Thanks Szehon for reporting the problem. I'm failing RC4, and will roll RC5
once the fix <https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/56875> is merged and
backported to branch-4.2.

Thanks to everyone who tested RC4!

Huaxin

On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 5:14 PM Szehon Ho <[email protected]> wrote:

> I made a fix for this, it would be great to get it into the release.
>
> https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/56875
>
> Thanks Huaxin!
> Szehon
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 4:54 PM Szehon Ho <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Sorry I was informed of a potential vulnerability/problem in new fromWKB
>> in Spark 4.2, looking now at it.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Szehon
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 1:05 PM Allison Wang <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 10:34 AM Max Gekk <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> +1
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jun 29, 2026 at 6:32 PM Xiao Li <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > +1 (binding)
>>>> >
>>>> > Verified on Linux (Ubuntu, JDK 17, Python 3.11):
>>>> >
>>>> > - Signatures: every artifact (source, the three binary distributions,
>>>> the pyspark/pyspark_client/pyspark_connect tarballs, and SparkR) has a good
>>>> GPG signature from the RM key 709226B910E0F10917123B6259B586ADA5A538D1,
>>>> which is in KEYS.
>>>> > - Checksums: SHA512 matches for all artifacts.- Tag/commit:
>>>> v4.2.0-rc4 resolves to f92a807c06b, and the RELEASE metadata embedded in
>>>> the binary distributions records the same git revision.
>>>> > - Source build: compiled and packaged spark-core and its module
>>>> dependencies from the source tarball with ./build/mvn on JDK 17 (BUILD
>>>> SUCCESS).
>>>> > - Binary distribution: ran SparkPi and a spark-shell Scala job (range
>>>> aggregation + Spark SQL) — results correct.
>>>> > - PySpark: pip-installed pyspark-4.2.0.tar.gz and ran DataFrame,
>>>> Spark SQL, and a Python UDF in local mode — results correct.
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks Huaxin for driving the release!
>>>> >
>>>> > Xiao
>>>> >
>>>> > Uroš Bojanić <[email protected]> 于2026年6月29日周一 09:12写道:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> +1 (non-binding)
>>>> >>
>>>> >> verified RC4 (tag v4.2.0-rc4, commit f92a807c06b) on macOS/arm64.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> - Good GPG signatures and SHA512 sums on all artifacts (source,
>>>> three binaries, the PySpark/SparkR tarballs) against KEYS.
>>>> >> - Built the full source tree from the tag with -Phive
>>>> -Phive-thriftserver, got a clean BUILD SUCCESS across all 39 modules.
>>>> >> - Ran quick smoke tests across every API surface: Java, Scala, SQL,
>>>> and PySpark job from the bundled distro; all look good.
>>>> >> - Sanity-checked the binary dist (RELEASE, LICENSE/NOTICE/licenses
>>>> all present) and ran dev/check-license; RAT passes.
>>>> >> - Diffed the docs against 4.1.0 and analyzed the changes (new pages,
>>>> migration guides and version refs); all look good.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Thank you Huaxin Gao!
>>>> >>
>>>> >> On 2026/06/27 00:21:32 [email protected] wrote:
>>>> >> > Please vote on releasing the following candidate as Apache Spark
>>>> version 4.2.0.
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> > The vote is open until Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:21:31 PDT and passes if
>>>> a majority +1 PMC votes are cast, with
>>>> >> > a minimum of 3 +1 votes.
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> > [ ] +1 Release this package as Apache Spark 4.2.0
>>>> >> > [ ] -1 Do not release this package because ...
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> > To learn more about Apache Spark, please see
>>>> https://spark.apache.org/
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> > The tag to be voted on is v4.2.0-rc4 (commit f92a807c06b):
>>>> >> > https://github.com/apache/spark/tree/v4.2.0-rc4
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> > The release files, including signatures, digests, etc. can be
>>>> found at:
>>>> >> > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/spark/v4.2.0-rc4-bin/
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> > Signatures used for Spark RCs can be found in this file:
>>>> >> > https://downloads.apache.org/spark/KEYS
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> > The staging repository for this release can be found at:
>>>> >> >
>>>> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachespark-1524/
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> > The documentation corresponding to this release can be found at:
>>>> >> > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/spark/v4.2.0-rc4-docs/
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> > The list of bug fixes going into 4.2.0 can be found at the
>>>> following URL:
>>>> >> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/SPARK/versions/12356380
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> > FAQ
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> > =========================
>>>> >> > How can I help test this release?
>>>> >> > =========================
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> > If you are a Spark user, you can help us test this release by
>>>> taking
>>>> >> > an existing Spark workload and running on this release candidate,
>>>> then
>>>> >> > reporting any regressions.
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> > If you're working in PySpark you can set up a virtual env and
>>>> install
>>>> >> > the current RC via "pip install
>>>> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/spark/v4.2.0-rc4-bin/pyspark-4.2.0.tar.gz
>>>> "
>>>> >> > and see if anything important breaks.
>>>> >> > In the Java/Scala, you can add the staging repository to your
>>>> project's resolvers and test
>>>> >> > with the RC (make sure to clean up the artifact cache before/after
>>>> so
>>>> >> > you don't end up building with an out of date RC going forward).
>>>> >> >
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