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🗞️ Here's your weekly ASF release roundup! 🗞️ 👉 Apache ActiveMQ 6.2.7 is now available for download: https://buff.ly/cgEuCFa Release notes: https://buff.ly/yGrpo9i 👉 Apache Struts 7.2.1 is now available for download: https://buff.ly/ERYoi25 Struts is an elegant, extensible framework for creating enterprise-ready Java web applications. 👉 Apache HttpComponents Client 5.6.2 is available for download: https://buff.ly/tHbxjhN Release notes: https://buff.ly/0kmNhU5 👉 Apache Camel 4.21.0 is now available for download: https://buff.ly/Rb5RUG9 Camel is an open source integration framework that empowers you to quickly and easily integrate various systems consuming or producing data. 👉 Apache Log4j 2.26.1 is now available for download: https://buff.ly/VVR9z9P 👉 Apache Commons JEXL 3.7.0 is now available for download: https://buff.ly/jlmdZNk Commons JEXL is a library that enables scripting features in Java applications and frameworks. 👉 Apache Camel 4.18.3 is now available for download: https://buff.ly/9M64vwX 👉 Maven Resolver 2.0.20 is now available for download: https://buff.ly/JOCClPg Release notes: https://buff.ly/lyIbk9Y 👉 Apache Tika 4.0.0-beta-1 is now available for download: https://buff.ly/1kLWPFu Tika is a toolkit for detecting and extracting metadata and structured text content from various documents using existing parser libraries. 👉 Apache Apache Groovy 5.0.7 is now available for download: https://buff.ly/wXEq4mN This release includes 16 bug fixes/improvements as outlined in the changelog: https://buff.ly/vJ346Nw 👉 Apache Airflow Providers is now available for download: https://buff.ly/g7D52l8 The source release, as well as the binary releases, are available here: https://buff.ly/8aQtUEy 👉 Apache Groovy 6.0.0-alpha-2 is now available for download: https://buff.ly/wXEq4mN Groovy is a multi-faceted programming language for the JVM.

The Call for Papers for Community Over Code Sydney is now open: https://buff.ly/EFA1iLh Key Themes: ✔️ Modern JVM & Enterprise Technologies ✔️ Data, Streaming & Search ✔️ Software Engineering Craft ✔️ Open Source Culture & Community ✔️ Emerging Technologies The event takes place November 18-19, 2026. Proposals are due by 13:59 UTC on August 14, 2026. Submit your talk now! #communityovercode #opensource

Case study on how the ASF Tooling Initiative is automating releases and doing supply-chain security without adding maintainer burden: https://buff.ly/xzMkoB6 The Apache Trusted Releases (ATR) tool reduced thousands of missing SBOM data elements down to near-complete compliance without asking maintainers to change their release workflow. ATR plugs into GitHub Actions, CLI, API, or browser upload -- whatever a project already uses. #opensource

Read the newest Plus One newsletter from the ASF: https://buff.ly/MDrZ4qR Learn about recently graduated projects Apache Livy and Apache Magpie, upcoming Community Over Code events, and other news from around the ASF ecosystem. #opensource

Early bird pricing for Community Over Code Glasgow is closing soon — register by July 28 to get the lower rate. 💸 Early bird: $500 💻 ASF Committers: $250 168 sessions covering AI, fintech, streaming, governance, and more. 📅 October 11–14 🎟️ Register now: https://buff.ly/Vep7yHX

Administrative friction frequently slows down critical development. Our latest case study details how directed funding supports the The Apache Software Foundation by investing in better tooling to lower barriers for contributors. This targeted support allows maintainers to focus on fixing vulnerabilities and building a resilient ecosystem. Read the full case study to see how we are reducing friction: https://lnkd.in/gBEKD6mz Special thanks to Dave Fisher Sally Khudairi Brian Proffitt Whitney True Melissa Logan Hervé Boutemy

The Apache Shiro community announced the release of Shiro version 3.0.0, culminating more than two years of work by many contributors. Apache Shiro is a Java security framework that provides a simple but powerful approach to application security. Release Highlights: 🔷 JDK 17 is the new minimum baseline 🔷 Jakarta EE 10/11+ (no javax.* namespace) 🔷 Spring 6/7+ and SpringBoot 3/4+ 🔷 Using Java Scoped values for Subject and SecurityManager instead of ThreadLocals on JDK 25+ Web: https://shiro.apache.org/ Blog: https://lnkd.in/gzjuAAU5 Download: https://lnkd.in/gmM3XDKD #java #opensource #appsecurity

🗞️ Here's your weekly ASF release roundup! 🗞️ 👉 Apache HttpComponents Core 5.4.3 is now available for download: https://buff.ly/yfDPAbc Release notes: https://buff.ly/eCaAA0H 👉 Apache Kafka 4.3.1 is now available for download: https://buff.ly/xDo3Ity Release notes: https://buff.ly/lS87OY4 👉 Apache log4net 3.3.2 is available for download: https://buff.ly/InJdOls For further information, visit: https://buff.ly/yQmmnJQ 👉 Apache Pulsar Node.js client 1.18.0 is now available for download: https://buff.ly/PY7AkKJ Pulsar is a highly scalable, low latency messaging platform running on commodity hardware. Release notes are at: https://buff.ly/8pZtWC6 👉 Apache Grails 7.0.12 is now available for download: https://buff.ly/I7Ifsek Release notes: https://buff.ly/i4T3sUZ 👉 Apache Lucene 10.5.0 is now available for download: https://buff.ly/X3dApqg Full list of new features and changes: https://buff.ly/ZdIBDnN 👉 Apache Props Ant Library 1.0.0 is now available for download: https://buff.ly/uS4u15s 👉 Apache Pekko Persistence R2DBC 1.2.0 is now available for download: https://buff.ly/JAybbHX Release notes: https://buff.ly/Z94uTT8 👉 Apache Commons JEXL 3.6.4 is now available for download: https://buff.ly/2226kYy Commons JEXL is a library that enables scripting features in Java applications and frameworks. Historical list of changes: https://buff.ly/8NE6mZ9 👉 Apache Paimon 1.4.2 and PyPaimon 1.4.2 is now available for download: https://buff.ly/vuxqI0a Documentation for Paimon can be found at: https://buff.ly/Wg9HafA 👉 Apache Artemis 2.55.0 is now available for download: https://buff.ly/h1MEfSj Complete list of updates: https://buff.ly/VhQEGBJ 👉 Apache Allura 1.19.1 is now available for download: https://buff.ly/RpN8ZQr Allura is an open source implementation of a software forge, a web site that manages source code repositories, bug reports, discussions, wiki pages, blogs, and more for any number of individual projects. To see the detailed release changelog, visit: https://buff.ly/XCaKvNL

Apache Magpie graduates to Top-Level Project at the Apache Software Foundation, giving open source maintainers free, vendor-neutral AI-assisted tooling. Website: https://buff.ly/GBpdgQc Press release: https://buff.ly/SayRxfP

[NEWS] The Apache® Software Foundation Announces Apache Magpie, a new Top-Level Project that provides open source maintainers with platform infrastructure for agent-assisted repository maintainership https://buff.ly/SayRxfP #opensource #maintainer