ASF Project Birthdays, October 2026

Published on Thursday, Oct 1, 2026 by Rich Bowen

The following Apache projects are celebrating their birthdays in October.

Apache Ozone (6 years)

Established: 2020-10

Description: The mission of Apache Ozone is the creation and maintenance of software related to a distributed object store for Hadoop-based and Cloud-native environments

Project Homepage: https://ozone.apache.org

Apache SINGA (7 years)

Established: 2019-10

Description: The mission of Apache SINGA is the creation and maintenance of software related to a distributed deep learning platform

Project Homepage: https://singa.apache.org/

Apache ServiceComb (8 years)

Established: 2018-10

Description: The mission of Apache ServiceComb is the creation and maintenance of software related to a microservice framework that provides a set of tools and components to make development and deployment of cloud applications easier.

Project Homepage: https://servicecomb.apache.org/

Apache Juneau (9 years)

Established: 2017-10

Description: The mission of Apache Juneau is the creation and maintenance of software related to a toolkit for marshalling POJOs to a wide variety of content types using a common framework, and for creating sophisticated self-documenting REST interfaces and microservices using VERY little code

Project Homepage: https://juneau.apache.org/

Apache Calcite (11 years)

Established: 2015-10

Description: The mission of Calcite is the creation and maintenance of software related to Dynamic data management framework

Project Homepage: https://calcite.apache.org/

Apache Causeway (14 years)

Established: 2012-10

Description: The mission of Causeway is the creation and maintenance of software related to Framework for rapidly developing domain-driven apps in Java

Project Homepage: https://causeway.apache.org/

Apache Cordova (14 years)

Established: 2012-10

Description: The mission of Cordova is the creation and maintenance of software related to Platform for building native mobile applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript

Project Homepage: https://cordova.apache.org/

Apache OpenOffice (14 years)

Established: 2012-10

Description: The mission of OpenOffice is the creation and maintenance of software related to an open-source, office-document productivity suite

Project Homepage: https://openoffice.apache.org/

Apache JMeter (15 years)

Established: 2011-10

Description: The mission of JMeter is the creation and maintenance of software related to Java performance and functional testing

Project Homepage: https://jmeter.apache.org/

Apache Thrift (16 years)

Established: 2010-10

Description: The mission of Thrift is the creation and maintenance of software related to Framework for scalable cross-language services development

Project Homepage: https://thrift.apache.org/

Apache PDFBox (17 years)

Established: 2009-10

Description: The mission of PDFBox is the creation and maintenance of software related to Java library for working with PDF documents

Project Homepage: https://pdfbox.apache.org/

Apache MINA (20 years)

Established: 2006-10

Description: The mission of MINA is the creation and maintenance of software related to Multipurpose Infrastructure for Network Application

Project Homepage: https://mina.apache.org/

Apache Velocity (20 years)

Established: 2006-10

Description: The mission of Velocity is the creation and maintenance of software related to A Java Templating Engine

Project Homepage: https://velocity.apache.org/

Apache XML Graphics (22 years)

Established: 2004-10

Description: Apache XML Graphics exists to promote the use of XML. We view XML as a compelling paradigm that structures data as information, thereby facilitating the exchange, transformation, and presentation of knowledge. The ability to transform raw data into usable information has great potential to improve the functionality and use of information systems. We intend to build freely available products for the conversion of XML to graphical output and closely related technologies in order to engender such improvements.

Project Homepage: https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/

Apache Xalan (22 years)

Established: 2004-10

Description: Apache Xalan exists to promote the use of XSLT. We view XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) as a compelling paradigm that transforms XML documents, thereby facilitating the exchange, transformation, and presentation of knowledge. The ability to transform XML documents into usable information has great potential to improve the functionality and use of information systems. We intend to build freely available XSLT processing components in order to engender such improvements.

Project Homepage: https://xalan.apache.org/

Apache Incubator (24 years)

Established: 2002-10

Description: The mission of Incubator is the creation and maintenance of software related to Entry path for projects and codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation’s efforts

Project Homepage: https://incubator.apache.org/