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🗞️ Here's your weekly ASF release roundup! 🗞️ 👉 Apache Tika 4.0.0-alpha-1 is now available for download: https://buff.ly/PUoSimo Tika is a toolkit for detecting and extracting metadata and structured text content from various documents using existing parser libraries. For more information, visit: https://buff.ly/7qPxWbB 👉 Apache Airflow Providers are now available for download: https://buff.ly/b7dTm2y The source release, as well as the binary releases, are available here: https://buff.ly/VhUyI80 👉 Apache Avatica is a framework for building database drivers. Download the latest Apache Calcite Avatica, 1.28.0, here: https://buff.ly/VSWl0on For a full list of changes, see the release notes: https://buff.ly/EUhVfO1 👉 Apache Parquet Java 1.17.1 is now available for download: https://buff.ly/f3pgLCf Parquet is a general-purpose columnar file format for nested data. 👉 Apache Burr 0.42.0-incubating is now available for download: https://buff.ly/jqRNs4o Apache Burr is a Python library for building stateful AI applications and agents as state machines, with built-in observability, persistence, and a local tracking UI. 👉 Apache Wicket 9.23.0 is now available for download: https://buff.ly/eKfCFrt Apache Wicket is 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 Commons Configuration 2.15.0 is now available for download: https://buff.ly/PndPk4l The Commons Configuration software library provides a generic configuration interface that enables an application to read configuration data from various sources and requires Java 8. #opensource #data #machinelearning #cloudcomputing #java #NoSQL #webserver #hadoop

What does self-governance look like in open source? At the ASF, roughly 800 members vote each year to elect leadership and shape the future of the foundation — using Apache STeVe v3, a community-built, cryptographically secure voting platform designed to protect voter privacy. The math enforces privacy. Not policy. Read the full story from Greg Stein and explore the project: https://buff.ly/lV3Rica

Apache Iceberg has quickly become a foundational technology in modern data architectures, but its impact goes far beyond performance and scale. We spoke with Iceberg contributor Dipankar Mazumdar to explore how Iceberg redefined the data lake and what has fueled its adoption. The full Q&A conversation is available here: https://buff.ly/PTtKjqt

How does a global open source foundation govern itself without vendor control? The answer starts with trustworthy elections. In this new blog, Greg Stein shares the story behind Apache STeVe v3 — the rebuilt voting platform powering elections at the Apache Software Foundation, with cryptographic privacy protections, open governance, and fully open source code. Read more: https://buff.ly/sDELoeU

🗞️ Here's your weekly ASF release roundup! 🗞️ 👉 Apache Ignite 2.18.0 is now available for download: https://buff.ly/DbmFMRg Apache Ignite is a distributed database for mission-critical high-velocity applications that require in-memory performance. Learn more: https://buff.ly/nvhANYC 👉 Apache Groovy is a multi-faceted programming language for the JVM. Download the latest Groovy release, 4.0.32, here: https://buff.ly/faKCMXN 👉 Apache Pulsar DotPulsar 5.3.1 is now available for download. Pulsar is a highly scalable, low-latency messaging platform running on commodity hardware. It provides simple pub-sub semantics over topics, guaranteed at least once delivery of messages, automatic cursor management for subscribers, and cross-datacenter replication. For Pulsar release details and downloads, visit: https://buff.ly/rL5MHC2 👉 Apache Paimon Rust 0.1.0 has been released and is available for immediate download. Documentation for Paimon can be found here: https://buff.ly/LS4iLMn 👉 Apache Grails Spring Security 8.0.0-M1 is now available for download. Apache Grails Spring Security adds production-ready authentication and authorization to Apache Grails applications. For more information, visit: https://buff.ly/cGs5XTu To download the latest release, visit: https://buff.ly/7N27vmf 👉 Apache Pekko (Core) 1.6.0 is now available for download: https://buff.ly/hiAV0Pf Pekko is an open source toolkit and runtime simplifying the construction of concurrent and distributed applications on the JVM. #opensource #data #machinelearning #cloudcomputing #java #NoSQL #webserver #hadoop

The biggest outcome of Apache Geode 2.0 was cleaner code and clarity. Modernization at scale isn’t linear. It’s a cascade. But when the final dependency clicks into place, you don’t just get a green build. You get a future you can build on. Read more --> https://buff.ly/z2JcCGW

Planning to attend Community Over Code Glasgow 2026? 💸 Early bird: $500 (ends July 28) 💻 ASF committers: $250 168 sessions across AI, fintech, streaming, governance & more. 🎟️ Secure your spot: https://buff.ly/iu5u7xl 🗞️ Learn more: https://buff.ly/AFx1ibc

The schedule is live for Community Over Code Glasgow 2026! 168 sessions. 18 tracks. 4 days. From AI infrastructure to fintech, streaming, and governance, this is where real-world open source gets built. 📅 October 11–14 🎟️ Register now: https://buff.ly/iu5u7xl 🗞️ Learn more: https://buff.ly/AFx1ibc

Check out the upcoming entry in the OpenForum Europe Lounge Series, which includes our own Dirk-Willem van Gulik !

mTLS won’t break this month. It’ll break when your cert renews. That’s worse. Here’s what’s changing — and how to avoid the outage: