It’s time to send our next ASF board report again on February 12th. Here’s an initial draft — feel free to suggest changes:
===================== Description: Apache Spark is a fast and general purpose engine for large-scale data processing. It offers high-level APIs in Java, Scala, Python, R and SQL as well as a rich set of libraries including stream processing, machine learning, and graph analytics. Issues for the board: - None Project status: - The Spark 4.0 branch has been cut and has entered the QA stage. We encourage the community to test it out! - We released Spark 3.5.4 on December 20th, 2024. - The PMC voted to add one new committer (Bingkun Pan) and one new PMC member (Jie Yang) to the project. - The proposal to "Use plain text logs by default" was successfully passed. Trademarks: - No changes since last report. Latest releases: - Spark 3.5.4 was released on Dec 20, 2024 - Spark 3.4.4 was released on Oct 27, 2024 - Spark 4.0 Preview 2 was released on Sept 26, 2024 Committers and PMC: - The latest committer was added on Nov 13, 2024 (Bingkun Pan). - The latest PMC member was added on Jan 21st, 2025 (Jie Yang). ===================== --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org