ASF Board –management and oversight of the business and affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Next Board Meeting: 16 November 2016. Board calendar and minutes available at http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield steady performance at 99.61% uptime http://status.apache.org/

ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation.
 - Register today for Apache: Big Data and ApacheCon Europe/Seville --early incentives end 3 November http://apachecon.com/

Apache Bahir™ –provides extensions for Apache Spark.
 - Apache Bahir 2.0.1 released http://bahir.apache.org

Apache Fineract (incubating) –an Open Source system for core banking as a platform.
 - Apache Fineract 0.4.0-incubating released https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/incubator/fineract/0.4.0-incubating/

Apache Geode (incubating) –a data management platform that provides a database-like consistency model, reliable transaction processing and a shared-nothing architecture to maintain very low latency performance with high concurrency processing.
 - Apache Geode 1.0.0-incubating released http://geode.incubator.apache.org/releases/

Apache Jackrabbit™ –a fully compliant implementation of the Content Repository for Java(TM) Technology API, version 2.0 (JCR 2.0) as specified in the Java Specification Request 283 (JSR 283).
 - Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.4.9 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html

Apache Juneau (incubating) –a toolkit for marshalling POJOs to a wide variety of content types using a common framework, and for creating sophisticated self-documenting REST interfaces and microservices using very little code.
 - Juneau 6.0.0-incubating released http://juneau.incubator.apache.org/

Apache Lens™ –provides an Unified Analytics interface.
 - Apache Lens 2.6.1 released http://lens.apache.org/releases/download.html

Apache mod_perl™ –an Apache HTTP Server module for embedding a Perl interpreter in your Web server, giving you super-fast dynamic content by avoiding the overhead of starting an external interpreter.
 - Apache mod_perl-2.0.10 released http://perl.apache.org/download/index.html

Apache Parquet™ –a general-purpose columnar file format for nested data.
 - Apache Parquet MR 1.9.0 released https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/parquet/

Apache Syncope™ –an Open Source system for managing digital identities in enterprise environments, implemented in Java EE technology.
 - Apache Syncope 2.0.1 released http://syncope.apache.org/downloads.html

Apache Tomcat™ –Open Source software implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Unified Expression Language, Java WebSocket and JASPIC technologies.
 - CVE-2016-0762 Apache Tomcat Realm Timing Attack https://s.apache.org/hhGa
 - CVE-2016-5018 Apache Tomcat Security Manager Bypass https://s.apache.org/otM1
 - CVE-2016-6794 Apache Tomcat Security System Property Disclosure https://s.apache.org/lxjd
 - CVE-2016-6796 Apache Tomcat Security Manager Bypass https://s.apache.org/GKT4
 - CVE-2016-6797 Apache Tomcat Unrestricted Access to Global Resources https://s.apache.org/qjWl

Apache Wicket™ –an Open Source Java component oriented Web application framework that powers thousands of Web applications and Web sites for governments, stores, universities, cities, banks, email providers, and more.
 - Apache Wicket 6.25.0, 7.5.0, and 8.0.0-M2 released http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that you can share what you're planning to work on at ApacheCon? https://blogs.apache.org/conferences/entry/what_are_you_working_on

 - Did you know that IBM Graph is built on top of Apache Tinkerpop's Gremlin graph query language? http://tinkerpop.apache.org/

 - Did you know that Walmart Labs uses Apache Kafka for real-time retail? http://kafka.apache.org/

Apache Community Notices:

 - ApacheCon Europe will take place 14-18 November 2016 in Seville, Spain http://apachecon.com/

ASF Board –management and oversight of the business and affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - Announcing changes in ASF Executive Leadership https://s.apache.org/OH3o
 - Next Board Meeting: 16 November 2016. Board calendar and minutes available at http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield stable performance at 99.61% uptime http://status.apache.org/

ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation.
 - Early registration incentives for Apache: Big Data and ApacheCon Europe/Seville end 3 November http://apachecon.com/

Apache Commons™ Lang –provides helper utilities for the java.lang API, notably String manipulation methods, basic numerical methods, object reflection, concurrency, creation and serialization and System properties.
 - Apache Commons Lang 3.5 released https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/download_lang.cgi

Apache Commons™ Weaver –provides an easy way to enhance compiled Java classes by generating ("weaving") bytecode into those classes.
 - Apache Commons Weaver 1.3 released https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-weaver/download_weaver.cgi

Apache Flume™ –a distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data.
 - Apache Flume 1.7.0 released http://flume.apache.org/download.html

