+1 Thanks Szehon
On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM Russell Spitzer <russell.spit...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1. But I'm always on the aggressive side of dropping old releases. > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM Alex Stephen > <alexstep...@google.com.invalid> wrote: > >> +1 to deprecating it. >> >> Keeping support for Spark 3.4 in Iceberg will encourage users not to >> upgrade to a more modern version. >> >> On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM Kevin Liu <kevinjq...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> I’d like to bring up the topic of deprecating Spark 3.4 in an upcoming >>> release. Anton initially suggested this during our previous dev list >>> discussion >>> <https://lists.apache.org/thread/t0b5dgk1brjx5vs8mogzm2g6kt3byly2> >>> about maintaining feature parity across the Spark versions we support for >>> 1.10. >>> >>> Currently, we support two different Spark 3.x versions, 3.4 and 3.5. >>> Spark 3.4’s last maintenance release was in October 2024 >>> <https://spark.apache.org/releases/spark-release-3-4-4.html>, and it is >>> now considered end-of-life <https://endoflife.date/apache-spark>. >>> >>> What are your thoughts on marking Spark 3.4 as deprecated in 1.11 and >>> removing it in 1.12? >>> >>> For reference, here's the previous discussion thread >>> <https://lists.apache.org/thread/plhxdxjty2w3gdg2fzg5dvvv28y20n3g> on >>> deprecating Spark 3.3. >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Kevin Liu >>> >>>
