ASF board report draft for August 2025

[Matei Zaharia <ma...@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

Our ASF board report is due again this Wednesday. Here is a draft. Let
me know if you have any comments:

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Project Status:

- We released Apache Spark 4.0 on May 23, 2025, and Apache Spark 3.5.6
on May 29, 2025.
- We released Apache Spark Connect Swift Client 0.1.0 on May 8, 2025;
0.2.0 on May 20, 2025; and 0.3.0 on June 4, 2025.
- We released Apache Spark Kubernetes Operator 0.2.0 on May 29, 2025,
and 0.3.0 on June 4, 2025.
- We implemented release automation using GitHub Actions workflow,
with Spark 3.5.6 as the first release under this new system.
- "Apache Spark 4.1 Preview 1" and "Apache Spark Connect Go Client
0.1.0" have successfully passed; the community is actively preparing
the final releases.
- Two SPIPs were recently accepted:
1. Real-Time Mode in Apache Spark Structured Streaming
2. Monthly Preview Release
- The PMC voted to add three new committers: Anton Okolnychyi, Daniel
Tenedorio and Anish Shrigondekar

Trademarks:

- No changes since last report.

Latest releases:

- Spark 3.5.6 was released on May 29, 2025
- Spark 4.0.0 was released on May 23, 2024
- Spark 3.5.5 was released on Feb 27, 2025

Committers and PMC:

- The latest committer was added on July 1, 2025 (Anton Okolnychyi).
- The latest PMC member was added on Jan 21st, 2025 (Jie Yang).

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