Hi all, The RC3 voting deadline has passed, but we have not received any votes yet.
Since the previous 72-hour voting period included a weekend, I’ll keep the vote open and extend it for another 48 hours. Could community members please help review RC3 and vote when you have a chance? Binding votes from PMC members are especially needed to close the release vote. Also, SPARK-57452 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-57452> was raised to audit the 4.2 migration guide for potentially missing behavior-change notes, and it is currently marked as a blocker. Could the owners of the changes listed in SPARK-57452 please review the corresponding items and confirm whether any of them should block RC3? If you are aware of any other 4.2 behavior changes that require migration-guide updates, please also flag them. If you believe SPARK-57452 should block the release, please vote -1 and share the specific items that must be fixed before 4.2.0. Otherwise, please help verify RC3 and vote. Thanks, Huaxin On Fri, Jun 12, 2026 at 5:14 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > Please vote on releasing the following candidate as Apache Spark version > 4.2.0. > > The vote is open until Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:14:21 PDT and passes if a > majority +1 PMC votes are cast, with > a minimum of 3 +1 votes. > > [ ] +1 Release this package as Apache Spark 4.2.0 > [ ] -1 Do not release this package because ... > > To learn more about Apache Spark, please see https://spark.apache.org/ > > The tag to be voted on is v4.2.0-rc3 (commit 560dc9d3c95): > https://github.com/apache/spark/tree/v4.2.0-rc3 > > The release files, including signatures, digests, etc. can be found at: > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/spark/v4.2.0-rc3-bin/ > > Signatures used for Spark RCs can be found in this file: > https://downloads.apache.org/spark/KEYS > > The staging repository for this release can be found at: > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachespark-1523/ > > The documentation corresponding to this release can be found at: > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/spark/v4.2.0-rc3-docs/ > > The list of bug fixes going into 4.2.0 can be found at the following URL: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/SPARK/versions/12356380 > > FAQ > > ========================= > How can I help test this release? > ========================= > > If you are a Spark user, you can help us test this release by taking > an existing Spark workload and running on this release candidate, then > reporting any regressions. > > If you're working in PySpark you can set up a virtual env and install > the current RC via "pip install > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/spark/v4.2.0-rc3-bin/pyspark-4.2.0.tar.gz > " > and see if anything important breaks. > In the Java/Scala, you can add the staging repository to your project's > resolvers and test > with the RC (make sure to clean up the artifact cache before/after so > you don't end up building with an out of date RC going forward). > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe e-mail: [email protected] > >
