Yea I think a preview release won't hurt (without a branch cut). We don't need to wait for all the ongoing projects to be ready. How about we do a 4.0 preview release based on the current master branch next Monday?
On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 11:06 PM Tathagata Das <tathagata.das1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey all, > > Reviving this thread, but Spark master has already accumulated a huge > amount of changes. As a downstream project maintainer, I want to really > start testing the new features and other breaking changes, and it's hard to > do that without a Preview release. So the sooner we make a Preview release, > the faster we can start getting feedback for fixing things for a great > Spark 4.0 final release. > > So I urge the community to produce a Spark 4.0 Preview soon even if > certain features targeting the Delta 4.0 release are still incomplete. > > Thanks! > > > On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 8:35 AM Wenchen Fan <cloud0...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thank you all for the replies! >> >> To @Nicholas Chammas <nicholas.cham...@gmail.com> : Thanks for cleaning >> up the error terminology and documentation! I've merged the first PR and >> let's finish others before the 4.0 release. >> To @Dongjoon Hyun <dongjoon.h...@gmail.com> : Thanks for driving the >> ANSI on by default effort! Now the vote has passed, let's flip the config >> and finish the DataFrame error context feature before 4.0. >> To @Jungtaek Lim <kabhwan.opensou...@gmail.com> : Ack. We can treat the >> Streaming state store data source as completed for 4.0 then. >> To @Cheng Pan <cheng...@apache.org> : Yea we definitely should have a >> preview release. Let's collect more feedback on the ongoing projects and >> then we can propose a date for the preview release. >> >> On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 1:22 PM Cheng Pan <pan3...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> will we have preview release for 4.0.0 like we did for 2.0.0 and 3.0.0? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Cheng Pan >>> >>> >>> > On Apr 15, 2024, at 09:58, Jungtaek Lim <kabhwan.opensou...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > W.r.t. state data source - reader (SPARK-45511), there are several >>> follow-up tickets, but we don't plan to address them soon. The current >>> implementation is the final shape for Spark 4.0.0, unless there are demands >>> on the follow-up tickets. >>> > >>> > We may want to check the plan for transformWithState - my >>> understanding is that we want to release the feature to 4.0.0, but there >>> are several remaining works to be done. While the tentative timeline for >>> releasing is June 2024, what would be the tentative timeline for the RC cut? >>> > (cc. Anish to add more context on the plan for transformWithState) >>> > >>> > On Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 3:15 AM Wenchen Fan <cloud0...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > Hi all, >>> > >>> > It's close to the previously proposed 4.0.0 release date (June 2024), >>> and I think it's time to prepare for it and discuss the ongoing projects: >>> > • >>> > ANSI by default >>> > • Spark Connect GA >>> > • Structured Logging >>> > • Streaming state store data source >>> > • new data type VARIANT >>> > • STRING collation support >>> > • Spark k8s operator versioning >>> > Please help to add more items to this list that are missed here. I >>> would like to volunteer as the release manager for Apache Spark 4.0.0 if >>> there is no objection. Thank you all for the great work that fills Spark >>> 4.0! >>> > >>> > Wenchen Fan >>> >>>
