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Donation of Continuous Delivery Software Services Helps Support Apache Infrastructure, Projects, and Communities Wakefield, MA, and DevOps World/Jenkins World Lisbon, Portugal —4 December 2019— The Apache® Software Foundation (ASF), the ... [More] all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that CloudBees has become an ASF Targeted Sponsor at the Platinum level. "We are pleased to welcome CloudBees as a Targeted Platinum Sponsor," said ASF Vice President Fundraising Daniel Ruggeri. "ASF Sponsors help offset our day-to-day operating expenses, from Accounting to Infrastructure to Legal to Marketing and more. Targeted Sponsorship provides contributions aimed at activities and programs that support specific ASF operations as well as designated Apache projects and their communities. Among the many benefits towards Apache Infrastructure, Targeted donations include development/collaboration tools, co-location space, cloud services, monitoring systems and more. We are excited to add continuous delivery software services to the list, courtesy of CloudBees." "CloudBees is a strong advocate of Open Source. As major contributors to many Open Source projects, including Jenkins and Jenkins X, we see the value organizations derive from using Open Source every day," said Sacha Labourey, CEO and co-founder, CloudBees. "Our contribution to The Apache Software Foundation will enable it to continue its mission to develop Open Source projects and support the use of Open Source all over the world. We are proud to be a targeted sponsor." The ASF Infrastructure Team keeps the Foundation's global services running 24x7x365 at near 100% uptime at less than US$5,000 per project. Performance statistics that reflect 7M+ weekly checks and project mail volume across 2,059 lists are available at http://status.apache.org/ "Every day, billions of users of Apache projects benefit from the many services provided by ASF Infrastructure," added Ruggeri. "Our sponsors' generosity helps bolster the support provided to more than 350 Apache projects and their communities. We look forward to expanding the Targeted Sponsorship program to meet the growing demand for Apache projects that build upon our mission of providing software for the public good." CloudBees joins the following Targeted Sponsors: Platinum —DLA Piper, JetBrains, Microsoft, OSU Open Source Labs, Sonatype, and Verizon Media; Gold —Atlassian, The CrytpoFund, Datadog, PhoenixNAP, and Quenda; Silver —Amazon Web Services, Hotwax Systems, and Rackspace; and Bronze —Bintray, Education Networks of America, Google, Hopsie, No-IP, PagerDuty, Peregrine Computer Consultants Corporation, Sonic.net, SURFnet, and Virtru. To become an ASF Sponsor, please visit http://apache.org/foundation/sponsorship.html About CloudBees CloudBees is powering the continuous economy by offering the world’s first end-to-end continuous software delivery management system (SDM). For millions of developers and product teams driving innovation for businesses large or small, SDM builds on continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) to enable all functions and teams within and around the software delivery organization to best work together to amplify value creation. CloudBees is the CI, CD and application release orchestration (ARO) powerhouse, built on the commercial success of its products as well as its open source leadership. CloudBees is the largest contributor to Jenkins and Jenkins X, and a founding member of the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF). From startups with full-stack developers practicing NoOps to large Fortune 100 companies, CloudBees enables all software-driven organizations to intelligently deploy the right capabilities at the right time.  Over 3,500 of the world's best-known brands and over 50% of the Fortune 500 depend on CloudBees because of its ability to work across any cloud, in any development environment and to balance corporate governance and control with developer flexibility and freedom. CloudBees is home to the world’s leading DevOps experts, helping thousands of companies harness the power of "continuous everything" and putting them on the fastest path from great idea, to great software, to great business value.  Backed by Matrix Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Verizon Ventures, Delta-v Capital, Golub Capital and Unusual Ventures, CloudBees was founded in 2010 by former JBoss CTO Sacha Labourey and an elite team of continuous integration, continuous delivery and DevOps professionals. Follow CloudBees on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. 