The Apache Log4j 2 team is pleased to announce the Log4j 2.11.1 release! Apache Log4j is a well known framework for logging application behavior. Log4j 2 is an upgrade to Log4j that provides significant improvements over its predecessor, Log4j 1.x, and provides many other modern features such as support for Markers, lambda expressions for lazy... [Read more...]
Posted at 11:44AM Jul 31, 2018 by Remko Popma in General
We are very happy that Carter Kozak joined the Apache Logging Services PMC. He has made many contributions to the development of Log4j 2 especially in the areas of concurrency, performance and memory management. Thanks Carter for all you did so far and all the best for your new role at Apache Logging. [Read more...]
Posted at 09:57AM Jul 31, 2018 by Remko Popma in General
The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Compiler Plugin, version 3.8.0 . The Compiler Plugin is used to compile the sources of your project. Important Notes since Version 3.8.0 The default value for source/target has been lifted from 1.5 to 1.6 see MCOMPILER-335 . You should specify the... [Read more...]
Posted at 08:50PM Jul 29, 2018 by khmarbaise in Plugin Release
The Apache NetBeans team is proud to announce the release of Apache NetBeans (incubating) 9.0. Apache NetBeans (incubating) 9.0 constitutes all the modules in the Apache NetBeans Git repo, which together provide the NetBeans Platform (i.e., the underlying application framework), as well as all the modules that provide the Java SE-related features of... [Read more...]
Posted at 07:28PM Jul 29, 2018 by Geertjan in General
Farewell, July! Let's check out the Apache community's activities from 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: 15 August. Board calendar and minutes http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html ... [Read more...]
Posted at 04:18PM Jul 27, 2018 by Sally in General
Not long after you start up Apache NetBeans (incubating) 9.0 on top of JDK 8 , after accepting the license agreement and handling import settings, you're confronted with this dialog: What does that mean? And why, when you start up Apache NetBeans (incubating) 9.0 on top of JDK 9 or above , do you see the following, instead: ... [Read more...]
Posted at 07:35PM Jul 22, 2018 by Geertjan in General
Greetings, all. It's time to review the Apache community's activities from the past week: Support Apache –help offset the ASF's day-to-day operating expenses and keep Apache software for everyone. - Consider an individual contribution or corporate sponsorship or matching gift program. Every dollar counts. http://apache.org/foundation... [Read more...]
Posted at 04:57PM Jul 20, 2018 by Sally in General
The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Parent POMs Version 32 Maven Parent POMs include Maven Parent POM itself, but also Maven Plugins Parent POM , Maven Shared Components Parent POM , Maven Skins Parent POM and Maven Doxia Tools Parent POM. https://maven.apache.org/pom/maven/ You should specify... [Read more...]
Posted at 02:20PM Jul 20, 2018 by khmarbaise in Parent POMs
So, you start up Apache NetBeans (incubating) 9.0 and... you find that when you go to the New Project wizard, or when you try to open your projects, that there's no support for your JavaScript, PHP, Groovy, enterprise Java (i.e., Java EE or, as it is known now, Jakarta EE), and C/C++ projects. What's the reason for that and what can be done?... [Read more...]
Posted at 12:15PM Jul 20, 2018 by Geertjan in General
Apache OFBiz News June 2018 Welcome to our regular monthly round-up of OFBiz news. This month we have more news about how our community is sharing knowledge and helping to support new users, we welcome three new committers and we share some OFBiz technical statistics. Sharing Community Knowledge During May and June we have continued to receive... [Read more...]
Posted at 08:36AM Jul 17, 2018 by sharan in General
Dear community, The Apache Groovy team is pleased to announce version 2.5.1 of Apache Groovy. Apache Groovy is a multi-faceted programming language for the JVM. Further details can be found at the http://groovy.apache.org website. For this release we focused on fixing up some of the usability/packaging issues that the 2.5.0 release... [Read more...]
Posted at 02:18AM Jul 14, 2018 by Remko Popma in General
The Apache Phoenix team is pleased to announce release of it's next major version 5.0.0 compatible with HBase 2.0+. Apache Phoenix enables SQL-based OLTP and operational analytics for Apache Hadoop using Apache HBase as its backing store and providing integration with other projects in the Apache ecosystem such as Spark, Hive, Pig, Flume, and... [Read more...]
Posted at 12:01AM Jul 14, 2018 by Rajeshbabu Chintaguntla in General
Happy Friday, everyone. Let's review the Apache community's activities over the past week: Success at Apache –a monthly blog series that focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works". - The Apache Way for Executives by Alex Karasulu https://s.apache.org/2Wg8 Support Apache –helping offset the ASF's... [Read more...]
Posted at 02:13PM Jul 13, 2018 by Sally in General
We're currently running two processes, both of which it would be great if everyone would participate in -- and in fact it's really important that everyone does these two things: Vote in the PPMC thread: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a644bb8e3ba2cbd06328bb004f1b18b4171763cd3d78a9131615f687@%3Cdev.netbeans.apache.org%3E ... [Read more...]
Posted at 12:24PM Jul 10, 2018 by Geertjan in General
The CodeNarc Team is proud to announce the release of version 1.2. CodeNarc is a static analysis tool for Groovy source code. Version 1.2 includes 5 new rules and several enhancements and bug fixes. See the full details in the release notes . New Rules StaticFieldsBeforeInstanceFields rule (convention) - Enforce that all static... [Read more...]
Posted at 10:16AM Jul 10, 2018 by Remko Popma in Technology
by Alex Karasulu I'm a long time member of the Apache Software Foundation and have been an executive officer of several corporations over the course of the past 20 years. I've co-founded several projects in the community and mentored several others. The "Apache Way" has benefited several aspects of my life, however I never... [Read more...]
Posted at 03:32PM Jul 09, 2018 by Sally in SuccessAtApache
World's largest Open Source foundation's 300+ freely-available, enterprise-grade Apache projects power some of the most visible and widely used applications in computing today. Wakefield, MA —9 July 2018— The Apache ® Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source... [Read more...]
Posted at 10:01AM Jul 09, 2018 by Sally in General
Apache OFBiz News May 2018 Welcome to our regular monthly round-up of OFBiz news. This month we have news about improving the OFBiz user interface (UI) using Bootstrap and Vue.js and we discuss how to make the OFBiz accounting module more configurable. Bootstrap and Vue.js Early in the month a discussion was started on our development mailing about... [Read more...]
Posted at 10:11AM Jul 07, 2018 by sharan in General
Hello Friday and welcome, July! Here we go --the Apache Community has been productive over the past week with: Support Apache –thank you in advance for helping offset the ASF's day-to-day operating expenses! Every dollar counts. - Corporate matching gifts can double your individual contribution to the ASF. Add the ASF to your corporate... [Read more...]
Posted at 05:38PM Jul 06, 2018 by Sally in General