Hey All, While I'm not aware of any critical issues with 1.6.0, there are several corner cases that users are hitting with the Dataset API that are fixed in branch-1.6. As such I'm considering a 1.6.1 release.
At the moment there are only two critical issues targeted for 1.6.1: - SPARK-12624 - When schema is specified, we should treat undeclared fields as null (in Python) - SPARK-12783 - Dataset map serialization error When these are resolved I'll likely begin the release process. If there are any other issues that we should wait for please contact me. Michael