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 760 individual Members and 7,400 Committers across six continents 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 Aetna, Anonymous, ARM, Bloomberg, Budget Direct, Capital One, Cerner, Cloudera, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Hortonworks, Huawei, IBM, Indeed, Inspur, LeaseWeb, Microsoft, Oath, ODPi, Pineapple Fund, Pivotal, Private Internet Access, Red Hat, Target, and Union Investment. For more information, visit http://www.apache.org/ and https://twitter.com/TheASF © The Apache Software Foundation. "Apache", "Apache HTTP Server", 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. # # # MEDIA CONTACTS: Sally Khudairi Vice President The Apache Software Foundation +1 617 921 8656 [email protected] Sydney Holmquist  PAN Communications  +1 407 734 7327 [email protected] [Less]

This release is identical to 11.2 except for backported fixes for: [NETBEANS-3257] Fixed issue on refactoring rename of java method (and potentially other nb-javac issues) [NETBEANS-3335] Enhance robustness of HTML Lexer - enter key doesn't work in ... [More] certain files [NETBEANS-3290] Fix common.xml causing layer build problems in RCP applications Use the Plugin Manager under the Tools menu to update 11.2 to 11.2 Update 1. [Less]

“I was able to make my first contribution yesterday, and today it was merged. I'm so excited about my first steps in open source", a participant said about the First Summit for Open Source Contributors, which took place this September in ... [More] Guadalajara, México. How do you involve others in open source? How can we make this space more inclusive for groups with low representation in the field?  With these questions in mind and the call to contribute to software that is powering the world's favorite products, the Apache Software Foundation, along with the CNCF, sponsored the First Summit for Open Source Contributors in Mexico. Google, Software Guru magazine, Wizeline Academy, OSOM (a consortium to engage more Mexican developers in open source), IBM, Intel, Salesforce and Indeed were some of the companies that organized the conference. The event consisted of 2 days of training and presentations on a selection of open source projects, including Apache Beam, Gnome, Node JS, Apache Cassandra, Kubernetes, Firefox, Drupal, Apache Flink and others. Sam Ruby, president of the ASF, participated in a panel discussion with Chris Aniszczyk, CTO at the CNCF, and also presented a session on the Apache Way. ASF board member, Myrle Krantz, presented a session about a project’s lifecycle at Apache. Through sessions like these, accompanied by 19 workshops focused on specific projects, participants were able to learn about the state of open source in Latin America, and also get dedicated coaching and hands-on practice to become active contributors in OSS. While unpaid, these collaborations represent the most popular way of learning to code and building a portfolio for young professionals, or people looking to do a career shift towards tech.  As reported by many advocacy groups in the past few years, diversity remains a big debt in the tech industry. Only an average of 8.4% of employees in ten of the leading tech companies are Latinx. The gap is even bigger in open source software, where only 2.6% of committers to Apache projects are Latinx. Diversity in tech is not just the right thing to do, it is also good business: bringing more diverse participation in software development will result in more inclusive and successful products, that serve a more comprehensive set of use cases and needs in any given population.  While representation numbers in the creation of software are still looking grim, the use of OSS is growing fast: It is estimated that Cloud and big-data OSS technologies will grow five times by 2025 in Latin America. The main barrier for contributing? Language.  The First Summit for Open Source Contributors set out to close this fundamental gap between tech users and its makers. To tackle this problem 135 hours of content were created in Spanish for 481 participants, which produced over 200 new contributors across 19 open source projects. When asked why contributions from the region are so low, 41% of participants said it was due to lack of awareness, and 34% said they thought their contributions were not valuable. After the event, 47% of participants reported that the workshops and presentations provided them with information or guidance on how to contribute to specific projects, and 39% said the event helped them to lose fear and contribute. Almost 100% of participants stated that they plan to continue contributing to Open Source in the near future… and if they do, they would raise representation of Latinx in Open Source to 10%.  