Hi Hyukjin, Thanks for continuing to drive the Spark releases for the open source community.
I have a PR to improve Variant type support. It is already approved by cashmand who wrote the original version, but I have trouble getting other reviewers involved. Wondering how I can get it merged for Spark 4.2 release? https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/54343 Thanks, Qiegang On Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 7:18 PM Hyukjin Kwon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > To enable wide-scale community testing of the upcoming Spark 4.2.0 release, > the Apache Spark community has posted a Spark 4.2.0-preview3 release > <https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/spark/spark-4.2.0-preview3>. > This preview is not a stable release in terms of either API or > functionality, > but it is meant to give the community early access to try the code that > will > become Spark 4.2.0. If you would like to test the release, please download > <https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/spark/spark-4.2.0-preview3> it, > and send feedback using either mailing lists > <https://spark.apache.org/community.html> or JIRA > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK/?selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin:summary-panel>. > The documentation is available at the link > <https://spark.apache.org/docs/4.2.0-preview3/>. > > We’d like to thank our contributors and users for their contributions and > early feedback to this release. This release would not have been possible > without you. > To download Spark 4.2.0-preview3, head over to the download page: > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/spark/spark-4.2.0-preview3/ > > To view the documentation: > https://spark.apache.org/docs/preview/ > >
