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# Incubator PMC report for February 2026

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

TODO add narrative

## Community

### New IPMC members:


### People who left the IPMC:


## New Podlings


## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month


## Graduations
  - list podling here

  The board has motions for the following:

  - Your podling here?

## Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  January:


## IP Clearance


## Legal / Trademarks


## Infrastructure


## Miscellaneous


## Credits

## Table of Contents  
[Burr](#burr)  
[Caldera](#caldera)  
[Cloudberry](#cloudberry)  
[Fesod](#fesod)  
[GeaFlow](#geaflow)  
[GraphAr](#graphar)  
[Hamilton](#hamilton)  
[HoraeDB](#horaedb)  
[Seata](#seata)  
[Texera](#texera)  
[Toree](#toree)  
[XTable](#xtable)  


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## Burr

Burr is a lightweight in-process python framework that standardizes the
expression and execution of state machines as action-driven graphs, while
making graph             execution easily observable. It is particularly
suited for AI agent workflows,             simulations, and other dynamic
systems, and comes with a self-hostable observability UI             that
integrates with OpenTelemetry.

Burr has been incubating since 2025-05-24.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Build release cadence.
  2. Add a couple more core contributors.
  3. Get more focused on building community. 

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
N/A

### How has the community developed since the last report?
1. Discord seeing small growth.
2. Otherwise largely feels flat-ish.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. We have just managed to get our first release out!
2. We're looking forward to

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [X] Initial setup
  - [X] Working towards first release
  - [X] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2026-01-24

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2025-05-24.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
open issues that need to be addressed.

Yes. They helped us figure out a first version release process.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings
name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to
correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name?

Nothing here that we're aware of.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (burr) Kevin Ratnasekera  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (burr) Ayush Saxena  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (burr) PJ Fanning  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (burr) Jarek Potiuk  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Caldera

Caldera provides a modular platform for modeling, scripting, and executing
adversary         behavior. It allows users to construct emulation plans,
provides agents for communicating         with the command and control
server, and enables users to evaluate security detections in         a
structured, scalable, and repeatable way. With the use of plug-ins and
community-contributed features, Caldera supports a range of use cases
including adversary         emulation, purple teaming, detection
engineering, and continuous security validation.         Using Caldera,
defenders can emulate known threat actor behavior and perform other red team
activity to evaluate their organization’s defensive capabilities, test
analytics, and find         detection gaps. As a modular tool based on the
MITRE ATT&CK framework, Caldera is designed to         be extensible,
intelligence-driven, and automation-friendly.

Caldera has been incubating since 2025-12-19.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1.
  2.
  3.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?


### How has the community developed since the last report?


### How has the project developed since the last report?


### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [ ] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  XXXX-XX-XX

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?


### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
open issues that need to be addressed.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings
name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to
correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name?

Caldera name approved.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (caldera) Kevin Ratnasekera  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (caldera) Francis Chuang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (caldera) PJ Fanning  
     Comments: Very early days. SGA not ready yet. Mailing lists not really active yet. 
  - [ ] (caldera) Gordon King  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Cloudberry

Cloudberry is an advanced and mature open-source Massively Parallel 
Processing (MPP) database, derived from the open-source version of Pivotal 
Greenplum Database®️ but built on a more modern PostgreSQL 14 kernel, 
whereas Greenplum is based on PostgreSQL 12. This upgrade brings enhanced 
enterprise capabilities, making Cloudberry well-suited for data 
warehousing, large-scale analytics, and AI/ML workloads.

Cloudberry has been incubating since 2024-10-11.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 

   1. Grow the contributor and community to ensure long-term sustainability.
   2. Publish a few more Apache releases following the ASF release processes.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

  No.

