Hi, All. Thank you again everyone for making together Apache Spark 4.0.0-preview2 and Apache Spark 3.4.4 EOL releases.
I believe it's time to decide on the Apache Spark 3.5 LTS period. (Actually, there were several questions about this already.) Apache Spark community has the written LTS versioning policy. https://spark.apache.org/versioning-policy.html > The last minor release within a major release > will typically be maintained for longer as an “LTS” release. > For example, 2.4.0 was released in November 2nd 2018 and > had been maintained for 31 months In line with our tradition, I would like to propose to update our website like the following to improve the LTS awareness. > For example, 3.5.0 was released on September 13th 2023 and > will be maintained for 31 months until April 12th 2026. FYI, the following is a summarized release timeline since Spark 1. Spark 1: 2014.05 (1.0.0) ~ 2016.11 (1.6.3) Spark 2: 2016.07 (2.0.0) ~ 2021.05 (2.4.8) Spark 3: 2020.06 (3.0.0) ~ 2026.04 (3.5.x) Spark 4: 2025.02 (4.0.0 ~ ) - January 15th 2025 Code freeze. - February 1st 2025 QA period. - February 15th 2025 Release candidates (RC)... WDYT? Best Regards, Dongjoon Hyun
