cassandra is available under the Apache Software License v2.0, and is overseen by a Project Management Committee (PMC), who guide its day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. Apache Cassandra v0.7 downloads, documentation, and related resources are available at http://cassandra.apache.org/. About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, more than 300 individual Members and 2,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including AMD, Basis Technology, Cloudera, Facebook, Google, IBM, HP, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, SpringSource, and Yahoo!. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/. # # # - To unsubscribe, e-mail: announce-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: announce-h...@apache.org
[ANNOUNCE] The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Pivot 2.0
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Pivot 2.0 Open Source Platform for Building Installable Internet Applications Makes Building GUI Applications Even Easier Forest Hill, MD – 19 January 2011 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced Apache Pivot 2.0, the full-featured, Open Source platform for building installable Internet applications (IIAs). Apache Pivot provides a professional-grade foundation for easily building and deploying sophisticated and engaging GUI applications that can be downloaded and installed like traditional desktop or mobile applications. Apache Pivot combines the enhanced productivity and usability features of a modern user interface toolkit with the power of Java or any other JVM-compatible language, such as JavaScript, Groovy, or Scala. With Pivot, developers use the languages, tools, and APIs they already know, thereby reducing technology sprawl and streamlining solution technology stacks, said Greg Brown, Vice President of Apache Pivot. It's a truly open solution for creating visually rich, highly functional desktop or Web-based applications. Apache Pivot is used in hundreds of applications across numerous industries, including retail, software, financial services, manufacturing, aerospace, and education, among others. Many of these applications have been developed for international use as well, as one of the key benefits of using Apache Pivot is ease of localization. Apache Pivot 2.0 features a number of significant enhancements that include: - Dynamic data binding – properties of target elements are automatically updated whenever a source value changes; - Support for named styles – CSS-like style classes are supported, including both typed and untyped style selectors; - Support for SVG images in addition to standard bitmap-based images (such as JPEG, PNG, or GIF) - Overhauled TextArea component – includes word navigation. undo/redo, and improved cut/paste behavior; - Additional color schemes optimized for a variety of popular desktop environments; - Serializer events – applications can now be notified as structured content such as JSON, XML, or CSV is read from an input stream; - Eclipse launcher – an Eclipse plugin helps simplify creating launch configurations for Pivot applications. Oversight and Availability Apache Pivot is available under the Apache Software License v2.0, and is overseen by a Project Management Committee (PMC), who guide its day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. Apache Pivot 2.0 downloads, documentation, and related resources are available at http://pivot.apache.org/. About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, more than 300 individual Members and 2,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including AMD, Basis Technology, Cloudera, Facebook, Google, IBM, HP, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, SpringSource, and Yahoo!. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/. # # # - To unsubscribe, e-mail: announce-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: announce-h...@apache.org
[ANNOUNCE] Apache Innovation Bolsters IBM's Smartest Machine on Earth in First-ever Man vs. Machine Competition on Jeopardy! Quiz Show
Apache UIMA and Apache Hadoop Advance Data Intelligence and Semantics Capabilities of Watson Supercomputer Forest Hill, MD – 14 February 2011 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced that Apache UIMA and Apache Hadoop play key roles in the data intelligence and analytic proficiency of the IBM Watson supercomputer, playing against human champions on the TV show Jeopardy!. Processing 80 trillion operations (teraflops) per second, Watson will access 200 million pages of content against 6 million logic rules to understand the nuances, meanings, and patterns in spoken human language, and compete in the trivia game show Jeopardy!. Contestants are presented with clues in the form of answers, and must phrase their responses as questions within a 5-second timeframe. Hundreds of Apache UIMA Annotators and thousands of algorithms help Watson –which runs disconnected from the Internet– access vast databases to simultaneously comprehend clues and formulate answers. Watson then analyzes 500 gigabytes of preprocessed information to match potential meanings for the question and a potential answer to the question. Helping Watson do this is: Apache UIMA: standards-based frameworks, infrastructure and components that facilitate the analysis and annotation of an array of unstructured content (such as text, audio and video). Watson uses Apache UIMA for real-time content analytics and natural language processing, to comprehend clues, find possible answers, gather supporting evidence, score each answer, compute its confidence in each answer, and improve contextual understanding (machine learning) – all under 3 seconds. Apache Hadoop: software framework that enables data-intensive distributed applications to work with thousands of nodes and petabytes of data. A foundation of Cloud computing, Apache Hadoop enables Watson to access, sort, and process data in a massively parallel system (90+ server cluster/2,880 processor cores/16 terabytes of RAM/4 terabytes of disk storage). The Watson system uses UIMA as its principal infrastructure for component interoperability and makes extensive use of the UIMA-AS scale-out capabilities that can exploit modern, highly parallel hardware architectures. UIMA manages all work flow and communication between processes, which are spread across the cluster. Apache Hadoop manages the task of preprocessing Watson's enormous information sources by deploying UIMA pipelines as Hadoop mappers, running UIMA analytics. The success and influence of Watson clearly shows that open source in general, and specifically open source software developed and released by the ASF, is deeply entwined in all layers and aspects of technology, said ASF President Jim Jagielski. Apache software is part of computing and information technology DNA, forming complete or integral solutions to advanced problems, and leveraging the software under the non-restrictive Apache License allows for extremely rapid development of cutting edge technology. Watson faces off against record-breaking (human) Jeopardy champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter for the $1M grand prize 14-16 February 2011. 100% of Watson's winnings will be donated to charity; Rutter and Jennings have committed to donating 50% of their prizes. Availability All ASF products, including Apache UIMA and Apache Hadoop, are available to the public free of charge under the Apache Software Licence v2.0. Downloads, documentation, and related resources are available at http://www.apache.org/. About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, more than 300 individual Members and 2,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(3)(c) not-for-profit charity, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including AMD, Basis Technology, Cloudera, Facebook, Google, IBM, HP, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, SpringSource, and Yahoo!. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/. # # # Contact: Sally Khudairi The Apache Software Foundation pr...@apache.org +1 617 921 8656 It's here! Your new message! Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail
[ANNOUNCE] The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Chemistry as a Top-Level Project
that customers derive maximum benefit from their investment in the OpenText ECM Suite 2010, which offers CMIS support for server-to-server and server-to-client interoperability. SAP envisions the usage of OpenCMIS as a base technology in the SAP NetWeaver® platform, said Björn Goerke, senior vice president, Technology and Innovation Platform Core, SAP. The OASIS specification, which has been developed through co-innovation efforts, is driving forward standardization, through which our customers will be able to gain more from their existing content management systems with SAP® applications. Apache Jackrabbit welcomes Apache Chemistry as a sibling top-level project, said Apache Jackrabbit Vice President Jukka Zitting. We helped mentor the Chemistry community early on, and we are excited to see them reach this milestone. The success of Chemistry and CMIS is another testament to the combined strength of open source and open standards. Availability and Oversight All Apache products are released under the Apache Software License v2.0, and are overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. Upon a Project's maturity to a TLP, a Project Management Committee (PMC) is formed to guide its day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. Apache Chemistry source code, documentation, and related resources are available at http://chemistry.apache.org/. About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, more than 300 individual Members and 2,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(3)(c) not-for-profit charity, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including AMD, Basis Technology, Cloudera, Facebook, Google, IBM, HP, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, SpringSource, and Yahoo!. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/. Apache and Apache Chemistry are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. # # # Contact: Sally Khudairi The Apache Software Foundation pr...@apache.org +1 617 921 8656 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: announce-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: announce-h...@apache.org
[Announce] The Apache Software Foundation Subpoenaed to Produce Documents in Oracle America vs. Google
[this document is also available online at http://s.apache.org/ReS] The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has received a [United States District Court subpoena] requiring the production of documents related to the use of Apache Harmony code in the Android software platform, and the unsuccessful attempt by Apache to secure an acceptable license to the Java SE Technology Compatibility Kit. The request, received from Oracle America's attorneys on May 2nd gives the Foundation until May 13th, 2011 to produce the required materials. Apache will, of course, be complying with the court requirement by submitting all the relevant documents. As an open development group we envisage the majority of the documents are already publicly available. More information is available on the ASF Legal mailing list. # # # - To unsubscribe, e-mail: announce-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: announce-h...@apache.org
[ANNOUNCE] The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Libcloud as a Top-Level Project
[this document is also available online at http://s.apache.org/TVn] The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Libcloud as a Top-Level Project Vendor-neutral, Standard Client Library Interfaces with Leading Cloud Computing Providers Including Amazon EC2, Eucalyptus, IBM Cloud, and Rackspace Cloud 25 May 2011 —FOREST HILL, MD— The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is pleased to announce that Apache Libcloud has graduated from the Apache Incubator as a Top-Level Project (TLP). Apache Libcloud is an Open Source Python library that provides a vendor-neutral interface to cloud provider APIs. The current version of Apache Libcloud includes backend drivers for more than twenty leading providers including Amazon EC2, Rackspace Cloud, GoGrid and Linode. Graduation signifies that both the Apache Libcloud product and community have been well-governed under the Foundation's meritocratic, consensus-driven process and principles. Graduation is a terrific milestone for Libcloud and will help make it a top choice for anyone looking at cloud management solutions, said Anthony Elder, ASF Vice President and Libcloud Incubation mentor. Diversification Without Vendor Lock-in Libcloud was accepted to the Apache Incubator in November 2009 with a primary focus on cloud computing functionality, and since that time has developed a strong community and preliminary support for more cloud services such as cloud storage and load-balancers as a service. With one simple API, operations teams can write once and deploy anywhere, avoiding vendor lock-in. Original Libcloud developer and Cloudkick co-founder/CEO Alex Polvi said, I'm happy to see that Libcloud has grown into such a successful community-based Open Source project. Our goal going forward is to support all the major cloud services offered by different providers, explained Apache Libcloud Vice President Tomaz Muraus. Developers love the existing Libcloud interface because it is clean and easy to use and we plan to bring this simplicity and ease of use to other services such as storage and load-balancers. Apache Libcloud is used extensively in diverse production environments such as OOI Cyberinfrastructure, Cloudkick, GlobalRoute and ServerDensity. More than half our customers use multiple cloud vendors, since adding Libcloud compatibility we've been able to more effectively support their computing aims in the cloud through cross platform compatibility, said Robert Jenkins, CTO of CloudSigma, a European IaaS provider based in Zurich, Switzerland. Availability and Oversight All Apache products are released under the Apache Software License v2.0, and are overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. Upon a Project's maturity to a TLP, a Project Management Committee (PMC) is formed to guide its day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. Apache Libcloud source code, documentation, and related resources are available at http://libcloud.apache.org/. About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, more than 300 individual Members and 2,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(3)(c) not-for-profit charity, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including AMD, Basis Technology, Cloudera, Facebook, Google, IBM, HP, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, SpringSource, Talend, and Yahoo!. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/. Apache and Apache Libcloud are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. # # # Contact: Sally Khudairi The Apache Software Foundation +1 617 921 8656 pr...@apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: announce-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: announce-h...@apache.org
Incubation at Apache: What's it all about?
[this statement is available online at http://s.apache.org/DTM ; direct media queries to press_at_apache_dot-org] Incubation at Apache: What's it all about? More Projects Than Ever Submitted to Become a Part of The Apache Software Foundation The success and reputation of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) as one of the most influential Open Source organizations is undisputed. Launched 12 years ago with the Apache HTTP Server, the all-volunteer ASF currently develops and shepherds nearly 170 projects, including Top-Level Projects (TLPs) and new initiatives in the Apache Incubator and Labs. Apache products power more than 203 million Websites (half the Internet!) and countless mission-critical applications worldwide. More than a dozen Apache projects form the foundation of today's Cloud computing. Five of the top 10 Open Source downloads are Apache projects [1]. Dozens of external projects have sought to become a part of the ASF to improve the quality of their code and participate in a larger community, explained ASF President Jim Jagielski. Incubation is the first step for a project to be considered among the diverse Open Source initiatives overseen by the ASF. A submitted project and its community will join the more than 50 projects in the Apache Incubator, and will benefit from the Foundation's widely-emulated meritocratic process, stewardship, outreach, support, community events, and guiding principles that are affectionately known as The Apache Way. We welcome highly-focused, emerging projects from individual contributors, as well as those with robust developer communities, global user bases, and strong corporate backing, added Jagielski. The ASF's organizational, legal, financial, and infrastructure support gives Incubating projects the ability to provide valuable software to millions of users without having to worry about liability. Today's submission of the openoffice.org code base is testament to our track record for successfully Incubating highly-established, well-respected projects such as Apache SpamAssassin and Apache Subversion. Incubating projects (known as podlings) benefit from hands-on mentorship from other Apache contributors and are guided on an array of processes and principles within the Foundation, including adopting the Apache voting structure and growing a vibrant and diverse community. Jim Jagielski is the proposed podling mentor for the openoffice.org community during the incubation process. Podlings that demonstrate that their community and products have been well-governed under the ASF's consensus-driven process, release all code under the Apache License v2.0, and fulfill the responsibilities of an Incubating project move one step closer to graduation to a TLP. Upon a Project's maturation to a TLP, a Project Management Committee (PMC) is formed to guide its day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. ASF Projects that have graduated from the Apache Incubator over the past year include Apache Cassandra, Apache Chemistry, Apache Click, Apache Libcloud, Apache OODT, Apache Shindig, Apache Traffic Server, and Apache UIMA. For more information on the Apache Incubator, please visit http://incubator.apache.org/. [1] https://www.osscensus.org/packages-rank-public.php # # # Media Contact: Sally Khudairi +1 617 921 8656 pr...@apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: announce-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: announce-h...@apache.org
[ANNOUNCE] The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Traffic Server v3.0.0
[this announcement available online at http://s.apache.org/a6T] Highly-Performant Cloud Computing Service Serves Dynamic Content, Billions of Objects, and Terrabytes of Data for Large-Scale Deployments 14 June 2011 —FOREST HILL, MD—The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced Apache Traffic Server v3.0.0. Apache Traffic Server is a Cloud Computing edge service, able to handle requests in and out of the Cloud, both by serving static content (images, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML files), and routing requests for dynamic content to a Web server (such as the Apache HTTP Server). Traffic Server is battle hardened, serving terrabytes of data in real-life deployments where immediate content delivery is critical, said Apache Traffic Server Vice President Leif Hedstrom. V3.0.0 builds upon that foundation, with new features and functionality, improved efficiency and performance, increased uptime, and overall easier to use. Apache Traffic Server is a fast, scalable, and extensible HTTP/1.1 compliant caching proxy server designed to improve: - Caching: improves response time while reducing server load and bandwidth needs by caching and reusing frequently-requested Web pages, images, and Web service calls; - Proxying: easily add keep-alive, filter or anonymize content requests, or add load balancing by adding a proxy layer; - Speed: scales well on modern SMP hardware, handling tens of thousands of requests per second; - Extensibility: APIs allow for customized plug-ins, from modifying headers and content to implementing new protocol handlers; - Reliability: successfully handles hundreds of terrabytes of data, both as forward and reverse proxies Apache Traffic Server v.3.0.0 has been benchmarked to handle more than of 200,000 requests per second -- a 277% improvement over v2.0’s already-impressive rates. Used in production in a variety of large-scale deployments, companies such as Yahoo! rely on Apache Traffic Server to handle over 400 terrabytes of traffic, and has used the project to serve more than 30 billion objects daily across its various properties including the Yahoo! homepage, and its Sports, Mail, and Finance sites. Apache Traffic Server entered the Apache Incubator in June 2009, graduated as an Apache Top-Level Project (TLP) in April 2010, and released v2.0 the following month. For technical highlights, please refer to the Apache Traffic Server v3.0.0 Features At-A-Glance at http://s.apache.org/7Or. Availability and Oversight As with all Apache products, Apache Traffic Server software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project’s day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. Apache Traffic Server source code, documentation, and related resources are available at http://trafficserver.apache.org/. About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, more than 300 individual Members and 2,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(3)(c) not-for-profit charity, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including AMD, Basis Technology, Cloudera, Facebook, Google, IBM, HP, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, SpringSource, Talend, and Yahoo!. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/. Apache and Apache Traffic Server are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. # # # Media Contact: Sally Khudairi The Apache Software Foundation +1 617 921 8656 pr...@apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: announce-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: announce-h...@apache.org
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Register for ApacheCon before Midnight PT on 2 September and Save 25%! Powering half the Internet, terabytes of data, teraflops of operations, billions of objects, and enhancing the lives of countless users and developers, there's no doubting that everyone loves Apache. ApacheCon brings Apache users and developers together to collaborate, promote innovation, reinforce and create new connections, launch breakout technologies, and leverage opportunities in using and developing Open Source solutions. From Abdera to Zookeeper, ApacheCon's professionally-directed sessions include trainings and presentations by members of the Apache community, Adobe, Akamai, Cloudera, DLR/German Aerospace Center, FuseSource, Hippo, IBM, LinkedIn, Lucid Imagination, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Nokia, Nuxeo, Red Hat, Sakai Project, SpringSource/VMWare, Talend, Talis, WSO2, Yahoo, and more. Topics include: - Content Technologies Data Handling: Big Data and Analytics (Archiva, Cassandra, Chemistry, Hadoop, HBase, Jackrabbit, Jena, Lucene, Mahout, Solr, Stanbol, Tika and friends) - Enterprise Modular Java (ACE, ActiveMQ, Axis2, Camel, Celix, Karaf, ServiceMix, WSS4J, and more) - Servers (Apache HTTP Server, Tomcat, Geronimo, developing feature-rich PaaS solutions, and more) - Innovation Emerging Technologies (what's incubating at Apache: Rave, Wookie, Whirr, and more w/Fast Feather Track) - Open Business, Community Leadership, and Keeping the Machine Running (how Community Over Code really works day-to-day in Open Source companies and communities; Infrastructure and DevOps) - Special Events (BarCampApache, Apache Hackathon, ASF Project MeetUps and ample networking opportunities) Join us! Learn how to shepherd, develop, and incubate innovations The Apache Way, and interact with the volunteer community behind the world's most powerful Open Source foundation. Remember: ApacheCon is for everyone! Anyone interested in Apache products and community-driven development is welcome. ASF affiliation is not required to present at, attend, or otherwise participate in ApacheCon. Sign up today at http://apachecon.com/ and save. We look forward to seeing you in Vancouver! -The ApacheCon Planning Committee - To unsubscribe, e-mail: announce-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: announce-h...@apache.org
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Tika™ v1.0
[this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/N0I] Standards-based, Content and Metadata Detection and Analysis Toolkit Powers Large-scale, Multi-lingual, Multi-format Repositories at Adobe, the Internet Archive, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and more. 9 November 2011 —FOREST HILL, MD— The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced Apache Tika v1.0, an embeddable, lightweight toolkit for content detection and analysis. The Apache Tika v1.0 release is five years in the making, providing numerous improvements and new parsing formats, said Chris Mattmann, Apache Tika Vice President, Senior Computer Scientist at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and University of Southern California Adjunct Assistant Professor of Computer Science. From a toolkit perspective, it's easy to integrate, and provides maximum functionality with little configuration. With the increasing amount of information available on the Internet today, automatic information processing and retrieval is urgently needed to understand content across cultures, languages, and continents. Apache Tika is a one-stop shop for identifying, retrieving, and parsing text and metadata from over 1,200 file formats including HTML, XML, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice/OpenDocument, PDF, images, ebooks/EPUB, Rich Text, compression and packaging formats, text/audio/image/video, Java class files and archives, email/mbox, and more. Tika entered the Apache Incubator in 2007, became a sub-project of Apache Lucene in 2008, and graduated as an ASF Top-level Project (TLP) in April 2010. Apache Tika has been tested extensively in repositories exceeding 500 million documents across a variety of applications in industry, academia and government labs. At NASA, we leverage Apache Tika on several of our Earth science data system projects, explained Dan Crichton, Program Manager and Principal Computer Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Tika helps us processes hundreds of terabytes of scientific data in myriad formats and their associated metadata models. Using Tika with other Apache technologies such as OODT, Lucene, and Solr, we are able to automate, virtualize and increase the efficiency of NASA's science data processing pipeline. Users and software applications use Apache Tika to explore the information landscape through flexible interfaces in Java, from the command line, REST-ful Web services, and also by consuming its functionality from a multitude of programming languages directly, including Python, .NET and C++. Tika defines a standard application programming interface (API) and makes use of existing libraries such Apache POI and PDFBox to detect and extract metadata and structured text content from various documents using existing parser libraries. We've used Apache Tika extensively for a wide range of content extraction tasks, including parsing almost 600 million pages and documents from a large web crawl, said Ken Krugler, Founder and President of Scale Unlimited. It's proven invaluable as a simple yet robust solution to the challenges of extracting text and metadata from the jungle of formats you find on the web. Hippo CMS 7 uses Apache Jackrabbit to index content repositories containing as many as 500,000 documents, explained Arjé Cahn, CTO of Hippo. We are exploring ways that Apache Tika can enhance access to metadata in our faceted navigation feature, which may result in a possible future patch. Availability and Oversight As with all Apache products, Apache Tika software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project’s day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. Apache Tika source code, documentation, and related resources are available at http://tika.apache.org/. Apache Tika in Action! Apache Tika v1.0 will be featured at ApacheCon's Content Technologies track on 10 November 2011. PMC Chair Mattmann will describe the modern genesis of the project and its ecosystem, as well as the newly-launched Manning Publications book, “Tika in Action” co-authored by Mattmann and Zitting. About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, more than 350 individual Members and 3,000 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Geronimo v3.0-beta-1
[announcement also available online at http://s.apache.org/4sN] The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Geronimo v3.0-beta-1 -– Leading Open Source Application Server Now Certified Java EE 6 Full- and Web Profile Compatible Flexible, modular, and easy to manage, Apache Geronimo is the ideal platform for lightweight server deployments to full-scale enterprise environments, with complete support for Java EE 6 and OSGi programming models 16 November 2011 --FOREST HILL, MD-- The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced that Apache Geronimo has obtained certification as a compatible implementation of both the Java EE 6 Full and Web Profiles. Apache Geronimo v3.0-beta-1 joins the Java EE 6 Reference Implementation as the only Open Source application server to be compatible with both Full and Web Profiles support. We're very happy to announce this significant milestone for the project, said Kevan Miller, Vice President of Apache Geronimo. In addition to the Java EE 6 capabilities we've added to the product, Geronimo is now restructured to run on an OSGi kernel. Plus, we've added support for an enterprise OSGi application programming model -- a key enhancement for enterprise application developers wishing to take advantage of the modularity, dynamism, and versioning capabilities offered by OSGi. Apache Geronimo integrates a number of ASF projects into an easy to manage, flexible, and modular application server. Java EE technologies utilized by Apache Geronimo include: Apache Tomcat, Apache OpenJPA, Apache OpenEJB, Apache MyFaces, Apache OpenWebBeans, Apache ActiveMQ, Apache Axis, Apache Wink, and Apache Bean Validation. OSGi technologies which are contained within Apache Geronimo include: Apache Aries, Apache Felix, and Apache Karaf. This wide array of Apache projects illustrates the breadth and depth of the software solutions developed at the Apache Software Foundation. Our move to OSGi has represented a signficant amount of internal restructuring, but this restructuring leaves us well positioned for future developments, explained Miller. The Apache Aries, Apache Karaf, and Apache Felix projects have provided us a great base for our Geronimo 3.0 OSGi enhancments. The same is true for the Java EE technologies developed at the ASF: we couldn't have accomplished this without them. Availability and Oversight As with all Apache products, Apache Geronimo v3.0-beta-1 is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. Apache Geronimo source code, documentation, and related resources are available at http://geronimo.apache.org/. About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, more than 350 individual Members and 3,000 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(3)(c) not-for-profit charity, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including AMD, Basis Technology, Cloudera, Facebook, Google, IBM, HP, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, PSW Group, SpringSource/VMware, and Yahoo!. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/. Apache and Apache Geronimo are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. # # # Media Contact: Sally Khudairi The Apache Software Foundation +1 617 921 8656 pr...@apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: announce-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: announce-h...@apache.org
Open Letter to the Open Document Format Ecosystem
[this statement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/P7e] Earlier this year the OpenOffice.org code base was donated to The Apache Software Foundation. The resulting project, Apache OpenOffice (Incubating) is progressing well as a podling in the Apache Incubator with a rapidly growing community and project infrastructure (see http://incubator.apache.org/projects/openofficeorg.html). This open letter seeks to articulate our vision for the future of Apache OpenOffice within the wider Open Document Format ecosystem. With the OpenOffice.org donation, Apache has become a significant part of a global ecosystem that was initially formed more than ten years ago, it includes support for an internationally recognised Open Standard for documents (the Open Document Format developed by the OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications [OpenDocument] Technical Committee) and at least 13 related open source projects. In addition to being a critical component of the IT industry OpenOffice.org is of significant value to the global user community with approximately 100 million users and over 70 native language packs. In such a large ecosystem it is impossible to agree upon a single vision for all participants, Apache OpenOffice does not seek to define a single vision, nor does it seek to be the only player. Instead we seek to offer a neutral and powerful collaboration opportunity. The permissive Apache License 2.0 reduces restrictions on the use and distribution of our code and thus facilitates a diverse contributor and user base for the benefit of the whole Open Document Format ecosystem. Within an Apache project it is possible to rise above political, social and commercial differences in the pursuit of maximally effective implementations of freely available open standards and related software tools. Our license and open development model is widely recognised as one of the best ways to ensure open standards, such as ODF, gain traction and adoption. Apache OpenOffice offers much more potential for OpenOffice.org than just an end-user Microsoft Office replacement. We offer a vendor neutral space in which to collaborate whilst enabling third parties to pursue almost any for-profit or not-for-profit business model. Apache has over 100 world leading projects and over 50 incubating projects. Within these projects we have demonstrated many times over that our model of collaboration is highly successful. Maximum benefit is gained through increased engagement with our communities. While it is possible, and legal, to take our code and work independently of the foundation we believe that collaborating wherever possible strengthens the ecosystem and facilitates progress towards one’s own vision for ODF. Each participant in an Apache project is free to set their own boundaries of collaboration. However, they are not free to use our trademarks in confusing ways. This includes OpenOffice.org and all related marks. To ensure that the use of Apache marks will not lead to confusion about our projects, we must control their use in association with software and related services provided by others. Our trademark policy is clearly laid out at http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/. Only the Apache Software Foundation can make releases of software that bear our trademarks. The Apache OpenOffice (Incubating) project has tentatively identified the first quarter of 2012 for a Version 3.4 release. As well as clarifying our position in relation to our trademarks we wish to make it clear that no third party has been given approval to solicit donations of any kind on behalf of the Apache Software Foundation or any of its projects, including OpenOffice.org. In general, if a communication does not come to you from a verifiable apache.org address then it is not an official Apache Software Foundation or OpenOffice.org communication. We invite and encourage everyone engaged with the Open Document Format standards to explore opportunities for collaboration with the Apache OpenOffice (Incubating) project. For further information see http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/get-involved.html . # # # - To unsubscribe, e-mail: announce-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: announce-h...@apache.org
[ANNOUNCE] The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Hadoop™ v1.0
massive amounts of real-time data into actionable business insights, and we continue to look forward to the ever-improving iterations of Hadoop. Hadoop, the first ubiquitous platform to emerge from the ongoing proliferation of Big Data and noSQL technologies, is set to make the transition from Web to Enterprise technology in 2012, said James Governor, co-founder of RedMonk, driven by adoption and integration by every major vendor in the commercial data analytics market. The Apache Software Foundation plays a crucial role in supporting the platform and its ecosystem. Availability and Oversight As with all Apache products, Apache Hadoop software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. Apache Hadoop release notes, source code, documentation, and related resources are available at http://hadoop.apache.org/. About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, more than 350 individual Members and 3,000 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(3)(c) not-for-profit charity, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including AMD, Basis Technology, Cloudera, Facebook, Google, IBM, HP, Hortonworks, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, PSW Group, SpringSource/VMware, and Yahoo!. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/. Apache, Apache Hadoop, and ApacheCon are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. # # # Media Contact: Sally Khudairi Vice President, The Apache Software Foundation +1 617 921 8656 pr...@apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: announce-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: announce-h...@apache.org
[Announce] The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates the 17th Anniversary of the Apache HTTP Server with the release of v2.4
