Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache® Hive 4.0 

Open source data warehouse software built on top of Apache Hadoop enables data analytics and management at massive scale  Wilmington, DE, April 30, 2024 — The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 320 open-source projects and initiatives, today announced Apache Hive 4.0. For…

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Apache Software Foundation Announces Two Major Releases for Apache® Causeway™

Latest releases of framework enable rapid development of maintainable domain-driven apps, for Java programming language Wilmington, DE, May 7, 2024 — The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 320 open-source projects and initiatives, today announced Apache Causeway 2.0 and 3.0. Apache Causeway is…

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Apache Software Foundation Announces New Top-Level Project Apache® Pekko™

Leading framework for building applications that are concurrent, distributed, resilient and elastic graduates to TLP Wilmington, DE, May 16, 2024 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 320 active open source projects and initiatives, today announced Apache Pekko has graduated from incubation…

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Apache Software Foundation Announces New Top-Level Project Apache® DataFusion™ 

Fast, extensible query engine for building high-quality data-centric systems in Rust is now a Top-Level Project Wilmington, DE, June 11,  2024 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 320 active open source projects and initiatives, today announced Apache® DataFusion is now a…

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Why Marketing is Important for Open Source Projects

Even the most brilliant piece of code can struggle to gain traction without effective marketing. Marketing – blogging, social media promotion, and participating in tech events – helps open source projects gain visibility and awareness and also helps build and nurture communities. Marketing activities such as highlighting a project’s technical…

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Python Environment management in JupyterLab Desktop

Python environment management in JupyterLab DesktopWe are pleased to announce Python environment management features recently added to JupyterLab Desktop (JLD). Now you can create new Python environments and manage existing ones on your system, right from JupyterLab Desktop UI.Python environment management dialogPython environments and their use in JupyterLab DesktopThe standard distribution…

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Curvenote joins the mybinder.org federation

Curvenote is now a part of the mybinder.org federation. By hosting a BinderHub instance running on the company’s infrastructure, additional capacity is available on the https://mybinder.org service.curvenote.com/for/journalsThe mybinder.org project provides a critical, free public service for scientists, researchers and educators worldwide. The ability to spin up a Jupyter server to…

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JupyterLab 4.1 and Notebook 7.1 are here

JupyterLab 4.1 and Notebook 7.1 are now available! These releases include several new features, bug fixes, and enhancements for extension developers. This release is compatible with extensions supporting JupyterLab 4.0 and Notebook 7.0.JupyterLab 4.1 is one of the largest minor releases of JupyterLab to date, bringing 6 new features, 39 enhancements,…

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Python environment management using JupyterLab Desktop CLI

JupyterLab Desktop (JLD) CLI provides several commands and options to manage Python environments for use in the application. In my previous blog post I had covered using JLD UI to manage Python environments. You can use jlab CLI commands to do the same and for additional environment management options.Setting up…

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