The Mid Week News 06/06/2018 edit 
It’s a bumper week this week as there was no news last week ‘cos I was on holiday! Lucky me. So here we go…
Technology updates (details are on the relevant technology pages):
- Apache Atlas has hit 1.0
- Apache CarbonData has hit 1.4
- Apache Flink has hit 1.5
- Apache Ignite has hit 2.5
- Apache Slider has been retired from the Apache Incubator
- Scality RING has hit 7.4
- StreamSets Data Collector has hit 3.3
Other technology news:
- ZDNet have a good summary of the upcoming Spark Summit - link
- Cloudera have published their latest post on deploying CDH, this time looking at the cloud - link
- Hortonworks have published their lastest post on Hadoop 3 looking at running Spark in Docker containers on Hadoop - link
- And also from Hortonworks - their latest view on Data Steward Studio, part of the DataPlane Service - link
- Amazon Neptune is now generally available - link; ZDNet view
- TheRegister have a thought provoking piece on the rise of open source databases and what this means for Oracle - link
- InfoQ have an interesting article on columnar databases, vectorisation and Apache Arrow - link
- From ZDNet - how different data and analytics vendors are supporting GDPR - link
- Databricks have announced Databricks Runtime 4.1 - link
- It looks like Google have just acquired Cask - link
- Confluent Cloud is now available on Google Cloud as well as AWS - link
- And rounding us out, a munch of vulnerability announcements this week
- CVE-2014-0114 - execution of arbitrary code with Apache Commons BeanUtils now impacts Apache Ignite
- CVE-2018-1309 - Apache NiFi External XML Entity issue in SplitXML processor
- CVE-2018-1310 - Apache NiFi Apache NiFi JMS Deserialization issue
- CVE-2017-8028 - Spring Security LDPA issue impacts Apache NiFi
- CVE-2018-1324 - Apache Commons Compress issue impacts Apache NiFi