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+title: "February 24, 2026"
+date: 2026-02-24
+weight: 1
+type: docs
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+description: >
+  Monthly sync meeting summary for February 24, 2026
+---
+
+# Texera Apache Incubation – Monthly Meeting Minutes
+
+**Date:** February 24, 2026  
+**Participants:**
+* **Texera Team/Guests:** Chen Li, Matthew Ball, Andy Zhang, Elliot Lin, Ali Risheh, Chris Park, Xuan Gu, Xiaozhen Liu, Jiadong Bai, Xinyuan Lin
+
+---
+
+## 1. Technical Updates
+
+### Infrastructure and Architecture
+- **Unified Proxy with Envoy Gateway (#4190):**
+  - The previous dual-proxy setup (Ingress Nginx for static routes plus a separate Envoy for computing units) was replaced with a single Envoy Gateway based on the Kubernetes Gateway API (implemented in #4191).
+  - This simplifies the infrastructure and natively supports dynamic routing to ephemeral computing units without configuration reloads.
+- **Multipart Upload via File Service (#4136):**
+  - Dataset multipart uploads were redirected through the File Service, with server-side streaming to S3 and LakeFS managing multipart state.
+  - New upload-session tracking (per-part ETags and completeness checks) lays the groundwork for reliable, resumable uploads.
+
+### UI and Features
+- **Markdown Editor for Descriptions (#4212):**
+  - Dataset and workflow descriptions now support Markdown, with a preview mode and an edit mode offering a formatting toolbar and side-by-side live preview (description columns widened to `TEXT`).
+- **Links Included in Region Display (#4226):**
+  - The region display calculation now includes links so that a region fully covers them, fixing cases where links fell outside the region boundary.
+- **User Registration Form (#4185):**
+  - First-time users are prompted for their affiliation (optional) and reason for joining (required), which is stored for admin review in the dashboard.
+  - This consolidates the earlier separate "request access" and "affiliation" modals into a single form.
+
+---
+
+## 2. Apache Release Preparation
+
+### Release Pull Requests
+- chore: update release workflow to comply with Apache release practice (#4128)
+- feat(release): include container images and deployment artifacts in release (#4219)
+- fix(ci): use consistent 9-char commit hash for image tags (#4231)
+
+### Release Candidate
+- Release candidate **v1.1.0-incubating-rc3** has been prepared.
+
+---
+
+## 3. Community
+
+- **Contributors (Feb 2026, excluding committers and PPMC members):**
+  - Carlos Ernesto Alvarez Berumen
+  - Xuan Gu
+  - Jae Yun Kim
+  - Matthew George Ball
+  - Seongjin Yoon
+
+---
+
+## 4. Next Steps
+
+The team will focus on the following items moving forward:
+- Fixing license requirements by Whimsy.
+- Supporting control blocks.
+- Enabling operator caching.