[this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/je] World's most popular Web Server powers nearly 400 million Websites across the globe Forest Hill, MD –- 21 February 2012 -– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced version 2.4 of the award-winning Apache HTTP Server. Celebrating its 17th anniversary with an all-time record of nearly 400 million Websites powered worldwide[1], the Apache HTTP Server has been the most popular Web server on the Internet since April 1996. It is with great pleasure that we announce the availability of Apache HTTP Server 2.4, said Eric Covener, Vice President of the Apache HTTP Server Project. This release delivers a host of evolutionary enhancements throughout the server that our users, administrators, and developers will welcome. We've added many new modules in this release, as well as broadened the capability and flexibility of existing features. Numerous enhancements make Apache HTTP Server v2.4 ideally suited for Cloud environments. They include: • Improved performance (lower resource utilization and better concurrency) • Reduced memory usage • Asyncronous I/O support • Dynamic reverse proxy configuration • Performance on par, or better, than pure event-driven Web servers • More granular timeout and rate/resource limiting capability • More finely-tuned caching support, tailored for high traffic servers and proxies. Additional features include easier problem analysis, improved configuration flexibility, more powerful authentication and authorization, and documentation overhaul. For the complete feature list, please see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/new_features_2_4.html The Apache Web Server began as a fork (an independent development stream) of the NCSA httpd Web server created by Rob McCool at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). After McCool's departure from NCSA in 1994, an online community of individuals called the Apache Group formed to support and enhance its software via email collaboration. The Apache Group’s founding members included Brian Behlendorf, Roy Fielding, Rob Hartill, David Robinson, Cliff Skolnick, Randy Terbush, Robert Thau, and Andrew Wilson. Within less than a year of the Apache Group's formation, the Apache server surpassed NCSA httpd as the #1 server on the Internet –and remains so to this day. In March 1999, members of the Apache Group formed The Apache Software Foundation to provide organizational, legal, and financial support for the Apache HTTP Server. Availability and Oversight Apache HTTP Server software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project’s day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. Apache HTTP Server source code, documentation, mailing lists, and related resources are available at http://httpd.apache.org/ About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, more than 350 individual Members and 3,000 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(3)(c) not-for-profit charity, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including AMD, Basis Technology, Cloudera, Facebook, Google, IBM, HP, Hortonworks, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, PSW Group, SpringSource/VMware, and Yahoo!. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/. Apache, Apache HTTP Server, and ApacheCon are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. [1] Source: Netcraft Web Server Survey http://news.netcraft.com/archives/category/web-server-survey/ # # # - To unsubscribe, e-mail: announce-unsubscr...@apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: announce-h...@apache.org
[announce] The ASF is Participating in Google Summer of Code 2012 as a Mentoring Organization
[this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/9VB] The Apache Software Foundation will be participating in the Google Summer of Code again this year as a mentoring organization. Google Summer of Code is a program where students work on open source projects backed by a stipend granted by Google. The Apache Software Foundation has been participating in the program since its inception in 2005. Each year, 30-40 students are guided by volunteer mentors from various Apache communities. During the summer they learn what it means to participate in a diverse open source community and develop open source software The Apache Way. Many of past students are now active contributors to our projects. This year we hope to build on our previous successes and again build student interest and enthusiasm in The Apache Software Foundation. Our list of project ideas (at http://s.apache.org/gsoc2012tasks) already contains over 100 ideas spanning more than 25 Apache projects. But that's only what we have come up with. A lot of students have their very own itch to scratch and approach our projects with their own ideas. If you are enrolled as a university student and always wanted to get involved with Apache, here's is your chance. Browse our ideas list, approach the projects you are most interested in, discuss your ideas, get involved, code the summer away, and at the end, get a nice paycheck from Google! # # #
[announce] Announcing Apache BarCamp Washington DC
[this announcement is also available at http://s.apache.org/ixK] The first Apache BarCamp Washington, D.C. will be held on May 19 2012. If you will be in or around the Washington, D.C. area at that time, do sign up and join us! As with all Apache BarCamps, there will be a mix of Apache and non-Apache talks given based on who comes and the topics that interest them - with an emphasis on sharing knowledge and having a fun time. For more details and/or to sign up, please take a look at our event site[1]. If you have specific questions feel free to email the planning group apachebarcam...@googlegroups.com. We are also wanting a few more sponsors, so if the D.C. market is interesting to your company and you'd like to find out some sponsoring details, contact us at apachebarcam...@googlegroups.com. Otherwise, if you can't join us in the Washington D.C. area, but you're interested in helping run an Apache BarCamp or Hackathon in your home town, find out more about getting involved in small events at small-events-disc...@apache.org. Thanks! --the Apache Conference Committee [1] - http://events.apache.org/event/2012/barcamp-dc/
[announce] The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Rave as a Top-Level Project
[this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/SxF] Open Source mashup platform provides easy-to-use infrastructure for building and integrating with social media standards including Activity Streams, OpenSocial, W3C Widgets, and more. Forest Hill, MD -- The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced that Apache Rave has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP), signifying that the Project's community and products have been well-governed under the ASF's meritocratic process and principles. Apache Rave is an Open Source software mashup platform that allows developers to build and engage with an array of social network technologies such as OpenSocial, Activity Streams, and W3C Widgets. Rave's lightweight and extensible approach to robust personalization and collaboration capabilities supports a simple model for integration across other platforms, services and solutions. Internet social platforms, such as Facebook, Google+, and Twitter have shaped the expectations of today's users; creating an onslaught of demand for pervasive social integration within both consumer and enterprise applications, said Matthew B. Franklin, Vice President of Apache Rave and Lead Software Engineer at The MITRE Corporation. Developers today are constantly faced with the need to deliver low-cost, scalable, modularized applications with deep-rooted social capabilities. Apache Rave is the first open source project chartered to deliver a lightweight, flexible, widget-based platform to meet these demands. Apache Rave bundles the efforts of several independent Open Source initiatives that address similar functionality and requirements into a single, enterprise-grade platform that easily scales across federated application integrations, social intranets, and multi-channel social communities with enhanced personalization and customized content delivery. Developed on open standards, Apache Rave is collaboratively supported by individuals from a wide range of corporations, non-commercial organizations, and institutes from around the world. Seeded by code donations from The MITRE Corporation, Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute, SURFnet, OSS Watch, Hippo, and numerous individual developers; interest in Apache Rave continues, and the Project welcomes new participants to its growing community. Apache Rave takes the good bits from traditional Portals, leaves out whatever made them so heavy-weight and adds modern web technologies like OpenSocial, Widgets, Social Networking, Mobile delivery and Content Services. Rave has already proven to be a platform not to be underestimated. Hippo is proud to be an initiator and participant of this project, and plans to make Rave an integral part of its context-aware content delivery platform, said Ate Douma, Apache Rave incubating Champion and Chief Architect for open-source CMS vendor Hippo. The Apache Rave project delivers a perfect platform for our personalized University Portal. Together with SURFnet we hope to develop, integrate and use all possible OpenSocial aspects to benefit our Academic community to the fullest, said Sander Liemberg, Project Manager at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. As participants in Apache Rave, we are very interested in applying its capabilities to managing scientific collaborations and access to computing resources. Rave is also interesting because of its capacity to be extended by developers: Rave provides a packaged, out-of-the box experience, but we are also trying to ensure it is can also serve as a starting point for developers who wish to extend its capabilities, said Marlon Pierce, Science Gateway Group Lead at Indiana University and Apache Rave PMC Member. In particular, we at Indiana University are taking the specialized requirements of the National Science Foundation XSEDE Science Gateway program. Since entering the Apache Incubator in March 2011, the Apache Rave project has successfully produced several code releases in preparation of its first production-ready, v1.0 release. In addition, Apache Rave recently received an honorable mention in the 2011 Open Source Rookies of the Year awards. We are pleased to have been a founding member of the Apache Rave community and are excited for the future of the project. Rave will be a cornerstone capability for our internal and external users, and we look forward to the continued collaboration and co-development with the community, said Joel Jacobs, Chief Information Officer, The MITRE Corporation. Availability and Oversight Apache Rave software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including community
[Announce] The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Cassandra™ v1.1
[this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/FT0] High-performance, fault-tolerant Open Source Big Data powerhouse scales petabytes of data at Adobe, Cisco, Expedia, IBM, Morningstar, Netflix, PBS, Rackspace, Twitter, US Government, and more. Forest Hill, MD –24 April 2012– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced Apache Cassandra v1.1. The highly-scalable, distributed database quickly and reliably handles massive data sets across community machines, large server clusters, and data centers without compromising performance –whether running in the Cloud or partially on-premise in a hybrid data store. Apache Cassandra is the leading scalable NoSQL database in terms of production installations --the 1.0 release was a huge milestone, said Jonathan Ellis, Vice President of Apache Cassandra. v1.1 improves on that foundation with many features and enhancements that developers and administrators have been asking for. Apache Cassandra is rapidly garnering accolades as a best of breed NoSQL solution for its ease of use, powerful data model, enterprise-grade reliability, tunable performance, and incremental scalability with no single point of failure. Super-efficient, Cassandra accommodates high query volumes at exceptional speed (sub-millisecond writes) with low latency, and handles petabytes of data across formats and applications in real time. Apache Cassandra v1.1 features improved caching, revised query language (CQL –Cassandra Query Language– a subset of SQL), storage control, schema/structure, Hadoop integration/output, data directory control, and scalability. Successfully handling thousands of requests per second, Apache Cassandra is deployed at Adobe, Appscale, Appssavvy, Backupify, Cisco, Clearspring, Cloudtalk, Constant Contact, Digg, Digital River, Expedia, Formspring, IBM, Mahalo.com, Morningstar, Netflix, Openwave, OpenX, Palantir, PBS, Plaxo, Rackspace, Reddit, RockYou, Shazam, SimpleGeo, Spotify, Twitter, Urban Airship, US Government, Walmart Labs, Yakaz, and more. The largest Cassandra production cluster to date exceeds 300 terabytes of data over 400 machines. The v1.1 release shows how rapidly Apache Cassandra has matured. The focus has clearly shifted to usability which is the sign of a solid system. I look forward to getting it into production right away, said Patrick McFadin, Chief Architect of Hobsons. With features like Row-level isolation and Composite keys, Apache Cassandra v1.1 is really addressing user driven needs with innovative solutions. Well done to all contributors for making this a great release. Jeffrey Abbruzzi, Director of eCommerce Engineering and Operations at Williams-Sonoma, added, In Apache Cassandra, the Williams-Sonoma, Inc. eCommerce team has found a platform that addresses fundamental challenges we faced in modernizing the foundation of our gift registry systems: the need for top-flight performance, fast and reliable replication among geographically distributed nodes, and lack of any single point of failure. We're excited about the release and how it can help us continue to evolve the world-class websites of our Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, PBTeen, Pottery Barn Kids, and West Elm brands. We applaud the continued hard work of all of the contributors to the Apache Cassandra project, who continue to make Cassandra the most scalable, easy-to-use, high-performance NoSQL solution available, said Robin Schumacher, VP of Products for DataStax. We look forward to including Cassandra v1.1, with all the improvements it brings, into the next version of our DataStax Community Edition, as well as upcoming versions of our DataStax Enterprise Edition. Cassandra entered the Apache Incubator in 2009, and graduated as an Apache Top-Level Project (TLP) in February 2010. Apache Cassandra v1.0 was released in October 2011. Availability and Oversight Apache Cassandra software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a Project Management Committee (PMC) that guides the Project's day-to-day operations, community development, and product releases. Apache Cassandra source code, downloads, documentation, mailing lists, and related resources are available at http://cassandra.apache.org/. About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, more than 350 individual Members and 3,000 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in
[Announce] The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache TomEE™ v1.0
[this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/IWS] Easy to use, affordable, and over 300% faster, Open Source Java Enterprise Edition of popular Apache Tomcat application server ideally suited for Cloud environments Forest Hill, MD --30 April 2012-- The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced Apache TomEE v1.0. Apache TomEE is the Java Enterprise Edition 6 Web Profile-Certified edition of Apache Tomcat, the world’s most popular Java application server software, with more than 70% market penetration within the enterprise. A sub-project of Apache OpenEJB, TomEE adds Java EE features to the latest version of Apache Tomcat (v7.0.27; released 5 April 2012) in the simplest way possible. TomEE runs without any additional memory requirements, is compatible with most Tomcat-aware/tested tools and applications. Apache TomEE makes developing Java EE solutions easy and simple, said David Blevins, Vice President of Apache OpenEJB. TomEE is the closest and shortest jump for anyone with a Tomcat stack using any number of Java EE technologies to finally move to a Java EE 6 Web Profile certified platform that offers great freedom in the Cloud. According to the latest Gartner Group report on Cloud innovation in application platforms [1], Through 2017, at least 70% of new Java EE applications will be deployed on an open-source Java application server...OSS application servers primarily (but not exclusively) from Apache...will continue to dominate small-scale Java EE deployments. Coupling ongoing industry demand for Apache Tomcat-based solutions with the recent spike in Java EE use –particularly in Cloud environments– standards-based solutions play an increasingly important role in addressing concerns with vendor lock-in. Apache TomEE provides a new choice for the millions of developers [2] wanting a standards-based solution for the Cloud while retaining Tomcat, and is especially performant in very tiny machines. Fast, Affordable, Simple. Apache TomEE combines several Java enterprise projects including Apache OpenEJB, Apache OpenWebBeans, Apache OpenJPA, Apache MyFaces, among others, and obtained its Java EE 6 Web Profile certification on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) in October 2011. For I Like Places, Enterprise Java was a big bet, mainly because the servers alone can kill a startup due to the costs they incur. Added to this is the learning curve involved with Java EE, said Ravindranath Akila, Founder of Adimpression. The irony is that none of these mattered because of Apache TomEE: it is so lightweight, lightning fast, and loves the Cloud. We're absolute fans! The Project's commitment to enhancing production quality includes low memory footprint and extensive performance improvements on large applications, yielding 100-300+% faster startup times over earlier versions: - Railo 3.3 Custom (44mb WAR): 21.3% of beta2 startup time (369% faster) - Lift/Scala sample app (23mb WAR): 43.8% of beta2 startup time (128% faster) - Confluence 3.5.5 (149mb unpacked): 37.6% of beta2 startup time (166% faster) We have been working closely with Apache TomEE over the last few months in preparation of becoming the first TomEE hosting provider on our 100% Java cloud platform. We are pleased to expand our offering to include TomEE, whose low overhead offers a more affordable option than other JavaEE app servers, said Neale Rudd, Director of Metawerx. So far we've seen performance improvements over 3x in application startup times and a series of code changes that confirm their pledge to being a lean, 100% Java EE 6 certified container while coping with the extra burden of a ‘do-no-harm’ promise in regards to running standard Tomcat apps. Congratulations on v1.0! The strength of TomEE is the sum of its community members --the value in feedback provided by an ISP that supports many applications is immeasurable. We appreciate the excellent testing feedback received from Metawerx and encourage other Apache Tomcat hosting facilities to work with us as they add TomEE to their lineup, added Blevins. TomEE is a natural fit for Tomcat-focused ISPs as they now have a Java EE option that naturally fits with their existing infrastructure. The Project invites any ISPs seeking to expand their services by including TomEE to email the developer list at d...@openejb.apache.org for more information. Availability and Oversight Apache TomEE software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. Apache TomEE source code, documentation, mailing lists, and related resources are available at http://openejb.apache.org/. About The Apache Software
[ANNOUNCE] The Apache Software Foundation Announces Unprecedented Growth During First Quarter of 2012
[this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/eX] Demand for best-in-class Open Source solutions drives landmark achievements Forest Hill, MD -–16 May 2012-– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced key milestones achieved in the first quarter of 2012. Recognized as one of the most compelling communities in Open Source for shepherding, developing, and incubating innovations The Apache Way, the ASF is responsible for millions of lines of code overseen by an all-volunteer community across six continents. Apache technologies power more than half the Internet, petabytes of data, teraflops of operations, billions of objects, and enhance the lives of countless users and developers. The record-setting first quarter marked new highs across an array of Apache initiatives, including Top-Level Projects, incubating innovations, sponsorship, individual and corporate contributions, and infrastructure. This unprecedented growth reinforces the broad-reaching success of the ASF's best-in-class software products, the power of the Apache brand, and its highly-emulated community development practices. Our landmark success can be attributed to Apache's longstanding commitment to providing exceptional Open Source products, each with a stable codebase and an active community, said ASF President Jim Jagielski. The ASF makes it easy for all contributors, regardless of any affiliations, to collaborate. Top-Level Projects: the ASF's core activities [1] involve the development of its Top-Level Projects (TLPs), whose day-to-day activities are overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to each project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. As of 2002, the process for establishing new TLPs has been through the Apache Incubator. On occasion, a sub-project of an existing TLP may graduate to become a new, standalone TLP. New TLPs graduating from the Apache Incubator in Q1 2012 are Apache Accumulo, Apache BVal, Apache Empire-db, Apache Gora, Apache Lucy, Apache OpenNLP, Apache Rave, and Apache Sqoop. This brings the total of TLPs to 104, marking the first time more than 100 TLPs are in active development (the ASF has had 121 TLPs in total; 20 have been retired to the Apache Attic). Apache projects span Cloud computing and Big Data to Search and Semantics to application frameworks and build tools, providing the ability to meet the strong demand for interoperable, adaptable, ubiquitous, and sustainable Open Source solutions. There have been 87 new TLP software releases since January 2012, with milestone releases from Apache Cassandra, Apache Hadoop, Apache HTTP Server, and Apache TomEE. After six years in development, Big Data powerhouse Apache Hadoop released v1.0 in January 2012, bolstering its popularity as measured by substantial growth in client inquiries, dramatic rises in attendance at industry events, increasing financial investments, and the introduction of products from leading data management and data integration software vendors, according to Gartner Vice President Merv Adrian [2]. In addition, IDC’s Worldwide Hadoop-MapReduce Ecosystem Software Forecast [3] predicts market growth for Apache Hadoop and supporting Big Data products will exceed 60% annually. The ASF's flagship project, the Apache HTTP Server, remains the world’s leading Web server, powering an all-time record of more than 425 million websites globally [4], and more than 500 community-developed modules to extend its functionality. In addition, the Apache HTTP Server celebrated its 17th Anniversary with the release of v2.4 in February 2012. Apache Incubator: Open Source innovations intending to become fully-fledged Apache projects, including code donations from external organizations and existing external projects, must enter through the Apache Incubator [5]. Initiatives in development at the Apache Incubator –-known as podlings-- comprise both the project’s codebase and community. There were 19 new software releases from Apache Incubator podlings since January 2012. A record 51 podlings are currently undergoing incubation, including Apache Bloodhound, Apache Cordova (formerly Callback), Apache Flex, Apache Giraph, and Apache Wave. Apache OpenOffice --the leading Open Source office productivity suite, and ASF's first end-user-facing project-- successfully transitioned nearly 10 million lines of code in preparation for the release of OpenOffice v3.4, the first official Apache release under the auspices of The ASF. Apache OpenOffice v3.4 is now fully compliant under the Apache License v2, and was downloaded over 1 million times in its first week. Over the past decade, 85 podlings have graduated from the Apache Incubator; 3 projects were retired, and 27 are considered
MEDIA ALERT: The Apache Software Foundation announces Apache Traffic Server v3.2
[this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/2Po] Highly-Performant Cloud Computing Service Serves Dynamic Content, Billions of Objects, and Terabytes of Data for Large-Scale Deployments in Use at Akamai, Comcast, GoDaddy, LinkedIn, Yahoo!, and More. WHO: The Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Recognized as one of the most compelling communities in Open Source for shepherding, developing, and incubating innovations The Apache Way, the ASF is responsible for millions of lines of code overseen by an all-volunteer community across six continents. Apache technologies power more than half the Internet, petabytes of data, teraflops of operations, billions of objects, and enhance the lives of countless users and developers. WHAT: Apache Traffic Server v3.2.0, the Cloud Computing edge service able to handle requests in and out of the Cloud by a) serving static content (images, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML files), and b) routing requests for dynamic content to a Web server (such as the Apache HTTP Server). V3.2.0 is the Project's latest stable release. Key highlights include: - Over 800 commits, and 300 JIRA tickets closed since v3.0. - Several SSL improvements, including SNI (Server Name Indication) and NPN (Next Protocol Negotiation). Overall SSL stability is also improved. - Full IPv6 support, v3.0 only had client side IPv6. All IP related plugin APIs are now also IPv6 aware. - New, flexible configurations for managing inbound and outgoing IP addresses and ports. You can now bind any number, and combinations, of addresses and ports for both HTTP and HTTPS. - Range request for large objects in cache are now much (*much*) faster. - Several new, and improved, plugin APIs are now available. - Performance and stability improvements in the Cluster Cache feature. - Much better performance when proxying to a Keep-Alive HTTP backend server connection. Overall cache performance is also significantly better. - Several stable plugins are now included with the core distributions. - Supports all gcc versions 4.1.2 and higher, Clang / LLVM 3, and the Intel compiler suite. Apache Traffic Server software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. For more information, including documentation, mailing lists, and related resources, please visit http://trafficserver.apache.org/ WHERE: Download Apache Traffic Server v3.2.0 at http://trafficserver.apache.org/downloads ABOUT THE APACHE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION (ASF): Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, more than 400 individual Members and 3,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(3)(c) not-for-profit charity, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including AMD, Basis Technology, Citrix, Cloudera, Facebook, GoDaddy, Google, IBM, HP, Hortonworks, Huawei, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, PSW Group, SpringSource, and Yahoo!. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/. Apache, Traffic Server, Apache Traffic Server, and ApacheCon are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. # # #
The Apache Software Foundation Announces ApacheCon Europe 2012 and North America 2013
[this announcement is also available at http://s.apache.org/ivb ] Call For Papers now open for Open Source conference in Sinsheim, Germany Forest Hill, MD -- 17 July 2012 --The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced ApacheCon Europe 2012 and North America 2013. The official conference, trainings and expo of the ASF returns to Europe 5-9 November 2012 at the Rhein-Neckar Arena in Sinsheim, Germany. The Call For Papers is now open through 3 August 2012. Early-bird registration will open 6 August 2012. Apache powers half the Internet, petabytes of data, teraflops of operations, billions of objects, and enhances the lives of countless users and developers. ApacheCon brings developers and users together to explore key issues in building Open Source solutions The Apache Way. The 2012 Europe event will cover a wide range of topics, from Cloud to Big Data, from Content to Servers, Search to Store, Business and Tools. Tracks include: - Apache Daily –-the tools, frameworks, and components used on a daily basis, such as Apache Logging, Apache Maven, Apache Ant, Apache Buildr, Apache Commons, and more. - ApacheEE –-all about Java Enterprise projects at the ASF, including Apache OpenWebBeans, Apache OpenEJB, Apache TomEE, Apache Tomcat, Apache MyFaces, Apache DeltaSpike, Apache BVal, and Apache OpenJPA. - Big Data --the ASF projects at the forefront of high-volume performance, innovation, and analytics, such as Apache Cassandra, Apache Hadoop, Apache HBase, Apache Hive, Apache Kafka, Apache Mahout, Apache Pig, Apache Whirr, Apache ZooKeeper and friends. - Camel in Action --common problems, solutions and best practices with Apache Camel. - Cloud –-many Apache initiatives play a key role in powering today's Cloud, from Apache Libcloud and Deltacloud, to Apache Whirr, Accumulo, and Cloudstack, to Apache Hadoop + friends. - Linked Data –-adopting, linking, and interoperating the Web of Data using the latest in annotating, processing, extracting, reasoning, and semantics with Apache Jena, Apache Any23 (Incubating), Apache Clerezza (Incubating), and Apache Stanbol (Incubating). - Lucene/Solr and Friends --the latest in search and analytics with Apache Lucene/Solr, Apache Tika, Apache ManifoldCF and more. - Modular Java –-developing and deploying applications in public and private Cloud environments using Apache Felix, Apache ACE, Apache Karaf, Apache Aries, Apache Sling. - NoSQL --use cases and latest developments in dovetailing Big Data with Apache Cassandra, Apache HBase, Apache CouchDB, Apache Accumulo, and more. - OpenOffice --the Apache OpenOffice ecosystem, including dedicated hackathons, MeetUps, and evening sessions, as well as use cases, and technical sessions on Writer, Calc, Impress, Math, Base, and Draw. - Web Infractrusture --the backbone of the Web, including Apache HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat, Apache Traffic Server, and more. SAP is the lead underwriter for ApacheCon Europe 2012; additional opportunities for corporate and individual sponsorship are available. Produced by The Open Bastion, ApacheCon North America 2013 will be held 26-28 February 2013 at the Hilton Portland Executive Tower in Portland, Oregon, United States. Pre- and post-conference events, including trainings, unconference, and sprinting activities are also planned. The Call For Participation for ApacheCon North America will open on 3 September 2012. For more information and to submit a presentation proposal, visit http://apachecon.com/. About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server -- the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, more than 400 individual Members and 3,500Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(3)(c) not-for-profit charity, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including AMD, Basis Technology, Citrix, Cloudera, Facebook, GoDaddy, Google, IBM, HP, Hortonworks, Huawei, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, PSW Group, SpringSource, and Yahoo!. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/. Apache, ACE, Apache ACE, Accumulo, Apache Accumulo, Ant, Apache Ant, Any23, Apache Any23, Aries, Apache Aries, Buildr, Apache Buildr, BVal,Apache BVal, Camel, Apache Camel, Cassandra, Apache Cassandra, Clerezza, Apache Clerezza”, Cloudstack, Apache Cloudstack, Commons, Apache Commons,
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Program, Speaker Lineup, Sponsors for ApacheCon Europe
--this announcement is also online at http://s.apache.org/vEW The ApacheCon Europe Planning team today announced the program, speaker lineup, and sponsors for ApacheCon, the official conference of The Apache Software Foundation. ApacheCon returns to Europe 5-8 November 2012 at the Rhein-Neckar-Arena in Sinsheim, Germany, attracting Open Source users, developers, gurus, students, novices, and enthusiasts to the newly-introduced Community Edition of ApacheCon --a smaller, less formal event aimed at a more technically-oriented audience, and featuring an array of sessions focused on Apache projects and initiatives, plus MeetUps, FastFeather and Community Tracks, Hackathon, and BarCamp. This is an ideal opportunity for technologists currently developing Apache-based solutions, as well as those interested in committing code to an Apache project, contributing to the Apache Incubator, or enhancing their Open Source products and community practices. ApacheCon Europe Community Edition is organized and run by the Apache community; all content for ApacheCon has been selected by Apache Project Management Committees. 13 tracks explore key Open Source applications and issues, from Big Data and Smart Search to Cloud and Infrastructure, and include: Apache Daily –-the tools, frameworks, and components used on a daily basis, such as Apache Logging, Apache Maven, Apache Ant, Apache Buildr, Apache Commons, and more. ApacheEE –-all about Java Enterprise projects at the ASF, including Apache OpenWebBeans, Apache OpenEJB, Apache TomEE, Apache Tomcat, Apache MyFaces, Apache DeltaSpike, Apache BVal, and Apache OpenJPA. Big Data [sponsored by Hortonworks] –-the ASF projects at the forefront of high-volume performance, innovation, and analytics, such as Apache Cassandra, Apache Hadoop, Apache HBase, Apache Hive, Apache Kafka, Apache Mahout, Apache Pig, Apache Whirr, Apache ZooKeeper and friends. Camel in Action –-common problems, solutions, and best practices with Apache Camel. Cloud [sponsored by Citrix and HP] –-many Apache initiatives play a key role in powering today's Cloud, from Apache Libcloud and Deltacloud, to Apache Whirr, Accumulo, and Cloudstack, to Apache Hadoop + friends. Community –-if you've ever wanted to know how to become involved with the ASF --from becoming a Committer to bringing a project to the Apache Incubator to learning how the ASF works-- or are seeking information on how Open Source can benefit your organization or ways to improve your Open Source community experience, this is the place to roll up sleeves and get started. Linked Data –-adopting, linking, and interoperating the Web of Data using the latest in annotating, processing, extracting, reasoning, and semantics with Apache Jena, Apache Any23 (Incubating), Apache Clerezza (Incubating), and Apache Stanbol (Incubating). Lucene/Solr and Friends [co-located with Lucene Eurocon; sponsored by LucidWorks] –-the latest in search and analytics with Apache Lucene/Solr, Apache Tika, Apache ManifoldCF and more. Modular Java –-developing and deploying applications in public and private Cloud environments using Apache Felix, Apache ACE, Apache Karaf, Apache Aries, Apache Sling. NoSQL Database –-use cases and latest developments in dovetailing Big Data with Apache Cassandra, Apache HBase, Apache CouchDB, Apache Accumulo, and more. OFBiz –-the ins and outs of Apache OFBiz (Open For Business), the Open Source Enterprise Resource Planning suite of applications that integrate and automate many business processes, including catalogue management, eCommerce, CRM, warehousing, manufacturing, project management, HR functionality, FiCo, and more. OpenOffice [sponsored by Oracle] –-the Apache OpenOffice ecosystem, with dedicated hackathons, MeetUps, and evening sessions, as well as use cases, and technical sessions on Writer, Calc, Impress, Math, Base, and Draw. Web Infrastructure –-the backbone of the Web, including Apache HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat, Apache Traffic Server, and more. The full presentation list is available at http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/list/ Registration and Special Savings Register by 1 October 2012 to take advantage of Early Bird rates with savings up to €150. Students benefit with a super-discounted registration rate of €75, made possible by a special subsidy from Google. Sign up today at http://www.apachecon.eu/tickets/ Sponsorship ApacheCon Europe is underwritten through a generous donation by Platinum Sponsor SAP. Joining them are Citrix, Google, Hortonworks, and LucidWorks at the Gold level; HP and Oracle at the Silver level; and evening events sponsor The Open Bastion. For sponsorship information, contact Melissa Warnkin at e...@apache.org or on +1 908 343 3214. We look forward to seeing you in November! -The ApacheCon Planning Committee
[ANNOUNCE] The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Airavata as a Top-Level Project
by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. Apache Airavata source code, documentation, mailing lists, and related resources are available at http://airavata.apache.org/. About the Apache Incubator The Apache Incubator is the entry path for projects and codebases wishing to become part of the efforts at The Apache Software Foundation. All code donations from external organisations and existing external projects wishing to join the ASF enter through the Incubator to: 1) ensure all donations are in accordance with the ASF legal standards; and 2) develop new communities that adhere to our guiding principles. Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF. For more information, visit http://incubator.apache.org/. About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, more than 400 individual Members and 3,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(3)(c) not-for-profit charity, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including AMD, Basis Technology, Citrix, Cloudera, Facebook, Go Daddy, Google, HP, Hortonworks, Huawei, IBM, InMotion Hosting, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, PSW Group, SpringSource/VMware, WANdisco, and Yahoo!. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/ or follow @TheASF on Twitter. Apache, Airavata, Apache Airavata, and ApacheCon are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. # # # Contact: Sally Khudairi Vice President The Apache Software Foundation pr...@apache.org +1 617 921 8656 for instructions on how to unsubscribe from Apache News and Announcements emails, please see http://apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html#foundation-announce
