Hi all,
It’s time to send our board report again by Nov 11. Here is a draft, let me
know if you have feedback:
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## Description:
The mission of Spark is the creation and maintenance of software related to
large-scale data processing and machine learning.
## Project Status:
- Project state: Ongoing, with high activity. We made four software releases
during the reporting period and added one committer.
- Issues for the board: None.
## Membership Data:
Apache Spark was founded 2014-02-18 (12 years ago).
There are currently 104 committers and 65 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 8:5.
Community changes, past quarter:
- Nicholas Chammas was added as committer on 2026-08-19.
## Project Activity:
- Spark 4.3.0 progressed through release testing and validation. The release
manager confirmed that the RC3 vote passed on October 29. Spark 4.3 is the
first feature release under the new quarterly release cadence.
- The following major Spark Improvement Proposals (SPIPs) were accepted through
discussions and votes.
a. Spark Connect Gateway: Session Affinity, Authentication, and
Multi-Tenancy for Spark Connect Servers.
b. FileType: Native Support for Unstructured Data in Spark.
c. External Lookup Join.
- Disclosed CVE-2026-32773, a low-severity XSS vulnerability in Spark History
Server. Users should upgrade to Spark 3.5.8 or later.
- The community trialed AI-assisted code reviews with committer-controlled
review requests. Human review and approval responsibilities remain unchanged.
- The community is working with ASF Infrastructure to reduce GitHub Actions
resource consumption and improve CI efficiency.
- Releases in the past quarter:
- Apache Spark 4.2.1 was released on Oct 27, 2026.
- Apache Spark 4.1.4 was released on Oct 27, 2026.
- Apache Spark 4.0.5 was released on Oct 27, 2026.
- Apache Spark Connect Rust Client 4.2.0 was released on Sep 7, 2026. This
was the first release of the Rust-based replacement for the Spark Connect
Python client, with Python and Rust APIs.
## Community Health:
- Overall community health is good.
- Development and governance activity remained high, with active release
testing, maintenance work, and public proposal discussions.
- Recently added committers took on release management responsibilities. Szehon
Ho led the Spark 4.2.1 release, and Uroš Bojanić led the Spark 4.1.4 and 4.0.5
releases.
- The project added one new committer, Nicholas Chammas.
- The project made four releases and voted to accept three major SPIPs, as
described in the previous section.
- Mailing list stats (August through October to date, compared with May through
July; UTC calendar months):
- [email protected] had a 25% decrease in traffic (465 emails compared to
619), based on the ASF archive statistics.
- [email protected] had a 13% increase in traffic (10,410 emails compared
to 9,246).
- [email protected] had a 29% increase in traffic (20,139 emails
compared to 15,560).
- [email protected] had a 16% increase in traffic (4,530 emails compared
to 3,918).
- 2,250 JIRA issues were created and 1,756 were resolved during the reporting
period to date.
## Trademarks:
- No changes since the last report.
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