WILMINGTON, DE — The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced that Apache Fory™, a high-performance serialization framework, has graduated from incubation to become a Top-Level Project (TLP). The move signals growing adoption and a strong contributor base for technology designed to accelerate and secure data exchange across programming languages.
Apache Fory is engineered to improve the efficiency of data serialization — the process of converting structured data into a format that can be transmitted or stored — by leveraging just-in-time (JIT) compilation and zero-copy techniques. According to the project’s developers, Fory can achieve performance up to 170 times faster than other serialization frameworks, while maintaining a security-first design.
“Becoming an ASF Top-Level Project is a significant achievement for our community,” said Shawn Yang, Apache Fory PMC chair. “We are proud to provide developers with a secure, high-performance serialization framework, and we look forward to expanding Apache Fory’s ecosystem with the support of the ASF and our growing contributor base.”
The framework currently supports multiple languages including Java, Python, C++, Go, JavaScript, Rust, Scala, and Kotlin. It also offers features such as schema evolution for compatibility across different versions of data structures, object graph and row-based protocols, and safeguards against deserialization vulnerabilities.
Looking ahead, the project plans to strengthen cross-language compatibility, deliver production-ready Rust and C++ support, expand Pyfory as a drop-in replacement for Python’s pickle, and integrate more closely with tools like gRPC and Protobuf. Additional efforts will focus on expanded documentation, contributor mentorship, and real-world case studies.
As a newly minted Top-Level Project under the ASF, Apache Fory is positioned to become a leading choice for organizations seeking faster, safer, and more versatile approaches to data serialization.
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