I understand releasing late in the year can be difficult, but I feel like it's a little early to be discounting a release by the end of the year.
Not every release needs to be large and there were a number of things that didn't quite make the cutoff, so I'd like to keep the option open for discussion. -Dan On Wed, Sep 30, 2026 at 10:36 AM Anoop Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Xin - > > > My strawman proposal is to support existing Iceberg functionality on > Spark 4.2 and treat integration with new Spark features, such as the > Transactional API, as best effort. > > That sounds good to me. > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2026 at 10:10 AM Xin Huang via dev <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi Anoop, >> >> Thanks for starting this discussion and for volunteering to manage the >> 1.13 release. >> >> Alongside the V4 work, one open question is whether 1.13 should support >> Spark 4.2 (as Anurag mentioned and actually this is also in my wish list >> :-)). The PR to set up Spark 4.2 has been merged >> <https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/14984> (thanks, Manu!), but >> publishing is currently skipped. >> >> If we do include Spark 4.2 support in 1.13, we should decide on the >> scope. My strawman proposal is to support existing Iceberg functionality on >> Spark 4.2 and treat integration with new Spark features, such as the >> Transactional API, as best effort. >> >> Happy to hear what the community thinks and help here. >> >> Thanks >> Xin >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 30, 2026 at 10:02 AM Anurag Mantripragada < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Anoop, >>> >>> Thanks for your interest in being the release manager. I have already >>> volunteered for the 1.13 release, but please feel free to take on the 1.14 >>> release. >>> >>> We should start planning the scope for 1.13. I was thinking of early >>> next January as we are moving into the holiday season. My wish list for >>> this release includes the V4 spec PR and some related early work and Spark >>> 4.2 suppport. >>> >>> ~ Anurag >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2026 at 9:52 AM Anoop Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> With the closure of 1.12 (thanks Neelesh!), I'd like to open a >>>> discussion on 1.13. I think we'd like to get another release out before >>>> the end of the year and include some of the early work on V4 as we're >>>> making good progress. >>>> >>>> I'd like to volunteer to be release manager for 1.13 and keep this >>>> discussion going. >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> Anoop >>>> >>>
