+1 I agree about the plan to "announce" the deprecation in 1.11 and remove 1.12, it gives time for users to "adapt".
Regards JB On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 10:31 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 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, and it is now considered > end-of-life. > > 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 on deprecating Spark 3.3. > > Best, > > Kevin Liu