### How has the community developed since the last report?

  - Mailing list Activity: 82 new emails on the Dev mailing list since the 
last report, covering community, repositories, support, technical and 
Apache-related discussions.
  - GitHub Discussions: 5 new threads since last report.
  - New Committers: Rose Duan
  - Events:
    - Hosted a Cloudberry community booth at the China Open Source 
Conference (COSCon'25) in Beijing, Dec 6-7, 2025.
    - Apache Cloudberry Meetup organized in Shenzhen: 30+ attendees on Jan 
17th
    - Commenced Apache Cloudberry Bi-weekly Community Meeting, see details 
in https://s.apache.org/9ba4d, the 1st meeting was held on January 30, 2026.

### How has the project developed since the last report?

  - PostgreSQL Kernel upgrade (14~>16): at this stage, most of the core 
enablement work for PostgreSQL 16.9 has been completed. Currently 
addressing Cloudberry schedule tests.
  - Performance
    - PAX: optimize I/O read for multiple discrete columns in a group.
    - Add UDP2 interconnect protocol implementation (right now it is still 
an experimental feature).
    - Set `join_collapse_limit` default value to 13.
  - Stability
    1. Merged 72 commits, most of them - bugfixes and CI/CD improvements.
    2. Fixed 2 CVEs.
  - CI and infra
    1. Added support for Ubuntu 22.04 and Debian packages to CI/CD
    2. Added support for Rocky Linux 8 to CI/CD
  - Sub-repositories: 
    - `cloudberry-pxf`. After several months of continuous effort, the PXF 
project has recently achieved a significant milestone:
      1. The code baseline has been 100% aligned with the archived 
pxf-archive from GP.
      2. Completed full adaptation for Cloudberry.
      3. Added a relatively comprehensive and extensive CI pipeline for PXF.
      4. Source code cleanup is in progress.
    - Squash `cloudberry-bootcamp` repository into `devops/sandbox` in the 
main repository catalog.
  - New release: 2.1
    - Merged 244 commits from `main` to `REL_2_STABLE`. We're ready to 
release Cloudberry 2.1.
  - Ecosystem
    1. Madlib integration is still in progress. We successfully performed 
manual tests, but PR is still open to fix the CI bugs: 
https://github.com/apache/madlib/pull/627.
    2. Working on diskquota extension integration: still in progress - see 
https://github.com/apache/cloudberry/pull/1490.
  - 2025 Summary and 2026 Overview discussions
    1. Published Cloudberry 2025 Review blog post: https://s.apache.org/fxde8
    2. Initiated Cloudberry 2026 roadmap discussions: https://s.apache.org/jxd7s

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [x] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

   - August 25, 2025

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  - Rose Duan, 19th Jan 2026

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?

  Yes.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (cloudberry) Roman Shaposhnik  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (cloudberry) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (cloudberry) Kent Yao  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Fesod

Fesod is a high-performance and memory-efficient Java library for reading
and             writing Excel files, designed to simplify development and
ensure reliability.

Fesod has been incubating since 2025-09-17.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Ensure that the website and codebase are fully compliant with ASF policies.
  2. Add more core contributors.
  3. Get more focused on building community.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
  N/A

### How has the community developed since the last report?
  
  1. We have a discussion on private mail list about voting first committer.
  2. The project now has several active contributors.

### How has the project developed since the last report?

  1. We have already released our first version(2.0.0-incubating).
  2. Since some error in 2.0.0-incubating, we are now voting for 2.0.1-incubating.
  3. The new contributors still contribute for project.In January, there are 30 podlings under incubation. One podling,
HugeGraph, graduated to become a Top-Level Project. No podlings retired
during the month. There were no additions or removals to IPMC
membership.

Mailing list traffic during the month focused primarily on release
voting, and a new proposal discussion (Casbin), and ongoing graduation
discussions. Multiple podlings held release votes.

HoreDB is very likely to retire. Caldera failed to report and will be asked 
to report nest month.

Cloudberry did not get mentor signoff.

Overall, January was a steady month with continued release activity and
progress toward graduation without any other activity happening.

