Last month, there was interest in a Parquet patch release on PR #16281 <https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/16281>. I went ahead and reviewed commits that should go into a Parquet patch release and started a 1.8.2 discussion <http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/parquet-dev/201701.mbox/%3CCAO4re1mnWJ3%3Di0NpUmPU%2BwD8G%3DsG_%2BAA2PsFBzZv%3DwrUR1529g%40mail.gmail.com%3E> on the Parquet dev list. If you're interested in reviewing what goes into 1.8.2 or have suggestions, please follow that thread on the Parquet list.
Thanks! rb -- Ryan Blue Software Engineer Netflix
