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Apache Grails recently graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a top-level Apache project. But it’s far from a new project, having been started 20 years ago! James Fredley, and James Daugherty from the Grails PMC talk about why they came to Apache, along with many other topics.

Links:

• Grails
• Release process documentation

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Chapters:

• 00:00 Intro
• 00:31 Why Apache?
• 03:45 What are you working on?
• 06:08 Community building
• 07:51 New in 7, coming in 8
• 09:36 The move to Jakarta
• 10:25 Release/build automation
• 24:36 Time to upgrade
• 26:57 Contact us!

A chat with several Airflow community members – Amogh Desai, Jarek Potiuk, Jens Scheffler and Rajesh Bishundeo – about the Airflow 3.x release, building collaborative community, and working with a broad set of vendors.

More about Airflow: https://airflow.apache.org/

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In this interview, Dave Fisher talks about the Tooling effort, which he heads, and the specific projects they’ll be working on.

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More info:

• Tooling: https://tooling.apache.org
• Apache Trusted Release Platform: https://tooling.apache.org/trusted-release.html
• Quart: https://github.com/apache/infrastructure-asfquart

Danny Angus is the new VP of Infrastructure. In this interview he discusses some of the priorities for the coming year.

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Read more about the ASF Infrastructure team.

Apache ActiveMQ Artemis released 2.42.0 recently, and I spoke with Clebert about what’s in it, and what’s next.

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ActiveMQ website

Previous ActiveMQ videos: [April 2007], [September 2021]

Apache Shiro is powerful and easy-to-use Java security framework that performs authentication, authorization, cryptography, and session management. Shiro 2.0.5 released on July 7th 2025, and we have Lenny Primak with us to discuss what’s in it, and what’s next for the project.

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• Website
• Project metadata
• Explainer feathercast (May 25, 2020)
• Github

Apache Arrow is a columnar format and multi-language toolbox for fast data interchange and in-memory analytics.

Project website

I spoke with Matt Topol at Community Over Code in Denver last month about the various subprojects, and how you can get involved.

Book mentioned in interview: In-Memory Analytics with Apache Arrow: Accelerate data analytics for efficient processing of flat and hierarchical data structures 2nd ed.

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Apache Unomi™ (pronounced “You know me”) is a Java Open Source customer data platform, a Java server designed to manage customers, leads and visitors data and help personalize customers experiences while also offering features to respect visitor privacy rules (such as GDPR) I spoke with Serge Huber at Community Over Code last month about the developments in the community since we last talked.

Project website

Previous interview

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The Cloudstack Collaboration Conference will be held in November in Madrid. I spoke with Ivet Petrova Madzharova, Apache Cloudstack PMC member, to give us a preview of the event.

The event will be November 20-22, and tickets are available now!

https://cloudstackcollab.org/

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