Apache Fluo (incubating) –adds distributed transactions to Apache Accumulo, and provides an observer/notification framework to allow users to incrementally update large data sets stored in Accumulo.
 - Apache Fluo 1.0.0-incubating released https://fluo.apache.org/release/fluo-1.0.0-incubating/

Apache Jackrabbit™ –a fully compliant implementation of the Content Repository for Java(TM) Technology API, version 2.0 (JCR 2.0) as specified in the Java Specification Request 283 (JSR 283).
 - Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.2.20 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html

Apache Kafka™ –a high-throughput, publish-subscribe messaging system rethought of as a distributed commit log.
 - Apache Kafka 0.10.1.0 released https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=/kafka/0.10.1.0/kafka-0.10.1.0-src.tgz

Apache NiFi™ –an easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and distribute data.
 - Apache NiFi 0.7.1 release http://nifi.apache.org/download.html

Apache Qpid™ –a messaging library for the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol 1.0.
 - Apache Qpid Proton 0.15.0 released http://qpid.apache.org/download.html

Apache Struts™ –an elegant, extensible framework for creating enterprise-ready Java Web applications.
 - Apache Struts 2.3.31 GA + Security Fixes and Struts 2.5.5 GA released http://struts.apache.org/download.html

Apache Tomcat™ –Open Source software implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Unified Expression Language, Java WebSocket and JASPIC technologies.
 - Apache Tomcat 6.0.47 released http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi

Apache Zeppelin™ –a collaborative data analytics and visualization tool for distributed, general-purpose data processing system such as Apache Spark, Apache Flink, etc.
 - Apache Zeppelin 0.6.2 released http://zeppelin.apache.org/download.html

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that a record 63 projects are under development in the Apache Incubator? http://incubator.apache.org/

 - Did you know that Alibaba, the world's largest eCommerce retailer, uses Apache Flink to power critical aspects of its search infrastructure and deliver relevance and accuracy to its end users? http://flink.apache.org/

 - Did you know that the Apache Tinkerpop Gremlin graph traversal language is Turing Complete? http://tinkerpop.apache.org/

Apache Community Notices:

 - ApacheCon Europe will take place 14-18 November 2016 in Seville, Spain http://apachecon.com/

At The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Board Meeting held this week, the following changes to the Foundation's Executive Officers have taken place effective immediately:

 - Brett Porter, Chairman
 - Ulrich Stärk, Treasurer
 - Craig Russell, Secretary
 - Sam Ruby, Assistant Secretary

The ASF Board of Directors comprises the following 9 individuals:

 - Rich Bowen
 - Shane Curcuru
 - Bertrand Delacretaz
 - Isabel Drost-Fromm
 - Marvin Humphrey
 - Jim Jagielski
 - Chris Mattmann
 - Brett Porter
 - Mark Thomas

The Foundation thanks Ross, Sam, Rich, Greg, and Chris for their service and flexibility in ensuring continuity with ASF Operations, and to all Officers and members of the ASF Board for their support.

An overview of the ASF's governance, along with the complete list of ASF Board of Directors, Executive Officers, and Project/Committee Vice Presidents, can be found at http://apache.org/foundation/

For more information on the Foundation's operations and structure, see http://apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#structure

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ASF Board –management and oversight of the business and affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - ASF Operations Summary: May - Aug 2016 https://s.apache.org/1BsV
 - Next Board Meeting: 19 October 2016. Board calendar and minutes available at http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield steady performance at 99.79% uptime http://status.apache.org/

ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation.
 - 4 weeks to go: Program, registration, and hotel discounts for Apache: Big Data and ApacheCon Europe/Seville http://apachecon.com/

Apache Calcite™ –a dynamic data management framework.
 - Apache Calcite 1.10.0 released http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/calcite/apache-calcite-1.10.0/

Apache Camel™ –a powerful Open Source integration framework based on known Enterprise Integration Patterns.
 - Apache Camel 2.18.0 released http://camel.apache.org/download.html

Apache Jackrabbit™ –a fully compliant implementation of the Content Repository for Java(TM) Technology API, version 2.0 (JCR 2.0) as specified in the Java Specification Request 283 (JSR 283).
 - Apache Jackrabbit 2.13.4 and Jackrabbit Oak 1.5.12 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html

Apache Kudu™ –an Open Source storage engine for structured data which supports low-latency random access together with efficient analytical access patterns.
 - Apache Kudu 1.0.1 released http://kudu.apache.org/releases/1.0.1