## Community

### New IPMC members:
  - none

### People who left the IPMC:
  - none

## New Podlings
  - Casbin

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
  - HoraeDB
  - Caldera

## Graduations
  - HugeGraph

  The board has motions for the following:
   - Gluten
   - Polaris 

## Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  January:
  - polaris 1.3.0
  - fesod 2.0.0
  - burr 0.41.0
  - bifromq 4.0.0

## IP Clearance
  - Cassandra NodeJS driver

## Legal / Trademarks
  - N/A

## Infrastructure
  - N/A

## Table of Contents  
[Burr](#burr)  
[Cloudberry](#cloudberry)  
[Fesod](#fesod)  
[GeaFlow](#geaflow)  
[GraphAr](#graphar)  
[Hamilton](#hamilton)   
[Seata](#seata)  
[Texera](#texera)  
[Toree](#toree)  
[XTable](#xtable)  

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## Burr

Burr is a lightweight in-process python framework that standardizes the
expression and execution of state machines as action-driven graphs, while
making graph             execution easily observable. It is particularly
suited for AI agent workflows,             simulations, and other dynamic
systems, and comes with a self-hostable observability UI             that
integrates with OpenTelemetry.

Burr has been incubating since 2025-05-24.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Build release cadence.
  2. Add a couple more core contributors.
  3. Get more focused on building community. 

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
  N/A

### How has the community developed since the last report?
  1. Discord seeing small growth.
  2. Otherwise largely feels flat-ish.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  1. We have just managed to get our first release out!
  2. We're looking forward to

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
  Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [X] Initial setup
  - [X] Working towards first release
  - [X] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2026-01-24

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  2025-05-24.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
  open issues that need to be addressed.

  Yes. They helped us figure out a first version release process.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings
  name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to
  correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name?

  Nothing here that we're aware of.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (burr) Kevin Ratnasekera  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (burr) Ayush Saxena  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (burr) PJ Fanning  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (burr) Jarek Potiuk  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Cloudberry

Cloudberry is an advanced and mature open-source Massively Parallel 
Processing (MPP) database, derived from the open-source version of Pivotal 
Greenplum Database®️ but built on a more modern PostgreSQL 14 kernel, 
whereas Greenplum is based on PostgreSQL 12. This upgrade brings enhanced 
enterprise capabilities, making Cloudberry well-suited for data 
warehousing, large-scale analytics, and AI/ML workloads.

Cloudberry has been incubating since 2024-10-11.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 

   1. Grow the contributor and community to ensure long-term sustainability.
   2. Publish a few more Apache releases following the ASF release 
processes.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

  No.

### How has the community developed since the last report?

  - Mailing list Activity: 82 new emails on the Dev mailing list since the 
  last report, covering community, repositories, support, technical and
  Apache-related discussions.
  - GitHub Discussions: 5 new threads since last report.
  - New Committers: Rose Duan
  - Events:
    - Hosted a Cloudberry community booth at the China Open Source 
  Conference (COSCon'25) in Beijing, Dec 6-7, 2025.
    - Apache Cloudberry Meetup organized in Shenzhen: 30+ attendees on Jan 
  17th
    - Commenced Apache Cloudberry Bi-weekly Community Meeting, see details 
  in https://s.apache.org/9ba4d, the 1st meeting was held on January 30, 
  2026.

