+1 On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM Anurag Mantripragada <amantriprag...@apple.com.invalid> wrote:
> +1 > > Thanks, > Anurag > > On Sep 17, 2025, at 2:38 PM, Szehon Ho <szehon.apa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > +1 > > Thanks > Szehon > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM Russell Spitzer <russell.spit...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> +1. But I'm always on the aggressive side of dropping old releases. >> >> On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM Alex Stephen >> <alexstep...@google.com.invalid> wrote: >> >>> +1 to deprecating it. >>> >>> Keeping support for Spark 3.4 in Iceberg will encourage users not to >>> upgrade to a more modern version. >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM Kevin Liu <kevinjq...@apache.org> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi everyone, >>>> >>>> I’d like to bring up the topic of deprecating Spark 3.4 in an upcoming >>>> release. Anton initially suggested this during our previous dev list >>>> discussion >>>> <https://lists.apache.org/thread/t0b5dgk1brjx5vs8mogzm2g6kt3byly2> >>>> about maintaining feature parity across the Spark versions we support for >>>> 1.10. >>>> >>>> Currently, we support two different Spark 3.x versions, 3.4 and 3.5. >>>> Spark 3.4’s last maintenance release was in October 2024 >>>> <https://spark.apache.org/releases/spark-release-3-4-4.html>, and it >>>> is now considered end-of-life <https://endoflife.date/apache-spark>. >>>> >>>> What are your thoughts on marking Spark 3.4 as deprecated in 1.11 and >>>> removing it in 1.12? >>>> >>>> For reference, here's the previous discussion thread >>>> <https://lists.apache.org/thread/plhxdxjty2w3gdg2fzg5dvvv28y20n3g> on >>>> deprecating Spark 3.3. >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> >>>> Kevin Liu >>>> >>>> >