Apache OpenOffice™ –leading Open Source office application and personal productivity suite for Windows, Linux, and Mac.
 - The Apache OpenOffice Project Announces Apache OpenOffice v4.1.3 https://s.apache.org/JiCT

Apache Pirk (incubating) –a framework for scalable Private Information Retrieval (PIR).
 - Apache Pirk 0.2.0-incubating released https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/incubator/pirk/0.2.0-incubating

Apache PredictionIO (incubating) –an Open Source Machine Learning Server built on top of state-of-the-art open source stack, that enables developers to manage and deploy production-ready predictive services for various kinds of machine learning tasks.
 - Apache PredictionIO 0.10.0-incubating released https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/incubator/predictionio/0.10.0-incubating/

Apache Syncope™ –an Open Source system for managing digital identities in enterprise environments, implemented in Java EE technology.|
 - Apache Syncope 1.2.9 released http://syncope.apache.org/downloads.html

Apache Tomcat™ –Open Source software implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Unified Expression Language, Java WebSocket and JASPIC technologies.
 - Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M11 released http://tomcat.apache.org/download-90.cgi
 - Apache Tomcat 8.0.38 and 8.5.6 released http://tomcat.apache.org/download-80.cgi

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that the Apache Incubator, the entry path for all new incubating Apache projects, was first founded in October 2002? http://incubator.apache.org/

 - Did you know that Apache project birthdays in October include Xalan & XML Graphics (12 yrs); Mina & Velocity (10 yrs); PDFBox (7 yrs); Thrift (6 yrs); JMeter (5 yrs); Cordova, Isis, OpenOffice (4 yrs); Chukwa and Jclouds (3 yrs); and Calcite (1 yr)? https://projects.apache.org/committees.html?date

 - Did you know that bourse.societegenerale.fr is powered by Apache Wicket? https://wicket.apache.org

Apache Community Notices:

 - ApacheCon Europe will take place 14-18 November 2016 in Seville, Spain http://apachecon.com/

ASF Board –management and oversight of the business and affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.
 - ASF Operations Summary: May - Aug 2016 https://s.apache.org/1BsV
 - Next Board Meeting: 19 October 2016. Board calendar and minutes available at http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html

ASF Infrastructure –our distributed team on four continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock.
 - 7M+ weekly checks yield clever performance at 99.69% uptime http://status.apache.org/

ApacheCon™ –the official conference series of The Apache Software Foundation.
 - 5 weeks to go: Program, registration, and hotel discounts for Apache: Big Data and ApacheCon Europe/Seville http://apachecon.com/

Apache Buildr™ –a build system for Java-based applications, including support for Scala, Groovy and a growing number of JVM languages and tools.
 - Apache Buildr 1.5.0 released http://buildr.apache.org/

Apache Commons™ EL –JSP 2.0 Expression Language Interpreter Implementation.
 - Apache Commons EL moved to dormant http://commons.apache.org/dormant/commons-el/

Apache Impala (incubating) –a high-performance C++ and Java SQL query engine for data stored in Apache Hadoop-based clusters.
 - Apache Impala (incubating) 2.7.0 released https://impala.incubator.apache.org/downloads.html

Apache Jackrabbit™ –a fully compliant implementation of the Content Repository for Java(TM) Technology API, version 2.0 (JCR 2.0) as specified in the Java Specification Request 283 (JSR 283).
 - Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.4.8 and 1.5.11 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org/downloads.html

Apache Log4j™ –a well known framework for logging application behavior.
 - Apache Log4j 2.7 released http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/

Apache POI™ –Open Source libraries used for reading and writing files in Microsoft® Office formats.
 - Apache POI Celebrates 15 Years at The Apache Software Foundation https://s.apache.org/IKz0

Apache Qpid™ –JMS client supporting the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol 1.0 (AMQP 1.0, ISO/IEC 19464), based round the Apache Qpid Proton protocol engine and implementing the AMQP JMS Mapping as it evolves at OASIS.
 - Apache Qpid JMS 0.11.1 released http://qpid.apache.org/download.html

Apache Streams (incubating) –unifies a diverse world of digital profiles and online activities into common formats and vocabularies, and makes these datasets accessible across a variety of databases, devices, and platforms for streaming, browsing, search, sharing, and analytics use-cases.
 - Apache Streams 0.3-incubating released http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/incubator/streams/releases/0.3-incubating/

Apache Tomcat™ –Open Source software implementation of the Java Servlet, JavaServer Pages, Java Unified Expression Language, Java WebSocket and JASPIC technologies.
 - Apache Tomcat Native 1.2.10 released http://tomcat.apache.org/download-native.cgi
 - Tomcat Connectors 1.2.42 released http://tomcat.apache.org/download-connectors.cgi
 - CVE-2016-6808 Apache Tomcat JK ISAPI Connector buffer overflow http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-announce/201610.mbox/%3Cd4132868-5af1-b8f3-b3b2-b32e86e2f822%40apache.org%3E

Did You Know?

