[ANNOUNCE] Announcing Apache Spark 4.2.0-preview4

[Hyukjin Kwon <gu...@apache.org>]

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-preview5 release
<https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/spark/spark-4.2.0-preview5>.
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-preview5, head over to the download page:
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/spark/spark-4.2.0-preview5/

To view the documentation:
https://spark.apache.org/docs/preview/

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Announcing Apache Spark 4.2.0-preview4

[Hyukjin Kwon <gu...@apache.org>]

There was a typo in the title. I will resend.

On Sat, 2 May 2026 at 15:48, Hyukjin Kwon <gu...@apache.org> 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-preview5 release
> <https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/spark/spark-4.2.0-preview5>.
> 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-preview5, head over to the download page:
> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/spark/spark-4.2.0-preview5/
>
> To view the documentation:
> https://spark.apache.org/docs/preview/
>