[ANNOUNCE] Apache Qpid JMS 0.49.0 released

2020-02-28 Thread Robbie Gemmell
The Apache Qpid (http://qpid.apache.org) community is pleased to
announce the immediate availability of Apache Qpid JMS 0.49.0.

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-0.49.0/release-notes.html

Thanks to all involved,
Robbie


[ANNOUNCE] - Establishing ALC Beijing Chapter

2020-02-28 Thread Swapnil M Mane
Hello all,

ComDev PMC is pleased to announce our next Apache Local Community [1]
ALC Chapter - ALC Beijing [2] and Willem Jiang as ALC Beijing Chapter
lead.
We have the following members in ALC Beijing:

1. Willem Jiang
 -- ASF Member
 -- Chair, Servicecomb
 -- PMC (Camel, CXF, Incubator, RocketMQ, ServiceMix, SkyWalking)

 2. Jeff Zhang
 -- ASF Member
 -- PMC (Tez, Zeppelin)
 -- Committer (Incubator, Pig, Submarine, Livy)

 3. Hadrian Zbarcea
 -- ASF Member
 -- PMC (Brooklyn, Camel, Incubator, TinkerPop)
 -- Non-PMC (Fundraising)
 -- Committer (ActiveMQ, Labs)

 4. Liu Ted
 -- ASF Member
 -- PMC (Incubator)
 -- Non-PMC (Fundraising)

5. Sheng Wu
 -- Chair, SkyWalking
 -- PMC (Incubator)
 -- Committer (DolphinScheduler, ECharts, and ShardingSphere)

 6. Liang Zhang
 -- PMC (Dubbo)
 -- Committer (Incubator, ShardingSphere)

 7. Jincheng Sun
 -- PMC (Flink)
 -- Committer (Incubator, IoTDB)

 8. Xiangdong Huang
 -- Committer (Incubator, IoTDB)

 9. Juan Pan
 -- Committer (ShardingSphere, Incubator)

10. Jianshen Li

11. Skylar Deranick

Congratulations to the ALC Beijing Chapter and wishing them the best
luck for their future events.

[1] https://s.apache.org/alc
[2] https://s.apache.org/alc-beijing


Best regards,
The Apache ComDev team,
community.apache.org


[ANNOUNCE] Apache CouchDB 3.0.0 released

2020-02-28 Thread Jan Lehnardt
Dear community,

Apache CouchDB® 3.0.0 has been released and is available for download.

Apache CouchDB® lets you access your data where you need it. The Couch 
Replication Protocol is implemented in a variety of projects and products that 
span every imaginable computing environment from globally distributed 
server-clusters, over mobile phones to web browsers.

Store your data safely, on your own servers, or with any leading cloud 
provider. Your web- and native applications love CouchDB, because it speaks 
JSON natively and supports binary data for all your data storage needs.

The Couch Replication Protocol lets your data flow seamlessly between server 
clusters to mobile phones and web browsers, enabling a compelling offline-first 
user-experience while maintaining high performance and strong reliability. 
CouchDB comes with a developer-friendly query language, and optionally 
MapReduce for simple, efficient, and comprehensive data retrieval.

https://couchdb.apache.org/#download

Pre-built packages for Windows, macOS, Debian/Ubuntu and RHEL/CentOS are 
available. Docker images have been submitted to Docker Hub for review and will 
be available as soon as that  process is done.

CouchDB 3.0.0 is a major release, and was originally published on 2020-02-26.

The community would like to thank all contributors for their part in making 
this release, from the smallest bug report or patch to major contributions in 
code, design, or marketing, we couldn’t have done it without you!

See the official release notes document for an exhaustive list of all changes:

http://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/whatsnew/3.0.html

Release Notes highlights:

  - Default installations are now secure and locked down.

  - User-defined partitioned databases for faster querying

  - Live Shard Splitting for incremental scale-out

  - Updated to modern JavaScript engine SpiderMonkey 60

  - Official support for ARM and PPC 32bit and 64bit systems

  - Many large and small performance improvements

  - Automatic view index warmer

  - Smarter Compaction Daemon

  - Smarter I/O Queue

  - Much improved installers for Windows

  - macOS binaries are now Notarized for full future Catalina support

  - Extremely simplified setup of Lucene search

See the “Road to CouchDB 3.0” blog post series for many more details: 
http://blog.couchdb.org/2020/02/25/the-road-to-couchdb-3-0/

