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Apache Commons this week released Codec 1.19.0 and IO 2.21.0 - commons.apache.org/proper/commo... - commons.apache.org/proper/commo... @apache.org @javabubble.bsky.social #opensource #java #apache #apachecommons

Apache Lucene has issued the following releases: ✅ Lucene 9.12.2 ✅ Lucene 10.2.2 To download, visit buff.ly/Gu4l9Bs Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in #Java.

RIP Java Applets. You made Java popular and helped it grow to what it is today. JEP 504: Remove the Applet API has been proposed to target (openjdk.org/jeps/504), so there will be no more applets with the next JDK (JDK 26).

Heads up CVE watchers! We just published CVE-2025-48976: Apache Commons FileUpload: DoS via part headers. Pick up version 1.6.0 or 2.0.0-M4 lists.apache.org/thread/fbs3w... #cve #apache #security

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That more good will than I could muster virtualize.sh/blog/ground-...

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A great (and long) visual and text essay on the 75-year anniversary of F1: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/extra/...

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Apache Commons Collections 4.5.0 is now available from the download CDN and Maven Central. Visit us at commons.apache.org/proper/commo...

Here are the latest Apache Commons releases: - JXPATH-1.4.0: 2025-04-18 - JEXL-3.5.0: 2025-04-16 - IO-2.19.0: 2025-04-12 - TEXT-1.13.1: 2025-04-10 Come see us: commons.apache.org

LWN has a nice write on how successfully use FOSS in government lwn.net/Articles/101...

Over at Apache Commons VFS, we published two CVEs: - CVE-2025-27553: Apache Commons VFS: Possible path traversal issue when using NameScope.DESCENDENT - CVE-2025-30474: Apache Commons VFS: Failing to find an FTP file can reveal the URI's password in an error message

I am pleased to announce Apache Commons CSV 1.14.0. Commons CSV reads and writes files in Comma Separated Value (CSV) format variations. See commons.apache.org/proper/commo...

The Apache Commons VFS Project team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Commons VFS Project 2.10.0. Apache Commons VFS is a Virtual File System library for Java 8 or later. commons.apache.org/proper/commo... #theASF #ApacheCommons

The Apache Commons BeanUtils team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Commons BeanUtils 1.10.1. This is our old-school Java Bean utility library available at commons.apache.org/proper/commo... #theASF #ApacheCommons

The Apache Commons team is pleased to announce Apache Commons Logging 1.3.5. Commons Logging is a thin adapter allowing configurable bridging to other, well-known logging systems. Historical list of changes: commons.apache.org/proper/commo... Website: commons.apache.org/proper/commo...

Beware fellow FOSS maintainers: “Outlier. You are doing it wrong,” Potiuk wrote in a LinkedIn post that tagged Outlier. “Please stop all the people who you are tricking into creating AI-generated, completely nonsense issues in many open-source repositories.” from thenewstack.io/ai-is-spammi...

The Apache Commons Codec team announces the release of Apache Commons Codec 1.18.0. Commons Codec contains encodes and decodes Base16, Base32, Base64, digest, and Hexadecimal. The codec package also maintains a collection of phonetic encoding utilities. commons.apache.org/proper/commo...

The Apache Commons Pool team announces the release of Apache Commons Pool 2.12.1. Commons Pool provides an object-pooling API and several object-pool implementations, with robust instance tracking and pool monitoring. commons.apache.org/proper/commo...

Outlier AI. You are doing it wrong. Hiring people to post completely nonsenese or copy&pasted issues in reputable open-source repositories - and make maintainers train your AI on it ? not good. There are 50 such issues in last few days in @airflow repo [1] and counting. More details in [2] […]

The Apache Commons team announces Commons Codec 1.17.2 for #Java Codec contains encoders and decoders for formats such as Base16, Base32, Base64, digest, and Hexadecimal. The codec package also maintains a collection of phonetic encoding utilities. See commons.apache.org/proper/commo...

The Apache Commons team is happy to announce Apache Commons 1.13.0. - Changes: commons.apache.org/proper/commo... - Site: commons.apache.org/proper/commo... - Repo github.com/apache/commo...

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The Apache Commons DBCP team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Commons DBCP 2.13.0; Java8+ This is a minor release, including bug fixes and enhancements. Changes: commons.apache.org/proper/commo... Site: commons.apache.org/proper/commo... Download: commons.apache.org/proper/commo...