This event left us with a lot of hope for the future of diversity and inclusion in open source. Going forward, we hope to continue supporting this summit in Latin America.  Pictures Main picture: https://photos.app.goo.gl/pLbfdA8ZdgYDzePC6 - CC-BY- SA Software Guru Hands on workshop: https://photos.app.goo.gl/vGmqcrVbYdpRPzYi9 - CC-BY-SA Fernando Hernández Hands on workshop: https://photos.app.goo.gl/TckSPFpbVVqQ8rHg9 - CC-BY-SA Fernando Hernández Organizing team: https://photos.app.goo.gl/A4u1jTDPxVwNQdAz8  (need to get names) - CC-BY-SA Héctor Eryx Paredes Camacho Sam Ruby Presenting on how to contribute to Apache projects: https://photos.app.goo.gl/v7R5ahUh6tPfNaPU7 - CC-BY- SA Software Guru Fireside chat with Sam Ruby: https://photos.app.goo.gl/fotkMTk2yvSK2NB46 - CC-BY-SA Fernando Hernández Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQy7YqWDbmo - CC-BY-SA Software Guru View more pictures of the event here: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOd_8EFVS7GHKXucIUo5DU1CBAy-sgY-QXAOWgbDeWyc6Ya1OyhYz5XxGNka2dn0Q?key=eHA3QlRqMW5jSVE3bi1UTFZNUEE4Y3RpSVJPQVVn View some of the recorded presentations here: https://sg.com.mx/buzz/evento-sg/ccoss-2019 [Written By: María Cruz, Google Open Source] font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">La ASF ayuda a promover la diversidad en código abierto en la Primera Cumbre de Colaboradores de OSS en México “Pude hacer mi primera contribución ayer, y hoy se fusionó. Estoy muy entusiasmado con mis primeros pasos en código abierto", dijo un participante sobre la Primera Cumbre para Contribuyentes de Código Abierto, que tuvo lugar el pasado mes de septiembre en Guadalajara, México. ¿Cómo involucrar a otros en código abierto?, ¿Cómo podemos hacer este espacio más inclusivo para grupos con baja representación en este campo? Con estas preguntas en mente y el llamado a contribuir al software que está impulsando los productos favoritos del mundo, la Apache Software Foundation, junto a la CNCF, patrocinaron la Primera Cumbre de Contribuyentes de Código Abierto en México. Google, la revista Software Guru, Wizeline Academy, OSOM (un consorcio para involucrar a más desarrolladores mexicanos en código abierto), IBM , Intel, Salesforce e Indeed fueron algunas de las compañías que organizaron la conferencia.  El evento consistió en dos días de entrenamiento y presentaciones de una selección de proyectos de código abierto, incluidos Apache Beam, Gnome, Node JS, Apache Cassandra, Kubernetes, Firefox, Drupal, Apache Flink y otros.  Sam Ruby, presidente de la ASF, participó en un panel con Chris Aniszczyk, CTO de la CNCF, y también presentó una sesión sobre la cultura  Apache (Apache Way). Miembro de la junta directiva de la ASF, Myrle Krantz, sobre el ciclo de vida que tienen los proyectos en Apache. A través de sesiones como éstas, acompañadas de 19 talleres, los participantes pudieron aprender sobre el estado del código abierto en América Latina, y recibieron entrenamiento práctico y asesoría personalizada; para convertirse en contribuyentes activos en software de código abierto u OSS, por sus siglas en inglés. Si bien no son remuneradas, estas colaboraciones son la forma más popular de aprender a programar y crear un portafolio para jóvenes profesionales o personas que buscan hacer un cambio de carrera hacia tecnología. Según lo informado por muchos grupos que promueven el OSS en los últimos años, la diversidad sigue siendo una gran deuda en la industria tecnológica. En promedio, sólo el 8.4% de los empleados en diez de las principales compañías tecnológicas son Latinx. La brecha es aún mayor en el software de código abierto, donde sólo el 2.6% de los encargados de proyectos de Apache son latinx. La diversidad en la tecnología además de ser lo correcto, también es un buen negocio: lograr una participación más diversa en el desarrollo de software dará como resultado productos más inclusivos y exitosos, que atiendan un conjunto más completo de casos de uso y necesidades en una población determinada. Si bien los números de representación en la creación de software lucen sombríos, el uso de OSS está creciendo rápidamente; se estima que las tecnologías OSS de nube y big data crecerán 5 veces para 2025 en América Latina. ¿La principal barrera para contribuir? El Idioma. La Primera Cumbre de Contribuyentes de Código Abierto se propuso cerrar esta brecha fundamental entre los usuarios de tecnología y sus creadores. Para abordar este problema, creamos, en asociación con otras compañías, 135 horas de contenido en español para 481 participantes, lo que produjo más de 200 nuevos contribuyentes en 19 proyectos de código abierto. Cuando se les preguntó por qué las contribuciones