Hi Devs, Just an announcement that I've cut Spark's branch-1.5 to form the basis of the 1.5 release. Other than a few stragglers, this represents the end of active feature development for Spark 1.5. *If committers are merging any features (outside of alpha modules), please shoot me an email so I can help coordinate. Any new commits will need to be explicitly merged into branch-1.5*.
In the next few days, we should come up with testing plans for the release and create umbrella JIRAs for testing various components and changes. I plan to cut a preview package for 1.5 towards the end of this week or early next week. - R
