Here is a concrete PR for this. - https://github.com/apache/spark-website/pull/565
Dongjoon On 2024/10/29 17:49:12 Dongjoon Hyun wrote: > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org
