In JEP 411, announcing the deprecation of java.lang.SecurityManager, one would hope that the use cases for which SecurityManager exists will be replaced by more modern APIs, before it is removed from the OpenJDK. Below is a partial list of use cases for which the SecurityManager is used by Apache NetBeans: checkExit. Ability to prevent... [Read more...]
Posted at 02:51PM Apr 16, 2021 by Geertjan in General
It's Friday already --the week has zipped by. Let's take a look at what the Apache community has been up to: The Apache Software Foundation – the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives. - The Apache Software Foundation Welcomes 40 New Members https://s.apache.org/2021N... [Read more...]
Posted at 05:42AM Apr 16, 2021 by Swapnil M Mane in Projects
by Wei Zhou I joined the Apache CloudStack community in 2012 and became a committer in 2013, eventually becoming a PMC (Project Management Committee) member in 2017. My journey to becoming a PMC was both physical and literal, and included several forks in the road. The forks presented themselves in all aspects of my journey – although the literal forks... [Read more...]
Posted at 04:12PM Apr 12, 2021 by Sally Khudairi in SuccessAtApache
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) welcomes the following new Members who were elected during the annual ASF Members' Meeting on 9 and 11 March 2021: Maxime Beauchemin, Bolke de Bruin, Wei-Chiu Chuang, Jiangjie (Becket), Pablo Estrada, Dave Grove, Madhawa Kasun Gunasekara, Nathan Hartman, Tilman Hausherr, Georg Henzler, Xiangdong Huang, Nikita... [Read more...]
Posted at 09:45PM Apr 11, 2021 by Sally Khudairi in General
Happy Friday! Let's take a look at what the Apache community has been up to over the past week: ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws. - Next Board Meeting: 21 April 2021. Board calendar and minutes https://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html ... [Read more...]
Posted at 06:33AM Apr 09, 2021 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter
Open Source distributed Big Data visual workflow scheduler system in use at thousands of organizations, including Budweiser, China Unicom, IDG Capital, IBM China, JD.com, Lenovo, New Oriental, Nokia China, Qihoo 360, SF Express, and Tencent, among others. Wilmington, DE —8 April 2021— The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer... [Read more...]
Posted at 04:00PM Apr 08, 2021 by Sally Khudairi in Newsletter
The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven 3.8.1 Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project’s build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information. Maven... [Read more...]
Posted at 07:26PM Apr 04, 2021 by khmarbaise in Maven Core Release
Welcome, April --we're opening the month with another great week. Here's what the Apache community has been up to: Apache Month-in-Review – a look back at our activities over the past month. - March 2021 https://s.apache.org/Mar2021 and video highlights https://youtu.be/wq2HXN4z9W0 ASF Board – management and oversight of... [Read more...]
Posted at 11:33AM Apr 02, 2021 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter
Welcome to the latest monthly overview of events from the Apache community. Here's a summary of what happened in March ( video highlights available at https://s.apache.org/exppv ) : New this month -- - It's our anniversary! The Apache ® Software Foundation Celebrates 22 Years of Open Source Leadership – world’ s largest Open... [Read more...]
Posted at 12:45PM Apr 01, 2021 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter
The Apache Isis team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Isis 2.0.0-M5. New features in this release include: * JPA support (including Spring Data integration) * Reworked JDO support to minimize differences between JPA and JDO integrations * Use of Spring configuration properties (spring.datasource.url etc) for both JPA and JDO * Updated... [Read more...]
Posted at 12:03PM Mar 28, 2021 by danhaywood in General
Farewell, March --we're wrapping up the month with another great week. Here are the latest updates on the Apache community's activities: It's our anniversary! The Apache ® Software Foundation Celebrates 22 Years of Open Source Leadership – world’ s largest Open Source foundation advances community-led innovation "The Apache ... [Read more...]
Posted at 08:07AM Mar 26, 2021 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter
World's largest Open Source foundation provides $22B+ in community-led software 100% free of charge for the common good Wilmington, DE —24 March 2021— The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today its 22nd Anniversary. Originally... [Read more...]
Posted at 01:04PM Mar 24, 2021 by Sally Khudairi in Milestones
Apache OFBiz News February 2021 Welcome to our regular monthly round-up of OFBiz news. This month we have news about JCenter shutdown, Java Open JDK 11 & 17 support, and Customer journey with an E-commerce discussion series along with our usual list of features, improvements, and Statistics. JFrog to shut down JCenter Apache OFBiz... [Read more...]
Posted at 11:33AM Mar 23, 2021 by Aditya Sharma in General
And it's Friday! Let's take a look at what the Apache community has been up to over the past week: ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws. - The Apache Software Foundation Operations Summary: Q3 FY2021 (November 2020 - January 2021) ... [Read more...]
Posted at 08:55AM Mar 19, 2021 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter
As of March 15, 2021, Apache Ignite 2.10 has been released. You can directly check the full list of resolved Important JIRA's but here let’s briefly overview some valuable improvements. Thin Clients Thin clients now support several important features which, previously were available only on the thick clients. Thin clients are always... [Read more...]
Posted at 10:20AM Mar 18, 2021 by Maxim Muzafarov in General
Call for Presentations for ApacheCon Asia 2021 now open The ApacheCon Planners and the Apache Software Foundation are pleased to announce that ApacheCon Asia will be held online, August 6th through 8th, 2021. Once again, we’ll be featuring content from dozens of our projects, as well as content about our community, how Apache works, business... [Read more...]
Posted at 12:25AM Mar 17, 2021 by Willem Jiang in General
FOUNDATION OPERATIONS SUMMARY Third Quarter, Fiscal Year 2021 (November 2020 - January 2021) "We’re proud to be a part of the ASF community and look forward to continued support of its mission to provide Open Source software for the public good." —Joel Marcey, Open Source Developer Advocate and Ecosystem Lead at Facebook (ASF Platinum... [Read more...]
Posted at 03:22PM Mar 15, 2021 by Sally Khudairi in Newsletter
OpenMeetings v6.0.0 is the second major release since migrating all audio & video components to webRTC and HTML5. There are a number of fixes and improvements in Security as well as webRTC handling as part of this release. New features available in v6.0.0: Performance metrics using Prometheus and load tests v6.0.0 introduces the... [Read more...]
Posted at 07:36PM Mar 14, 2021 by Sebastian Wagner in General
Hello, Friday. Let's review the Apache community's activities from over the past week: ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws. - Announcing New ASF Board of Directors https://s.apache.org/NewBoard2021 - Next Board Meeting: 17 March 2021.... [Read more...]
Posted at 01:23PM Mar 12, 2021 by Swapnil M Mane in Newsletter