[ANNOUNCE] The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache OpenOffice™ as a Top-Level Project
NOTE: this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/XiQ The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache OpenOffice™ as a Top-Level Project Award-winning leading Open Source productivity suite widely used in 228 countries; over 20 million downloads of latest version since its release in May 2012 Forest Hill, MD – 18 October 2012 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced that Apache Open Office has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP), signifying that the Project’s community and products have been well-governed under the ASF's meritocratic process and principles. The graduation of OpenOffice is testament to The Apache Way successfully scaling from incubating 'ingredient brands' to a highly-established end-user product, said ASF Executive Vice President and Apache OpenOffice mentor Ross Gardler. The incubation process allowed experienced Apache contributors to mentor the project, helping both new and established OpenOffice contributors build an Apache-style community that is both open and diverse. The OpenOffice graduation is the official recognition that the project is now able to self-manage not only in technical matters, but also in community issues, said Andrea Pescetti, Vice President of Apache OpenOffice. The 'Apache Way' and its methods, such as taking every decision in public with total transparency, have allowed the project to attract and successfully engage new volunteers, and to elect an active and diverse Project Management Committee that will be able to guarantee a stable future to Apache OpenOffice. Initially created by Star Division in the 1990's, the OpenOffice code base was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1999 and later Oracle Corporation in 2010, before being submitted to The Apache Software Foundation Incubator in June 2011. During its development period in the Apache Incubator, the Apache OpenOffice project transitioned nearly 10 million lines of code, added numerous enhancements, and fixed dozens of user-reported bugs in the popular and free productivity suite. In addition, the software received five industry awards, ranging from individual component highlights to top download to best Open Source desktop office productivity application suite. In May 2012 Apache OpenOffice v3.4 was released in 20 languages, and downloaded over 20 million times by individual, corporate, educational, and government users in 228 countries. Since then, the project has been working on new functionality, innovations, and releases targeted for Q1 and Q4 2013. It's really cool that OpenOffice is now a top-level project at Apache, said Juergen Schmidt, Apache OpenOffice Release Manager. We met many challenges to achieve this milestone: our first Apache OpenOffice 3.4 release required our community to not only transition the code from Oracle repositories to Apache, but also replace incompatibly-licensed libraries in order to successfully meet Apache's licensing requirements. Now our Apache OpenOffice source code is available for the benefit of other projects and organizations. We are extremely proud of this important milestone and welcome OpenOffice into our stable of world leading Apache projects, added Gardler. Availability and Oversight Apache OpenOffice is available free of charge to any user for any purpose, and may be downloaded from http://openoffice.org. The product can be downloaded on an unlimited number of PCs for an unlimited number of users --completely free of any license fees. The project has a strong focus on open standards support, from ODF (the first implementor of ISO/IEC 26300) to future plans for CMIS, OpenSocial, and OData. As with all Apache software, Apache OpenOffice software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. Information on Apache OpenOffice source code, documentation, mailing lists, related resources, and ways to participate are available at http://openoffice.apache.org/. About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, more than 400 individual Members and 3,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the
[ANNOUNCE] The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache OpenOffice™ as a Top-Level Project
NOTE: this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/XiQ The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache OpenOffice™ as a Top-Level Project Award-winning leading Open Source productivity suite widely used in 228 countries; over 20 million downloads of latest version since its release in May 2012 Forest Hill, MD – 18 October 2012 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced that Apache Open Office has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP), signifying that the Project’s community and products have been well-governed under the ASF's meritocratic process and principles. The graduation of OpenOffice is testament to The Apache Way successfully scaling from incubating 'ingredient brands' to a highly-established end-user product, said ASF Executive Vice President and Apache OpenOffice mentor Ross Gardler. The incubation process allowed experienced Apache contributors to mentor the project, helping both new and established OpenOffice contributors build an Apache-style community that is both open and diverse. The OpenOffice graduation is the official recognition that the project is now able to self-manage not only in technical matters, but also in community issues, said Andrea Pescetti, Vice President of Apache OpenOffice. The 'Apache Way' and its methods, such as taking every decision in public with total transparency, have allowed the project to attract and successfully engage new volunteers, and to elect an active and diverse Project Management Committee that will be able to guarantee a stable future to Apache OpenOffice. Initially created by Star Division in the 1990's, the OpenOffice code base was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1999 and later Oracle Corporation in 2010, before being submitted to The Apache Software Foundation Incubator in June 2011. During its development period in the Apache Incubator, the Apache OpenOffice project transitioned nearly 10 million lines of code, added numerous enhancements, and fixed dozens of user-reported bugs in the popular and free productivity suite. In addition, the software received five industry awards, ranging from individual component highlights to top download to best Open Source desktop office productivity application suite. In May 2012 Apache OpenOffice v3.4 was released in 20 languages, and downloaded over 20 million times by individual, corporate, educational, and government users in 228 countries. Since then, the project has been working on new functionality, innovations, and releases targeted for Q1 and Q4 2013. It's really cool that OpenOffice is now a top-level project at Apache, said Juergen Schmidt, Apache OpenOffice Release Manager. We met many challenges to achieve this milestone: our first Apache OpenOffice 3.4 release required our community to not only transition the code from Oracle repositories to Apache, but also replace incompatibly-licensed libraries in order to successfully meet Apache's licensing requirements. Now our Apache OpenOffice source code is available for the benefit of other projects and organizations. We are extremely proud of this important milestone and welcome OpenOffice into our stable of world leading Apache projects, added Gardler. Availability and Oversight Apache OpenOffice is available free of charge to any user for any purpose, and may be downloaded from http://openoffice.org. The product can be downloaded on an unlimited number of PCs for an unlimited number of users --completely free of any license fees. The project has a strong focus on open standards support, from ODF (the first implementor of ISO/IEC 26300) to future plans for CMIS, OpenSocial, and OData. As with all Apache software, Apache OpenOffice software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. Information on Apache OpenOffice source code, documentation, mailing lists, related resources, and ways to participate are available at http://openoffice.apache.org/. About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, more than 400 individual Members and 3,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's
[ANNOUNCE] The Apache Software Foundation Announces ApacheCon Europe Community Edition Officially Sold-Out; Extends CFP for North America Event
NOTE: this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/08 Premier Open Source event brings developers and users together to lead communities The Apache Way, and accelerate success in evaluating, building, adopting, and deploying solutions across the Apache ecosystem. Forest Hill, MD –30 October 2012– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) today announced key milestones and updates for ApacheCon, its official conference series. Now in its 13th year, ApacheCon brings users, developers, gurus, students, novices, and enthusiasts together to explore key issues in evaluating, building, and adopting Open Source innovations The Apache Way. ApacheCon is an ideal opportunity for technologists currently developing Apache-based solutions, as well as those interested in committing code to an Apache project, contributing to the Apache Incubator, or enhancing their Open Source products and community practices. In alignment with the community-driven culture of the ASF, all content for ApacheCon is selected by members of Apache Project Management Committees. More than 500 delegates will convene at ApacheCon Europe 5-8 November 2012 at the Rhein-Neckar-Arena in Sinsheim, Germany. The sold-out event marks the introduction of the Community Edition of ApacheCon --a smaller, less formal event aimed at a more technically-oriented audience, and featuring nearly 140 presentations across 6 tracks, MeetUps, FastFeather and Community Tracks, Hackathon, and BarCamp. The complete schedule is available at http://www.apachecon.eu/schedule/ ApacheCon Europe is underwritten through a generous donation by Platinum Sponsor SAP; Claus von Riegen, Head of Open Source and Open Standards participation, will serve as the conference’s opening plenary speaker. Joining SAP are Gold Sponsors Citrix (co-sponsors of the Cloud Track and sponsors of the event’s wireless connectivity), Google (sponsors of special student registration subsidies), Hortonworks (exclusive sponsors of the Big Data Track), and LucidWorks (exclusive sponsors of the Lucene/Solr Friends Track and LuceneEurocon, which is co-located with ApacheCon); and Silver Sponsors Cloudant (co-sponsors of the NoSQL Database Track), HP (co-sponsors of the Cloud Track), Optiver (co-sponsors of the NoSQL Database Track), and Oracle (sponsors of the Apache OpenOffice Track); and evening events sponsors Adobe, codeBusters, The Open Bastion, and VMware. ApacheCon Europe Community Edition is organized and run by the Apache community with assistance from The Open Bastion, producers of ApacheCon North America 2013. Scheduled to take place 24 February – 2 March 2013, ApacheCon North America will be held at the Portland Hilton in Portland, Oregon, United States. The event will kick off with pre-conference trainings, BarCamp, and hackathon the first two days; followed by the main conference + expo 26-28 February; and closing with post-conference sprints, workshops, and team building events. The theme for ApacheCon North America is Open Source Community Leadership Drives Enterprise-Grade Innovation, showcasing the diverse applications and solutions made possible by Apache technologies. Submissions about novel uses of Apache products and how they are helping to shape the future are particularly welcome, including proposals on technical, business and community matters for audiences at all levels from beginner to expert, with particular focus on those demonstrating real-world experience of solving specific problems. Dozens of Apache technologies—from Abdera to Zookeeper—will be represented across popular topic areas and tracks that include: Apache Daily (everyday tools, frameworks, and components), ApacheEE (Java Enterprise projects at the ASF), Big Data, Enterprise Messaging Integration, Cloud, Linked Data, Lucene/Solr Friends (Smart Search Analytics), Modular Java, NoSQL Database, OFBiz (Open Source Enterprise Resource Planning), Apache OpenOffice, Web Infrastructure, Business Community, and many more. To submit a proposal for ApacheCon North America, visit http://na.apachecon.com/ Early-Bird registration will open with the announcement of the conference program at the end of November. Updates will be posted on the @ApacheCon Twitter feed and the ApacheCon Website. For sponsor and exhibitor information, contact Nancy Asche at nancy.as...@conferencedirect.com or on +1 407 601 6228. For press/analyst registration and credentialing, or to become a Media Partner, contact Sally Khudairi on +1 617 921 8656 or s...@apache.org. About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world’s most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, more than 400 individual Members and 3,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Program for 25th ApacheCon
this message is also available online at http://s.apache.org/D7n Open Source Community Leadership Drives Enterprise-Grade Innovation showcases dozens of key Apache projects across Big Data, Cloud Computing, Infrastructure, Messaging, Scientific Applications, and more. Forest Hill, MD – 12 December 2012 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced the program and early registration incentives for ApacheCon North America 2013, the 25th edition of the ASF's official conference, trainings, and expo. Taking place 24 February-2 March 2013 at the Hilton Portland Executive Tower in Portland, Oregon, ApacheCon is the ideal opportunity for those developing Apache-based solutions, as well as those interested in committing code to an Apache project, contributing to the Apache Incubator, or enhancing their Open Source products and community practices. ApacheCon offers an excellent way to meet the individual contributors behind some of the industry's most popular Apache projects through hands-on educational sessions and ample networking opportunities. This year's theme is Open Source Community Leadership Drives Enterprise-Grade Innovation, reflecting the enormous reach and influence of the ASF. Apache products power half the Internet, petabytes of data, teraflops of operations, billions of objects, and enhance the lives of countless users and developers. First held in 1999 for developers and users of the Apache Server to meet face-to-face, ApacheCon is the public showcase for Apache innovations, from the ubiquitous flagship Apache HTTP Server to industry-defining solutions in Cloud Computing, Big Data, and Infrastructure, to dozens of emerging projects in the Apache Incubator and Labs. The event will kick off with two days of pre-conference trainings, BarCamp, and Hackathon activities, followed by the main conference + expo 26-28 February, and will close with post-conference sprints, workshops, and team building events. Content by the Community, for the Community The ApacheCon program was carefully reviewed and selected by Apache Members and Committers, and celebrates the diversity of the many projects under the Apache banner. Track/session/speaker highlights include: Overture and Beginners - Should you bring your project to the Incubator? - Benson Margulies - Getting to Know Apache CloudStack - Joe Brockmeier - Getting Hadoop, Hive and HBase up and running in less than 15 minutes - Mark Grover A Patchy Web - What's new in httpd 2.4 - Rich Bowen - Tomcat 8 update - Mark Thomas - Introducing Apache Traffic Server - Igor Galić Community Over Code - Managing Open Source Community Brands - Shane Curcuru - Open Development in the Enterprise - Bertrand Delacretaz - Human Resource Management in Open Source Communities - Daniel Gruno Tapping the Stream - Instant integration into the AMQP cloud with Apache Qpid Messenger - Rafael Schloming - Apache Streams: Enterprise Social Integration - Matt Franklin - Next Generation Open Source Messaging with Apollo - Hiram Chirino Cloud Crowd - Creating Pools of Virtual Machines (10s or 100s) - Andrei Savu - Apache CloudStack's Plugin Model: Balancing the Cathedral with a Bazaar - Don Lafferty - Hadoop and HBase on the Cloud: A Case Study on Performance and Isolation. - Konstantin Shvachko Apache in Science - Case Study: Apache OODT Framework Application for Support to the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) - Richard Ullman - Apache Airavata: Building Gateways to innovation - Suresh Marru - Searching for cancer biomarkers with Apache OODT - Rishi Verma Open Office - Apache OpenOffice: Project Update and Future Direction - Donald Harbison - Scripting Apache OpenOffice - Rony G. Flatscher - OpenOffice: from Bureaucracy to Meritocracy - Kay Schenk Bigger Big Data - Firefox Crash Analysis - Laura Thomson - Solr Query Parsing - Erik Hatcher - Mastering Sqoop for Data Transfer for Big Data - Kathleen Ting - Best Practices for CouchDB Developers on Windows Azure - Brian Benz How Secure? - Introduction to Apache Shiro - Les Hazlewood - Reining in Security Sprawl: Certificate Key Management for Big Data - Dustin Kirkland Cassandra - The new face of Cassandra - Michaël Figuière - Cassandra in Action - Jonathan Ellis - Virtual Nodes: Rethinking Topology in Cassandra - Eric Evans Caravan - Integrating WebServices with Camel - Daniel Kulp - Performance optimizations for Apache Camel - Christian Müller - NoSQL takes over – Systems Integration in the NoSQL Era with Apache Camel - Kai Wähner In addition, popular ApacheCon sessions return, including State of the Feather by ASF President and conference chairman Jim Jagielski, The Apache Way by Nick Burch, The Business of Open Source panel by Sally Khudairi, and the Fast Feather Track's introductions to select projects in the Apache Incubator and Labs. ApacheCon is for Everyone
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Cassandra™ v1.2
this announcement is also online at http://s.apache.org/fv High-performance, super-robust Big Data distributed database introduces support for dense clusters, simplifies application modeling, and improves data cell storage, design, and representation. Forest Hill, MD –2 January 2013– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced Apache Cassandra v1.2, the latest version of the highly-scalable, fault-tolerant, Big Data distributed database. Successfully handling thousands of requests per second, Apache Cassandra powers massive data sets quickly and reliably without compromising performance –whether running in the Cloud or partially on-premise in a hybrid data store. Apache Cassandra is successfully used by an array of organizations that include Adobe, Appscale, Appssavvy, Backupify, Cisco, Clearspring, Cloudtalk, Constant Contact, DataStax, Digg, Digital River, Disney, eBay, Easou, Formspring, Hailo, Hobsons, IBM, Mahalo.com, Morningstar, Netflix, Openwave, OpenX, Palantir, PBS, Plaxo, Rackspace, Reddit, RockYou, Shazam, SimpleGeo, Spotify, Thomson-Reuters, Twitter, Urban Airship, US Government, Walmart Labs, Williams-Sonoma, and Yakaz. We are pleased to announce Cassandra 1.2, said Jonathan Ellis, Vice President of Apache Cassandra. By improving support for dense clusters —powering multiple terabytes per node— as well as simplifying application modeling, and improving data cell storage/design/representation, systems are able to effortlessly scale petabytes of data. Highlights for the second generation high-performance, NoSQL database includes clustering across virtual nodes, inter-node communication, atomic batches, and request tracing. In addition, Cassandra v1.2 also marks the release of CQL3 (version 3 of the Cassandra Query Language), to simplify application modeling, allow for more powerful mapping, and alleviate design limitations through more natural representation. We are really excited to begin taking advantage of all the new features Apache Cassandra v1.2 has to offer – particularly virtual nodes and atomic batches. Both of these new features will play a central role in future enhancements to our architecture, said Ed Anuff, VP, Mobile Platform at Apigee. It's great to see the core of Apache Cassandra continue to evolve, said independent software developer Kelly Sommers. In Cassandra v1.2 the introduction of vnodes will simplify managing clusters while improving performance when adding and rebuilding nodes. v1.2 also includes many new features, performance improvements and further heap reduction to eleviate the burden on the JVM garbage collector. The much anticipated release of Cassandra 1.2 brings with it features that simplify application development. Atomic batches provide a mechanism for developers to ensure transactional integrity across a business process, instead of relying on idempotent operations and retry mechanisms, said Brian O’Neill, Lead Architect at Health Market Science. Additionally, native support for collections is attractive and a compelling reason to explore CQL 3. Apache Cassandra continues to be a leading option for scalability and high availability without compromising performance and, with the improvements provided in v1.2, reinforces our commitment to growth while preserving backwards compatibility, added Ellis. Availability and Oversight As with all Apache products, Apache Cassandra v1.2 is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. Apache Cassandra source code, documentation, and related resources are available at http://cassandra.apache.org/. About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world’s most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, more than 400 individual Members and 3,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(3)(c) not-for-profit charity, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including AMD, Basis Technology, Citrix, Cloudera, Facebook, Go Daddy, Google, HP, Hortonworks, Huawei, IBM, InMotion Hosting, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, PSW Group, SpringSource/VMware, WANdisco, and Yahoo!. For more information, visit
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Flex™ as a Top-Level Project
code donations from external organizations and existing external projects wishing to join the ASF enter through the Incubator to: 1) ensure all donations are in accordance with the ASF legal standards; and 2) develop new communities that adhere to our guiding principles. Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF. For more information, visit http://incubator.apache.org/. About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, more than 400 individual Members and 3,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(3)(c) not-for-profit charity, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including AMD, Basis Technology, Citrix, Cloudera, Facebook, Go Daddy, Google, HP, Hortonworks, Huawei, IBM, InMotion Hosting, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, PSW Group, SpringSource/VMware, WANdisco, and Yahoo!. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/ or follow @TheASF on Twitter. Apache, Flex, Apache Flex, and ApacheCon are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. # # # Contact: Sally Khudairi Vice President The Apache Software Foundation pr...@apache.org +1 617 921 8656 [You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the announce@apache.org list. All public ASF mailing lists are auto-administered; to unsubscribe, send email to announce-unsubscr...@apache.org from the email address subscribed]
The Apache Software Foundation Community Development Project Welcomes Student Proposals for Google Summer of Code 2013
this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/AVV Hundreds of students mentored in The Apache Way of Open Source community leadership Forest Hill, MD –9 April 2013– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)'s Community Development (ComDev) project today announced its acceptance into the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) as a mentoring organization for the eighth consecutive year. The ComDev team helps newcomers learn about the ASF's projects, governance, and activities, and guides them in becoming part of the meritocratic, all-volunteer Apache community. Established in 2005, the Google Summer of Code offers student developers from around the world stipends to write code for various Open Source software projects over a three month period. The ASF has actively participated in GSoC since the program's inception, mentoring 30-45 students each year, and providing exposure to real-world software and community development The Apache Way. Countless GSoC students mentored by the Apache community continue to be long-term code committers on a variety of Apache projects. Some active program participants have even been elected as members of the ASF. This year, dozens of Apache projects have committed to mentoring GSoC students. They include, but are not limited to, Accumulo, Airavata, Axiom, Bloodhound, CloudStack, CouchDB, Crunch, Giraph, Gora, Hama, Hive, Isis, Jena, Lenya, Lucene, Mahout, ManifoldCF, Mesos, Nutch, ODE, OpenMeetings, OpenOffice, Pig, Rat, SIS, Sling, Solr, Stanbol, Tika, VXQuery, Wookie, XalanJ, and XercesJ. The ComDev team recommends GSoC students to discuss ideas directly with all Apache project(s) of interest before the official start of the application phase on Monday, 22 April 2013. The ASF's more than 100 Top-Level Projects and nearly three dozen initiatives in the Apache Incubator are listed at http://www.apache.org/ and http://incubator.apache.org/ respectively. For more information on Apache Community Development and to get involved with Apache projects for GSoC, visit http://community.apache.org/gsoc.html Details on the Google Summer of Code is available at http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/homepage/google/gsoc2013 About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, more than 400 individual Members and 3,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(3)(c) not-for-profit charity, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including AMD, Basis Technology, Citrix, Cloudera, Facebook, Go Daddy, Google, HP, Hortonworks, Huawei, IBM, InMotion Hosting, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, PSW Group, SpringSource/VMware, WANdisco, and Yahoo!. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/ or follow @TheASF on Twitter. Apache, Accumulo, Apache Accumulo, Airavata, Apache Airavata, Axiom, Apache Axiom, Bloodhound, Apache Bloodhound, CloudStack, Apache CloudStack, CouchDB, Apache CouchDB, Crunch, Apache Crunch, Giraph, Apache Giraph, Gora, Apache Gora, Hama, Apache Hama, Hive, Apache Hive, Isis, Apache Isis, Jena, Apache Jena, Lenya, Apache Lenya, Lucene, Apache Lucene, Mahout, Apache Mahout, ManifoldCF, Apache ManifoldCF, Mesos, Apache Mesos, Nutch, Apache Nutch, ODE, Apache ODE, OpenMeetings, Apache OpenMeetings, OpenOffice, Apache OpenOffice, Pig, Apache Pig, Rat, Apache Rat, SIS, Apache SIS, Sling, Apache Sling, Solr, Apache Solr, Stanbol, Apache Stanbol, Tika, Apache Tika, VXQuery, Apache VXQuery, Wookie, Apache Wookie, XalanJ, Apache XalanJ, XercesJ, Apache XercesJ, and ApacheCon are registered trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. # # # Contact: Sally Khudairi Vice President The Apache Software Foundation pr...@apache.org +1 617 921 8656 You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the Apache Announcements List to unsubscribe, send an email from the subscribed address to announce-unsubscr...@apache.org. For more information, visit http://apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html#foundation-announce
The Apache Software Foundation Welcomes New Members
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) held its annual Members' meeting this May. Among the Foundation's business that takes place during this meeting is the election of new ASF Members. At its inception in 1999, The ASF comprised 21 individuals who oversaw the progress of the Apache HTTP Server. This group formed the Foundation's core membership. This group grew with Committers, developers who contributed code, patches, or documentation, and were subsequently granted access by the Membership: 1) to commit or write (contribute) directly to the code repository; 2) the right to vote on community-related decisions; and 3) and the ability propose an active user for Committership Those Committers who demonstrate merit in the Foundation’s growth, evolution, and progress are nominated for ASF Membership by existing members. There are currently 468 active Apache Members. ASF Members are elected bi-annually. New Members elected at the May 2013 Members' meeting are: Alejandro Abdelnur, Robin Anil, Andrew Bayer, Sergey Beryozkin, Alan M. Carroll, Pei Chen, Chip Childers, Fabian Christ, Luca Cinquini, Dave Cottlehuber, Martin Desruisseaux, Andrew Farris, Adam Fuchs, Reto Bachmann-Gmuer, Daniel Gruno, Alex Harui, Dan Haywood, Sheryl John, Konstantin Kolinko, Christine Koppelt, Jörn Kottmann, Matt Massie, Christian Mueller, David Nalley, Thomas Neidhart, Robert Newson, Ricky Nguyen, Andrea Pescetti, Mark Phippard, Marlon Pierce, Andrew Rist, Henry Saputra, Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli, Andreas Veithen, Nick Wellnhofer, Paul Zimdars. Welcome all! The complete list of ASF Members and Committers is available at https://people.apache.org/committers-by-project.html#member. For more information on how the ASF works, visit http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html. # # #
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ OpenOffice™ 4.0
NOTE: this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/3KA Leading Open Source office productivity solution introduces major new user experience and improvements 23 July 2013 --Forest Hill, MD-- The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced the immediate availability of Apache OpenOfficeTM 4.0 Apache OpenOffice is the leading Open Source office document productivity suite, providing six productivity applications: Writer, Calc, Impress, Base, Draw and Formula, with native support for OASIS Open Document Format 1.2 (ODF). OpenOffice supports multiple platforms, including Linux, OS X® and Microsoft Windows®, with additional 3rd party ports to other operating systems. Apache OpenOffice is translated by community volunteers into dozens of languages, including major market languages as well as regional and minority languages that are often ignored by commercial vendors. More than 58 million copies of Apache OpenOffice v3.4 have been downloaded since its release in May 2012. Apache OpenOffice 4.0 is available for download at: http://www.openoffice.org. OpenOffice 4.0 features a new, more modern user interface, improvements to Microsoft Office interoperability, enhanced graphics support and many other improvements, which are detailed in the Release Notes: http://s.apache.org/fw With Apache OpenOffice we are making major improvements to our user experience by introducing the Sidebar, the first radical improvement to the OpenOffice user interface in years, said Andrea Pescetti, Vice President, Apache OpenOffice. Together with major new improvements in Microsoft Office interoperability, enhancements in graphics and color palette management as well as improvements in Calc, Chart and Draw editor modules, Apache OpenOffice 4.0 adds up to a compelling new release. With a rigorous quality assurance testing process, we wholeheartedly recommend our user community begin to upgrade. Innovation happens at Apache and is immediately available to everybody who wishes to build upon the OpenOffice source code. IBM is proud to see its source code contribution of IBM® Lotus® Symphony™ coming to fruition with the release of Apache OpenOffice 4.0, said Kevin Cavanaugh, Vice President, IBM Collaboration Solutions. The time is right for wide-scale enterprise adoption, especially with the upcoming end-of-support for Microsoft Office 2003. By choosing Apache OpenOffice, enterprises will free up resources for their cloud and mobile infrastructure investments. Under the Hood The new Sidebar makes better use of today's widescreen displays. Users may easily edit their document properties in-context, with the most-frequently needed controls available in panels in the Sidebar. Panels may be expanded or collapsed as needed. Twenty-two panels were implemented, offering users a major productivity improvement. A new framework was implemented allowing application developers to build extensions to the Sidebar. With this new framework Apache OpenOffice 4.0 offers a robust extensibility mechanism, enabling applications that integrate business application data, seamlessly integrate with cloud and mobile document editing environments, and automate common document workflow tasks. Apache OpenOffice Extensions may be downloaded from the new version of the Apache OpenOffice Extension Repository, maintained by SourceForge: http://extensions.openoffice.org We at SourceForge are proud to actively support the Apache OpenOffice community, said Alice Hill, President, Slashdot Media. The new versions of OpenOffice extensions and templates websites provide an enhanced user experience complete with notifications for new versions. We think the Apache OpenOffice community will be thrilled with these upgrades. Apache OpenOffice provides new Office Open XML (OOXML) support, including support for docx outline levels, support for table background color from table style in docx files, more bullet and numbering support in docx and support for font color in pptx files. Microsoft Office interoperability is a very high priority for the project, said Juergen Schmidt, Apache OpenOffice Release Manager. We are working hard to ensure that our users can successfully exchange documents and document content with colleagues who continue to use Microsoft Office. Moving forward we plan to continue our focus on OOXML document interoperability. Apache OpenOffice an all volunteer led project. All are welcome to make contributions to any aspect of the project. To get involved visit: http://openoffice.apache.org/get-involved.html Availability and Oversight As with all Apache products, Apache OpenOffice software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Cassandra™ v2.0
this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/ZZq Highly-performant, Open Source Big Data distributed database in use at Adobe, CERN, Comcast, eBay, GoDaddy, HP, IBM, Instagram, Netflix, Plaxo, and Sony, among others, to create modern, data-driven applications Forest Hill, MD –4 September 2013– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced Apache Cassandra v2.0, the latest version of the highly-scalable, Big Data distributed database. Apache Cassandra powers massive data sets quickly and reliably without compromising performance, whether running in the Cloud or partially on-premise in a hybrid data store. Its fully distributed architecture provides unparalleled fault tolerance to ensure applications will not go offline, and its linear scalability allows them to reach massive sizes while successfully handling thousands of requests per second. In five years, Apache Cassandra has grown into one of the most widely used NoSQL databases in the world and serves as the backbone for some of today's most popular applications, said Jonathan Ellis, Vice President of Apache Cassandra. Under the Hood New features in Apache Cassandra v2.0 include lightweight transactions, triggers, and CQL (Cassandra Query Language) enhancements that increase productivity in creating modern, data-driven applications. Cassandra 2.0 makes it easier than ever for developers to migrate from relational databases and become productive quickly, added Ellis. New features and improvements include: • Lightweight transactions allow ensuring operation linearizability similar to the serializable isolation level offered by relational databases, which prevents conflicts during concurrent requests • Triggers, which enable pushing performance-critical code close to the data it deals with, and simplify integration with event-driven frameworks like Storm • CQL enhancements such as cursors and improved index support • Improved compaction, keeping read performance from deteriorating under heavy write load • Eager retries to avoid query timeouts by sending redundant requests to other replicas if too much time elapses on the original request • Custom Thrift server implementation based on LMAX Disruptor that achieves lower message processing latencies and better throughput with flexible buffer allocation strategies Strong Community Engagement and Adoption The Apache Cassandra developer community includes some of the brightest minds in Big Data. Hundreds of organizations, from startups to large-scale enterprises such as Adobe, Cisco and IBM, rely on Cassandra to power their mission-critical applications online. At Ooyala, we're building some of our most ambitious projects to date on top of Apache Cassandra, said Al Tobey, Tech Lead, Compute and Data Services, Ooyala. The maturation of CQL3, vnodes, and new features such as the PAXOS-backed compare-and-set (CAS) added in Cassandra 2.0 will help us build and deploy those projects confidently. Apache Cassandra is used by many highly-visible organizations such as Accenture, CERN, Cloudkick, Comcast, Constant Contact, Dell, Digg, Ericsson, Eventbrite, GoDaddy, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, HP, Instagram, Intuit, Mahalo, Microsoft MetricsHub, Morningstar, NASA, Netflix, Nextag, OpenWave, PBS Kids, Pitney Bowes, Plaxo, Polyvore, Real Networks, Reddit, Sony Network Entertainment, SoundCloud, Spotify, Squidoo, Stormpath, Symantec, Twitter, Wildfire, WSO2, and ZoomInfo. A listing of where Apache Cassandra is used and deployment details can be found at http://planetcassandra.org/Company/ViewCompany?IndustryId=-1 We are excited about the future Apache Cassandra 2.0 makes possible. Paying down a lot of the technical debt accumulated over 5 years of intense Open Source development, and solidifying the Native Binary Transport for CQL 3, has put the project on a great footing, said Aaron Morton, Apache Cassandra committer and Co-Founder Principal Consultant of The Last Pickle. The addition of Lightweight ‘Compare-and-Set’ Transactions and Cursors brings another set of features that make it easier for developers to harness the performance and scale of Cassandra. And the experimental Trigger support will allow Open Source contributors to provide feedback for this often requested feature. It'll be really helpful to have conditional updates built into Cassandra, explained Jon Haddad, Senior Architect at Shift. Right now there's a few places where we have to use external locking to manage isolation, and having built in support in the database will be amazing. We feel this release will delight existing users and tempt those on the sidelines, added Morton. Availability and Oversight As with all Apache products, Apache Cassandra v2.0 is released under the