On behalf of the CouchDB PMC,
Jan Lehnardt
—



The Apache News Round-up: week ending 28 February 2020

2020-02-28 Thread Swapnil M Mane
[this newsletter is available online at https://s.apache.org/j596d ]

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

Happy 20th Anniversary Apache Subversion! Huzzah to the community-led
version control software and source code management tool
https://s.apache.org/ApacheSVN20

ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the
corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 18 March 2020. Board calendar and minutes
http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ApacheCon™ – the ASF's official global conference series, bringing
Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998.
 1) Apache Roadshow/DC --25 March in CHANTILLY, VA. Registration open;
Sponsorship opportunities available. Topics include Apache Projects &
CARE Initiatives (with George Mason University Center for Assurance
Research & Engineering); Cybersecurity; and Open Source Software in
Start-Ups. https://www.apachecon.com/usroadshowdc20/
 2) Apache Roadshow/Chicago --18-19 May in CHICAGO, IL. CFP open.
Sponsorship opportunities available.
https://www.apachecon.com/chiroadshow20/
 3) Apache Roadshow/Seattle --10-12 June in REDMOND, WA. Sponsorship
opportunities available. Topics include Data and Analytics, ML and AI,
Java, Cloud, Containers, Servers, and Web Frameworks.
https://www.apachecon.com/searoadshow20
 4) ApacheCon North America --28 September - 2 October in NEW ORLEANS,
LA. CFP open; Registration open; Sponsorship opportunities available.
Topics include Big Data Integration, Community, IoT, Search,
Geospatial, Graphing, Integration, Servers, and more. Apache Project
content includes Camel, Cassandra, Cloudstack, Fineract, Flagon,
Gobblin, Groovy, HTTP Server, Ignite, Karaf, Observability,
Solr/Lucene, Tomcat, and Traffic Server/Traffic Control, among others.
https://www.apachecon.com/acna2020/

ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps
the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at 99.96%. Performance checks across
50 different service components spread over more than 250 machines in
data centers around the world. http://www.apache.org/uptime/

Apache Code Snapshot – this week, 908 Apache contributors changed
12,988,552 lines of code over 3,974 commits. Top 5 contributors, in
order, are: Paul Davis, Nick Vatamaniuc, Carlos Rovira, Andrea
Cosentino, and Nicola Ferraro.

Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category.

API --
 - Apache APISIX 1.1 and Dashboard 1.0 (Incubating) released
https://apisix.apache.org/

Big Data --
 - Apache NiFi 1.11.2 and 1.11.3 released https://nifi.apache.org/
 - Apache Kylin 2.6.5 and 3.0.1 released https://kylin.apache.org/

Content --
 - Apache PDFBox 2.0.19 released https://pdfbox.apache.org/

Servers --
 - Apache HttpComponents Client 5.0 GA released https://hc.apache.org/
 - Apache Tomcat 10.0.0-M1 released https://tomcat.apache.org/


Did You Know?

 - Did you know that new podlings undergoing development in the Apache
Incubator include NLPCraft (natural language processing resource
scheduler), NuttX (real-time embedded operating system), and YuniKorn
(standalone Big Data resource
scheduler)?http://incubator.apache.org/projects/#current

 - Did you know that Target uses Apache Druid for their
enterprise-scale dashboarding/analytics platform?
http://druid.apache.org/

 - Did you know that Apache Open Office has a new English dictionaries
extension release? http://openoffice.apache.org/


Apache Community Notices:

 - Apache Month In Review: January 2020 – overview of events that have
taken place within the Apache community https://s.apache.org/1bbb1

 - "Trillions and Trillions Served", the documentary on the ASF, is in
post-production. Catch the teaser at
https://s.apache.org/ASF-Trillions

 - Apache in 2019 - By The Digits https://s.apache.org/Apache2019Digits

 - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI

 - ASF Operations Summary: Q2 FY2020 (August - October 2019)
https://s.apache.org/2kv2n

 - Celebrating 20 Years Community-led Development "The Apache Way"
https://s.apache.org/ASF20thAnniversary

 - ASF Founders look back on 20 Years of the ASF
https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/our-founders-look-back-on

 - Foundation Reports and Statements
http://www.apache.org/foundation/reports.html

 - ApacheCon: Tomorrow's Technology Today since 1998
http://s.apache.org/ApacheCon

 - ASF Annual Report for FY2019 https://s.apache.org/FY2019AnnualReport

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

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

 - Pre-registration open for the first Pulsar Summit
http://pulsar.apache.org/blog/2019/12/18/Pulsar-summit-cfp/

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