The Mid Week News - 17/01/2018 edit 
After last weeks bumper edition, we’re back to normal this week…
Technology updates (details are on the relevant technology pages):
- Apache NiFi has hit 1.5
Other technology news:
- Teradata have spun off the support and development of Presto (originally developed at Facebook) into a new company called Starburst data - link
- It looks like Lucene 7.1 (and therefore ElasticSearch and presumably at some point Solr) can now support Attibute Based Access Control - link
- An update from ZDNet on MapR - link