Thanks all for the broad support, looks like folks are in favor of 4.2.1.
I'll start this soon if there are no more fixes we need.

Thanks
Szehon

On Tue, Sep 22, 2026 at 7:58 AM Kousuke Saruta <[email protected]> wrote:

> +1
>
> 2026年9月22日(火) 22:28 Dongjoon Hyun <[email protected]>:
>
>> +1
>>
>> Dongjoon
>>
>> On 2026/09/22 13:26:06 Peter Toth wrote:
>> > +1
>> >
>> > On Tue, Sep 22, 2026 at 2:43 PM Wenchen Fan <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > +1
>> > >
>> > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2026 at 5:29 PM Uroš Bojanić <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> +1 for this, thank you for proposing and driving the maintenance
>> release,
>> > >> Szehon!
>> > >>
>> > >> I would be happy to help with driving other releases (e.g. 4.1.4),
>> as I
>> > >> mentioned in a new thread.
>> > >>
>> > >> Please let me know what you think, and let's coordinate the releases
>> > >> together; we can also consider 4.0.5 (and possibly 3.5.10)
>> maintenance too.
>> > >>
>> > >> On 2026/09/21 23:56:43 Szehon Ho wrote:
>> > >> > Hi all,
>> > >> >
>> > >> > I'd like to start a discussion about releasing Apache Spark 4.2.1.
>> > >> >
>> > >> > I'm particularly interested in getting SPARK-59572
>> > >> > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-59572> into 4.2.1. It
>> > >> fixes a
>> > >> > correctness issue introduced in 4.2.0 where failures to evaluate a
>> DSv2
>> > >> > PartitionPredicate can be treated as matches, leading to incorrect
>> query
>> > >> > results.
>> > >> >
>> > >> > It's been over two months since Spark 4.2.0 was released in July.
>> The
>> > >> changes
>> > >> > on branch-4.2 since 4.2.0
>> > >> > <https://github.com/apache/spark/compare/v4.2.0...branch-4.2> now
>> > >> include
>> > >> > 99 PRs covering 97 JIRA issues. Besides SPARK-59572, these include
>> > >> > correctness and stability fixes across SQL, Core, Streaming,
>> PySpark,
>> > >> and
>> > >> > Kubernetes, with several addressing storage-partitioned joins.
>> > >> >
>> > >> > I'm happy to volunteer to drive the release to learn the process!
>> > >> >
>> > >> > Would folks be in favor of moving forward with a 4.2.1 release? Are
>> > >> there
>> > >> > any other fixes or blockers we should address first?
>> > >> >
>> > >> > Thanks,
>> > >> > Szehon
>> > >> >
>> > >>
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