GitHub user GlutenPerfBot created a discussion: December 26, 2025: Weekly 
Status Update in Gluten

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## Overall Activity Summary
The Gluten community has been highly active over the past 7 days, with 30+ PRs 
merged or opened. Key themes include Spark 4.0 compatibility improvements, 
daily Velox version updates, infrastructure enhancements, and the introduction 
of new backends like Bolt. The project is clearly preparing for a major release 
with extensive code quality and build system improvements.

## Key Ongoing Projects
- **Spark 4.0 Compatibility**: Major effort led by @zhouyuan with #11304 
(JDK-21 support) and #11136 (SQLQueryTestSuite) to ensure full Spark 4.0 
compatibility
- **Daily Velox Integration**: @zhouyuan and @rui-mo continue daily Velox 
version updates (#11327, #11323, #11311) keeping Gluten synchronized with 
upstream performance improvements
- **New Bolt Backend**: @WangGuangxin introduced a new Bolt backend (#11261) - 
a Velox fork from ByteDance, representing a significant expansion of backend 
options
- **Code Quality Tools**: @xinghuayu007 added IWYU (#11287) and clang-tidy 
(#11120) checks to improve C++ code quality
- **Flink Ecosystem Expansion**: @KevinyhZou implemented filesystem sink 
support (#11300) for Flink integration

## Priority Items
- **Memory Management Fix**: #3035 by @jackylee-ch addresses critical negative 
buffer size allocation issue with 14 comments - needs review
- **S3 Connection Timeout**: #11329 by @xumanbu and #10951 by @zml1206 fix time 
unit requirements for S3 connection timeouts
- **Array/Map Null Handling**: #11331 by @jiangjiangtian resolves 
IllegalStateException when accessing null values in partial project operations
- **ClickHouse Version Update**: #11299 by @zzcclp updates ClickHouse to 
v25.8.3.66-lts with significant changes (131 additions, 102 deletions)

## Notable Discussions
- #11333: Community discussion about KylinOS support for domestic Chinese 
operating systems
- #11315: Weekly status update highlighting production readiness concerns and 
EMR deployment guides
- #9858: ARM build issues on CentOS8 with gcc-11 on Graviton processors 
supporting neoverse-v2
- #1359: OOM issues on TPCDS q67 and q95 requiring memory configuration 
optimization

## Emerging Trends
- **Multi-Engine Strategy**: Strong focus on expanding beyond Spark to support 
Flink and potentially other engines
- **Production Hardening**: Emphasis on memory management, stability fixes, and 
CI/CD improvements
- **Backend Diversification**: Multiple backend options (Velox, ClickHouse, 
Bolt) indicating vendor-specific optimization needs
- **Release Preparation**: Extensive cleanup activities (license updates, 
documentation, build system improvements) suggest upcoming stable release

## Good First Issues
- #8960: Deprecate Spark-3.2 unit tests - straightforward cleanup task 
requiring basic testing knowledge
- #10275: Document unsupported cases for complex functions - documentation task 
needing function understanding
- #9184: Add integration tests for S3/HDFS/GCS/ABFS - testing task with clear 
requirements and existing build checks as reference

GitHub link: https://github.com/apache/incubator-gluten/discussions/11334

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