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Current Release Window
In Spark 1.x, the project makes a new feature release once every 3 months, i.e. Spark 1.6 was released 3 months after Spark 1.5. Starting Spark 2.x, the release cycle has been increased from 3 months to 4 months.
The Spark 2.0 1 release window is the following:
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| Jan 2016 | Merge window opens on master branch |
| ~ Nov 1 2016 | Code freeze. Release branch cut. |
| Early Nov 2016 | QA period. Focus on bug fixes, tests, stability and docs. Generally, no new features merged. |
| Late Nov 2016 | Release candidates (RC), voting, etc. until final release passes |
Spark 2.2 release window is the following:
| Date | Event | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| ~ Mar 1 2017May 1 2016 | Code freeze. Release branch cut. | ||
| May 2016Early Mar 2017 | QA period. Focus on bug fixes, tests, stability and docs. Generally, no new features merged. | ||
| Late Mar 2017 | Release candidates (RC) | late May / early June 2016 | RCs, voting, etc. until final release passes |
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