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Hadoop™ 2
this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/ny Foundation of next-generation Open Source Big Data Cloud computing platform runs multiple applications simultaneously to enable users to quickly and efficiently leverage data in multiple ways at supercomputing speed. Forest Hill, MD –16 October 2013– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced Apache™ Hadoop™ 2, the latest version of the Open Source software framework for reliable, scalable, distributed computing. A foundation of Cloud computing and at the epicenter of big data solutions, Apache Hadoop enables data-intensive distributed applications to work with thousands of nodes and exabytes of data. Hadoop enables organizations to more efficiently and cost-effectively store, process, manage and analyze the growing volumes of data being created and collected every day. Apache Hadoop connects thousands of servers to process and analyze data at supercomputing speed. The project's latest release marks a major milestone more than four years in the making, and has achieved the level of stability and enterprise-readiness to earn the General Availability designation. With the release of stable Hadoop 2, the community celebrates not only an iteration of the software, but an inflection point in the project's development. We believe this platform is capable of supporting new applications and research in large-scale, commodity computing, said Apache Hadoop Vice President Chris Douglas. The Apache Software Foundation creates the conditions for innovative, community-driven technology like Hadoop to evolve. When that process converges, the result is inspiring. Hadoop 2 marks a major evolution of the open source project that has been built collectively by passionate and dedicated developers and committers in the Apache community who are committed to bringing greater usability and stability to the data platform, said Arun C. Murthy, release manager of Apache Hadoop 2 and Founder of Hortonworks Inc. It has been an honor and pleasure to work with the community and a personal thrill to see our four years of work on YARN finally coming to fruition in the GA of Hadoop 2. Hadoop is truly becoming a cornerstone of the modern data architecture by enabling organizations to leverage the value of all their data, including capturing net-new data types, to drive innovative new services and applications. What started out a few years ago as a scalable batch processing system for Java programmers has now emerged as the kernel of the operating system for big data, said original Hadoop creator and ASF Board member Doug Cutting. Over a dozen Apache projects integrate with Hadoop, with ten more in the Apache Incubator poised to soon join their ranks. Dubbed a Swiss army knife of the 21st century and named Innovation of the Year by the 2011 Media Guardian Innovation Awards, Apache Hadoop is widely deployed at enterprise organizations around the globe, including industry leaders from across the Internet and social networking landscape such as Amazon Web Services, AOL, Apple, eBay, Facebook, foursquare, HP, LinkedIn, Netflix, The New York Times, Rackspace, and Twitter. Other technology leaders such as Microsoft, IBM, Teradata, SAP have integrated Apache Hadoop into their offerings. Yahoo!, an early pioneer, hosts the world’s largest known Hadoop production environment to date, spanning more than 35,000 nodes. Under the Hood Apache Hadoop 2 reflects intensive community- development, production experience, extensive testing, and feedback from hundreds of knowledgeable users, data scientists and systems engineers, bringing a highly stable, enterprise-ready release of the fastest-growing big data platform. New in Hadoop 2 is the addition of YARN that sits on top of HDFS and serves as a large-scale, distributed operating system for big data applications, enabling multiple applications to run simultaneously for more efficient support of data throughout its entire lifecycle. The culmination of so many other releases in the Hadoop 2.x line, the most current release --2.2.0-- is the first stable release in the 2.x line. Features include support support for: - Apache Hadoop YARN, a cornerstone of next generation Apache Hadoop, for running both data-processing applications (e.g. Apache Hadoop MapReduce, Apache Storm etc.) and services (e.g. Apache HBase) - High Availability for Apache Hadoop HDFS - Federation for Apache Hadoop HDFS for significant scale compared to Apache Hadoop 1.x. - Binary Compatibility for existing Apache Hadoop MapReduce applications built for Apache Hadoop 1.x. - Support for Microsoft Windows. - Snapshots for data in Apache Hadoop HDFS. - NFS-v3 Access for Apache Hadoop HDFS. The community has stepped up to the challenge of making Hadoop enterprise-ready, hardening
The ASF's Position on Oracle's TCK License
this statement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/IOR In December 2010, The Apache Software Foundation resigned its seat on the JCP Executive Committee [1]. Since then, our access to TCKs that previously had been provided by Oracle to a number of ASF projects has expired. The ASF has not blocked its projects from having access to JCP-provided TCKs. A number of such TCKs are made available without conditions that affect our ability to release our software under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0; for example, the JSR303 Bean Validation TCK was created by Red Hat/JBoss and is available under the Apache License, version 2.0. This is not the case with a number of TCKs provided by Oracle. ASF's position has always been that it would license Java TCKs only if it could do so without incurring any restriction that was incompatible with its license and open source software development and distribution practices. Sun Microsystems originally encouraged ASF to join the Java Community Process Executive Committee with the promise that ASF would have the opportunity to help define the Java Specification Participation Agreement and ensure that it included no such restrictions. Progress was slow, and ASF nearly abandoned the JCP in 2002, but eventually Sun agreed -- in a side-letter modifying the TCK License Agreements -- that the restrictions of concern to ASF would be construed so as not to restrict independent open source implementations: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/sideletter.pdf Additionally, the JSPA was modified to 1) prevent the specification lead (then Sun, now Oracle) from restricting the development or distribution of independent implementations and 2) require the specification lead to license essential IP royalty-free to any spec-compatible implementations. With these provisions in place, ASF was comfortable that the TCK licenses and JSPA were compatible with its development processes. Unfortunately, Sun breached the JSPA in 2006 by licensing the Java SE Compatibility Kit under terms inconsistent with its prior representations to ASF and its obligations under the JSPA, and incompatible with ASF's development of Apache Harmony. ASF urged Sun to honor its agreements, but after Sun persisted in its breach for a year, ASF withdrew from the JCP. At the time, Oracle supported ASF's position that Sun was in breach of the JSPA. But after acquiring Sun, Oracle adopted Sun's policy, disregarding the limits of the JSPA that formed the basis for ASF's participation in the JSP and acceptance of the various TCK licenses. ASF's position has not changed -- it cannot accept restrictions on TCK-tested code that are incompatible with its license and open source development practices. An example is the requirement in Section 2.1(b)(v) of the Stand-Alone TCK License Agreement, that any software tested with the TCK must thereafter be updated to comply with every subsequent version of the corresponding specification published by Oracle. This provision has always been a part of the TCK License Agreement, but was previously relaxed by an agreement with Oracle's predecessor upon which ASF no longer feels it can rely. Thus, ASF can only agree to the TCK license if Oracle will amend it consistent with the 2002 side-letter referred to above -- i.e. by removing or reconstruing restrictions that are incompatible with ASF's licensing and development practices -- and to make available under these terms all of the TCKs Apache has previously had access to. We would be eager to work with Oracle on these revisions. [1] https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_asf_resigns_from_the # # # NOTE: you are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the announce@apache.org distribution list. To unsubscribe, send email from the recipient account to announce-unsubscr...@apache.org with the word Unsubscribe in the subject line.
The ASF asks: have you met Apache™ Marmotta™?
This announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/47R The all-volunteer Apache Software Foundation (ASF) develops, stewards, and incubates over 200 Open Source projects and initiatives, many of which power mission-critical applications in financial services, aerospace, publishing, big data, government, healthcare, research, infrastructure, and more. Did you know that 50% of the Top 10 downloaded Open Source products are Apache™ projects? Did you know that one of the ASF's most active projects is Apache Marmotta™? Quick peek: Apache Marmotta is an Open Platform for Linked Data, a paradigm promoted by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for large scale data integration across the Web based the RDF technology stack. Background: Initiated in 2008 by a group of researchers from Salzburg Research as the EU-funded KiWi project (investigated the idea of Semantic Wikis and aimed at combining easily editable Web content with Semantic Web technologies to provide data to both human and machine users), later refocused and renamed as LMF. The project was contributed as Marmotta to the Apache Incubator in December of 2012. Apache Marmotta graduated as an Apache Top-Level Project in November 2013. A history of the project is available at http://redlink.co/apache-marmotta/ and http://www.salzburgresearch.at/en/2013/apache-marmotta-graduated-top-level-project/ . Why Marmotta: Apache Marmotta was created to provide an Open Source implementation of Linked Data technologies in general, and Linked Data Platform in particular. Usually organizations who want to use this technology need to assemble together different pieces of software, with the obvious problems derived, both technical and legal. Apache Marmotta satisfies that need of the industry, supporting almost any use-case with a permissive Open Source license. Apache Marmotta powers Salzburger Nachrichten's search and archive, the Open Data portal at Enel, as well as Redlink's cloud infrastructure, among other implementations. What's under the hood: Apache Marmotta includes features that make easier building Linked Data applications, including: full Read-Write Linked Data with basic security mechanism, exchangeable RDF triple stores, SPARQL and LDPath languages for querying, transparent Linked Data caching and an extensible modules architecture where you can plug-in your own modules. Apache Marmotta comprises the following components: - The Marmotta Platform, a JavaEE web application providing the Linked Data server; - KiWi, a Sesame-based triple store built on top of a relational database, including reasoning and versioning; - LDPath, a path language to navigate across Linked Data resources; - LDClient, a client that allows retrieval of remote legacy resources not available as Linked Data; and - LDCache, a cache system that automatically retrieves resources by internally using LDClient Latest release: Apache Marmotta v3.1.0-incubating on 13 October 2012 under the Apache License v.2.0. More details can be found in the Release Notes. In the upcoming weeks the Project plans to release its next version --the first one as on official Apache Top-Level Project. Stay tuned via the Apache Marmotta developer, user, and commit lists at http://marmotta.apache.org/mail-lists.html Downloads, documentation, examples, and more information: visit http://marmotta.apache.org Apache, Apache Marmotta, and Marmotta are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. # # # NOTE: you are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the announce@apache.org distribution list. To unsubscribe, send email from the recipient account to announce-unsubscr...@apache.org with the word Unsubscribe in the subject line.
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Release of Apache™ SpamAssassin™ 3.4.0
this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/G6b Award-winning anti-spam platform gives system administrators the tools they love to keep email free of spam by adding native support for IPv6, improved DNS Blocklist technology and support for massively-scalable Bayesian filtering using the Redis backend Forest Hill, MD –11 February 2014– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 170 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced a Valentine's Day gift to the Internet with the release of Apache™ SpamAssassin™ 3.4.0, the award winning and highly extensible email filtering program and API. Named by eWeek as one of the 11 Apache Technologies that have changed computing in the last 10 years, SpamAssassin is deployed by hundreds of thousands of organizations worldwide who hate spam almost as much as Monty Python[1]. By providing a comprehensive set of features and support for email classification including text-based patterns, Bayesian filtering, DNS Blocklists, checksum filters, sender authentication and automated rule channel updates, SpamAssassin takes a multi-step/tiered approach to classifying email to improve accuracy and decrease the chance of legitimate emails being incorrectly identified as spam. The project's latest release marks a major milestone more than two years in the making and celebrates a decade with the ASF. With the release of SpamAssassin 3.4.0, the project continues battling the ever evolving techniques used by spammers with an enterprise-grade release, said Apache SpamAssassin Vice President Kevin A. McGrail. The number one feature of SpamAssassin is the proven classification scoring framework that allows system administrators to use new ideas to improve email classification, thereby making SpamAssassin timeless. Apache SpamAssassin is widely deployed at enterprise organizations around the globe, including national, regional and local ISPs, email service providers, Fortune Global 500 companies as well as small and medium-sized businesses, all levels of the education sector, governments, and private individuals. SpamAssassin is the centerpiece of our anti spam solution at the ASF, said Joseph Schaefer, Senior System Administrator at the Apache Software Foundation. We receive roughly half a million connections a day, directed primarily at our mailing lists, and manage to remain almost entirely spam free - thanks SpamAssassin! The SpamAssassin project provides daily rule updates to fight spam with the project serving over 1 million unique servers with rule updates in just the first month of 2014. SpamAssassin has also been the basis for several commercial products and is in use at the core of many commercial offerings of premier email and spam filtering firms including cPanel, the most popular web hosting control panel. cPanel puts SpamAssassin at the fingertips of tens of thousands of system administrators and millions of end-users giving them the best solution to obliterate unsolicited email on your server and stay compliant with well-known retention standards, said Eric Ellis, Director of Development Operations for cPanel. Be Our Valentine Apache SpamAssassin reflects intensive support from the anti-spam community including development, testing, and research from scores of knowledgeable users to combat spammers. This release is dedicated to the entire community and their love of fighting spam. Availability and Oversight As with all Apache products, Apache SpamAssassin software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. Apache SpamAssassin release notes, source code, documentation, and related resources are available at http://spamassassin.apache.org/. About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than one hundred and seventy leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, more than 400 individual Members and 3,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Budget Direct, Citrix, Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, HP, Huawei, IBM, InMotion Hosting, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft,
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Spark™ as a Top-Level Project
this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/Op0 Super-fast, Open Source large-scale data processing and advanced analytics engine in use at Alibaba, Cloudera, Databricks, IBM, Intel, and Yahoo, among others Forest Hill, MD –27 February 2014– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 170 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that Apache Spark has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP), signifying that the project's community and products have been well-governed under the ASF's meritocratic process and principles. Apache Spark is an Open Source cluster computing framework for fast and flexible large-scale data analysis. Dubbed a Hadoop Swiss Army knife by The Register, Spark is recognized for its remarkable speed and ease of use, running programs up to 100x faster than Apache Hadoop MapReduce in memory, and with APIs that allow developers to quickly write applications in Java, Python, or Scala. It's great to see Apache become Spark’s permanent home, said Matei Zaharia, Vice President of Apache Spark. Spark has quickly become one of the most active projects in the Hadoop ecosystem, with dozens of organizations contributing, and we look forward to working closely with the rest of the Apache community. Initially created in 2009 at the University of California at Berkeley's AMPLab (the research center also responsible for the original development of Apache Mesos), the Spark distributed computing framework for advanced analytics in Apache Hadoop can easily be used standalone or on Hadoop YARN, EC2 or Mesos. Integrated with Apache Hadoop, Spark is well suited for machine learning, interactive queries, and stream processing, and can read from HDFS, HBase, Cassandra, as well as any Hadoop data source. This is a major milestone for the students and researchers in the AMPLab, said Mike Franklin, Director of the AMPLab at UC Berkeley. Spark demonstrates the real impact that research can have and validates the support AMPLab has received from our White House-announced NSF Expeditions in Computing Award and our 20+ industrial sponsors and collaborators. Through our work on Spark at both AMPLab and Databricks, we’ve focused on making it much easier for organizations to get insights from big data, said Ion Stoica, CEO at Databricks and Professor at UC Berkeley. We're doing this together with a fantastic open source community. We look forward to continue working with the community to accelerate the development and adoption of Apache Spark. Since entering the Apache Incubator in June 2013, Apache Spark bolstered its community through code contributions by more than 120 developers from 25 organizations. Apache Spark is in use at an array of global corporations that include Alibaba, Cloudera, Databricks, IBM, Intel, and Yahoo, among others. Andrew Feng, Distinguished Architect at Yahoo, said Yahoo has played a leading role in evolving Hadoop and related big-data technologies, including Spark. While Apache Hadoop serves as the foundation of our big-data platform, Spark is an attractive technology for iterative applications such as machine learning. Yahoo has made significant contributions to the development of Spark and we congratulate Spark on becoming an Apache top-level project. I'm really proud of the community aspect that has become infectious in Apache Spark and that really grew out of the energy in the project starting in the AMP Lab and through its movement to the ASF, said Chris Mattmann, Apache Spark Incubator Mentor at the ASF, and Chief Architect, Instrument and Science Data Systems Section at NASA JPL. Matei, Patrick, Reynold, and many of the leaders of the project have really done a tremendous job and I'm excited to see the next generation of Hadoop-style systems have a home at the ASF. We have some very exciting features coming in the next months, so stay tuned for even more powerful versions of Spark, added Zaharia. Availability and Oversight As with all Apache products, Apache Spark software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. For documentation and ways to become involved with Apache Spark, visit http://spark.apache.org/ About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than one hundred and seventy leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, more than 400 individual Members and 3,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ CloudStack™ v4.3
this announcement is also online at http://s.apache.org/fz0 Flexible, scalable, Open Source Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) used by organizations such as Zynga, Datapipe, and ISWest, among others, for creating, managing, and deploying public, private, and hybrid Cloud Computing environments Forest Hill, MD --25 March 2014-- The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 170 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced Apache CloudStack v4.3, the latest feature release of the CloudStack cloud orchestration platform. Apache CloudStack is an integrated Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) software platform that allows users to build feature-rich public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. CloudStack includes an intuitive user interface and rich APIs for managing the compute, networking, software, and storage infrastructure resources. CloudStack became an Apache Top-level Project (TLP) in March 2013. We are proud to announce CloudStack v4.3, said Hugo Trippaers, Vice President of Apache CloudStack. This release represents over six months of work from the Apache CloudStack community with many new and improved features. Under The Hood CloudStack V4.3 is the next feature release of the 4.x line which first released on November 6, 2012. Some of the noteworthy new and improved features include: - Support for Microsoft Hyper-V - Apache CloudStack can now manage Hyper-V hypervisors in addition to KVM, XenServer, VMware, LXC, and Bare Metal - Juniper OpenContrail integration - OpenContrail is a software defined networking controller from Juniper that CloudStack now integrates with to provide SDN services - SSL Termination support for guest VMs - Apache CloudStack can configure and manage SSL termination in certain load balancer devices - Palo Alto Firewall integration - Apache CloudStack can now manage and configure Palo Alto firewalls - Remote access VPN for VPC networks - CloudStack's remote access VPN is now available for Virtual Private Cloud networks - Site to Site VPN between VRs - CloudStack now allows site-to-site VPN connectivity to it's virtual routing devices. This permits your cloud computing environment to appear as a natural extension of your local network, or for you to easily interconnect multiple environments - VXLAN support expansion to include KVM - CloudStack's support for integrating VXLAN, the network virtualization technology that attempts to ameliorate scalability problems with traditional networking - SolidFire plugin extension to support KVM and hypervisor snapshots for XenServer and ESX - SolidFire provides guaranteed Storage Quality of Service at the Virtual Machine level - Dynamic Compute offering - CloudStack now has the ability to dynamically scale the resources assigned to a running virtual machine instance for those hypervisors which support it Downloads and Documentation The official source code for the v4.3 release, as well as individual contributors' convenience binaries, can be downloaded from the Apache CloudStack downloads page at http://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html The CloudStack 4.2 release includes over 110 issues from 4.2.0 and 4.2.1, including fixes for object storage support, documentation, and more. A full list of corrected issues and upgrade instructions are available in the Release Notes http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/en-US/Apache_CloudStack/4.2.0/html/Release_Notes/index.html Official installation, administration, and API documentation for each release is available at http://cloudstack.apache.org/docs/ Apache CloudStack in Action Join members of the Apache CloudStack community at the CloudStack Collaboration Conference, taking place 9-11 April 2014 immediately following ApacheCon. For more information, visit http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudstack-collaboration-conference-north-america Availability and Oversight As with all Apache products, Apache CloudStack v4.3 is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project’s day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. For documentation and ways to become involved with Apache CloudStack, visit http://cloudstack.apache.org/ About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than one hundred and seventy leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, more than 400 individual Members and 3,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in
The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates Document Freedom Day 2014
this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/Mynf Numerous Apache Projects support standards-based document accessibility and interoperability Forest Hill, MD --26 March 2014-- The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 170 Open Source projects and initiatives, today joins open standards supporters around the world in celebrating Document Freedom Day. Document Freedom Day raises awareness of the importance of open standards, and the applications that implement them, with a special focus on the standards that promote interoperability and access to electronic documents. We are very happy to participate in Document Freedom Day, and to raise awareness of the need for standards in our industry, said ASF Vice Chairman Greg Stein. Through my past work on WebDAV, I've learned just how important standards can be for the software industry. The Foundation's broad support for standards is a huge benefit for users, developers, and companies that use our software. Leading Support for Core Document Standards The Apache Software Foundation supports open standards in many of its projects, including many of the most-common document format standards: - Apache OpenOffice, the leading Open Source office document productivity suite, is the original implementation of Open Document Format (ISO/IEC 26300) http://openoffice.apache.org/ - Apache POI is a Java API for manipulating Office Open XML (ISO/IEC 29500) as well as legacy Microsoft Office documents based on OLE Compound Document Format http://poi.apache.org/ - Apache Batik is a Java API for rendering Scalable Vector Graphics documents, a core web standard from the W3C http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/ - Apache FOP implements the W3C’s XSL Formatting Objects specification, used for print-oriented page layout http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ - Apache PDFBox supports Portable Document Format (ISO 32000) with a Java API for manipulating, creating and extracting information from PDF documents http://pdfbox.apache.org/ - The Apache ODF Toolkit (incubating) is a Java API for reading, writing and creating Open Document Format (ISO/IEC 26300) documents http://incubator.apache.org/odftoolkit/ - Apache Jena implements the W3C's RDF and OWL standards, foundational standards that support the semantic and linked data http://jena.apache.org/ - Apache Chemistry supports interoperable access to Content Management Systems via its implementation of the OASIS Content Management Interface Services (CMIS) standard http://chemistry.apache.org/ In addition to developing implementations of these core standards, many Apache community members participate in committees and working groups at W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards), and ISO (International Organization for Standardization) to help develop and maintain both existing and future standards. For more information on Document Freedom Day, visit http://documentfreedom.org/ About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than one hundred and seventy leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, more than 400 individual Members and 3,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Budget Direct, Citrix, Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, HP, Huawei, IBM, InMotion Hosting, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, Pivotal, Produban, WANdisco, and Yahoo. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/ or follow @TheASF on Twitter. Apache, Apache OpenOffice, Apache POI, Apache Batik, Apache FOP, Apache PDFBox, Apache ODF Toolkit, Apache Jena, and Apache Chemistry are registered trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. # # # NOTE: you are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the announce@apache.org distribution list. To unsubscribe, send email from the recipient account to announce-unsubscr...@apache.org with the word Unsubscribe in the subject line.
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Tajo™ as a Top-Level Project
this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/xO Advanced Open Source data warehousing system in Apache Hadoop in use by Gruter, Korea University, and SK Telecom, among others, for processing Web-scale data sets Forest Hill, MD –01 April 2014– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 170 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that Apache Tajo has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP), signifying that the project's community and products have been well-governed under the ASF's meritocratic process and principles. It's a pleasure to graduate from the Apache Incubator, said Hyunsik Choi, Vice President of Apache Tajo. This milestone further reinforces our hard work in bringing a much-needed big data solution under the Apache banner. Dubbed an SQL-on-Hadoop solution, Apache Tajo is a robust big data relational and distributed data warehouse system for Apache Hadoop. Tajo is designed for low-latency and scalable ad-hoc queries, online aggregation, and ETL (extract-transform-load process) on large-data sets stored on HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) and other data sources. By supporting SQL standards and leveraging advanced database techniques, Tajo allows direct control of distributed execution and data flow across a variety of query evaluation strategies and optimization opportunities. The Tajo project began in 2010 at Korea University's Database Lab, and entered the Apache Incubator in March 2013. Apache Tajo is in use at Gruter, Korea University, and SK Telecom, among others, for its ability to analyze massive data sets in real time. Apache Tajo has earned its place as a top-level project in the ASF. It's an excellent example of a community building around a core piece of technology. Not to mention, the technology itself is quite cool. Tajo has a large role to play in the Apache Hadoop ecosystem, said Jakob Homan, Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn, and ASF Member. Tajo project is a really good example that how company and Open Source community can benefit from each other. Its real open community has assisted me to solve lots of practical problems, and I have opportunities to make Tajo more robust and have richer functionalities, said Keuntae Park, IT manager of SK Telecom and contributor to Apache Tajo. I feel much affection for Tajo project and it's my great pleasure to participate in its growth, graduation, and becoming of top-level project. Tajo is one of the most promising projects for SQL-on-Hadoop. Many contributors have been improving Tajo by developing various interesting features. It's an honor for me to work with such a wonderful community, said Jihoon Son, Ph.D. candidate at Korea University and contributor to Apache Tajo. Apache Tajo has been a model community through the Incubator. They have demonstrated meritocracy on lists in the face of some pretty awesome and complex software for Big Data Analytics, said Chris Mattmann, Apache Tajo Incubator Mentor at the ASF, and Chief Architect, Instrument and Science Data Systems Section at NASA JPL. We are currently evaluating the use of Tajo in projects for Radio Astronomy at JPL, as well as in the context of our Airborne Snow Observatory (ASO) project for Big Data query processing and storage. I'm really excited to see where Tajo is headed along with the other Big Data stacks at the ASF including Spark and Mesos. The key to a successful Open Source community lies in its diversity and active participation, added Choi. As Apache Tajo continues to grow, we welcome contributions with code, documentation, testing, submitting patches, and other valuable forms of feedback. Availability and Oversight As with all Apache products, Apache Tajo software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. For documentation and ways to become involved with Apache Tajo, visit http://tajo.apache.org/ About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than one hundred and seventy leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, more than 400 individual Members and 3,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization,
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Allura™ as a Top-Level Project
this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/bJE Open Source collaborative software development platform in use at DARPA, DLR German Aerospace Center, Open Source Projects Europe, and SourceForge, among others, to manage source code repositories, bug reports, discussions, wiki pages, blogs and more Forest Hill, MD –01 April 2014– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 170 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that Apache Allura has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP), signifying that the project's community and products have been well-governed under the ASF's meritocratic process and principles. Apache Allura is an Open Source, extensible, web-based platform that provides integrated software tools for collaborative software development. Initiated by SourceForge in 2009 to manage source code repositories, bug reports, discussions, wiki pages, blogs, and more for any number of individual projects, collection of projects or hierarchies of projects, the Allura forge was submitted to the Apache Incubator in June 2012. The journey through the Apache Incubator made Allura a project for the community by the community, said Dave Brondsema, Vice President of Apache Allura. I can't wait to see other Apache projects start using Allura, and hope to catch up with other Apache projects at the upcoming ApacheCon 2014 in Denver! SourceForge has demonstrated their dedication to Open Source by putting their crown jewels into the custodianship of the Apache Software Foundation, and I'm excited to see where the project goes next as it embraces a larger community of users and developers, said Rich Bowen, Executive Vice President, Apache Software Foundation. Apache Allura features include: - integrated issue tracking; - markdown formatting, including links to other artifacts (tickets, discussion/comments, commits, etc); - artifact subscriptions through mail and RSS; - a built-in discussion forum with a granular permission facility that allows for posts either via web or mail; - a blog tool with threaded discussion; - a code repository that hosts code with git, Mercurial, or Subversion with graphical representation formats Allura allows for accelerated collaborative development across an array of user communities. Sites powered by Apache Allura include SourceForge, Open Source Projects Europe, DLR German Aerospace Center and DARPA's VehicleForge, among others. BerliOS recommends the SourceForge platform for migrating projects currently hosted on BerliOS. We value the fact that the SourceForge platform was first accepted as an Apache Incubator project and we are glad to see it now graduated, said Lutz Henckel, berliOS project leader. This achievement means SourceForge platform --now known as Apache Allura-- is backed by a diverse and well-structured community. For projects hosted on SourceForge it also reduces the risk of vendor lock-in, as developing projects can get their data and software directly from the platform. Apache Allura is an Open Source modular forge platform using a scalable architecture and with well-known technologies around Python, says Alvaro del Castillo, Apache Allura committer and CTO of Bitergia. It is easy to install and configure, a good bet for the future of collaborative software development around forges. Apache Allura helps community members effectively manage any number of projects, including groups of projects known as neighborhoods, as well as sub-projects under individual projects. It has a modular design to support tools attached to neighborhoods or individual projects. The tools within Apache Allura were designed to support version control for source code repositories, ticket tracking, discussions, wiki pages, blogs and more. Additional external and third-party tools can be installed. We entered the Allura community to suggest the introduction of new functionalities to improve awareness of people and projects. We found that the community was open to our ideas, said Elisabetta Di Nitto, Associate professor of the University of Milan. As a researcher I think this was a very interesting experience. We are glad we could influence the development of the forge and that the Allura community found our suggestions useful. SourceForge is very happy that Apache Allura, already used by 431,000 projects, will now be extended and available to an even wider developer community, said Gaurav Kuchhal, General Manager of SourceForge and Slashdot. We stay committed to promoting open source projects by providing free marketing and global distribution, no matter where projects are developed. Apache Allura is the result of an estimated 53 years of effort (as calculated by the COCOMO – Constructive Cost Model), with nearly 3,496 commits by 24 individual contributors (representing 208,417 lines of code).
