[ANNOUNCE] Apache BookKeeper 4.6.1 released

2018-01-30 Thread Enrico Olivelli 
The Apache BookKeeper team is proud to announce Apache BookKeeper version4.6.1.

Apache BookKeeper is a scalable, fault-tolerant, and low-latency
storage service optimized for
real-time workloads. It has been used for a fundamental service to
build reliable services.
It is also the log segment store for Apache DistributedLog and the
message store for Apache Pulsar.

This is the 8th release of the Apache BookKeeper.

This is a bugfix release, it fixes bugs around Index Persistence
Manager and provides enhancements about Java 9 support

For BookKeeper release details and downloads, visit:
 http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/bookkeeper

BookKeeper 4.6.1 Release Notes are at:
https://bookkeeper.apache.org/docs/4.6.1/overview/releaseNotes/


We would like to thank the contributors that made the release possible.

Regards,

The BookKeeper Team

[ANNOUNCE] Apache Qpid Proton 0.20.0 released

2018-01-30 Thread Robbie Gemmell 
The Apache Qpid (http://qpid.apache.org) community is pleased to announce
the immediate availability of Apache Qpid Proton 0.20.0.

Apache Qpid Proton is a messaging library for the Advanced Message Queuing
Protocol 1.0 (AMQP 1.0, ISO/IEC 19464, http://www.amqp.org). It can be used
in a wide range of messaging applications including brokers, clients,
routers, bridges, proxies, and more.

The release is available now from our website:
http://qpid.apache.org/download.html

Release notes can be found at:
http://qpid.apache.org/releases/qpid-proton-0.20.0/release-notes.html

Thanks to all involved,
Robbie

[ANNOUNCE] Apache Qpid JMS 0.29.0 released

2018-01-30 Thread Robbie Gemmell 
The Apache Qpid (http://qpid.apache.org) community is pleased to
announce the immediate availability of Apache Qpid JMS 0.29.0.

This is the latest release of our newer JMS client supporting the
Advanced Message Queuing Protocol 1.0 (AMQP 1.0, ISO/IEC 19464,
http://www.amqp.org), based around the Apache Qpid Proton protocol
engine and implementing the AMQP JMS Mapping as it evolves at OASIS.

The release is available now from our website:
http://qpid.apache.org/download.html

Binaries are also available via Maven Central:
http://qpid.apache.org/maven.html

Release notes can be found at:
http://qpid.apache.org/releases/qpid-jms-0.29.0/release-notes.html

Thanks to all involved,
Robbie

The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Kibble™ as a Top-Level Project

2018-01-30 Thread Sally Khudairi 
[this announcement is available online at https://s.apache.org/wMMa ]

Open Source tools used for collecting, aggregating and visualizing software 
project activity.

Wakefield, MA —30 January 2018— The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the 
all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source 
projects and initiatives, announced today Apache® Kibble™ as a Top-Level 
Project (TLP).

Apache Kibble is an activity reporting platform created to collect, aggregate, 
analyze, and visualize activity in software projects and communities. With 
Kibble, users can track a project’s code, discussions, issues, and individuals 
through detailed views mapped across specified time periods.

"We are passionate about solving hard problems, particularly as they relate to 
defining and measuring a project's success," said Rich Bowen, Vice President of 
Apache Kibble. "As doing so is notoriously difficult, we want to provide a set 
of tools that allow a project to define success, and track their progress 
towards that success, in terms that make the most sense for their community. 
Apache Kibble is a way to make this happen."

Apache Kibble is the latest project to enter the ASF directly as a Top-Level 
Project, bypassing the Apache Incubator (the official entry path for projects 
and codebases wishing to become part of the efforts at The Apache Software 
Foundation). As part of its eligibility, Apache Kibble had to meet the many 
requirements of the Apache Maturity Model http://s.apache.org/O4p that include 
a project’s code, copyright, licenses, releases, consensus building, 
independence, and more.

Kibble is the Open Source edition of Snoot, the enterprise project and 
community reporting platform used by dozens of Apache projects as well as by 
the ASF for its official reports including the ASF Annual Report.

"By gaining an in-depth view into the ASF's operations through 1,433 Apache 
project repositories, we are able to obtain performance metrics for more than 
300 Apache projects and nearly 900 million code line changes by more than 6,500 
contributors," said Sally Khudairi, Vice President of Marketing and Publicity 
at The Apache Software Foundation. "We are excited to share the ability to 
provide insight with projects of all kinds, and help their communities identify 
trends and advance their impact."

"We're getting input and data from both a wide range of Apache projects as well 
as projects from outside of the foundation," added Bowen. "We're also 
collecting historical metrics from older projects with their rich history of 
successes and mistakes. They have a great deal of history and passion around 
measuring their communities, and hearing from disparate projects is helping to 
refine that vision. We would love to hear from more projects about what metrics 
are important to track, and invite their communities to join our mailing lists 
to discuss how we can help one another."

Catch Apache Kibble in action at FOSDEM, 3-4 February 2018 in Brussels.

Availability and Oversight
Apache Kibble 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 downloads, 
documentation, and ways to become involved with Apache Kibble, visit 
http://kibble.apache.org/ and https://twitter.com/ApacheKibble

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 680 individual Members and 6,500 Committers across 
six continents 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 Aetna, Alibaba Cloud Computing, ARM, Baidu, 
Bloomberg, Budget Direct, Capital One, Cash Store, Cerner, Cloudera, Comcast, 
Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, Huawei, IBM, Inspur, iSIGMA, ODPi, LeaseWeb, 
Microsoft, PhoenixNAP, Pivotal, Private Internet Access, Red Hat, Target, Union 
Investment, and Yahoo. For more information, visit http://apache.org/ and 
https://twitter.com/TheASF

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