de la región son tan bajas, el 41% de los participantes dijo que se debía a la falta de conocimiento, y el 34% dijo que pensaban que sus contribuciones no eran valiosas. Después del evento, el 47% de los participantes reportó que los talleres y las presentaciones les proporcionaron información u orientación sobre cómo contribuir a proyectos específicos, y el 39% dijo que el evento les ayudó a perder el miedo y contribuir. Casi el 100% de los participantes declararon que planean seguir contribuyendo al OSS en el futuro cercano ... y si lo hacen, aumentarían la representación de Latinx en proyectos de código abierto al 10%. Este evento nos dejó con muchas esperanzas para el futuro de la diversidad e inclusión en código abierto. En el futuro, esperamos continuar apoyando esta cumbre en América Latina. [Less]

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Shared Component: Apache Maven Artifact Transfer Version 0.12.0 An API to install, deploy and resolving artifacts with Maven3 1 2 3 4 5 org.apache.maven.shared ... [More] maven-artifact-transfer 0.12.0 Release Notes Apache Shared Componet Maven Artifact Transfer 0.12.0 Bug: MSHARED-818 – Issue management URL in maven-artifact-transfer returns 404 Improvements: MSHARED-811 – Improve handling of Metadata MSHARED-817 – Change eclipse aether dependency scope to provided Enjoy, -The Maven team Karl-Heinz Marbaise [Less]

One month has passed since NetBeans 11.2 had been released. There are 82 new PR-s made it to the master branch so far. We usually have a, not necessary intentional, "theme" for each release. I'd say the theme is for 11.3 is: "Remove the Rust". Our ... [More] code and libraries spent long time in the transit. Many of our modules were still compiling against Java 1.6 and/or used ancient versions of third party libraries. 11.3 improved a lot on this front and there are still many PR are in the queue to carry that on. Without trying to be complete, here is a small list of changes what's coming: - Jgit Library Update - ASM, PostgreSQL, JUnit5 and Other Library Updates. - PHP Fixes - HTML Lexer Stability Improvements - JSF 2.3 Support - Gradle Tooling 6.0 - Several Cleanups, Remove Compile Warnings On the UI Side: - Return of Dark Metal and Dark Nimbus Look and Feel - Experimental support for Flatlaf Look and Feel On Gradle Side: - Test Output is Channeled Back to the IDE - Added Project Reload Action - Elephant Icons Finally Replace the old Ones [Less]

Farewell, November --we're wrapping up the month with another great week. Here are the latest updates on the Apache community's activities: Support Apache – help the ASF continue to provide $20B+ worth of software –at 100% no cost– for the ... [More] public good https://s.apache.org/fxyz1 ASF Board – management and oversight of the business affairs of the corporation in accordance with the Foundation's bylaws.   - The Apache Software Foundation Objects to the For-Profit Sale of the .org Registry https://s.apache.org/zkthl - Next Board Meeting: 18 December 2019. 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 - ApacheCon 2019 events are complete: catch the latest interviews, presentations, and photos at https://www.apachecon.com/history.html ASF Infrastructure – our distributed team on three continents keeps the ASF's infrastructure running around the clock. - 7M+ weekly checks yield uptime at a rocking 99.99%. 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, 795 Apache contributors changed 1,761,871 lines of code over 3,275 commits. Top 5 contributors, in order, are: Jean-Baptiste Onofré, Tilman Hausherr, Xiang Fu, Sebastian Bazley, and Raymond Augé.   Apache Project Announcements – the latest updates by category. Build Management --  - Apache Maven 3.6.3 released http://maven.apache.org Content -- - Apache Jackrabbit Oak 1.20.0 released http://jackrabbit.apache.org IoT -- - Apache PLC4X 0.5.0 released http://plc4x.apache.org Servers -- - Apache Tomcat 8.5.49 and 9.0.29 released http://tomcat.apache.org Testing -- - Apache JMeter 5.2.1 released https://jmeter.apache.org/ Did You Know?  - Did you know that Apache Kafka and Apache Spark rank the top 4 and 6 in-demand skill sets, according to the Indeed.com fastest-rising tech skills report? An increase of 1,216% for Kafka, and 1,068% for Spark over the past 5 years! https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?category  - Did you know that Apache Storm powers real-time streaming analytics for more than one trillion messages per day at Uber? http://storm.apache.org/  - Did you know that 205 Top-Level communities are overseeing 338 Apache projects and sub-projects? https://projects.apache.org/ Apache Community Notices:  - The Apache Way to Sustainable Open Source Success https://s.apache.org/GhnI  - 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  - "Success at Apache" focuses on the processes behind why the ASF "just works". https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/category/SuccessAtApache  - Please follow/like/re-tweet the ASF on social media: @TheASF on Twitter (https://twitter.com/TheASF) and on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-apache-software-foundation  - Do friend and follow us on the Apache Community Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ApacheSoftwareFoundation/ and Twitter account https://twitter.com/ApacheCommunity  - The list of Apache project-related MeetUps can be found at http://events.apache.org/event/meetups.html  - Find out how you can participate with Apache community/projects/activities --opportunities open with Apache Camel, Apache HTTP Server, and more! https://helpwanted.apache.org/  - Are your software solutions Powered by Apache? Download & use our "Powered By" logos http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/#poweredby = = = For real-time updates, sign up for Apache-related news by sending mail to [email protected] and follow @TheASF on Twitter. For a broader spectrum from the Apache community, https://twitter.com/PlanetApache provides an aggregate of Project activities as well as the personal blogs and tweets of select ASF Committers. [Less]

Your support helps The Apache Software Foundation —the world's largest Open Source foundation— to continue to provide $20B+ worth of software for the public good at 100% no cost. As the US Thanksgiving holidays are upon us ... [More] , our end-of-year Individual Giving and Corporate Gifts campaigns have begun. Your support of The Apache Software Foundation helps ensure 350+ Apache projects and initiatives remain accessible to all, absolutely free of charge. Support from donors enables the all-volunteer, vendor-neutral ASF ensure its community-driven projects are freely available to billions of users, to steward, develop, and advance the next generation of Open Source innovations "The Apache Way", and nuture diverse communities around the globe. This Tuesday, 3 December, is Giving Tuesday —the global fundraising movement that launched the second largest giving day of the year. When you donate to the ASF on Giving Tuesday itself, you can be a part of something even bigger: in 2018 more than $400M was raised for hundreds of organizations worldwide. Whether you donate on Giving Tuesday or as part of your year-end contributions, giving to the ASF is easy:  Individual Donations One-Time or Monthly Recurring Donations: visit https://donate.apache.org/ to make a donation using a debit or credit card, ACH electronic transfer, or PayPal. You'll receive a receipt for your tax-deductible* contribution via email. Purchasing Programs: those of you who shop from Amazon can start your retail journey at https://smile.amazon.com/ so a portion of your qualifying purchases will be donated to the ASF. Additional Options: to mail us a check, donate cryptocurrency, or explore other contribution options, please visit http://apache.org/foundation/contributing.html Corporate Gifts One-time or Recurring Donations: some organizations contribute to the ASF in the form of a cash donation --whether it's a one-time gift or recurring monthly made at https://donate.apache.org/ Those wishing to contribute cryptocurrency and other donation options are welcome to visit http://apache.org/foundation/contributing.html for details. Corporate Sponsorship: those seeking to become a Sponsor using a credit card, ACH transfer, or PayPal may easily do so at https://donate.apache.org/ . We invite interested parties to review our Sponsorship program at http://apache.org/foundation/sponsorship.html Corporate Giving Programs: your gift to the ASF as part of an annual corporate giving program helps bolster the ASF’s mission. Companies such as Bloomberg Philanthropies, IBM, Microsoft, and many others' matching gift programs offer tax benefits, and provide their employees the ability to boost their support of a diverse set of nonprofit organizations. Contact us at fundraising(at)apache(dot)org to get started. Corporate Matching Gifts: if you have a matching gift program, your contribution to the ASF can be generously increased. Matching gift programs augment corporate contributions and help further support the ASF. Contact us at fundraising(at)apache(dot)org for more information. Third-Party Fundraising Platforms: the ASF is an official charity in the Benevity Causes Portal as part of numerous corporate giving initiatives, such as the Microsoft Tech Talent for Good volunteer program, among others. For more information, visit https://www.benevity.com/ The Apache Software Foundation is an all-volunteer community. The ASF does not pay for code development or contributions by its Board of Directors, Executive Officers, 765 Individual ASF Members, 205 Apache Project Management Committees, 7,500+ Committers, and countless contributors.  