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Olingo™ as a Top-Level Project
this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/H5M Open Source, generic Java client and server library implementation of the OData (Open Data Protocol) standard for interoperable querying and sharing of data across applications in enterprise, Cloud, and mobile environments Forest Hill, MD –07 April 2014– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 170 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that Apache™ Olingo™ has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP), signifying that the project's community and products have been well-governed under the ASF's meritocratic process and principles. We are pleased to graduate from the Apache Incubator, said Stephan Klevenz, Vice President of Apache Olingo. The Apache Way of collaborative software development shows that it is possible to produce high-quality and faithful implementations of standards. Klevenz is also a development architect at SAP and an Apache committer since 2010. Apache Olingo provides generic Java and JavaScript libraries that implement the Open Data Protocol (OData), the standardized data access protocol used for creating and consuming data APIs in an interoperable manner across applications and devices. OData provides a uniform way to expose full-featured data APIs by building on core protocols such as HTTP as well as commonly accepted methodologies such as REST. Apache Olingo serves client and server aspects of OData 2.0, and will serve as a code base for OData 4.0, the OASIS standard of the protocol (OASIS OData TC). The OASIS international open standards consortium recently announced that Open Data Protocol (OData) version 4.0 and OData JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Format version 4.0 have been approved as OASIS Standards. These REST-based standards simplify the querying, sharing, and consuming of data across applications for re-use in enterprise, Cloud, and mobile environments. More information on the OData ecosystem of open data producer and consumer services is available at http://www.OData.org/ Olingo is used by browser-based user interfaces to query data residing on servers. It is also used to synchronize data to mobile devices, and exchange data between server systems, and is part of the technical foundation of SAP NetWeaver® Gateway technology, among other enterprise solutions. Olingo entered the Apache Incubator in July 2013, seeded by code from SAP (Java server libraries for OData 2.0) and Microsoft Open Technologies (Java client libraries for OData 3.0 and JavaScript libraries for OData 3.0). The project has since undergone three releases, reflecting 495,107 lines of code and 1,102 commits by 20 individual contributors. Apache Olingo supports multiple languages, including Java and JavaScript for OData clients and servers, namely OData 2.0 in Java, OData 4.0 in Java, and OData 4.0 in JavaScript. Olingo extensions contain additional features, such as the support of Java Persistence API (JPA) or annotated bean classes. The project's documentation, wiki, and tutorials highlight several examples of implementing a custom OData service, including a sample Web application built with Apache Maven that can be deployed to any Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (JEE)-compliant Web application server, such as Apache Tomcat. OData v4 recently became an OASIS standard that is increasingly opening up data for an open Web, said Eduard Koller, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. Apache Olingo is open source software to aid in the production of OData v4.0 clients and servers in both Java and JavaScript. The project brings together several companies and community developers and we look forward to welcoming more users and contributors to the community. Availability and Oversight As with all Apache products, Apache Olingo software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. For documentation and ways to become involved with Apache Olingo, visit http://olingo.apache.org/ About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than one hundred and seventy leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, more than 400 individual Members and 3,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the
The Apache Software Foundation Announces the 5th Anniversary of Apache™ Cassandra™
this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/H9e Highest performing NoSQL distributed Big Data database in use at hundreds of organizations including Adobe, CERN, Comcast, Disney, eBay, GE, GitHub, GoDaddy, HP, Hulu, IBM, Instagram, Intuit, Netflix, Plaxo, Polyvore, Sony, and The Weather Channel Forest Hill, MD –09 April 2014– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 170 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today the 5th Anniversary of Apache™ Cassandra™, the highly-performant Big Data distributed database. I am so proud to see what the Apache Cassandra community has been able to achieve in five short years, said Jonathan Ellis, Vice President of Apache Cassandra and DataStax CTO. We've come such a long way since the early days, and it is a testament to Cassandra's rapid maturation that it has been deployed in over 1,500 global critical production environments. Apache Cassandra is an Open Source, NoSQL distributed database management system designed to handle large amounts of data across many commodity servers quickly and reliably without compromising performance, whether running in the Cloud or in a hybrid data store. Cassandra offers robust support for clusters spanning multiple datacenters, and provides high availability with no single point of failure. Originally developed at Facebook in 2008 to power their Inbox Search feature, Cassandra entered the Apache Incubator in 2009 and graduated as an Apache Top-level Project in February 2010. Apache Cassandra has consistently led the NoSQL market in performance: its fully-distributed architecture provides unparalleled fault tolerance to ensure applications will not go offline, and its linear scalability allows them to reach massive sizes while successfully handling thousands of requests per second. Cassandra Evolution 5 Years On: Under the Hood Over the past five years, Apache Cassandra has had 6,000 JIRA issues and 250 contributors after its initial release, making today's Cassandra significantly more performant, resilient, feature-complete, and easier to both operate and develop against. Apache Cassandra's improvements include security features, performance, and ease of use with the implementation of Cassandra Query Language (CQL) that presents a data model familiar to relational database users. Unlike many other systems, Cassandra is ideal for read-heavy workloads, and also offers scalable write performance. During the past five years, Apache Cassandra has resolved over 6,000 JIRA issues and added more than 250 contributors, making today's Cassandra significantly more performant, resilient, feature-complete, and easier to both operate and develop against. Some of the milestones along the way include: - The Cassandra Query Language, which offers a more intuitive data model and a performant native protocol while retaining backwards compatibility with data created under the old Apache Thrift API; - Lightweight transactions, an industry first that allows users and applications to opt into a linearly consistent world view as necessary; - An innovative virtual node design that allows expanding a cluster in increments as small as a single machine, and across heterogeneous hardware; - A powerful log-structured storage engine featuring advanced compaction, compression, and SSD support; - Thousands of enhancements from running the world's most demanding applications at scale, informing better performance, better drivers, and better management tools. Improved Performance in Real-world Situations Apache Cassandra powers hundreds of applications across dozens of industries that demand high performance at scale. By addressing the needs of different workloads, Cassandra has evolved beyond its initial niche in social media into a truly general purpose solution. Apache Cassandra is used by many highly-visible organizations including: Adobe, Comcast, Disney, eBay, Eventbrite, GE, GoDaddy, HP, IBM, Instagram, Intuit, Netflix, Pearson, Safeway, Sky, Sony, Spotify, Travelocity, The Weather Channel, and Zoosk, among others. Additional organizations using Apache Cassandra can be found at http://planetcassandra.org/companies/ We knew Apache Cassandra could perform linear scaling of reads and writes with consistent performance. --David Weinstein, Director of Software Development, Adobe Before adopting Cassandra, we could not monitor every malicious site and IP forever – the data volumes were just too great. No other database was ready for what we needed to do. --Michael Kjellman, Software Engineer, Barracuda Networks Apache Cassandra provides us with an easy to use backend and lets us focus on our implementation and features. --Andreas Wagner, Lead Developer, CumulusRDF at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Apache Cassandra is critical for being able to look up historical behavior data quickly, so that
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Spark™ v1.0
NOTE: this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/VEc Open Source large-scale, flexible, Hadoop Swiss Army Knife cluster computing framework offers enhanced data analysis and richer integration with other Apache projects Forest Hill, MD –30 May 2014– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 170 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today the availability of Apache Spark v1.0, the super-fast, Open Source large-scale data processing and advanced analytics engine. Apache Spark has been dubbed a Hadoop Swiss Army knife for its remarkable speed and ease of use, allowing developers to quickly write applications in Java, Scala, or Python, using its built-in set of over 80 high-level operators. With Spark, programs can run up to 100x faster than Apache Hadoop MapReduce in memory. 1.0 is a huge milestone for the fast-growing Spark community. Every contributor and user who's helped bring Spark to this point should feel proud of this release, said Matei Zaharia, Vice President of Apache Spark. Apache Spark is well-suited for machine learning, interactive queries, and stream processing. It is 100% compatible with Hadoop’s Distributed File System (HDFS), HBase, Cassandra, as well as any Hadoop storage system, making existing data immediately usable in Spark. In addition, Spark supports SQL queries, streaming data, and complex analytics such as machine learning and graph algorithms out-of-the-box. New in v1.0, Apache Spark offers strong API stability guarantees (backward-compatibility throughout the 1.X series), a new Spark SQL component for accessing structured data, as well as richer integration with other Apache projects (Hadoop YARN, Hive, and Mesos). Patrick Wendell, software engineer at Databricks and Apache Spark 1.0 release manager explained, In addition to providing long-term stability for Spark's core APIs, this release contains a several new features. Spark 1.0 adds a unified submission tool for deploying applications on a local machine, Mesos, YARN, or a dedicated cluster. We've added a new module, Spark SQL, to provide schema-aware data modeling and SQL language support in Spark. Spark's machine learning library, MLLib, has been enhanced with several new algorithms. Spark’s streaming and graph libraries have also seen major updates. Across the board, we've focused on building tools to empower the data scientists, statisticians and engineers who must grapple with large data sets every day. Spark was originally developed at UC Berkeley AMP Lab, and its ease of use has made it a go-to solution for both small and large enterprise environments across a wide range of industries, including Alibaba, ClearStory Data, Cloudera, Databricks, IBM, Intel, MapR, Ooyala, and Yahoo, among others. Not only are organizations rapidly adopting and deploying Apache Spark, many contributors are committing code to the project as well. Apache Spark is an important big data technology in delivering a high performance analytics solution for the IT industry and satisfying the fast-growing customer demand, said Michael Greene, Vice President and General Manager of System Technologies and Optimization at Intel. Intel is proud to participate in its development and we congratulate the community on this release. At NASA, we're really excited to leverage Spark and its highly interactive analytic capabilities and the speedups offered by 1.0 along with Spark SQL are going to help out critical projects looking at measurement of Snow in the Western US and also on projects related to Regional Climate Modeling and in Model Evaluation for the U.S. National Climate Assessment related Activities, said Chris Mattmann, an ASF Director, Chief Architect, Instrument and Science Data Systems Section at NASA JPL, and Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Southern California. I'm looking forward to designing Spark-related projects in my Software Architectures and in my Search Engines courses at USC as well. The community is one of our most active at the ASF and the interest has really peaked and these guys are doing a great job. We're continuing to see very fast growth — 102 individuals have contributed patches to this release over the past four months, which is our highest number of contributors ever, added Zaharia. Availability and Oversight As with all Apache products, Apache Spark software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project’s day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. For documentation and ways to become involved with Apache Spark, visit http://spark.apache.org/ About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than one hundred and
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Stratos™ as a Top-Level Project
NOTE: this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/Gv6 Open Source Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) framework brings enterprise-grade service, governance, security, and performance to private-, public-, and hybrid clouds Forest Hill, MD –3 June 2014– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 170 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that Apache Stratos has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP), signifying that the project's community and products have been well-governed under the ASF's meritocratic process and principles. Apache Stratos graduation is an indicator of the project adhering to Apache Way of Open Communities and endorses meritocratic participation, said Suresh Marru, ASF Member and Apache Stratos Incubation Mentor. Apache Stratos is a highly-extensible Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) framework that helps run Apache Tomcat, PHP, and MySQL applications and can be extended to support many more environments on all major cloud infrastructures. For developers, Stratos provides a cloud-based environment for developing, testing, and running scalable applications. IT providers benefit from high utilization rates, automated resource management, and platform-wide insight including monitoring and billing. Originally developed by WSO2, Stratos entered the Apache Incubator in June 2013, and currently has code contributions from dozens of individuals representing Cisco, Citrix, Indiana University, and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory among other organizations. Donating Stratos to the Apache Incubator has been a great success: we have added significant new capabilities to the technology and at the same time the community has really grown, said Lakmal Warusawithana, Vice President of Apache Stratos, and Director of Cloud Architecture at WSO2. Stratos brings self-service management, elastic scaling, multi-tenant deployment, usage monitoring, as well as additional capabilities, such as the ability to take any server software to run as-a-Service alongside other app containers. Apache Stratos deploys onto Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) such as Amazon EC2, OpenStack, SUSECloud, VMWare vCloud and many more. In addition, the Project has announced the release of Apache Stratos v4.0. Improvements include the ability to: 1. Map into underlying datacenter infrastructure and create policies (called partitions): this unique functionality goes beyond other PaaS infrastructures to make Stratos truly enterprise class; 2. Plug in third-party load balancers such as HAProxy that provides pure TCP load balancing; and 3. Support real-time complex event processing for autoscaling: Stratos can take any available data on load and usage including on-VM CPU load, network and memory usage, together with data from the load-balancer and pipe this into a powerful real-time event processing engine. Apache Stratos is used by leading organizations building connected ecosystems in aerospace, telecommunication, and construction industries. Stratos powers one of the world’s largest aviation companies' digital airline initiative to re-invent supply chain logistics. Leading network infrastructure providers are integrating Apache Stratos to deliver advanced telecommunication services to their client base while maintaining telco-grade reliability and availability under peak load. A construction and engineering equipment provider is using Apache Stratos to build a multi-tenant cloud solution that can tailor policies and rules to specific niche markets. The successful incubation of Stratos and graduation to an Apache top-level project is a significant step for this project, said Scott Yow, Vice President of product management at Cisco. The addition of the partitioning and complex autoscaling capabilities in Stratos 4.0 are critical to service provider-grade deployments. The disaster recovery and high-availability support provide the foundation for a 99.999-plus percent platform and is a significant improvement to Stratos, which we applaud. Apache Stratos has a much broader focus than most other PaaS environments, giving me much more flexibility when architecting cloud solutions, said Chris Snow, Solution Architect in the UK Mobile Banking sector. Stratos 4 is a major evolution of the architecture and is a huge credit to the dedicated and passionate community that are driving this project. We are considering Apache Stratos to build Science Gateway Platform Services (http://scigap.org/) for the computational science community, explained Marru, who is also a Principal Systems Architect at Indiana University. We've shown that not only do we get the 'Apache Way' as a community, but that it has had a real impact on improving the code. I'm really excited that we have become a fully fledged Apache project and the release of Stratos 4.0 brings
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Log4j™ v2
This announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/wm Framework for widely-used Open Source Java-based logging library now faster and more extensible, with new plugin architecture. Forest Hill, MD –22 July 2014– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 170 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today the General Availability of Apache™ Log4j™ v2, the widely-used Open Source Java-based framework for logging application behavior and activity. We are happy to release Log4j 2.0 GA, said Christian Grobmeier, Vice President of Apache Logging Services. It took us a few years until we got there --its predecessor is one of the most popular logging libraries. Apache Log4j 2 is the successor of Log4j 1, and reflects thirteen prior releases over the last four years. The framework was rewritten from scratch and has been inspired by existing logging solutions, including Log4j 1 and JUL. Log4j 2 provides support for SLF4J, Commons Logging, Apache Flume and Log4j 1. Log4j 2 offers performance improvements up to 12x faster in the same environment: Log4j 2 can write more than 18,000,000 messages per second, as opposed to other frameworks that write 2,000,000 messages per second. Additional Log4j 2 highlights include: - improved reliability, filters, and configuration syntax; - modularity --plug-in system support; - property support; - custom log levels; - support for XML and JSON configuration; and - automatic reloading of configuration A payments gateway company adopted Log4j 2 on one of their platforms, and testing has shown at least 100% throughput increase of the application due to bottlenecks they were experiencing with their former logging solution, said Ralph Goers of the Apache Log4j Project Management Committee. Apache Log4j is widely used across numerous industries and applications. The project currently has code contributions from individuals in financial services, software development, retailing, and consulting, among other sectors. It's interesting to note that many of the developments to Log4j 2 came from new code committers to the project, added Grobmeier. We plan on continuing improving the code and listening to community feedback. Availability and Oversight As with all Apache products, Apache Log4j 2 software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project’s day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. For documentation and ways to become involved with Apache Log4j 2, visit http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/ About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than one hundred and seventy leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, more than 400 individual Members and 3,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Budget Direct, Citrix, Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, HP, Huawei, IBM, InMotion Hosting, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, Pivotal, Produban, WANdisco, and Yahoo. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/ or follow @TheASF on Twitter. Apache, Apache Log4j, Log4j, and ApacheCon are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. # # # NOTE: you are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the announce@apache.org distribution list. To unsubscribe, send email from the recipient account to announce-unsubscr...@apache.org with the word Unsubscribe in the subject line.
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Tez™ as a Top-Level Project
This announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/keG Highly-efficient Open Source framework for Apache Hadoop® YARN-powered data processing applications in use at Microsoft, NASA, Netflix, and Yahoo, among others. Forest Hill, MD –22 July 2014– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 170 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that Apache™ Tez™ has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP), signifying that the project's community and products have been well-governed under the ASF's meritocratic process and principles. Graduation to a top-level Apache project is a significant validation of the community momentum behind Tez, said Hitesh Shah, Vice President of Apache Tez. Apache Tez is an embeddable and extensible framework for building high-performance batch and interactive data processing engines and tools that require out-of-the-box integration with Apache Hadoop® YARN. Tez leverages Hadoop’s unparalleled ability to process petabyte-scale datasets, allowing projects in the Apache Hadoop ecosystem (such as Apache Hive and Apache Pig) and third-party software vendors to express fit-to-purpose data processing logic in a way that meets their unique demands for fast response times and extreme throughput. Tez's customizable execution architecture enables scalable, purpose-built data-processing computations, and also allows for dynamic performance optimizations based on real information about the data and the resources required to process it. Tez was originally developed by Hortonworks, and entered the Apache Incubator in February 2013. The project currently has code contributions from individuals representing Cloudera, Facebook, Hortonworks, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter, and Yahoo. I'm really happy to see the graduation of Apache Tez from the Incubator. The community has worked diligently to get to this point, said Chris Mattmann, Apache Tez Incubator Mentor, and Chief Architect, Instrument and Science Data Systems Section at NASA JPL. Tez makes queries on Hadoop databases like Hive interactive, instead of batch oriented. Tez is similar to recently graduated projects in the Apache Big Data ecosystem including Apache Spark and also Apache Tajo, projects with similar goals of speeding up queries in Hadoop. My data science team at NASA is looking at Tez, Spark, and Tajo and evaluating them on projects in climate science and in radio astronomy. Netflix builds its big data analytics platform in the cloud by leveraging open source technologies such as Apache Hadoop, Hive, Pig and more, said Cheolsoo Park, Senior Software Engineer at Netflix and Vice President of Apache Pig. While MapReduce has served us well for years, Tez is a welcome improvement. Netflix has made significant contributions to the development of Pig-on-Tez alongside with Hortonworks, LinkedIn, and Yahoo. Based on our initial benchmark of Pig-on-Tez, it is nearly twice as fast as MapReduce for some of our heavy production jobs. This is a huge improvement in efficiency. We look forward to deploying Pig-on-Tez in production this year. We thank the Tez community for all your help and are excited that Tez has become an Apache top-level project. Yahoo's business is built on Hadoop; it's essential to our ability to deliver personalized, delightful experiences for our users and create value for our advertisers, said Peter Cnudde, Vice President of Engineering, Yahoo. We're committed to working closely with the Apache community to evolve the processing of Big Data at scale with technologies such as Apache Hive, Tez, and YARN. It's fantastic to see Tez promoted to a top-level Apache project. Microsoft has invested in improving Hive performance by bringing innovation used in SQL Server to Hadoop, through contributions to Tez, said Eric Hanson, Principal Engineer in the HDInsight team at Microsoft and an Apache Hive Committer. Hive on Tez enables major performance improvements of up to 100x, and we're happy it's available now on Microsoft Azure HDInsight, our Hadoop-based solution for the cloud. Tez is on its way to becoming a cornerstone of core Apache projects like Apache Hive and Apache Pig and has been embraced by other important Open Source projects like Cascading. We look forward to continuing to grow our community and driving Tez adoption, added Shah. Availability and Oversight As with all Apache products, Apache Tez software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project’s day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. For documentation and ways to become involved with Apache Tez, visit http://tez.apache.org/ About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer
The Apache Software Foundation Exceeds 2 Million Code Commits
this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/5p3 Interest surges in Apache's 200+ software projects, accelerating development and participation by 100% in four years Earlier this month, The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) surpassed its two millionth revision milestone with a commit by ASF Member* Daniel Kulp on behalf of the Apache CXF Project: committer Daniel Kulp dk...@apache.org Mon, 14 Jul 2014 21:38:23 + (17:38 -0400) commit bf8fea668d23a2fc1bde471fad763ba63e112f11 Fix test failure Just four years ago, the ASF reached the 1M commit mark. Since then, Apache repositories changed greatly with the introduction of Git to the source code management system. The original Subversion (SVN) repository has been decentralized and augmented with 268 Git repositories, in addition to a robust GitHub presence with 564 different repositories. In addition, the ASF reached another notable milestone this month with Apache email archives exceeding 11M messages. We are distributing terabytes of artifacts per week. Just in Apache OpenOffice, we've distributed petabytes worth of artifacts, said David Nalley, Vice President of ASF Infrastructure. A distributed infrastructure team on four continents comprising 10 rotating volunteers and 4 paid staff keep the ASF's infrastructure running 24x7x365. In the 15 years of the ASF's history Infrastructure has moved from one machine sitting under a desk, to a multi-datacenter, multi-cloud deployment on multiple continents that serves the 200-plus projects that call the ASF home, added Nalley. Since 1999, the all-volunteer ASF has been developing and shepherding over two hundred leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server —the world's most popular Web server software— and dozens of industry-defining technologies and tools such as Apache Accumulo, Apache Cassandra, Apache CloudStack, Apache CouchDB, Apache Flex, Apache Hadoop, Apache Lucene/Solr, Apache Open Climate Workbench, Apache ServiceMix, Apache SpamAssassin, Apache Tomcat, and many others. In addition to Apache Top-level Projects (and sub-projects), there are currently 33 podlings undergoing development in the Apache Incubator, and 38 technical initiatives in the Apache Labs. The ASF's more than 450 individual Members and 3,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo, taking place 17-21 November 2014 in Budapest, Hungary. As a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization, The ASF's day-to-day operating expenses are offset by individual donors and corporate sponsors including Budget Direct, Citrix, Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, HP, Huawei, IBM, InMotion Hosting, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, Pivotal, Produban, WANdisco, and Yahoo. The ASF's current server hosting and bandwidth is provided by Oregon State University Open Source Lab in the United States, and by SURFnet and Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) in Europe. In addition, substantial cloud credits have been donated by Microsoft and Rackspace. More information is available at http://www.apache.org/, the announce@apache.org mailing list, the ASF Blog at http://blogs.apache.org/, and the @TheASF feed on Twitter. *NOTE TO EDITORS -- About Apache Members and Committers: in 1999, the ASF incorporated with an inaugural membership of 21 individuals who oversaw the progress of the Apache HTTP Server. Additions to this core group grew with developers who contributed code, patches, or documentation. Some of these contributors were subsequently granted Committer status by the Membership [1], granting access to: commit (write) directly to the code repository, vote on community-related decisions, and propose an active user for Committership. Those Committers [2] that demonstrate merit in the Foundation's growth, evolution, and progress are nominated for ASF Membership by existing members. The meritocratic Contributor-Committer-Member approach is the central governing process [3] across the Apache ecosystem. [1] ASF Members - http://apache.org/foundation/members.html [2] ASF Committer Index - http://people.apache.org/committer-index.html [3] How the ASF Works - http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html # # # NOTE: you are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the announce@apache.org distribution list. To unsubscribe, send email from the recipient account to announce-unsubscr...@apache.org with the word Unsubscribe in the subject line.
[Announce] Apache™ CloudMonkey™ 5.2.0 released
this announcement is available online at http://s.apache.org/SHg Announcing Apache™ CloudMonkey™ v5.2.0 Command Line Interface Tool Simplifies Apache CloudStack Configuration and Management Apache CloudStack, the mature, turnkey Open Source cloud computing software platform used for creating private, public, and hybrid cloud environments, today announced Apache CloudMonkey v5.2.0, the latest feature release of its command line interface tool. CloudMonkey is written in Python, and can be used both as an interactive shell and as a command line tool that simplifies CloudStack configuration and management. Apache CloudMonkey v5.2.0 is the latest feature release of the 5.x line that was first released in September 2013. Some of the new features and changes include: - Multiple server profiles where users can use CloudMonkey against different CloudStack management servers and switch between them using a profile option; - A default profile under the section [local] is added with default values; - Some bugfixes related to network requests, error handling, JSON decoding and shell interactivity; - Every time 'set' is called, CloudMonkey will write the config and reload config file; - Configuration options 'protocol', 'host', 'port', 'path' are deprecated now but setting them is still allowed which sets a single url option, in the config file the [server] section is deprecated now and CloudMonkey won’t read values from this section anymore but instead read from current server profile; - Missing key/values are automatically set with defaults by CloudMonkey; - During installation and upgrades, it will detect the platform to install either pyreadline (Windows) or readline (OSX and Linux); Downloads and Documentation The official source code for CloudMonkey v5.2.0 can be downloaded from http://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html. A community-maintained distribution is available at the Python Package Index (PyPi) at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/CloudMonkey/ CloudMonkey's usage is documented at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/CloudStack+CloudMonkey+CLI Package documentation can be found at http://pythonhosted.org/cloudmonkey/ Availability and Oversight As with all Apache products, CloudMonkey is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. The Apache CloudStack Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. About Apache CloudStack Apache CloudStack is a mature, turnkey integrated Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Open Source software platform that allows users to build feature-rich public and private cloud environments. Hailed by Gartner Group as a solid product, CloudStack includes an intuitive user interface and rich APIs for managing the compute, networking, software, and storage infrastructure resources. CloudStack entered the Apache Incubator in April 2012 and became an Apache Top-level Project in March 2013. For downloads, documentation, and ways to become involved with Apache CloudStack, visit http://cloudstack.apache.org/ and https://twitter.com/CloudStack # # # © The Apache Software Foundation. Apache, CloudStack, Apache CloudStack, CloudMonkey, Apache CloudMonkey, the Apache CloudStack logo, and the Apache CloudStack Cloud Monkey logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. NOTE: you are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the announce@apache.org distribution list. To unsubscribe, send email from the recipient account to announce-unsubscr...@apache.org with the word Unsubscribe in the subject line.
