Hi, All. We've delivered two preview releases for Apache Spark 4.0 successfully. I believe it's time to discuss cutting branch-4.0 to stabilize more based on them and schedule feature freeze.
- https://spark.apache.org/news/spark-4.0.0-preview1.html (June) - https://spark.apache.org/news/spark-4.0.0-preview2.html (September) I'd like to propose as a candidate. - 2024-10-01 Creating `branch-4.0` (allowing backporting new features) - 2024-10-15 Feature Freeze (allowing backporting bug fixes only) - 2024-11-01 Starting Apache Spark 4.0.0 RC1 WDYT? Please let me know if you have release blockers for Spark 4 or other schedule candidates in your mind. Thanks, Dongjoon.