 - Did you know that you can help test Apache Struts 2.5.3 and 2.3.31? http://markmail.org/thread/edxlswmit7nu2rf2

 - Did you know that Criteo Labs uses Apache Kafka to handle 500B msgs/day? http://kafka.apache.org/

 - Did you know that SWITCH uses Apache Syncope for secure digital identity with single sign-on capabilities and connections with other services? http://syncope.apache.org/

Apache Community Notices:

 - ApacheCon Europe will take place 14-18 November 2016 in Seville, Spain http://apachecon.com/

Forest Hill, MD —3 October 2016— The Apache® POI™ project announced today their 15th Anniversary at The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), and the immediate availability of Apache POI v3.15, the latest version of the Open Source libraries used for reading and writing files in Microsoft® Office formats.

Using Apache POI APIs, developers are able to manipulate various file formats based on the Office Open XML standards (OOXML) and Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format (OLE2CDF) using pure Java. Supported formats include those used by Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and other applications from the Microsoft Office suite.

"POI has gone from strength to strength," said Dominik Stadler, Vice President of Apache POI. "Developers around the world use Apache POI to read and write Microsoft Office documents, and we’re happy to commemorate our anniversary with the release of v3.15, POI's 78th official release."

POI's first public release was in August 2001. In February 2002 POI became a sub-project of Apache Jakarta (then the ASF's incubator for Java projects). Since then, the project evolved rapidly through contributions by community volunteers. Development highlights include:

• 2002 --support for reading and writing OLE2-based XLS spreadsheets;
• 2004 --v2.0 released, adding formula support to spreadsheets and DOC (Microsoft Word);
• 2007--POI becomes an Apache Top-Level Project in June 2007; added support for reading and writing the binary PowerPoint format in v3.0;
• 2008 --added support for Open Office XML formats, coinciding with Microsoft's open format standardization efforts. Later POI added support for additional file formats including formats used by Visio and Outlook.

Apache POI is used in a variety of ways, including automated generation of Microsoft Office documents from other data sources, updating and formatting existing documents, and enabling software systems to read rich, human-friendly data. Apache POI aims to serve a wide audience from small personal projects to large scale business applications. 

Numerous organizations, such as The Bank of Lithuania, Deutsche Bahn, IKAN Software, and Sunshine Systems use Apache POI. In addition, Apache Tika (content analysis toolkit) uses Apache POI to extract text and metadata from Microsoft Office documents to enable users to search and index these formats.

In addition to the official POI developer and user mailing lists and the bugzilla bug tracking tool, developers are also volunteering their time to help users on community websites. An example of this is through improved localization: POI aims to work around the world despite differences in number formats, date formats, separators, character sets, and time zones.

The Apache POI community continually refreshes with new developers as prior developers move on to shepherd other projects. As with all Apache projects, and as demonstrated by Apache POI, community is the key to success and maintaining a healthy ecosystem.

"Decisions are better made by community consensus than individual opinion," added Stadler. "Our ongoing community refresh brings in new ideas and motivation, avoids stagnation, or unfairly burdening the original project creators. The one constant in our community has been Nick Burch, who has embodied The Apache Way as a contributor and mentor to POI for over a decade."

Through its healthy and vibrant user community and a number of dedicated committers, Apache POI is poised to enjoy continued active development for years to come. 

Apache POI 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 POI, visit http://poi.apache.org/

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 550 individual Members and 5,300 Committers 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 Alibaba Cloud Computing, ARM, Bloomberg, Budget Direct, Capital One, Cerner, Cloudera, Comcast, Confluent, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, HP, Huawei, IBM, InMotion Hosting, iSIGMA, LeaseWeb, Microsoft, OPDi, PhoenixNAP, Pivotal, Private Internet Access, Produban, Red Hat, Serenata Flowers, WANdisco, and Yahoo. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/ and https://twitter.com/TheASF

© The Apache Software Foundation. "Apache", "POI", "Apache POI", "Jakarta", "Apache Jakarta", "Tika", "Apache Tika", and "ApacheCon" are registered trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. All other brands and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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