Your tax-deductible* contribution to the ASF helps offset day-to-day operating expenses that include critical Infrastructure services (75%), plus Marketing and Publicity, Trademarks and Brand Management, Legal Affairs, Accounting, Operational support, and more. Less than 10% is spent on overhead.  The ASF's diverse accomplishments are highlighted in the Annual Report for the 2019 Fiscal Year. Many of these successes were made possible by contributions made by organizations and individuals such as yourself. Thank you for supporting the greater Apache community. * For those based in the US, donations are 100% tax deductible to the full extent of the law. As regulation varies, we encourage you to consult a qualified advisor experienced with your local tax law pertaining to donations.  The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) not-for-profit charitable organization, whose tax identification number is 47-0825376. More information about non-profits and related issues can be found at the Internet Nonprofit Center.   The ASF is recognized by Charity Navigator and cited with the Gold Seal of Transparency by GuideStar. # # # [Less]

Your support helps The Apache Software Foundation —the world's largest Open Source foundation— to continue to provide $20B+ worth of software for the public good at 100% no cost. As the US Thanksgiving holidays are upon us ... [More] , our end-of-year Individual Giving and Corporate Gifts campaigns have begun. Your support of The Apache Software Foundation helps ensure 350+ Apache projects and initiatives remain accessible to all, absolutely free of charge. Support from donors enables the all-volunteer, vendor-neutral ASF ensure its community-driven projects are freely available to billions of users around the world, to steward, develop, and advance the next generation of Open Source innovations "The Apache Way", and nuture diverse communities world-wide. This Tuesday, 3 December, is Giving Tuesday —the global fundraising movement that launched the second largest giving day of the year. When you donate to the ASF on Giving Tuesday itself, you can be a part of something even bigger: in 2018 more than $400M was raised for hundreds of organizations worldwide. Whether you donate on Giving Tuesday or as part of your year-end contributions, giving to the ASF is easy:  Individual Donations One-Time or Monthly Recurring Donations: visit https://donate.apache.org/ to make a donation using a debit or credit card, ACH electronic transfer, or PayPal. You'll receive a receipt for your tax-deductible* contribution via email. Purchasing Programs: those of you who shop from Amazon can start your retail journey at https://smile.amazon.com/ so a portion of your qualifying purchases will be donated to the ASF. Additional Options: to mail us a check, donate cryptocurrency, or explore other contribution options, please visit http://apache.org/foundation/contributing.html Corporate Gifts One-time or Recurring Donations: some organizations contribute to the ASF in the form of a cash donation --whether it's a one-time gift or recurring monthly made at https://donate.apache.org/ Those wishing to contribute cryptocurrency and other donation options are welcome to visit http://apache.org/foundation/contributing.html for details. Corporate Sponsorship: those seeking to become a Sponsor using a credit card, ACH transfer, or PayPal may easily do so at https://donate.apache.org/ . We invite interested parties to review our Sponsorship program at http://apache.org/foundation/sponsorship.html Corporate Giving Programs: your gift to the ASF as part of an annual corporate giving program helps bolster the ASF’s mission. Companies such as Bloomberg Philanthropies, IBM, Microsoft, and many others' matching gift programs offer tax benefits, and provide their employees the ability to boost their support of a diverse set of nonprofit organizations. Contact us at fundraising(at)apache(dot)org to get started. Corporate Matching Gifts: if you have a matching gift program, your contribution to the ASF can be generously increased. Matching gift programs augment corporate contributions and help further support the ASF. Contact us at fundraising(at)apache(dot)org for more information. Third-Party Fundraising Platforms: the ASF is an official charity in the Benevity Causes Portal as part of numerous corporate giving initiatives, such as the Microsoft Tech Talent for Good volunteer program, among others. For more information, visit https://www.benevity.com/ The Apache Software Foundation is an all-volunteer community. The ASF does not pay for code development or contributions by its Board of Directors, Executive Officers, 765 Individual ASF Members, 205 Apache Project Management Committees, 7,500+ Committers, and countless contributors.  