Hi all, Please see the January quarterly report draft below, and let me know if there’s anything missing or needs updates. Thanks!
———————————————————————- ## Description: Apache TinkerPop is a graph computing framework for both graph databases (OLTP) and graph analytic systems (OLAP). ## Project Status: The project is ongoing with high activities this past quarter. ## Membership Data: Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Cole Greer on 2025-06-02. - No new committers. Last addition was Andrea Child on 2025-08-11. ## Project Activity: The project delivered a significant milestone this quarter with the release of TinkerPop 3.8.0 on November 12, 2025 [1]. This transitional release introduces substantial improvements to Gremlin language consistency and usability, including standardized scoping behavior, simplified grammar syntax, and enhanced interoperability between related steps. Key features include new type conversion steps and filtering capabilities for mixed-type properties, and initial support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) with the gremlin-mcp server. Along with 3.8.0, we published a maintenance release of TinkerPop 3.7.5 with critical bug fixes and non-breaking improvements [2]. Following the successful 3.7.5 and 3.8.0 release, development focus has returned to TinkerPop 4.0. The community continues active development on both maintenance updates for the 3.7.x/3.8.x line and major architectural improvements for the 4.0 release. ### Releases: 3.7.5 was released on 2025-11-12. 3.8.0 was released on 2025-11-12. ## Community Health: The TinkerPop community maintains strong engagement with consistent contributions from core committers and active participation from users on the dev list and in our Discord server. We have observed increased dev list activity, particularly driven by YouTrackDB discussions. Given this growth and the limitations of Discord voice channels, the community decided to introduce regular Microsoft Teams meetings [3], open to anyone who wishes to join, to enhance collaboration and provide real-time discussion opportunities. Meeting notes are recorded on the dev list, with the first meeting held on December 9 [4]. This quarter featured three live events on Twitch [5]: TinkerPop Wide sessions exploring graph-enhanced AI memory and NetworkX cloud analytics with Amazon Neptune, and two-part Contributorcast sessions reviewing the 3.8.0 post-release. All recordings are available on our YouTube channel [6]: * TinkerPop Wide: Graph-Enhanced AI Memory and NetworkX Cloud Analytics with Amazon Neptune [7] Presenters: Andy Kwok, Andrew Carbonetto * Contributorcast: Apache TinkerPop 3.8.0 Post-release Review - Part I [8] Presenters: Stephen Mallette, Cole Greer, Ken Hu, Andrea Child, Yang Xia * Contributorcast: Apache TinkerPop 3.8.0 Post-release Review - Part II [9] Presenters: Cole Greer, Ken Hu, Andrea Child, Yang Xia ## Report Links [1]: https://lists.apache.org/thread/yzyox295yn0x5vt24vns2qb4kzrrdfjv [2]: https://lists.apache.org/thread/fz0px655fq9kjjrnqjnxdkwr62lyvkrh [3]: https://lists.apache.org/thread/06jq7cs987g3slv6jst4nmvl1lgnfc8t [4]: https://lists.apache.org/thread/xonq8jdlchrpff11x17ov9j5w4f2r8jf [5]: https://www.twitch.tv/apachetinkerpop [6]: https://www.youtube.com/@apachetinkerpop [7]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alpGRXRa-p8 [8]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o124-WSL_rk [9]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfP2kAULZJA ———————————————————————- Yang
