Thanks for informing! Just to clarify, is the right to commit to the release branch during soft feature freeze (e.g. branch-4.1 this time) lifted to PMC membership? I feel like that was just missing, but just to confirm.
Also while we are here, it might be good to understand what projects are under 4.1 but yet to ship some functionalities/features planned for 4.1. I guess soft feature freeze will let us decide where to cut the boundary of functionality being shipped in 4.1 vs 4.2, but it might be good to put them into the plate and have visibility and tracking of them. Thanks, Jungtaek Lim On Sat, Nov 1, 2025 at 12:57 AM Dongjoon Hyun <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, All. > > Hope you have a fun and safe Halloween evening! > > According to the Apache Spark versioning policy, `branch-4.1` will be > created on November 1st as a way of soft feature freeze and a ramping down > stage in order to stabilize new features. > > https://spark.apache.org/versioning-policy.html > > Note that it's a soft feature freeze. The Apache Spark PMC member can > backport features from `master` to `branch-4.1` until November 15th. > > Lastly, Apache Spark 4.1.0-preview3 is provided to you to help your > community evaluation, please try to use 4.1.0-preview3 and report us any > issues. > > Thank you, > Dongjoon Hyun. >
