https://spark.apache.org/releases/spark-release-3-0-0.html
Since Spark 3 has been out almost 2 years, this seems increasingly reasonable. On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 4:04 AM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> wrote: > +1, it makes sense to me. Users wanting "old" spark version can take > previous Beam releases. > > Regards > JB > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 12:39 PM Alexey Romanenko > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Any objections or comments from Spark 2 users on this topic? > > > > — > > Alexey > > > > > > On 20 Apr 2022, at 19:17, Alexey Romanenko <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > A while ago, we already discussed on dev@ that there are several > reasons to stop provide a support of Spark2 in Spark Runner (in all its > variants that we have for now - RDD, Dataset, Portable) [1]. In two words, > it brings some burden to Spark runner support that we would like to avoid > in the future. > > > > From the devs perspective I don’t see any objections about this. So, I’d > like to know if there are users that still uses Spark2 for their Beam > pipelines and it will be critical for them to keep using it. > > > > Please, share any your opinion on this! > > > > — > > Alexey > > > > [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/opfhg3xjb9nptv878sygwj9gjx38rmco > > > > > On 31 Mar 2022, at 17:51, Alexey Romanenko <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > For the moment, Beam Spark Runner supports two versions of Spark - 2.x > and 3.x. > > > > > > Taking into account the several things that: > > > - almost all cloud providers already mostly moved to Spark 3.x as a > main supported version; > > > - the latest Spark 2.x release (Spark 2.4.8, maintenance release) was > done almost a year ago; > > > - Spark 3 is considered as a mainstream Spark version for development > and bug fixing; > > > - better to avoid the burden of maintenance (there are some > incompatibilities between Spark 2 and 3) of two versions; > > > > > > I’d suggest to stop support Spark 2 for the Spark Runner in the one of > the next Beam releases. > > > > > > What are your thoughts on this? Are there any principal objections or > reasons for not doing this that I probably missed? > > > > > > — > > > Alexey > > > > > > >