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Donations Accepted Using Bitcoin
this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/ku New payment option offers flexibility for digital currency contributions Forest Hill, MD –02 September 2014– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 200 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that it is now accepting donations through the Bitcoin virtual monetary system. The ASF's decision to accept Bitcoin donations was in response to an email request received on 26 August. Within 48 hours of opening its Bitcoin wallet, more than 90 transactions reflecting 5.35915909 BTC (Bitcoin currency) —more than US$2,600 at today's rate— has been donated to the Foundation. Accepting Bitcoin allows donors to The Apache Software Foundation the benefit of digital currency exchanges, no matter where they reside, said Upayavira, Vice President of Fundraising at the ASF. As a United States 501(c)(3) not-for-profit charitable organization, we welcome donations of all amounts from our global community of users, developers, and enthusiasts. To date, the ASF has accepted financial contributions physically, via check, electronically, through Amazon Payments and PayPal, as well as vehicle donations with America's Car Donation Charities Center. Bitcoin offers new flexibility for donors, particularly those in regions with local banking limitations. Bitcoin's peer-to-peer, digital token currency operates on a distributed system of trust, using a cryptographically-verified, secure transaction ledger that is jointly maintained by the currency's users. Transactions relating to The Apache Software Foundation can be monitored in the Bitcoin block chain at https://blockchain.info/address/1BtjAzWGLyAavUkbw3QsyzzNDKdtPXk95D?offset=0filter=0 Additional cash grants to the Foundation are made through the ASF Sponsorship Program, which offsets a significant portion of the ASF's day-to-day operating expenses such as infrastructure, administrative services, and community outreach. For more information on donating to The Apache Software Foundation, please visit http://www.apache.org/foundation/contributing.html About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than two hundred leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, more than 450 individual Members and 4,000 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Budget Direct, Citrix, Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, HP, Huawei, IBM, InMotion Hosting, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, Pivotal, Produban, WANdisco, and Yahoo. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/ or follow @TheASF on Twitter. Apache and ApacheCon are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. # # # NOTE: you are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the announce@apache.org distribution list. To unsubscribe, send email from the recipient account to announce-unsubscr...@apache.org with the word Unsubscribe in the subject line.
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Cassandra™ v2.1
this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/jwx Highest performing NoSQL distributed Big Data database now faster, with improved analytics and ease-of-use. Forest Hill, MD –11 September 2014– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 170 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced at the Cassandra Summit the availability of Apache™ Cassandra™ v2.1, the highly-performant Big Data distributed database. Every release reinforces why Cassandra is the database of choice for growing enterprises, said Jonathan Ellis, Vice President of Apache Cassandra and CTO of DataStax. With 2.1 delivering over 50% better performance over 2.0's already-strong numbers, Cassandra 2.1 lets our users continuously improve their engagement with their customers at the highest speeds to date. Apache Cassandra is an Open Source, NoSQL distributed database management system designed to handle large amounts of data across many commodity servers quickly and reliably, whether running in the Cloud or in a hybrid data store. Apache Cassandra has consistently led the NoSQL market in performance: its fully-distributed architecture provides unparalleled fault tolerance to ensure applications will not go offline, and its linear scalability allows them to reach massive sizes while successfully handling thousands of requests per second with no single point of failure. In addition, v2.1 is the first Cassandra release suitable for production use on Windows. Apache Cassandra powers hundreds of applications across dozens of industries that demand high performance at scale, and is in use at Adobe, Comcast, eBay, Eventbrite, GE, GoDaddy, HP, IBM, Intuit, Netflix, Pearson, Safeway, Sky, Sony, Spotify, Travelocity, The Weather Channel, and Zoosk, among others. Cassandra 2.0 introduced critical features and functions that that let us build out a real-time analytics engine, said Brian O'Neill, CTO at Health Market Science. The 2.1 release tightens the nuts and bolts and drops nitro into that engine to make those analytics blazing fast. Cassandra 2.1 represents an important milestone, said Duyhai Doan, Cassandra Expert at Orange. For us developers, the biggest game changer in 2.1 is the introduction of CQL3 tuple and user defined type (UDT) as both pave the way for new data model patterns and usage. In addition, the ease of use core value for Cassandra is fulfilled in this release. Learn More Today at Cassandra Summit 2014 Leading-edge companies including Sony, ING, Target, Google, Credit-Suisse, Microsoft, and Instagram will share how Apache Cassandra has transformed business and accelerated growth at the fifth annual Cassandra Summit hosted by DataStax. Following Cassandra Summit, the inaugural Cassandra Boot Camp workshops will take place on 12-13 September. For more information and to register, visit http://planetcassandra.org/events/san-francisco-cassandra-summit-2014/ Availability and Oversight As with all Apache products, Apache Cassandra software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. For documentation and ways to become involved with Apache Cassandra, visit http://cassandra.apache.org/ About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than one hundred and seventy leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, more than 400 individual Members and 3,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Budget Direct, Citrix, Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, HP, Huawei, IBM, InMotion Hosting, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, Pivotal, Produban, WANdisco, and Yahoo. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/ or follow @TheASF on Twitter. Apache, Apache Cassandra, Cassandra, and ApacheCon are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. # # # NOTE: you are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the announce@apache.org distribution list. To unsubscribe, send email from the recipient account to announce-unsubscr...@apache.org with the word
Apache™ TomEE™ Wins Duke's Choice Award and Geek Choice Award at JavaOne 2014
this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/w2O Open Source project, Apache TomEE, receives Oracle's Duke's Choice Award and RebelLabs' Geek Choice Award at JavaOne, the premier Java technology conference Apache TomEE, the all-Apache Java EE 6 Web Profile certified stack, receives a Duke's Choice Award and Geek Choice Award at JavaOne 2014. Oracle's Duke's Choice Award is given to innovative projects and efforts that are invaluable to the Java Community. RebelLabs' annual Geek Choice Awards are awarded to the top 10 technologies that profoundly improve modern software development. The Award winners are to be announced at the JavaOne 2014 conference. The increasing popularity and enterprise use rate of Apache TomEE is a success story for Open Source, Java EE and the ASF, said David Blevins, Vice President of Apache TomEE. Born line by line and contributor by contributor entirely in Open Source, TomEE shows what can happen when JCP standards become open and community-driven, Open Source communities are fueled by business, and de facto standards like Tomcat meet industry standards like Java EE. It's quite rare when market conditions align to pave the way for something like TomEE. It's a victory for us all. Apache TomEE is the Java Enterprise Edition 6 Web Profile Certified edition of Apache Tomcat, the world's most popular Java application server software, with more than 70% market penetration within the enterprise. TomEE is available in three flavors: TomEE, TomEE JAX-RS and TomEE Plus with version 1.7.1 as the latest release. The rapid large-scale uptick of TomEE in Enterprise deployments is a tribute of quality Open Source solutions driven by committed developers who bring real use cases and requirements to the collaborative development process. TomEE's reputation for reliability and simplicity has grown among businesses seeking a high performance alternative to proprietary commercial products and services. The Duke's Choice Award, the Java community equivalent of winning an Oscar, is awarded for compelling use of Java Technology. It recognizes distinguished projects that bring invaluable innovation, Java-Powered Technologies and Contributions to Java. One of this year's winners includes The Apache Software Foundation's TomEE project, written in Java, a vanilla Apache Tomcat stack with Java EE features. TomEE is a solution that simplifies the patchwork of APIs enabling enterprise features within Tomcat. The developer-centric Geek Choice Award is the end result of ZeroTurnaround's RebelLabs annual report on 10 Kick-ass Technologies Modern Developers Love http://zeroturnaround.com/rebellabs/10-kick-ass-technologies-modern-developers-love/. This report reveals the industry's best technology based on market data, developer feedback, public interaction volume and anecdotal evidence. Of ten selected winners, Apache Tomcat + TomEE, won for their popularity and high usage rate by development teams. In RebelLabs' survey, Tomcat was the obvious leading application server for developers, with TomEE providing Java EE support for existing Tomcat base and new projects. We are proud to receive such highly regarded awards by Oracle and RebelLabs for one of the Apache's many successful Open Source projects, added Blevins. Availability and Oversight A Top-level Project at The Apache Software Foundation, Apache TomEE software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. For downloads, documentation, and ways to become involved with Apache TomEE, visit http://tomee.apache.org/ and follow @ApacheTomEE on Twitter. Apache, Apache Tomcat, Apache TomEE, and ApacheCon are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. # # # NOTE: you are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the announce@apache.org distribution list. To unsubscribe, send email from the recipient account to announce-unsubscr...@apache.org with the word Unsubscribe in the subject line.
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Storm™ as a Top-Level Project
this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/DGO Easy-to-integrate distributed Open Source real-time computation framework adds reliable data processing capabilities to Apache Hadoop Forest Hill, MD –29 September 2014– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 200 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that Apache™ Storm™ has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP), signifying that the project's community and products have been well-governed under the ASF's meritocratic process and principles. Apache Storm's graduation is not only an indication of its maturity as a technology, but also of the robust, active community that develops and supports it, said P. Taylor Goetz, Vice President of Apache Storm. Storm’s vibrant community ensures that Storm will continue to evolve to meet the demands of real-time stream processing and computation use cases. Apache Storm is a high-performance, easy-to-implement distributed real-time computation framework for processing fast, large streams of data, adding reliable data processing capabilities to Apache Hadoop. Using Storm, a Hadoop cluster can efficiently process a full range of workloads, from real-time to interactive to batch. Storm was originally developed at BackType prior to being acquired by Twitter, and entered the Apache Incubator in September 2013. The project currently has code contributions from individual committers representing Hortonworks, Twitter, Verisign, and Yahoo, among others. Becoming a top level project is huge for Storm and a testament to how active and diverse our user and developer communities are. Four years ago Storm was nothing more than an idea and it's been incredible to watch its growth from being open-sourced through joining the Apache incubator and now through graduation, said Nathan Marz, original creator of Storm. Today's announcement marks a major milestone in the continued evolution of Storm since Yahoo initiated the proposal to move it to Apache in 2012. We are proud of our continued contributions to Storm that have led to the hardening of security, multi-tenancy support, and increased scalability. Today, Apache Storm is widely adopted at Yahoo for real-time data processing needs including content personalization, advertising, and mobile development. It's thrilling to see the Hadoop ecosystem and community expand with the continued adoption of Storm, said Andrew Feng, Distinguished Architect at Yahoo. The Storm community has come together, has built some fantastic software and has now graduated to top-level. This process has been a great example of open source community building at its best, said Ted Dunning, Apache Storm Incubator Mentor. Storm is ideal for real-time data processing workloads, and is used to define information sources and manipulations to allow batch, distributed processing of streaming data. Benchmarked as processing one million 100 byte messages per second per node, Storm is fault-tolerant, scalable across clusters of machines, and easy to operate. Developers can write Storm topologies using any programming language, with production-suitable configurations capable in one day. In addition, Storm easily integrates with database systems, handling parallelization, partitioning, and retrying on failures where necessary. Graduation to a top level project gives users the confidence that they can adopt Apache Storm knowing that it’s backed by a robust, sustainable developer community and the governance framework and processes of the ASF, added Goetz. As a Chair of the Project Management Committee for Storm, I focus much of my energy encouraging developers to contribute code and get involved in the Storm community. We encourage this collaboration because it is the lifeblood of rapid, reliable innovation. Availability and Oversight As with all Apache products, Apache Storm software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. For documentation and ways to become involved with Apache Storm, visit http://storm.apache.org/ and @Apache_Storm on Twitter. About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than two hundred leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, more than 450 individual Members and 4,000 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Cayenne™ v3.1
this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/FjS Enterprise-grade Open Source Java framework for object relational mapping (ORM), persistence, and caching now easier to configure, with improved modularity and performance. Forest Hill, MD –30 September 2014– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 200 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today the availability of Apache™ Cayenne™ v3.1, the Open Source Java framework for object relational mapping (ORM), persistence, and caching. With the launch of version 3.1, Apache Cayenne has continued to evolve its mature 12 year-old library by introducing 125 new features, said Andrus Adamchik, Vice President of Apache Cayenne. Cayenne is an enterprise Java ORM with integrated support for caching, three-tier persistence, object lifecycles and workflow, inheritance, paging, on demand faulting, auditing and much more. As an object relational mapping library, Cayenne integrates applications to any SQL database available today, freeing solutions from being locked into one database engine. At the same time it improves performance through paging and caching, enforces data integrity and makes it dramatically faster for developers to build a reliable application. Cayenne has a track record of solid performance in high-volume environments. Apache Cayenne is an exceptional choice for persistence services, and is in use at ish onCourse, National Hockey League, Nike, Unilever and the Law Library of Congress (the world's largest publicly-available legal index) as well as dozens of high-demand applications and Websites accessed by millions of users each day. Apache Cayenne v3.1 is the result of 4 years of development. Notable new features and improvements include: - easier configuration and embedding in any type of application; - highly configurable runtime, enabled by one of the industry's smallest built-in Dependency Injection (DI) containers written specifically for Cayenne (and that co-exists with other DI/IoC, such as Apache Tapestry). It is also very easy to create more than one runtime, which opens interesting possibilities like multi-tenancy; - nearly all components now pluggable, making it very easy to create more than one runtime and easily change or extend internals of the stack declaratively --from cache provider to SQL log format to DataSource lookup strategy and much more; - improved ORM modularity to allow projects to be included in libraries without assumptions about the target use. Different aspects of an application can now be modeled in separate mapping projects and combined in runtime as needed. As a result Cayenne projects can be included in libraries that make no assumptions about the target use; - extended persistent events model from simple per-object events to more higher-level workflows that can be configured with app-specific annotations on persistent classes. Cayenne ships with cayenne-lifecycle module that provides a few common examples of such workflows activated on data changes: data modifications audit, precision cache invalidation, etc.; and - performance optimizations for improved overall concurrency Developers who are seeking an alternate to EJB/Hibernate might find Cayenne's graphical modeler, reverse database engineering, easy to use query API and flexible context model a joy to work with, said Aristedes Maniatis, member of the Apache Cayenne Project Management Committee and CEO of ish. We use Apache Cayenne as the ORM for a large and complex budgeting project for around twenty government organizations, said Daniel Abrams, CEO of MassLight. Cayenne is used to access and persist exhibit data, business validation rules, and account information, and has simplified the development process. A single Cayenne method call evaluates all changes in the user's context and generates all statements required to commit their changes within a single transaction without the developer having to write code to track the changes -- Cayenne does all the work. Since switching to Cayenne, there haven't been any faulting errors that tended to plague the previous version of the application because of the complex data model. This was one of the principal reasons for the switch to Cayenne and the data model has become significantly more complex now. We use Cayenne in our system to collect, quality control and distribute world coverage nautical charts to navies, pilots, inspectors and several thousand vessels, said Tore Halset, Development Manager at Electronic Chart Centre and PRIMAR. We have been happy users of Apache Cayenne since 2005 and are now on version 3.1. Apache Cayenne is a core service in Avoka Transact, an engagement platform for multi-channel sales and service transactions, said Malcolm Edgar, Vice President of Engineering at Avoka. We use Apache Cayenne to support the Oracle,
The Apache News Round-up: week ending 10 October 2014
this announcement is also online at http://s.apache.org/qbY With more than 200 projects and initiatives at The Apache Software Foundation, there are so many amazing things happening in the Apache community! Here are some noteworthy items from over the past week: ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation - CFP now open for ApacheCon North America 2015 (Austin, Texas, 13-17 April 2015) http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/program/cfp - Follow ApacheCon developments via http://www.apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html#foundation-apachecon and https://twitter.com/ApacheCon Apache Jackrabbit™ –a fully conforming implementation of the Content Repository for Java Technology API (JCR) - Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.1.0 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html Apache OFBiz™ –an Open Source enterprise automation software project (ERP, CRM, E-Business/E-Commerce, SCM, MRP, CMMS/EAM, and so on) - Apache OFBiz 13.07.01 released http://ofbiz.apache.org/download.html Apache Syncope™ –Open Source system for managing digital identities in enterprise environments, implemented in JEE technology and released under Apache 2.0 license - Apache Syncope 1.2.0 released http://syncope.apache.org/downloads.html Apache Tomcat™ –a Web server that is an open source software implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies - Apache Tomcat 7.0.56 released http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi Apache XML Graphics Commons™ –a library that consists of several reusable components used by Apache Batik and Apache FOP - Apache XML Graphics Commons 2.0 released http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/commons/ = = = Want more? For real-time updates, sign up for Apache-related news at announce@apache.org and follow @TheASF on Twitter. For a broader spectrum from the Apache community, https://twitter.com/PlanetApache provides an aggregate of both Project activities and the personal blogs of select ASF Committers. = = = NOTE: you are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the announce@apache.org distribution list. To unsubscribe, send email from the recipient account to announce-unsubscr...@apache.org with the word Unsubscribe in the subject line.
The Apache News Round-up: week ending 24 October 2014
this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/Jps Noteworthy items from The Apache Software Foundation's more than 200 projects and initiatives that have taken place over the past week include: ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation - Early registration incentives for ApacheCon and CloudStack Collaboration Conference Europe end soon http://events.linuxfoundation.org/ - CFP now open for ApacheCon North America 2015 http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/program/cfp Apache Software Foundation Graphics –graphical assets that can be used by third parties when referring to The Apache Software Foundation or one of its projects. - Download new Powered By Apache general and project logos http://apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby Apache CloudStack™ –open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. - Apache CloudStack v4.4.1 released http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/projects/cloudstack-release-notes/en/4.4.1/ Apache HttpComponents Core™ –a set of low level HTTP transport components that can be used to build custom client and server side HTTP services with a minimal footprint. - Apache HttpComponents HttpAsyncClient 4.1-beta1 released http://www.apache.org/dist/httpcomponents/httpasyncclient/RELEASE_NOTES-4.1.x.txt - HttpComponents Core 4.3.3 GA released http://www.apache.org/dist/httpcomponents/httpcore/RELEASE_NOTES.txt Apache Log4j™ –provides logging services for Java. - Apache Log4j 2.1 released http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/ Apache Apache Tajo™ –an advanced open source data warehouse system in Hadoop for processing web-scale data sets. - Apache Tajo v0.9 released http://tajo.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 standard. - Apache UIMA DUCC 1.1.0 released http://uima.apache.org/d/uima-ducc-1.1.0/issuesFixed/jira-report.html = = = Want more? For real-time updates, sign up for Apache-related news at announce@apache.org and follow @TheASF on Twitter. For a broader spectrum from the Apache community, https://twitter.com/PlanetApache provides an aggregate of both Project activities and the personal blogs of select ASF Committers. = = = NOTE: you are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the announce@apache.org distribution list. To unsubscribe, send email from the recipient account to announce-unsubscr...@apache.org with the word Unsubscribe in the subject line.
The Apache News Round-up: week ending 31 October 2014
this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/yp Noteworthy items from The Apache Software Foundation's more than 200 projects and initiatives that have taken place over the past week include: The ASF @ 15 - The Apache Software Foundation Marks 15 Years of Open Source Innovation and Community Leadership - Chairman's Statement http://s.apache.org/RYD ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation - Early registration incentives for ApacheCon, Cassandra Days, and CloudStack Collaboration Conference Europe end soon http://events.linuxfoundation.org/ Apache Any23™ –used in major Web of Data applications and can be used as a library in Java applications that consume structured data from the Web, as a command-line tool for extracting and converting between the supported formats, and as online service API available at any23.org. - Apache Any23 1.1 released http://s.apache.org/any231.1 Apache Camel™ –powerful Open Source integration framework based on known Enterprise Integration Patterns. - Apache Camel 2.12.5 released http://camel.apache.org/download.html Apache Flex™ –a highly productive, Open Source application framework for building and maintaining expressive Web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops and devices (including smartphones, tablets and TV). - Apache Flex Squiggly 1.1 released http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/flex/squiggly/1.1/RELEASE_NOTES Apache jclouds™ –Open Source multi-cloud toolkit for the Java platform that gives you the freedom to create applications that are portable across clouds while giving you full control to use cloud-specific features. - Apache jclouds 1.8.1 released https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS/fixforversion/12327548 Apache Kafka™ –a single Kafka broker can handle hundreds of megabytes of reads and writes per second from thousands of clients. Kafka is designed to allow a single cluster to serve as the central data backbone for a large organization, and can be elastically and transparently expanded without downtime. - Apache Kafka 0.8.2-beta released https://archive.apache.org/dist/kafka/0.8.2-beta/RELEASE_NOTES.html Apache MINA™ –a network application framework which helps users develop high performance and high scalability network applications easily. - Apache MINA 2.0.9 released http://mina.apache.org/downloads.html Apache Onami™ –focused on the development and maintenance of a set of Google Guice extensions. - Apache Onami Persist 1.0.1 released http://onami.apache.org/ Apache Tomcat™ –a web server that is an Open Source software implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies. - Apache Tomcat Native 1.1.32 released http://tomcat.apache.org/native-doc/miscellaneous/changelog.html Apache Software Foundation Graphics –graphical assets that can be used by third parties when referring to The Apache Software Foundation or one of its projects. - Download new Powered By Apache general and project logos http://apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby = = = Want more? For real-time updates, sign up for Apache-related news at announce@apache.org and follow @TheASF on Twitter. For a broader spectrum from the Apache community, https://twitter.com/PlanetApache provides an aggregate of both Project activities and the personal blogs of select ASF Committers. = = = NOTE: you are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the announce@apache.org distribution list. To unsubscribe, send email from the recipient account to announce-unsubscr...@apache.org with the word Unsubscribe in the subject line.
The Apache News Round-up: week ending 7 November 2014
this announcement is also available online at http://s.apache.org/Y1P Noteworthy items from The Apache Software Foundation's more than 200 projects and initiatives that have taken place over the past week include: The ASF @ 15 -The Apache Software Foundation Marks 15 Years of Open Source Innovation and Community Leadership - Sponsorship and Stewardship http://s.apache.org/oLh ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation - Register for ApacheCon, Cassandra Days, and CloudStack Collaboration Conference Europe end soon http://events.linuxfoundation.org/ Apache Camel™ –powerful open source integration framework based on known Enterprise Integration Patterns. Rules for Camel's routing and mediation engine can be defined in either a Java based DSL, XML or using DSLs for dynamic languages such as Groovy or Scala. - Apache Camel 2.13.3 released http://camel.apache.org/camel-2133-release.html Apache Commons Exec™ -a library to reliably execute external processes from within the JVM. - Apache Commons Exec 1.3 released http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-exec/ Apache Curator™ -Java libraries that make using Apache ZooKeeper much easier and more reliable. - Apache Curator 2.7.0. released https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12314425version=12327442 Apache HttpComponents Client™ -a library for client-side HTTP communication built on HttpCore. It provides connection management, cookie management, and authentication. This is the successor to the widely used Jakarta Commons HttpClient 3.1. - HttpComponents Client 4.3.6 GA released http://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi Apache Jackrabbit Oak™ -a fully conforming implementation of the Content Repository for Java Technology API (JCR). - Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.0.8 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html Apache Lucene™ -a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform. - Apache Lucene 4.10.2 released http://lucene.apache.org/core/mirrors-core-latest-redir.html Apache Qpid™ –implements the latest AMQP specification, the first open standard for enterprise messaging, and provides transaction management, queuing, distribution, security, management, clustering, federation and heterogeneous multi-platform support and a lot more. - Qpid Proton 0.8 released http://qpid.apache.org/releases/qpid-proton-0.8/index.html Apache Solr™ –an open source enterprise search server based on the Lucene Java search library, with XML/HTTP and JSON, Ruby, and Python APIs, hit highlighting, faceted search, caching, replication, and a web administration interface. - Apache Solr 4.10.2 released http://lucene.apache.org/solr/mirrors-solr-latest-redir.html Apache Traffic Server™ –fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 compliant caching proxy server. ATS can be used as a reverse, forward or even transparent HTTP proxy. - Apache Traffic Server 5.1.1 released http://trafficserver.apache.org/downloads Apache Software Foundation Graphics –graphical assets that can be used by third parties when referring to The Apache Software Foundation or one of its projects. - Download new Powered By Apache general and project logos http://apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby = = = Want more? For real-time updates, sign up for Apache-related news at announce@apache.org and follow @TheASF on Twitter. For a broader spectrum from the Apache community, https://twitter.com/PlanetApache provides an aggregate of both Project activities and the personal blogs of select ASF Committers. = = = NOTE: you are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the announce@apache.org distribution list. To unsubscribe, send email from the recipient account to announce-unsubscr...@apache.org with the word Unsubscribe in the subject line.
The ASF @ 15 --Community Over Code-- The Apache Software Foundation's Community Leadership Powers 15 Years of Open Source Innovation
this announcement is available online at http://s.apache.org/AQJ Part 3 of a 3-part series celebrating 15 years of community-led development at The Apache Software Foundation. Over the past 15 years, The Apache Software Foundation (ASF http://apache.org/) has accrued a lot of unofficial mottos: Community-led development and No Jerks Allowed are two favorites. But the one that comes up most often is Community Over Code, also sometimes stated mathematically as Community Code. Now, obviously, as a community, we are all about code, and wouldn't have a reason for existing without that code. But it's more than just a clever slogan. Instead, it's meant to codify how we do things, how we see one another, and how we go about decision making, even when it comes to code patches. Once, long ago, I had the pleasure of interviewing Brian Behlendorf, the founder of the Apache Web Server project, at ApacheCon. (Parts of that interview became a podcast on FeatherCast - http://feathercast.apache.org/?p=78 - and it appears that I never published the promised second half.) One of the things I remember him saying to me was that a healthy community is far more important than good code, because if the code were to mysteriously vanish, a strong community could rewrite it, but if the community is unhealthy, the code will eventually fall by the wayside, too. Daniel Gruno, who has done a lot of statistical analysis of the ASF, says: All in all, the projects (and people) in the ASF have produced a whopping 120 million lines of code, worth almost 32,500 person-years in efforts and 'costing' an estimated $2 billion in effort put into the projects. All of this is produced by roughly 4,000 people over the course of almost 20 years, with a much smaller number being consistently active at any given time. This is made possible by our amazing infrastructure team who provide the servers and networks that this all happens on. It's made possible by the many people that have gone before us, producing software, standards, and protocols on which we build. And it's possible due to a philosophy of collaborative development, where community is valued more than the code that we're writing. What does that mean, exactly? Take, for example, a situation where you have a rock-star programmer who writes brilliant code, complete with documentation and tests, but treats everyone else on the project as though they are idiots. What's the result? People will either leave, because they can't stand this person's behavior, or they will learn to behave in the same way in order to fit in, thus driving everyone else away even faster. Eventually, you have a project where everybody's a jerk, and nobody wants to join the party. Or, consider this from the perspective of a company which works with Open Source projects. Apache's business-friendly stance means that businesses will often look at projects at the ASF as a place where they can invest time and developers, in the hopes of producing products and services down the road. Projects with a hostile community tend to get passed over as a bad investment by companies that are looking for projects where they can have a positive impact. It's just too much work to have to work on the code as well as have to battle a toxic work environment. The importance of healthy, respectful community is more than just a warm fuzzy feeling. It's deeply pragmatic. Healthy, diverse, inclusive (dare I even say friendly?) communities promote project growth, sustainability, and even to the financial success of corporations that choose to build solutions around the technology. When projects enter the ASF via the Incubator, one of the primary things we're concerned about is whether the community is diverse and sustainable, not whether the code is yet production quality. When projects report to the board each month, the board isn't evaluating their technical progress, but, rather, is considering whether the project is conducting itself in a way that is sustainable, welcoming to newcomers, and has a community that is large enough and healthy enough to continue making decisions about the future of the project. Unlike the closed-source, single company software development model, in Open Source it's actually really important that you play nicely with others, even with your competitors. The term coopetition embodies this, describing a situation where you cooperate closely with your competition to create something, so that you can then compete on value-adds such as training, services, support, and non-free features. While this isn't something that the ASF participates in directly, it's a side-effect of the way we do Open Source. While we're most certainly not claiming to have solved all of the problems around running an Open Source community, we think that we've got some things right, and constantly strive to fix the places where practice doesn't live up to theory. One
Apache CouchDB™ Adds Clustering and Big Data Capabilities With 2.0 Developer Preview Release of Its Popular NoSQL Database
this announcement is available online at http://s.apache.org/g82 Horizontal scalability and distributed workloads brings enterprise functionality to the database that kickstarted the NoSQL movement. At ApacheCon Europe 2014, the Apache CouchDB™ project today announced a Developer Preview release of its CouchDB 2.0 document database. The Developer Preview release brings all-new clustering technology to the Open Source NoSQL database, enabling a range of big data capabilities that include being able to store, replicate, sync, and process large amounts of data distributed across individual servers, data centers, and geographical regions in any deployment configuration, including private, hybrid, and multi-cloud. The Developer Preview release of CouchDB 2.0 delivers on our goal of bringing Apache CouchDB to the enterprise, said Jan Lehnardt, Vice President of Apache CouchDB. Flexibility and scalability are becoming increasingly important, and it's crucial that data can be stored wherever, accessed whenever, and processed however. Combined with the success of our unique sync protocol that enables flawless mobile-first and offline work capabilities, clustering promises to propel CouchDB into the core of many business. Apache CouchDB is the database that kickstarted the NoSQL movement. It has been built from the ground up with high performance and fault-tolerance in mind. Unlike SQL, NoSQL frees developers from having to make any decisions in advance, allowing data to be captured in any form, with structuring, filtering, and querying being done after the fact. In earlier versions of CouchDB, databases could be replicated across as many individual servers as needed, but each server was limited by vertical scaling. With the clustering introduced in the Developer Preview, databases can now be distributed across many servers, adding horizontal scaling capability to CouchDB. This technology works by borrowing many principles from Amazon's Dynamo paper, and improves the overall performance, durability, and high-availability of large-scale CouchDB deployments. Also in the Developer Preview Other additions in the Developer Preview include a faster database compactor, a faster replicator, easier setup, re-organised code for easier contributions, a global changes feed, and improved test coverage. This version of CouchDB also includes a new Web dashboard admin interface called Fauxton, with improved user experience design, rich query editors, and a management interface for replication. (A screenshot of Fauxton is available at https://cloudup.com/cQXYSXhhSLj) Beyond CouchDB 2.0 Also announced today are plans for upcoming new features, including a declarative ad-hoc querying system that standardises around the de facto MongoDB query syntax. This feature promises to open up CouchDB to a whole new segment of developers familiar with SQL who want to use something that feels familiar and allows for casual use. Get Involved The Apache CouchDB community encourages feedback as it works towards the 2.0 General Availability release, which is expected early 2015. Those interested in becoming involved with Apache CouchDB are invited to participate in or contribute to any of the project's three IRC channels, eight mailing lists, or 45 Git repositories. Governance and Oversight As with all Apache products, CouchDB software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. The Apache CouchDB Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. About Apache CouchDB™ Apache CouchDB is the database that kickstarted the NoSQL movement. It has been built from the ground up with high performance and fault-tolerance in mind. CouchDB enables users to easily store, replicate, sync, and process large amounts of data, distributed across mobile devices, servers, data centers, and geographical regions in any deployment configuration, including private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. CouchDB entered the Apache Incubator in February 2008 and became an Apache Top-level Project in November of the same year. Visit http://couchdb.apache.org/ for downloads, documentation, and ways to become involved with Apache CouchDB. © The Apache Software Foundation. Apache, CouchDB, Apache CouchDB, the Apache CouchDB logo, and the Apache feather logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. # # # NOTE: you are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the announce@apache.org distribution list. To unsubscribe, send email from the recipient account to announce-unsubscr...@apache.org with the word Unsubscribe in the subject line.
