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>> this announcement is available online at http://s.apache.org/AnA
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Here's what our community of 4,000+ Committers have been busily working on =
this week:=20


ApacheCon=E2=84=A2 =E2=80=93the official conference series of The Apache So=
ftware Foundation.=20
- The ApacheCon program is now available; Early Bird registration ends 28 F=
ebruary http://apachecon.com/=20

ASF Infrastructure =E2=80=93our distributed team on four continents keeps t=
he ASF's infrastructure running 24x7x365.=20
- Global uptime across all Apache services is a stellar 99.73% http://statu=
s.apache.org/=20
- Notice of server maintenance policy change https://blogs.apache.org/infra=
/entry/towards_a_redeployable_future_or=20

ASF Security =E2=80=93a team comprising ASF Members dedicated to helping an=
d advising Apache projects on security issues, as well as co-ordinating the=
 handling of security vulnerabilities.=20
- [IMPORTANT] Security Notice: CVE-2015-0254 XXE and RCE via XSL extension =
in JSTL XML tags http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/2015=
02.mbox/%3C82207A16-6348-4DEE-877E-F7B87292576A%40apache.org%3E=20

Apache Allura=E2=84=A2 =E2=80=93Open Source implementation of a software "f=
orge", a web site that manages source code repositories, bug reports, discu=
ssions, wiki pages, blogs and more for any number of individual projects.=
=20
- Apache Allura 1.2.1 released http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/allura/=
allura-1.2.1.tar.gz=20

Apache Commons=E2=84=A2 DBCP =E2=80=93Open Source software library implemen=
ts database connection pooling.=20
- Apache Commons DBCP 2.1 released http://commons.apache.org/dbcp/download_=
dbcp.cgi=20

Apache HBase=E2=84=A2 =E2=80=93Open Source, distributed Big Data store for =
Apache Hadoop.=20
- The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache=E2=84=A2 HBase=E2=84=A2 v=
1.0 http://s.apache.org/zW=20

Apache Log4j=E2=84=A2 =E2=80=93well known framework for logging application=
 behavior.=20
- Apache Log4j 2.2 released http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/=20

Apache Lucene=E2=84=A2 =E2=80=93a high-performance, full-featured text sear=
ch engine library written entirely in Java.=20
- Apache Lucene 5.0.0 released http://lucene.apache.org/core/mirrors-core-l=
atest-redir.html=20

Apache MRQL (Incubating) =E2=80=93query processing and optimization system =
for large-scale, distributed data analysis, built on top of Apache Hadoop, =
Hama, Spark, and Flink.=20
- Apache MRQL 0.9.4-incubating released http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cg=
i/incubator/mrql=20

Apache Openmeetings=E2=84=A2 =E2=80=93video conferencing, instant messaging=
, white board, collaborative document editing and other groupware tools usi=
ng API functions of the Red5 Streaming Server for Remoting and Streaming.=
=20
- Apache Openmeetings 3.0.4 released http://openmeetings.apache.org/downloa=
ds.html=20

Apache Parquet (Incubating) =E2=80=93the common definition of Parquet colum=
n-oriented file format for Apache Hadoop.=20
- Apache Parquet Format 2.3.0 (Incubating) released (first release of Parqu=
et Format with org.apache.parquet artifacts and package names) https://www.=
apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/incubator/parquet/parquet-format-2.3.0-incubating=
/=20

Apache Solr=E2=84=A2 =E2=80=93popular, blazing fast, Open Source NoSQL sear=
ch platform from the Apache Lucene project.=20
- Apache Solr 5.0.0 and Reference Guide for Solr 5.0 http://lucene.apache.o=
rg/solr/mirrors-solr-latest-redir.html=20

Apache Sqoop=E2=84=A2 =E2=80=93a tool designed for efficiently transferring=
 bulk data between Apache Hadoop and structured datastores, such as relatio=
nal databases.=20
- Apache Sqoop 1.99.5 released http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/sqoop/1=
.99.5=20

Apache Maven=E2=84=A2 =E2=80=93a project development management and compreh=
ension tool.=20
- Apache Source Release Assembly Descriptor 1.0.5 Released http://maven.apa=
che.org/apache-resource-bundles/=20

Apache Tomcat=E2=84=A2 =E2=80=93Open Source software implementation of the =
Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Unified Expression Language and Java W=
ebSocket technologies.=20
- Apache Tomcat 8.0.20 released http://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi=20
- Apache Tomcat Apache Standard Taglib 1.2.3 released http://tomcat.apache.=
org/download-taglibs.cgi=20


Did You Know?=20

- Did you know that the top 5 Apache Project categories are: Library (90 pr=
ojects), Network-Server (37 projects), XML (29 projects), Web Framework (25=
 projects), and Big Data (24 projects)?=20

- Did you know that in 2002 the Apache Incubator was the fourth project at =
the ASF, created to mentor projects and codebases wishing to become part of=
 the Foundation's efforts? (Bonus: the first projects to enter the Apache I=
ncubator were Apache Ant, Avalon, DB, Forrest, HC, POI, and TCL.)=20

- Did you know that Apache Tajo is part of the Apache Hadoop ecosystem at G=
ruter, Korea University, NASA JPL's Radio Astronomy and Airborne Snow Obser=
vatory projects, and SK Telecom, among others?=20


Apache Community Notices:=20

- Final days for the annual Future of Open Source Survey: have you shared y=
our thoughts? http://s.apache.org/0UW=20
- HBaseCon, the fourth annual event for the Apache HBase contributor/develo=
per/admin/user community, will take place 7 May in San Francisco http://hba=
secon.com/=20

- The next Apache Mesos User Group MeetUp will take place 25 March in Londo=
n http://www.meetup.com/London-Mesos-User-Group/events/220602962/=20

- The Women of ASF Luncheon will be held on 14 April at ApacheCon http://ev=
ents.linuxfoundation.org/events/apachecon-north-america/attend/women-asf-lu=
ncheon=20

- Apache TrafficServer Spring Summit will take place 16-17 April in Austin =
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/TS/Spring+2015+Summit=20
- The Apache Marmotta community are being proactive and beginning to collec=
t ideas for Google Summer of Code 2015 http://markmail.org/message/4nowycut=
yx2m2rj3=20

- The next Berlin Buzzwords conference will feature Apache projects such as=
 Lucene, Spark, Solr and Cassandra and will take place 31 May-3 June in Ber=
lin http://berlinbuzzwords.de=20

- Are your software solutions Powered by Apache? Download & use our "Powere=
d By" logos http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby=20

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s an aggregate of both Project activities and the personal blogs of select =
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