Sure, I’ll update it to the latest RC when we send this.
> On May 10, 2025, at 11:34 AM, Mich Talebzadeh <mich.talebza...@gmail.com>
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> Maybe you should emphasize Sparc 4 (RC5) as the current state of sparc 4,
> undergoing extensive testing.
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> HTH
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> On Sat, 10 May 2025 at 01:56, Matei Zaharia <matei.zaha...@gmail.com
> <mailto:matei.zaha...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Our board report is due on May 14th. Here’s a draft of what’s been
>> happening, feel free to provide comments:
>>
>> ======================
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> - Release candidates for Spark 4.0 have been created and the release has
>> entered the voting stage.
>> - Four SPIPs were recently accepted:
>> 1. Introduction of the time data type
>> 2. Support for constraints in DataSource V2 (DSv2)
>> 3. Declarative pipelines
>> 4. Add geospatial types to Spark
>> - The following votes have successfully passed:
>> 1. Publish an additional Spark distribution with Spark Connect
>> enabled
>> 2. Release Apache Spark 3.5.5, deprecating spark.databricks.*
>> configuration
>> 3. Retain migration logic for incorrect spark.databricks.*
>> configurations in Spark 4.0.x
>> - The PySpark User Guide has been merged into the official Spark
>> documentation site: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/50589
>>
>> Latest Releases:
>>
>> - Spark 3.5.5 was released on February 27, 2025
>> - Spark 3.5.4 was released on December 20, 2024
>> - Spark 3.4.4 was released on October 27, 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).
>>
>> ======================
>>
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