The Apache Software Foundation Celebrates 15 Years of Open Source Innovation and Community Leadership
this announcement is available online at http://s.apache.org/wZr Apache has been at the forefront of dozens of today's industry-defining technologies and tools; nearly every end-user computing device has been touched by at least one Apache product. Budapest, Hungary –19 November– At ApacheCon Europe, members of the Apache community commemorated The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)'s fifteenth anniversary and congratulated the people, projects, initiatives, and organizations that played a role in its success. Recognized as the leader in community-led Open Source software development, the ASF was established to shepherd, develop, and incubate Open Source innovations The Apache Way. Reflections on achievements over the past 15 years include: - ASF @ 15 Statement by Chairman Brett Porter http://s.apache.org/RYD - Sponsorship and Stewardship by President Ross Gardler http://s.apache.org/oLh - Community Over Code by Executive Vice President Rich Bowen http://s.apache.org/AQJ Apache products power half the Internet, manage exabytes of data, execute teraflops of operations, store billions of objects in virtually every industry, and enhance the lives of countless users and developers worldwide. Apache projects power mission-critical applications in financial services, aerospace, publishing, big data, Cloud computing, mobile, government, healthcare, research, infrastructure, development frameworks, foundational libraries, and many other categories. Beginning with the Apache HTTP Server —the world's most popular Web server— Apache software has been at the forefront of dozens of today's industry-defining technologies and tools, playing an integral role in nearly every end-user computing device, from laptops to tablets to mobile phones. Apache software is so ubiquitous that 50% of the top 10 downloaded Open Source products are Apache projects. The commercially-friendly and permissive Apache License v2 has become an industry standard within the Open Source world. The Apache License and open development model are widely recognized as among the best ways to ensure open standards gain traction and adoption. The ASF offers a vendor-neutral space in which to collaborate whilst enabling third parties to pursue almost any for-profit or not-for-profit business model. To date, hundreds of thousands of software solutions have been distributed under the Apache License. Amazingly, this is achieved by an all-volunteer community comprising 505 individual Members and 4,081 Apache Committers collaborating across six continents. The ASF's day-to-day operating expenses are offset by the generous sponsorship of individual donors and corporate sponsors including Citrix, Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, HP, IBM, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, and Yahoo. ASF @ 15 Timeline and Highlights follow. Visit http://apache.org/ and @TheASF on Twitter for more information. Highlights: pre-1999 Brian Behlendorf started collecting patches to be applied to the last version of the NCSA http server. The Apache Group, consisting of 8 individuals, traded patches on a mailing list set up for the purpose. In April of 1995 the first public release of Apache (version 0.6.2) came out. Apache 1.0 released on December 1, 1995, and within a year surpassed NCSA as the most-used Web server. Highlights: 1999 The ASF formally incorporates as a Delaware-based 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation from The Apache Group on 1 June. Original directors are: Brian Behlendorf (President), Ken Coar (VP Conferences), Roy T. Fielding (Chairman), Ben Hyde (VP Apache HTTP Server Project), Jim Jagielski (Secretary and EVP), Ben Laurie, Sameer Parekh, Randy Terbush (Treasurer), and Dirk-Willem van Gulik. New Apache Jakarta and XML Projects join the Apache HTTP Server Project. Board Committees on ASF Conferences, Licenses, and Security are formed. Discussions about ASF's role as an Open Source incubator address fostering new technologies such as Cocoon. The ASF receives numerous industry awards, including the ACM Software System Award, the Datamation Product of the Year, and LinuxWorld Editor's Award. ASF is listed in the Industry Standard's 100 Companies That Matter and included in the ServerWatch Hall of Fame. Highlights: 2000 Perl-Apache Project, as well as Apache PHP, Apache/TCL Project, and Apache Portable Runtime Project are established. Apache Struts, Batik, FOP, and Ant undergo incubation. The ASF draws record attendance at the second ApacheCon in Orlando (the first-ever conference was held in San Francisco in 1998), and launches its first European event in London later that year. Highlights: 2001 Apache Avalon, Commons, and Jetspeed/Portals undergo incubation. Work begins on next version of the Apache License. The fourth ApacheCon is held in Santa Clara, where the ASF maxim of Community Over Code is widespread and collaborators meet in person for the very first time. The ASF receives the
ApacheCon North America returns to Austin
this announcement is online at http://s.apache.org/60N by Rich Bowen, ASF Executive Vice President We just got done with ApacheCon Europe in Budapest last week - http://apachecon.eu/ - and it's time to start thinking about ApacheCon North America. We'll be holding ApacheCon North America, April 13-17th, 2015, in Austin, Texas. The call for papers is already open, at http://apachecon.com/, and we are hoping that this event will represent the breadth of the Apache Software Foundation projects. Organize your community The most important thing at this stage in the process is getting the Apache community involved in this event. ApacheCon exists to unite our community, get various projects to interact with one another, and bring new members into our community. The best way to accomplish these goals is to ensure that your project has representation at ApacheCon. Here are four specific areas where we need the help of Apache project communities: Track layout We've found that the very best way to have a project well represented in the content tracks is for someone deeply familiar with the project to craft an ideal track schedule, and then solicit speakers for those sessions. This has two immediate benefits. First, it goes a long way to ensuring that the topic is covered with the breadth that it deserves, rather than having a few random talks that cover random esoteric parts of the technology, and ignore segments of the audience that you most want to attract. Second, it is very encouraging to first-time speakers. It's very difficult, and very intimidating, to try to come up with a topic to speak about the first few times. Seeing a list of proposed topics is the perfect way to say to a new speaker that what they know about is worth them proposing to a conference. Hey, I could speak about that, and nobody would think it's a stupid idea. Speakers Some talks require certain speakers. You know this a lot better than we do, because it's your project. We need your help to go to those specific speakers and encourage them to submit the specific talk(s) that you know they'll shine at. Reviewing and Scheduling Once the talks have been submitted, we're going to need your help reviewing them and building the schedule. To help with the review process, you'll need to create an account in the CFP system (if you haven't already done so) at https://identity.linuxfoundation.org/user and then email me - rbo...@apache.org - with your username, so that I can get you added to the review system. From there, you'll see a list of talks to consider, and you can rate them according to how well you think they'll fit the conference. Of course, if you specifically solicited those talks, then you'll quickly mark them as Strongly Accept with a comment of I solicited this specific talk, and move on. (The CFP review interface is at http://events.linuxfoundation.org/cfp/cfp-list if you already have an account.) You can review talks from other topics/tracks, too, if you feel that you have some domain knowledge. Once the review process is complete, we'll select the talks that rate the highest, and at that point we'll be back in touch with you to help us order them correctly. Here, again, if you've already approached us with a layout of your ideal content track, there's really nothing else to do. But if there are other talks that made it in through the review process, we'll need help. Hackathons A key benefit of ApacheCon is getting your developers together in one place to work on things. We've got a a general hackathon area where you can gather to work on bugs, features, documentation, or discuss thorny community issues. (Don't forget to summarize your conversations back to the mailing list for the people who can't make it!) If you want to have a sponsored hackathon specifically for your project, we can find room to make that happen. Just get in touch with me, and we'll work out the details. Talking before the event about what you'll be working on has a number of benefits. First, it gives people time to think about how they can contribute, and plan accordingly. Second, it encourages people to come in from the edges of the project to participate more fully in the life of the community, because they can select something that they're particularly interested in, and work on it in company with the rest of the project members. Using the ApacheCon wiki - http://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/ - as a place to work on your hackathon topics gives conference attendees an easy way to find topics that they might be interested in, and connecting with the community. If you don't have write permissions to the wiki, send me your wiki username, and I'll get you added to the access list. Sponsor Your company uses Apache software every day. Perhaps you even contribute to a project as part of your day job. ApacheCon is the best place in the world for your company to show off their
The Apache News Round-up: week ending 28 November 2014
this announcement is available online at http://s.apache.org/ES5 With more than 200 projects and initiatives under development at The Apache Software Foundation, here's what's happened over the past week: ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation - ApacheCon North America returns to Austin http://s.apache.org/60N Apache Commons™ –library that provides a simple interface for reading and writing CSV files of various types. - Apache Commons CSV 1.1 released http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-csv/ Apache Directory™ –directory solutions entirely written in Java, including an extensible and embeddable directory server entirely written in Java, which has been certified LDAPv3 compatible by the Open Group, and LDAP client API to provide an enhanced LDAP API as a replacement for JNDI and the existing LDAP API (jLdap and Mozilla LDAP API). - ApacheDS 2.0.0-M19 released http://directory.apache.org/apacheds - Apache Directory LDAP API 1.0.0-M26 released http://directory.apache.org/api Apache Slider (incubating)™ –a YARN application which deploys existing distributed applications on YARN, monitors them, and makes them larger or smaller as desired. - Apache Slider 0.60.0-incubating released http://slider.incubator.apache.org/docs/getting_started.html Apache Sqoop™ –a tool designed for efficiently transferring bulk data between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores, such as relational databases. - Apache Sqoop 1.99.4 released http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/sqoop/1.99.4 Apache Storm™ –a distributed, fault-tolerant, and high-performance realtime computation system that provides strong guarantees on the processing of data. - Apache Storm 0.9.3 released http://storm.apache.org Apache Tomcat™ –Open Source software implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages and Java Expression Language technologies. - Apache Tomcat 6.0.43 released http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi Apache Software Foundation Graphics –graphical assets that can be used by third parties when referring to The Apache Software Foundation or one of its projects. - Download new Powered By Apache general and project logos http://apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby = = = For real-time updates, sign up for Apache-related news at announce@apache.org and follow @TheASF on Twitter. For a broader spectrum from the Apache community, https://twitter.com/PlanetApache provides an aggregate of both Project activities and the personal blogs of select ASF Committers. = = = NOTE: you are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the announce@apache.org distribution list. To unsubscribe, send email from the recipient account to announce-unsubscr...@apache.org with the word Unsubscribe in the subject line.
The Apache News Round-up: week ending 28 November 2014
this announcement is available online at http://s.apache.org/ES5 With more than 200 projects and initiatives under development at The Apache Software Foundation, here's what's happened over the past week: ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation - ApacheCon North America returns to Austin http://s.apache.org/60N Apache Commons™ –library that provides a simple interface for reading and writing CSV files of various types. - Apache Commons CSV 1.1 released http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-csv/ Apache Directory™ –directory solutions entirely written in Java, including an extensible and embeddable directory server entirely written in Java, which has been certified LDAPv3 compatible by the Open Group, and LDAP client API to provide an enhanced LDAP API as a replacement for JNDI and the existing LDAP API (jLdap and Mozilla LDAP API). - ApacheDS 2.0.0-M19 released http://directory.apache.org/apacheds - Apache Directory LDAP API 1.0.0-M26 released http://directory.apache.org/api Apache Slider (incubating)™ –a YARN application which deploys existing distributed applications on YARN, monitors them, and makes them larger or smaller as desired. - Apache Slider 0.60.0-incubating released http://slider.incubator.apache.org/docs/getting_started.html Apache Sqoop™ –a tool designed for efficiently transferring bulk data between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores, such as relational databases. - Apache Sqoop 1.99.4 released http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/sqoop/1.99.4 Apache Storm™ –a distributed, fault-tolerant, and high-performance realtime computation system that provides strong guarantees on the processing of data. - Apache Storm 0.9.3 released http://storm.apache.org Apache Tomcat™ –Open Source software implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages and Java Expression Language technologies. - Apache Tomcat 6.0.43 released http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi Apache Software Foundation Graphics –graphical assets that can be used by third parties when referring to The Apache Software Foundation or one of its projects. - Download new Powered By Apache general and project logos http://apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby = = = For real-time updates, sign up for Apache-related news at announce@apache.org and follow @TheASF on Twitter. For a broader spectrum from the Apache community, https://twitter.com/PlanetApache provides an aggregate of both Project activities and the personal blogs of select ASF Committers. = = = NOTE: you are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the announce@apache.org distribution list. To unsubscribe, send email from the recipient account to announce-unsubscr...@apache.org with the word Unsubscribe in the subject line.
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Drill™ as a Top-Level Project
this announcement is available online at http://s.apache.org/EUQ World's first schema-free SQL query engine brings self-service data exploration to Apache Hadoop™ Forest Hill, MD –02 December 2014– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 200 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that Apache™ Drill™ has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP), signifying that the project's community and products have been well-governed under the ASF's meritocratic process and principles. Apache Drill is the world's first schema-free SQL query engine that delivers real-time insights by removing the constraint of building and maintaining schemas before data can be analyzed. Drill users can run interactive ANSI SQL queries on complex or constantly evolving data including JSON, Parquet, and HBase without ever worrying about schema definitions. As a result, Drill not only enables rapid application development on Apache Hadoop™ but also allows enterprise BI analysts to access Hadoop in a self-service fashion. Apache Drill's graduation is a testament to the maturity of the technology and a strong indicator of the active community that develops and supports it, said Jacques Nadeau, Vice President of Apache Drill. Drill's vibrant community ensures that it will continue to evolve to meet the demands of self-service data exploration use cases. While providing faster time to value from data stored in Hadoop, Drill also reduces the burden on IT developers and administrators who prepare and maintain datasets for analysis. Analysts can explore data in real-time, pull in new datasets on the fly, and also use traditional BI tools to visualize the data easily – all by themselves. Inspired by Google's Dremel (an academic paper on interactive analysis of Web-scale datasets), and a vision to support modern big data applications, Drill entered the Apache Incubator in August 2012. The project currently has code contributions from individual committers representing MapR, LinkedIn, Hortonworks, Pentaho, and Cisco, among others. We see the Apache Top-Level Project status as a major milestone for Drill. With a growing user base and diverse community interest, we are excited that Drill will indeed be a game changer for Hadoop application developers and BI analysts alike, said Tomer Shiran, member of the Apache Drill Project Management Committee. Availability and Oversight As with all Apache products, Apache Drill software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. For documentation and ways to become involved with Apache Drill, visit http://drill.apache.org and https://twitter.com/ApacheDrill About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than two hundred leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, more than 500 individual Members and 4,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Budget Direct, Citrix, Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, HP, Huawei, IBM, InMotion Hosting, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, Pivotal, Produban, WANdisco, and Yahoo. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/ or follow @TheASF on Twitter. © The Apache Software Foundation. Apache, Apache Drill, Drill, Hadoop, Apache Hadoop, ApacheCon, and the Apache Drill logo are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. # # # NOTE: you are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the announce@apache.org distribution list. To unsubscribe, send email from the recipient account to announce-unsubscr...@apache.org with the word Unsubscribe in the subject line.
The Apache News Round-up: week ending 5 December 2014
this announcement is online at http://s.apache.org/d7E With more than 200 projects and initiatives under development at The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), here's what's happened over the past week: ASF Fundraising –supporting Sponsorship and fundraising initiatives for The Apache Software Foundation - Upayavira steps down as VP Fundraising; Jim Jagielski and Hadrian Zbarcea named new Vice Presidents http://apache.org/foundation/sponsorship.html ASF Infrastructure –leading the ASF's multi-datacenter, multi-cloud deployment running 24x7x365 on multiple continents, distributing terabytes of artifacts per week and archiving more than 11 million Apache email messages. - ASF Subversion master's emergency maintenance https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/subversion_master_undergoing_emergency_maintenance Apache Incubator –the entry path for all code donations from external organisations and existing external projects wishing to join the ASF's efforts as official Apache projects. - Hadoop Development Tools, HTrace, Lens, NiFi, and Tamaya entered the Incubator in November as new podlings http://incubator.apache.org/ Apache Flex™ –a highly productive, Open Source application framework for building and maintaining expressive Web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops and devices. - Apache Flex TourDeFlex 1.2 released http://flex.apache.org/tourdeflex/ = = = For real-time updates, sign up for Apache-related news at announce@apache.org and follow @TheASF on Twitter. For a broader spectrum from the Apache community, https://twitter.com/PlanetApache provides an aggregate of both Project activities and the personal blogs of select ASF Committers. = = = NOTE: you are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the announce@apache.org distribution list. To unsubscribe, send email from the recipient account to announce-unsubscr...@apache.org with the word Unsubscribe in the subject line.
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ MetaModel™ as a Top-Level Project
this announcement is available online at http://s.apache.org/2vF Dynamic, metadata-driven Open Source framework provides uniform data access and code consolidation across various data stores. Forest Hill, MD –09 December 2014– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 200 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that Apache™ MetaModel™ has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP), signifying that the project's community and products have been well-governed under the ASF's meritocratic process and principles. It's a great privilege for us to have MetaModel graduated to a Top Level Project at Apache. It makes us proud and excited about welcoming more people into our community of coders and users, said Kasper Sørensen, Vice President of Apache MetaModel. We've learned a lot about the Apache Way since entering the Apache Incubator in July 2013. Apache MetaModel is a data access framework that provides a common interface for the discovery, exploration, and querying of different types of data sources. Unlike traditional mapping frameworks, MetaModel emphasizes metadata of the data source itself and the ability to add more data sources at runtime. MetaModel's schema model and SQL-like query API is applicable to databases, CSV files, Excel spreadsheets, NoSQL databases, Cloud-based business applications, and even regular Java objects. This level of abstraction makes MetaModel great for dynamic data processing applications, less so for applications modelled strictly around a particular domain. MetaModel is so called as it's a model for interacting with data based on metadata, enabling developers to go above the physical data layer and apply their application to just about any data. MetaModel enables you to consolidate code and consolidate data a lot quicker than any other library out there, Sørensen explained. In these 'Big Data days' there's a lot of focus on performance and scalability, and surely these topics also surround Apache MetaModel. The Big Data challenge is not always about massive loads of data, but instead massive variation and feeding a lot of different sources into a single application. Now to make such an application you both need a lot of connectivity capabilities and a lot of modelling flexibility. Those are the two aspects where Apache MetaModel shines. We make it possible for you to build applications that retain the complexity of your data – even if that complexity may change over time. The trick to achieve this is to model on the metadata and not on your assumptions. The performance and flexibility of Apache MetaModel is a key building block for us to improve the usability and power for the thousands of users of DataCleaner – the leading Open Source data quality solution, supported by Neopost, said Enno Ebels, Executive Vice President of Customer Information Management at Neopost. It's been a joy to follow the growth in the community and in functionality, added Sørensen. Over the last year we've introduced connectivity for Apache HBase, JSON files, ElasticSearch, Apache Cassandra and a whole lot more. It's always a great pleasure to see the excitement in people's eyes when they realize that you can develop for these data sources using the same API. Apache MetaModel is the core technology used underneath our MDM offering at Human Inference, providing us an abstraction layer above the different database schemes we currently support, including Postgres, DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, and ElasticSearch, said Ankit Kumar, Technical Lead at Human Inference and Member of the Apache MetaModel Project Management Committee. The MetaModel query language helps us write code agnostic of the underlying database. Within our MDM offering we have even implemented some virtual data stores using MetaModel, said Winfried van Holland, CTO of Neopost Customer Information Management. These expose our data model in a custom view for our consultants - stripping away the technical complexities and exposing the business value in a data model that is natural for the business people to consume. Apache MetaModel is a key technology in Stratio Datavis, allowing us to manage metadata and create SQL-based connectors for a bunch of data stores, said David Morales, Big Data Architect at Stratio. Thanks to Apache MetaModel, Datavis users can create beautiful dashboards using their SQL skills, instead of knowing several query languages. That's why we are proud to be contributors of MetaModel and we will continue to collaborate with this great project. Availability and Oversight As with all Apache products, Apache MetaModel software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including
The Apache News Round-up: week ending 12 December 2014
this announcement is available online at http://s.apache.org/W7w Here's a snapshot of what's been happening at the Apache Software Foundation over the past week. With more than 200 projects and initiatives under development at The ASF, keep an eye out for updates on your favorite projects! Apache Buildr™ –build system for Java-based applications, including support for Scala, Groovy and a growing number of JVM languages and tools. - Apache Buildr 1.4.21 released http://buildr.apache.org/ Apache cTAKES™ –clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES) is an Open Source natural language processing system for information extraction from electronic medical record clinical free-text. - Apache cTAKES 3.2.1 released http://ctakes.apache.org/downloads.cgi Apache DeltaSpike™ –a portable JSR-299 CDI (Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java) Extension library which contains lots of useful tools and helpers which are missing in the CDI core spec; not a CDI-container, but a portable CDI extension. - Apache DeltaSpike 1.2.0 released http://deltaspike.apache.org/download.html Apache MetaModel™ –uniform connector and query API to many very different datastore types, including: Relational (JDBC) databases, CSV files, Excel spreadsheets, XML files, JSON files, Fixed width files, MongoDB, Apache CouchDB, Apache HBase, Apache Cassandra, ElasticSearch, OpenOffice.org databases, and more. - Apache MetaModel graduated as a Top-Level Project http://s.apache.org/2vF ASF Infrastructure –leading the ASF's multi-datacenter, multi-cloud deployment running 24x7x365 on multiple continents, distributing terabytes of artifacts per week and archiving more than 11 million Apache email messages. - ASF SVN service outage post-mortem https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/svn_service_outage_postmortem ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation - CFP open for ApacheCon North America in Austin http://s.apache.org/60N Apache Software Foundation Graphics –graphical assets that can be used by third parties when referring to The Apache Software Foundation or one of its projects. - Download new Powered By Apache general and project logos http://apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby = = = For real-time updates, sign up for Apache-related news at announce@apache.org and follow @TheASF on Twitter. For a broader spectrum from the Apache community, https://twitter.com/PlanetApache provides an aggregate of both Project activities and the personal blogs of select ASF Committers. = = = NOTE: you are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the announce@apache.org distribution list. To unsubscribe, send email from the recipient account to announce-unsubscr...@apache.org with the word Unsubscribe in the subject line.
The Apache Software Foundation publishes long-overdue Code Of Conduct
this announcement is available online at http://s.apache.org/dGR We pride ourselves at The Apache Software Foundation on our principles of community over code and don't be a jerk. But, alas, we've been slow to codify some of these things in public. Part of this, I'm sure, is that it’s easy to think we all just know how we're supposed to treat people, and so you shouldn't have to say, right? But, of course, you do have to say. In part because some people don't know [1]. And in part because it’s important that we communicate our values [2] to the people in our community, and to people who might be considering joining our community. There has been a recent push in tech circles to include a Code of Conduct at events, conferences, etc. (Ashe Dryden maintains an introductory resource for learning more about how Codes of Conduct can help.) Increasingly, open source projects are adopting a Code of Conduct too, and we think this is a good idea that could help improve open source as a whole. At ApacheCon, I was approached by Joan Touzet, an active member of the Apache CouchDB community, who had noted that we referenced a Code of Conduct on the main ASF website, but that no such document actually existed anywhere on our site. CouchDB has devoted a lot of time over the last few months crafting their Code of Conduct. It addresses everything from what's acceptable on the mailing lists, to how to report it if someone isn’t upholding community standards. This seemed like a great starting point, and so the ASF has adopted this as our initial Code of Conduct, with minor edits that remove the CouchDB-specific language. (It is my understanding that the CouchDB community now intends to use the Foundation level Code of Conduct, and will work with us to bring additional improvements to it.) No doubt, we'll get criticism for being so slow to do this, and we accept that. But it's never too late to take steps in the right direction, and we feel that this is an important one. Not just for the ASF, but for all open source projects and organisations. You are encouraged to join the conversation on the Community Development mailing list. Whether you have changes you'd like to see in that document, or whether you'd like to discuss any other aspect of the Apache community. Any sort of community discussion topic is welcome. For example, Noah Slater, also from the CouchDB community, brought up the subject of punitive measures for infractions, which is an important but difficult issue. We'd love to hear your perspective on this, and help us continue to move in the right direction. --Rich Bowen, Executive Vice President [1] http://www.ashedryden.com/blog/codes-of-conduct-101-faq#cocfaqnegative [2] http://www.ashedryden.com/blog/codes-of-conduct-101-faq#coc101why [3] http://www.ashedryden.com/blog/codes-of-conduct-101-faq [4] https://medium.com/node-js-javascript/codes-of-conduct-82ab2d88112d [5] http://www.apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html#foundation-community = = = NOTE: you are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the announce@apache.org distribution list. To unsubscribe, send email from the recipient account to announce-unsubscr...@apache.org with the word Unsubscribe in the subject line.
The Apache News Round-up: week ending 19 December 2014
this announcement is available online at http://s.apache.org/qgn There are more than 200 projects and initiatives under development at The ASF; below are our activities over the past week, and be sure to subscribe to announce@apache.org to keep an eye out for updates on your favorite projects! Apache Jackrabbit™ –a scalable, high-performance hierarchical content repository designed for use as the foundation of modern world-class Web sites and other demanding content applications. - Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.1.3 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html Apache PDFBox™ –an Open Source Java tool for working with PDF documents. - Apache PDFBox 1.8.8 released http://pdfbox.apache.org/downloads.html Apache Subversion™ –Open Source, centralized version control system characterized by its reliability as a safe haven for valuable data; the simplicity of its model and usage; and its ability to support the needs of a wide variety of users and projects, from individuals to large-scale enterprise operations. - Apache Subversion 1.7.19 released http://subversion.apache.org/download/#supported-releases - Apache Subversion 1.8.11 released http://subversion.apache.org/download/#recommended-release ASF Operations –behind the scenes of the day-to-day functions at The Apache Software Foundation - The ASF publishes long-overdue New Code of Conduct http://s.apache.org/dGR - The ASF received 85 Individual Contributor License Agreements (ICLA), 11 Corporate Contributor License Agreements (CCLA), and four software grants over the past month https://www.apache.org/licenses/ ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation - Call for Papers open until 1 February http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/program/cfp - Become involved with the program selection process --check out http://s.apache.org/60N - Applications accepted for Apache Travel Assistance through 6 February http://www.apache.org/travel/ - Sign up to receive ApacheCon updates and announcements http://www.apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html#foundation-apachecon = = = For real-time updates, sign up for Apache-related news at http://www.apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html#foundation-announce and follow @TheASF on Twitter. For a broader spectrum from the Apache community, https://twitter.com/PlanetApache provides an aggregate of both Project activities and the personal blogs of select ASF Committers. = = = NOTE: you are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the announce@apache.org distribution list. To unsubscribe, send email from the recipient account to announce-unsubscr...@apache.org with the word Unsubscribe in the subject line.