Your tax-deductible* contribution to the ASF helps offset day-to-day operating expenses that include critical Infrastructure services (75%), plus Marketing and Publicity, Trademarks and Brand Management, Legal Affairs, Accounting, Operational support, and more. Less than 10% is spent on overhead.  The ASF's diverse accomplishments are highlighted in the Annual Report for the 2019 Fiscal Year. Many of these successes were made possible by contributions made by organizations and individuals such as yourself. Thank you for supporting the greater Apache community. * For those based in the US, donations are 100% tax deductible to the full extent of the law. As regulation varies, we encourage you to consult a qualified advisor experienced with your local tax law pertaining to donations.  The ASF is a US 501(c)(3) not-for-profit charitable organization, whose tax identification number is 47-0825376. More information about non-profits and related issues can be found at the Internet Nonprofit Center.   The ASF is recognized by Charity Navigator and cited with the Gold Seal of Transparency by GuideStar. # # # [Less]

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven 3.6.3. Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project’s ... [More] build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information. You can find out more about Apache Maven at https://maven.apache.org You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download page Overview about the changes This is a regression release to fix some critical issues shipped with 3.6.2. Some license issues on binary distribution have been fixed. This Maven distribution is now Reproducible: if you build from source archive, with JDK 8, on Windows, with mvn -DbuildNumber=cecedd343002696d0abb50b32b541b8a6ba2883f package you’ll get bit-by-bit identical output that you can check with sha512 fingerprints. If you’re building on any Unix system, you’ll need to add -Dline.separator=$'\r\n'. See the https://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-reproducible-builds.html for more details. For more information read https://maven.apache.org/docs/3.6.3/release-notes.html Complete Release Notes Sub-tasks: MNG-6779 – fix jcl-over-slf4j license: Apache 2.0 instead of MIT Bugs MNG-6584 – Maven version 3.6.0 does not show ReasonPhrase anymore MNG-6759 – [REGRESSION] Maven fails to use section from dependency when resolving transitive dependencies in some cases MNG-6760 – [REGRESSION] ExclusionArtifactFilter result invalid when wildcard exclusion is followed by other exclusions MNG-6765 – [Regression] tycho pom-less builds fails with 3.6.2 MNG-6771 – Fix license issues on binary distribution Improvements: MNG-6778 – Use https for schemaLocations MNG-6799 – avoid model interpolation instability risk: ensure StringVisitorModelInterpolator replaces StringSearchModelInterpolator Tasks: MNG-6777 – Remove duplicate resolveFile methods MNG-6789 – Make Maven distribution build Reproducible See complete release notes for all versions The Apache Maven Team. [Less]

Non-profit organizations like The Apache Software Foundation serve the public good in many ways. It is critical to our mission and to the mission of many other non-profits, that we be able to reliably disseminate information via the Internet. This ... [More] principle of enabling the open exchange of information to and among those we serve lies at the heart of what we do at The Apache Software Foundation. Indeed it lies at the heart of a free society. It is for that reason that we object to the sale of the .org registry to a for-profit company. A private, for-profit registry is unlikely to protect the interests of non-profit foundations and organizations on the Internet the way a non-profit can. We call on ICANN to stop the sale of the Public Interest Registry to Ethos Capital, and ensure that the .org registry remains in the hands of a body capable of governing neutrally and with sensitivity to the issues that are unique to the non-profit business sector. Background information https://savedotorg.org/ http://blogs.harvard.edu/sj/2019/11/23/a-tale-of-icann-and-regulatory-capture-the-dot-org-heist/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/20/org_registry_sale_shambles/ ASF Mission http://apache.org/foundation/ # # #  [Less]