Charging that Oracle has willfully disregarded the licensing terms for its own Java technology, the Apache Software Foundation has called upon other members of the Java Community Process (JCP) to vote against the next proposed version of the language, should Oracle continue to impose restrictions on open-source Java use. The nonprofit organization has also indicated [...]

The Apache Software Foundation reached its millionth revision milestone today with a commit by ASF Member Yonik Seeley on behalf of the Apache Lucene Project: lucene/ r1000000 yonik SOLR-2128: full param substitution for function queries The all-volunteer ASF oversees nearly one hundred fifty leading Open Source projects, including Apache HTTP Server — the world’s most [...]

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced that it held elections for the Foundation’s Executive Officers, who will be overseeing the day-to-day operations of the foundation, during its September 11th board meeting. The non-profit Foundation supports the Apache community’s development of some of the most well-known open source projects, such as the ASF’s first project, [...]

The Apache Software Foundation, best known for the self-named popular open source Web server, has a variety of other technology that can help enterprises with databases, search, development, and more. Here’s an overview of the best. Now more than 10 years old, the Apache Software Foundation has become a repository of some of the most [...]

The Apache Project continues to thrive and push out new projects. Today the organization announced that six projects have moved to Top-Level Project (TLP) status. Of the projects, five were sub-projects and one has come up from Apache’s Incubator program. Apache Traffic Server, a caching proxy server that was initially a commercial project from Yahoo, [...]

Almost three months after the release of version 2.0, the Apache Jackrabbit developers have announced the availability of version 2.1 of their open source implementation of version 2.0 of the Content Repository for Java Technology API (JCR 2.0). The latest incremental feature release includes a number of changes over the previous release, such as improvements [...]

The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache HTTP Server Project are pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of version 2.2.15 of the Apache HTTP Server (“httpd”). This version of httpd is principally a security and bug fix release. Notably, this release was updated to reflect the OpenSSL Project’s release 0.9.8m of the openssl [...]

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) — developers, stewards, and incubators of 138 Open Source projects — today announced the 15th anniversary of the Apache HTTP Web Server. The ASF’s first project became the world’s most popular Web server software within the first six months of its inception. The Apache HTTP Server today powers nearly 112 [...]

The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache HTTP Server Project are pleased to announce the release of version 1.3.42 of the Apache HTTP Server (“Apache”). This release is intended as the final release of version 1.3 of the Apache HTTP Server, which has reached end of life status. There will be no more full releases [...]

What’s better than an Apple iTablet, or whatever Cupertino is releasing today? A spam-free inbox, and you can get that (or very close) for free thanks to the Apache Foundation. Yesterday marked the first major SpamAssassin release since 2007 when the Apache Foundation unleashed SpamAssassin 3.3.0. SpamAssassin is a set of Perl programs that filters [...]