CORRECTION Re: The Apache Software Foundation publishes long-overdue Code Of Conduct
It appears that the link to the Code of Conduct was omitted from my original email yesterday. This can be found at http://www.apache.org/foundation/policies/conduct.html Kind thanks, Sally From: Sally Khudairi s...@apache.org To: Apache Announce List announce@apache.org Sent: Friday, 19 December 2014, 9:16 Subject: The Apache Software Foundation publishes long-overdue Code Of Conduct this announcement is available online at http://s.apache.org/dGR We pride ourselves at The Apache Software Foundation on our principles of community over code and don't be a jerk. But, alas, we've been slow to codify some of these things in public. Part of this, I'm sure, is that it’s easy to think we all just know how we're supposed to treat people, and so you shouldn't have to say, right? But, of course, you do have to say. In part because some people don't know [1]. And in part because it’s important that we communicate our values [2] to the people in our community, and to people who might be considering joining our community. There has been a recent push in tech circles to include a Code of Conduct at events, conferences, etc. (Ashe Dryden maintains an introductory resource for learning more about how Codes of Conduct can help.) Increasingly, open source projects are adopting a Code of Conduct too, and we think this is a good idea that could help improve open source as a whole. At ApacheCon, I was approached by Joan Touzet, an active member of the Apache CouchDB community, who had noted that we referenced a Code of Conduct on the main ASF website, but that no such document actually existed anywhere on our site. CouchDB has devoted a lot of time over the last few months crafting their Code of Conduct. It addresses everything from what's acceptable on the mailing lists, to how to report it if someone isn’t upholding community standards. This seemed like a great starting point, and so the ASF has adopted this as our initial Code of Conduct, with minor edits that remove the CouchDB-specific language. (It is my understanding that the CouchDB community now intends to use the Foundation level Code of Conduct, and will work with us to bring additional improvements to it.) No doubt, we'll get criticism for being so slow to do this, and we accept that. But it's never too late to take steps in the right direction, and we feel that this is an important one. Not just for the ASF, but for all open source projects and organisations. You are encouraged to join the conversation on the Community Development mailing list. Whether you have changes you'd like to see in that document, or whether you'd like to discuss any other aspect of the Apache community. Any sort of community discussion topic is welcome. For example, Noah Slater, also from the CouchDB community, brought up the subject of punitive measures for infractions, which is an important but difficult issue. We'd love to hear your perspective on this, and help us continue to move in the right direction. --Rich Bowen, Executive Vice President [1] http://www.ashedryden.com/blog/codes-of-conduct-101-faq#cocfaqnegative [2] http://www.ashedryden.com/blog/codes-of-conduct-101-faq#coc101why [3] http://www.ashedryden.com/blog/codes-of-conduct-101-faq [4] https://medium.com/node-js-javascript/codes-of-conduct-82ab2d88112d [5] http://www.apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html#foundation-community = = = NOTE: you are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the announce@apache.org distribution list. To unsubscribe, send email from the recipient account to announce-unsubscr...@apache.org with the word Unsubscribe in the subject line.
The Apache News Round-up: week ending 26 December 2014
this announcement is available online at http://s.apache.org/sc6 The Apache Software Foundation's 200+ projects and initiatives and community of more than 4,000 contributors wish you a very happy and healthy 2015! Here's what we've been working on over the past week: Apache Commons™ –software library provides a generic configuration interface which enables an application to read configuration data from a variety of sources. - Commons Configuration 2.0-alpha2 Released http://www.apache.org/dist/commons/configuration/RELEASE-NOTES.txt Apache DeltaSpike™ –not a CDI-container, but a portable CDI extension. Apache DeltaSpike 1.2.1 released http://s.apache.org/DeltaSpike_1.2.1 Apache Ivy™ –a tool for managing (recording, tracking, resolving and reporting) project dependencies, characterized by flexibility, configurability, and tight integration with Apache Ant. - Apache Ivy 2.4.0 released http://ant.apache.org/ivy/download.cgi Apache Jackrabbit™ –a scalable, high-performance hierarchical content repository designed for use as the foundation of modern world-class Web sites and other demanding content applications. - Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.0.9 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html Apache POI™ –Java APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon the Office Open XML standards (OOXML) and Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format (OLE2), such as Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and Word. - Apache POI 3.11 released http://poi.apache.org/ ASF Operations –behind the scenes of the day-to-day functions at The Apache Software Foundation - The ASF publishes long-overdue New Code of Conduct http://s.apache.org/dGR ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation - Call for Papers open until 1 February http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/program/cfp - Become involved with the program selection process --check out http://s.apache.org/60N - Applications accepted for Apache Travel Assistance through 6 February http://www.apache.org/travel/ - Sign up to receive ApacheCon updates and announcements http://www.apache.org/foundation/mailinglists.html#foundation-apachecon = = = For real-time updates, sign up for Apache-related news at announce@apache.org and follow @TheASF on Twitter. For a broader spectrum from the Apache community,https://twitter.com/PlanetApache provides an aggregate of both Project activities and the personal blogs of select ASF Committers. = = = NOTE: you are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the announce@apache.org distribution list. To unsubscribe, send email from the recipient account to announce-unsubscr...@apache.org with the word Unsubscribe in the subject line.
The Apache News Round-up: week ending 23 January 2015
this announcement is available online at http://s.apache.org/z5Z This week's highlights from The Apache Software Foundation's 350+ projects and initiatives include: ASF Legal Affairs Committee –responsible for establishing and managing legal policies based on the advice of legal counsel and the interests of the Foundation. - The Apache Software Foundation subpoenaed regarding Patent Claim https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_apache_software_foundation_subpoenaed1 FINAL CALL for ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation - CFP closes on 1 February http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/program/cfp - Travel Assistance applications close on 6 February http://www.apache.org/travel/ Apache Bookkeeper™ – distributed logging service called BookKeeper and a distributed publish/subscribe system build on top of BookKeeper called Hedwig. - Apache BookKeeper 4.2.4 released http://bookkeeper.apache.org/releases.html Apache Directory™ LDAP client API –an ongoing effort to provide an enhanced LDAP API, as a replacement for JNDI and the existing LDAP API (jLdap and Mozilla LDAP API) – provides the building blocks for both client side validation and server side data validation - Apache Directory LDAP API 1.0.0-M28 released http://directory.apache.org/api/downloads.html Apache Falcon™ –data processing and management solution for Apache Hadoop™, designed for data motion, coordination of data pipelines, lifecycle management, and data discovery - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Falcon as a Top-Level Project http://s.apache.org/GT2 Apache Flink™ –a system for distributed batch and real-time streaming data analysis that offers familiar collection-based programming APIs in Java and Scala - Apache Flink 0.8.0 released http://flink.apache.org/downloads.html Apache HttpComponents™ Client for Android –can be deployed on Google Android in parallel to the outdated version shipped with platform while remaining partially API compatible with Apache HttpClient 4.3 - HttpComponents Client for Android 4.3.5.1 released http://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi Apache Tomcat™ –Open Source software implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Unified Expression Language and Java WebSocket technologies - Apache Tomcat 8.0.17 available http://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi Apache Traffic Server™ –fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 compliant caching proxy server; can be used as a reverse, forward or even transparent HTTP proxy - Apache Traffic Server 5.2.0 released http://trafficserver.apache.org/downloads Apache Incbuator™ –the entry path into The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) for projects and codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts. All code donations from external organisations and existing external projects wishing to join Apache enter through the Incubator - OpenAz and TinkerPop accepted as new podlings this month http://incubator.apache.org/projects/index.html Are your software solutions Powered by Apache? - Download use our Powered By logos today! http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby = = = For real-time updates, sign up for Apache-related news at announce@apache.org and follow @TheASF on Twitter. For a broader spectrum from the Apache community,https://twitter.com/PlanetApache provides an aggregate of both Project activities and the personal blogs of select ASF Committers. # # # NOTE: you are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the announce@apache.org distribution list. To unsubscribe, send email from the recipient account to announce-unsubscr...@apache.org with the word Unsubscribe in the subject line. = = =
Apache™ PDFBox™ named an Open Source Partner Organization of the PDF Association
this announcement is available online at http://s.apache.org/Wsf Liaison helps enterprise users benefit from enhanced PDF technology and serves as a foundation to other software applications. Forrest Hill, MD —03 February 2015— Apache PDFBox™, a Top-Level Project of The Apache Software Foundation, today announced the project has been named as a Partner Organization of the PDF Association. The Apache PDFBox™ library is an Open Source Java tool for working with Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. It allows for the creation of new PDF documents, manipulation, rendering, signing of existing documents and the ability to extract content from documents. Apache PDFBox also includes several command line utilities. We are proud to be recognized by the PDF Association as a driver of ISO-standardized PDF technology for electronic documents, said Andreas Lehmkühler, Vice President of Apache PDFBox. Our liaison will help further strengthen the development of Apache PDFBox by providing access to knowledge and resources around PDF technology. PDF was first released by Adobe Systems in 1993, became an ISO International Standard - ISO 32000-1 in 2008. Founded in 2006, the PDF Association (http://www.pdfa.org/) is an international organization promoting awareness and adoption of open standards in digital document applications using PDF technology. The association facilitates education, networking, communication, and sharing of expertise and experience with interested parties worldwide. It offers its membership of over 150 enterprises and individual subject-matter experts from more than 20 countries direct contact with PDF technology experts and access to documents from ISO working groups, including release candidates for PDF upcoming standards. The PDF Association's Partner Organizations are international associations concerned with document management, enterprise content management, long-term archiving and accessibility. Apache PDFBox the PDF Association's first Open Source Partner Organization. The PDF Association delivers vital information about implementing PDF technology to software developers and IT decision makers, and helps document management and ECM implementers understand and leverage ISO-standardized PDF technology. In turn, enterprise systems implementers and end-users benefit from enhanced PDF technology. With Apache PDFBox, the first Open Source organization is joining our Association, said Thomas Zellmann, Managing Director of the PDF Association. This is our contribution to support the growth of freely available PDF solutions and their functionality to further expand the market penetration of the PDF standard. Being part of the PDF Association recognizes our commitment to making ISO standardized electronic document technology easily available by leveraging Apache PDFBox as a foundation for other software applications, added Lehmkühler. About Apache PDFBox The Apache PDFBox™ library is an Open Source Java tool that allows users to create new PDF documents, manipulate existing documents, extract content, digitally sign, print, and validate files against the PDF/A-1b standard. It also includes several command line utilities, including encrypt, decrypt, overlay, debugger, merger, PDFToImage, and TextToPDF. Apache PDFBox software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected volunteer team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. For downloads, documentation, and ways to become involved with Apache PDFBox, visit http://pdfbox.apache.org/ # # # NOTE: you are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the announce@apache.org distribution list. To unsubscribe, send email from the recipient account to announce-unsubscr...@apache.org with the word Unsubscribe in the subject line.
The Apache News Round-up: week ending 6 February 2015
this announcement is available online at http://s.apache.org/dOQ February marks the 20th Anniversary of the ubiquitous Apache HTTP Server, the world's most popular Web server since 1996, and the flagship project behind the creation of the ASF. Here's what happened at the Foundation over the past week: ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation. Events in 2015: North America (13-17 April/Austin) and Europe (28 September-1 October/Budapest) - FINAL CALL: Travel Assistance applications close on 6 February http://www.apache.org/travel/ ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running 24x7x365. - The Infra team's 2 million weekly checks yields 94.48% global uptime across all services http://status.apache.org/ ASF Operations –the day-to-day Foundation-wide activities that support Apache projects and the overall ASF mission. - The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: October-December 2014 http://s.apache.org/fOb Apache Flex™ – a highly productive, Open Source application framework for building and maintaining expressive applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops and devices, including smartphones, tablets, and TVs. - Apache Flex SDK 4.14.0 released http://www.apache.org/dist/flex/4.14.0/RELEASE_NOTES Apache HttpComponents Client™ –a library for client-side HTTP communication built on HttpCore. It provides connection management, cookie management, and authentication. - Apache HttpComponents Client 4.4 GA released https://www.apache.org/dist/httpcomponents/httpclient/RELEASE_NOTES-4.4.x.txt Apache Jackrabbit™ –scalable, high-performance hierarchical content repository designed for use as the foundation of modern world-class Web sites and other demanding content applications. - Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.0.10 and 1.0.11 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html Apache Kafka™ –high-throughput, publish-subscribe messaging system rethought of as a distributed commit log. - Apache Kafka 0.8.2.0 released https://archive.apache.org/dist/kafka/0.8.2.0/RELEASE_NOTES.html Apache PDFBox™ –an Open Source Java tool for working with Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. - Apache PDFBox named an Open Source Partner Organization of the PDF Association http://s.apache.org/Wsf Apache Streams (Incubating) –a lightweight server for ActivityStreams. - Apache Streams 0.1-incubating released http://streams.incubator.apache.org Apache Syncope™ –an Open Source system for managing digital identities in enterprise environments, implemented in JEE technology. - Apache Syncope 1.2.2 released http://syncope.apache.org/downloads.html Are your software solutions Powered by Apache? - Download use our Powered By logos http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby = = = For real-time updates, sign up for Apache-related news at announce@apache.org and follow @TheASF on Twitter. For a broader spectrum from the Apache community,https://twitter.com/PlanetApache provides an aggregate of both Project activities and the personal blogs of select ASF Committers. # # # NOTE: you are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the announce@apache.org distribution list. To unsubscribe, send email from the recipient account to announce-unsubscr...@apache.org with the word Unsubscribe in the subject line.
The Apache News Round-up: week ending 16 January 2015
this announcement is available online at http://s.apache.org/vn Our 4,000+ Committers have been busily working on a variety of projects this week. Here are the highlights: Not A Mirage: The Apache Software Foundation's official number of projects and initiatives grows overnight with census adjustment - https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/not_a_mirage_the_apache Upcoming deadlines for ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation - Call for Papers closes on 1 February http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/program/cfp - Apache Travel Assistance applications close on 6 February http://www.apache.org/travel/ Apache Commons Validator™ – provides the building blocks for both client side validation and server side data validation. It may be used standalone or with a framework like Struts. - Apache Commons Validator 1.4.1 released http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-validator/download_validator.cgi Apache Curator™ –Java libraries that make using Apache ZooKeeper much easier and more reliable. - Apache Curator 2.7.1 released https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12314425version=12328938 Apache Flink™ –Open Source distributed Big Data system for expressive, declarative, and efficient batch and streaming data processing and analysis - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Flink™ as a Top-Level Project http://s.apache.org/YrZ Apache Jackrabbit™ –scalable, high-performance hierarchical content repository designed for use as the foundation of modern world-class Web sites and other demanding content applications. - Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.1.4 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html Apache Knox™ –a REST API Gateway for providing secure access to the data and processing resources of Hadoop clusters. - Apache Knox Gateway 0.5.1 released http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/knox/0.5.1 Apache Qpid™ –implements the latest AMQP specification, the first open standard for enterprise messaging, and provides transaction management, queuing, distribution, security, management, clustering, federation and heterogeneous multi-platform support and a lot more. - CVE-2015-0203: Apache Qpid's qpidd can be crashed by authenticated user http://s.apache.org/PCe Apache Tika™ –an ASFv2 licensed open source tool for extracting information from digital documents. - Apache Tika 1.7 released http://www.apache.org/dist/tika/CHANGES-1.7.txt Apache Incbuator™ –the entry path into The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) for projects and codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts. All code donations from external organisations and existing external projects wishing to join Apache enter through the Incubator. - Corinthia and Zeppelin are accepted as new podlings in December http://incubator.apache.org/projects/index.html Are your software solutions Powered by Apache? - Download use our Powered By logos today! http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby = = = For real-time updates, sign up for Apache-related news at announce@apache.org and follow @TheASF on Twitter. For a broader spectrum from the Apache community,https://twitter.com/PlanetApache provides an aggregate of both Project activities and the personal blogs of select ASF Committers. # # # NOTE: you are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the announce@apache.org distribution list. To unsubscribe, send email from the recipient account to announce-unsubscr...@apache.org with the word Unsubscribe in the subject line.
The Apache Software Foundation Welcomes Cloudera as a Platinum-level Sponsor
this announcement is available online at http://s.apache.org/5KH Sponsorship boosts operational support for Apache projects and community Forest Hill, MD –17 February 2015– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that Cloudera has renewed its sponsorship of the ASF with an upgrade to the Platinum level. We are grateful for Cloudera's continued generous support, which, in turn, helps advance the efforts of the Apache community at-large, said ASF President Ross Gardler. Sponsoring the ASF helps provide critical infrastructure and support services that keep the Foundation running on a day-to-day basis. As a United States 501(c)(3) not-for-profit charitable organization, the ASF relies on individual donors and corporate sponsors to help bolster existing projects, incubate new initiatives, and promote meritocratic, community-driven development The Apache Way. An ASF Sponsor since 2011, Cloudera is recognized as a champion and active contributor to numerous Apache projects, including Avro, Hadoop, HBase, Hive, Pig, Whirr, and Zookeeper. Open source software has proven a powerful engine for innovation, said Mike Olson, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Cloudera. It harnesses the talent and creativity of the global community of developers. Participation in that community is critical. Cloudera has long been a proud member of the ASF. Developers on the Cloudera payroll have created and contributed to ASF projects, working closely with their peers in the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. Our platinum sponsorship of the ASF complements our active contribution of code. The organization provides essential governance and community support on which our business relies. This donation, and our ongoing commitment, allows the ASF to deepen its investment in community, collaboration and innovation. Cloudera joins Platinum level Sponsors Citrix, Facebook, Google, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, and Yahoo!; Gold Sponsors Comcast, HP, Hortonworks, and IBM; Silver Sponsors Budget Direct, Cerner, InMotion Hosting, iSIGMA, Pivotal, Produban, and WANdisco; and Bronze Sponsors Accor, Basis Technology, Bluehost, Cloudsoft Corporation, Samsung, Talend, and Twitter. For more information on ASF Sponsorship, please visit http://apache.org/foundation/sponsorship.html About Cloudera Cloudera is revolutionizing enterprise data management by offering the first unified Platform for Big Data, an enterprise data hub built on Apache Hadoop. Cloudera offers enterprises one place to store, access, process, secure, and analyze all their data, empowering them to extend the value of existing investments while enabling fundamental new ways to derive value from their data. Cloudera’s open source Big Data platform is the most widely adopted in the world, and Cloudera is the most prolific contributor to the open source Hadoop ecosystem. As the leading educator of Hadoop professionals, Cloudera has trained over 27,000 individuals worldwide. Over 1,400 partners and a seasoned professional services team help deliver greater time to value. Finally, only Cloudera provides proactive and predictive support to run an enterprise data hub with confidence. Leading organizations in every industry plus top public sector organizations globally run Cloudera in production. For more information about Cloudera, visit http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/about/company-profile.html About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than 350 leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, more than 500 individual Members and 4,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization, funded by individual donations and corporate sponsors including Budget Direct, Cerner, Citrix, Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, HP, IBM, InMotion Hosting, iSigma, Matt Mullenweg, Microsoft, Pivotal, Produban, WANdisco, and Yahoo. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/ or follow https://twitter.com/TheASF © The Apache Software Foundation. Apache, Apache Avro, Avro, Apache Hadoop, Hadoop, Apache HBase, HBase, Apache Hive, Hive, Apache Pig, Pig, Apache Whirr, Whirr, Apache Zookeeper, Zookeeper, and ApacheCon, are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Cloudera,
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Samza™ as a Top-Level Project
this announcement is available online at http://s.apache.org/8pU Open Source Big Data distributed stream processing framework used in business intelligence, financial services, healthcare, mobile applications, security, and software development, among other industries. Forest Hill, MD –27 January 2015– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that Apache™ Samza™ has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP), signifying that the project's community and products have been well-governed under the ASF's meritocratic process and principles. The incubation process at Apache has been great. It has helped us cultivate a strong community, and provided us with the support and infrastructure to make Samza grow, said Chris Riccomini, Vice President of Apache Samza. Apache Samza is a distributed stream processing framework, designed to handle fault tolerance, stateful processing, message durability, and scalability. Samza helps users to write light-weight processors that consume streams of data from messaging systems such as Apache Kafka. These processors empower organizations to understand and react to their data in real-time. In addition, Samza uses Apache Hadoop YARN to provide fault tolerance, processor isolation, security, and resource management. Samza represents a different approach to stream processing. It has been purpose-built first and foremost as a production-grade system with operability and scalability in mind. Samza integrates tightly with Apache Kafka, which makes it a natural fit to those already running Kafka in their data pipeline. The framework also introduces the concept of stateful processing and aggregation as a first-class feature. Stateful processing gives Samza developers a completely new paradigm for aggregating stream data. These features help organizations do high performance stream processing at scale. Created to process tracking data, service log data, and for data ingestion pipelines for realtime services, Samza originated at LinkedIn, and was submitted to the Apache Incubator in July 2013. LinkedIn is thrilled to see Apache Samza experience such strong adoption and now graduate to a Top-Level Project. Samza was developed to help solve some of LinkedIn's toughest stream processing challenges and has become a central piece of our infrastructure, said Kevin Scott, Senior Vice President of Engineering and Operations at LinkedIn. Apache Samza is used in an array of industries, applications, and organizations, including: - DoubleDutch, developers of mobile apps for events and conferences, uses Samza to power their analytics platform and stream data live into an event dashboard for real-time insights; - Forstcales' Big Data security analytics solutions use Samza to processes security events log as part of the data ingestion pipelines and on-line machine learning models creation process; - Happy Pancake, Northern Europe's largest internet dating service, uses Samza for all event handlers and data replication; - Advertising technology provider Improve Digital uses Samza as the foundation of a realtime processing capability performing data analytics and as the basis for an alerting system; - Jack Henry Associates uses Samza to process user activity data across its Banno suite of products for financial institutions; - MobileAware uses Samza as a foundation for two mobile network products: real time analytics and multi channel notification (push, text message and HTML5); - Technology startup Project Florida uses Samza for real-time monitoring of data streams from wearable sensors, for preventative healthcare purposes; - Quantiply, providers of Cloud-based micro-applications, uses Samza to bring together user event, system performance, and business operational data for real-time visibility and decision support; and - Social media business intelligence solution VinTank uses Samza to power their analysis and natural language processing (NLP) pipeline. We've had great experiences with Samza at Improve Digital where it has enabled us to build out our streaming data platform, said Garry Turkington, CTO of Improve Digital. It's fantastic to see it graduate to a top-level project. Jay Kreps, CEO of Confluent, said Samza is a fantastic piece of infrastructure, and a great complement to Apache Kafka. We at Confluent are really excited to see it added as a top-level Apache project. Fortscale has been using Apache Samza successfully to build online machine learning algorithms and detect insider threats, said Dotan Patrich, Software Architect at Fortscale. It's been a great experience building large scale streaming solution and using Samza's and enjoying it's unique state management architecture. It's fantastic to see it graduate to a Top-Level Project. I've been
The Apache News Round-up: week ending 30 January 2015
this announcement is available online at https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_apache_news_round_up19 It's hard to believe that we're wrapping up the first month of the new year! Here's what happened over the past week: ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team (10 rotating volunteers and 4 paid staff) on four continents responsible for keeping the ASF's infrastructure running 24x7x365. - 94.47% global uptime across all services this week http://status.apache.org/ FINAL CALL for ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation - CFP closes on 1 February http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/program/cfp - Travel Assistance applications close on 6 February http://www.apache.org/travel/ Apache BookKeeper™ – a reliable replicated log service that can be used to turn any standalone service into a highly available replicated service. - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache BookKeeper as a Top-Level Project http://s.apache.org/3BK Apache HTTP Server™ – Open Source HTTP server for modern operating systems including UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS/X and Netware; the most popular Web server since 1996. - Apache HTTP Server 2.4.12 Released http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/new_features_2_4.html Apache MyFaces™ Core –a JavaServer Faces 2.0 implementation as specified by JSR-314. MyFaces Core has passed Sun's JSR-314 TCK and is 100% compliant with the JSR-314 specification. - Apache MyFaces Core v2.0.23, v. 2.1.17, and v2.2.7 released http://myfaces.apache.org/download.html Apache Qpid™ –implements the latest AMQP specification, the first open standard for enterprise messaging, and provides transaction management, queuing, distribution, security, management, clustering, federation and heterogeneous multi-platform support and a lot more. - Security Advisory: Apache Qpid qpidd can be crashed by unauthenticated user http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201501.mbox/%3C54C60497.5060504%40apache.org%3E - Security Advisory: anonymous access to Apache Qpid qpidd cannot be prevented http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201501.mbox/%3C54C604A8.5090505%40apache.org%3E Apache Samza™ –provides a system for processing stream data from publish-subscribe systems such as Apache Kafka. - The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Samza as a Top-Level Project http://s.apache.org/8pU Are your software solutions Powered by Apache? - Download use our Powered By logos today! http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby = = = For real-time updates, sign up for Apache-related news at announce@apache.org and follow @TheASF on Twitter. For a broader spectrum from the Apache community, https://twitter.com/PlanetApache provides an aggregate of both Project activities and the personal blogs of select ASF Committers. # # #
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache™ Flink™ as a Top-Level Project
this announcement is available online at http://s.apache.org/YrZ Open Source distributed Big Data system for expressive, declarative, and efficient batch and streaming data processing and analysis Forest Hill, MD –12 January 2015– The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that Apache™ Flink™ has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP), signifying that the project's community and products have been well-governed under the ASF's meritocratic process and principles. Apache Flink is an Open Source distributed data analysis engine for batch and streaming data. It offers programming APIs in Java and Scala, as well as specialized APIs for graph processing, with more libraries in the making. I am very happy that the ASF has become the home for Flink, said Stephan Ewen, Vice President of Apache Flink. For a community-driven effort, I can think of no better umbrella. It is great to see the project is maturing and many new people are joining the community. Flink uses a unique combination of streaming/pipelining and batch processing techniques to create a platform that covers and unifies a broad set of batch and streaming data analytics use cases. The project has put significant efforts into making a system that runs reliably and fast in a wide variety of scenarios. For that reason, Flink contained its own type serialization, memory management, and cost-based query optimization components from the early days of the project. Apache Flink has its roots in the Stratosphere research project that started in 2009 at TU Berlin together with the Berlin and later the European data management communities, including HU Berlin, Hasso Plattner Institute, KTH (Stockholm), ELTE (Budapest), and others. Several Flink committers recently started data Artisans, a Berlin-based startup committed to growing Flink both in code and community as 100% Open Source. More than 70 people have by now contributed to Flink. Becoming a Top-Level Project in such short time is a great milestone for Flink and reflects the speed with which the community has been growing, said Kostas Tzoumas, co-founder and CEO of data Artisans. The community is currently working on some exciting new features that make Flink even more powerful and accessible to a wider audience, and several companies around the world are including Flink in their data infrastructure. We use Apache Flink as part of our production data infrastructure, said Ijad Madisch, co-founder and CEO of ResearchGate. We are happy all around and excited that Flink provides us with the opportunity for even better developer productivity and testability, especially for complex data flows. It’s with good reason that Flink is now a top-level Apache project. I have been experimenting with Flink, and we are very excited to hear that Flink is becoming a top-level Apache project, said Anders Arpteg, Analytics Machine Learning Manager at Spotify. Denis Arnaud, Head of Data Science Development of Travel Intelligence at Amadeus said, At Amadeus, we continually seek for better improvement in our analytic platform and our experiments with Apache Flink for analytics on our travel data show a lot of potential in the system for our production use. Flink was a pleasure to mentor as a new Apache project, said Alan Gates, Apache Flink Incubator champion at the ASF, and architect/co-founder at Hortonworks. The Flink team learned The Apache Way very quickly. They worked hard at being open in their decision making and including new contributors. Those of us mentoring them just needed to point them in the right direction and then let them get to work. Availability and Oversight As with all Apache products, Apache Flink software is released under the Apache License v2.0, and is overseen by a self-selected team of active contributors to the project. A Project Management Committee (PMC) guides the Project's day-to-day operations, including community development and product releases. For documentation and ways to become involved with Apache Flink, visit http://flink.apache.org/ and @ApacheFlink on Twitter. About The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Established in 1999, the all-volunteer Foundation oversees more than 350 leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server --the world's most popular Web server software. Through the ASF's meritocratic process known as The Apache Way, more than 500 individual Members and 4,500 Committers successfully collaborate to develop freely available enterprise-grade software, benefiting millions of users worldwide: thousands of software solutions are distributed under the Apache License; and the community actively participates in ASF mailing lists, mentoring initiatives, and ApacheCon, the Foundation's official user conference, trainings, and expo. The ASF
The Apache News Round-up: week ending 9 January 2015
this announcement is available online at http://s.apache.org/Zke Our community of more than 4,000 contributors are busily working across six continents on all things Apache. Here's what's happened over the past week: Apache Allura™ –Open Source implementation of a software forge, a Web site that manages source code repositories, bug reports, discussions, wiki pages, blogs, and more for any number of individual projects. - Apache Allura 1.2.0 released http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/allura/allura-1.2.0.tar.gz Apache Bloodhound™ –a tool to track progress and defects in software products. - Apache Bloodhound 0.8 released http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/bloodhound/apache-bloodhound-0.8.tar.gz0.8.tar.gz Apache CloudStack™ –an integrated Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) software platform that allows users to build feature-rich public and private cloud environments. - Apache CloudStack 4.3.2 released http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/projects/cloudstack-release-notes/en/4.3.2/ REMINDER: Upcoming deadlines for ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation - Call for Papers open until 1 February http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/program/cfp - Apache Travel Assistance applications accepted through 6 February http://www.apache.org/travel/ = = = For real-time updates, sign up for Apache-related news at announce@apache.org and follow @TheASF on Twitter. For a broader spectrum from the Apache community,https://twitter.com/PlanetApache provides an aggregate of both Project activities and the personal blogs of select ASF Committers. = = = NOTE: you are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the announce@apache.org distribution list. To unsubscribe, send email from the recipient account to announce-unsubscr...@apache.org with the word Unsubscribe in the subject line.