### How has the project developed since the last report?

  - PostgreSQL Kernel upgrade (14~>16): at this stage, most of the core 
  enablement work for PostgreSQL 16.9 has been completed. Currently
  addressing Cloudberry schedule tests.
  - Performance
    - PAX: optimize I/O read for multiple discrete columns in a group.
    - Add UDP2 interconnect protocol implementation (right now it is still 
  an experimental feature).
    - Set `join_collapse_limit` default value to 13.
  - Stability
    1. Merged 72 commits, most of them - bugfixes and CI/CD improvements.
    2. Fixed 2 CVEs.
  - CI and infra
    1. Added support for Ubuntu 22.04 and Debian packages to CI/CD
    2. Added support for Rocky Linux 8 to CI/CD
  - Sub-repositories: 
    - `cloudberry-pxf`. After several months of continuous effort, the PXF 
  project has recently achieved a significant milestone:
      1. The code baseline has been 100% aligned with the archived 
  pxf-archive from GP.
      2. Completed full adaptation for Cloudberry.
      3. Added a relatively comprehensive and extensive CI pipeline for PXF.
      4. Source code cleanup is in progress.
    - Squash `cloudberry-bootcamp` repository into `devops/sandbox` in the 
  main repository catalog.
  - New release: 2.1
    - Merged 244 commits from `main` to `REL_2_STABLE`. We're ready to 
  release Cloudberry 2.1.
  - Ecosystem
    1. Madlib integration is still in progress. We successfully performed 
  manual tests, but PR is still open to fix the CI bugs:
  https://github.com/apache/madlib/pull/627.
    2. Working on diskquota extension integration: still in progress - see 
  https://github.com/apache/cloudberry/pull/1490.
  - 2025 Summary and 2026 Overview discussions
    1. Published Cloudberry 2025 Review blog post: 
    https://s.apache.org/fxde8
    2. Initiated Cloudberry 2026 roadmap discussions: 
    https://s.apache.org/jxd7s

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?'s maturity?
  Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [X] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

   2026-01-21- August 25, 2025

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  - Rose Duan, 19th Jan N/A2026

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes. We truly thanks our mentors' help in voting process.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?

  Yes. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-246

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (fesod) tison  
     Comments:   the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?

  Yes.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (fesodcloudberry) DaveRoman FisherShaposhnik  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (fesodcloudberry) Willem HuajieNing WangJiang  
     Comments:  
  - [x ] (fesodcloudberry) PJKent FanningYao  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## GeaFlowFesod

GeaFlowFesod is a streaming graph computing engine for distributed large-scale real-time graph storage and analysis. It supports trillion-level graph storage, hybrid graph and table processing, real-time/offline graph computing, and interactive graph analysis.

GeaFlow has been incubating since 2025-06-06.

### Two most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

   1. Cultivate a more diverse community by engaging contributors and committers from varied organizations and global regions.
   2. Implement predictable release cycles and maintain high project stability to encourage broad participation and adoption.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No high-performance and memory-efficient Java library for reading
and writing Excel files, designed to simplify development and
ensure reliability.

Fesod has been incubating since 2025-09-17.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Ensure that the website and codebase are fully compliant with ASF 
policies.
  2. Add more core contributors.
  3. Get more focused on building community.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
  N/A

### How has the community developed since the last report?

  1. We have a discussion on private mail list about voting first committer.
  2. The project now has several active contributors.

### How has the communityproject developed since the last report?

The GeaFlow community1. hasWe maintainedhave itsalready corereleased contributorour base over the past month, with existing contributors continuing to drive development. The community has remained active with ongoing contributions including new features, optimizations, and bugfix. Additionally, several PRs are currently under review.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
Over the past month, the GeaFlow project has focused on feature enhancements, optimizations, and dependency updates. Key changes are including:

  + Add ISO-GQL PROPERTY_EXISTS predicate(#702).
  + Adding Lucene & Embedding-Based Search Operators for LightWeight Context GraphMemory(#716).
  + Fix memory management in mmap_ipc.cpp(#725).
  + Support Graph Consolidate algorithm and added GraphMemory Java Server and Client(#729).

These updates reflect ongoing progress in graph-related functionality expansion, code quality improvements, and Graph+AI capabilities.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

first version(2.0.0-incubating).
  2. Since some error in 2.0.0-incubating, we are now voting for 
  2.0.1-incubating.
  3. The new contributors still contribute for project.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [X] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2026-01-21

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  N/A

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes. We truly thanks our mentors' help in voting process.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?

  Yes. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-246

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (fesod) tison  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (fesod) Dave Fisher  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] Initial setup(fesod) Huajie Wang  
  - [ ] Working towardsComments: first release
  - [X] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:(fesod) PJ Fanning  
     Comments:  

### Date of last release:

The last version was released on November 19, 2025.  

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
The last committers were elected on January 4, 2026.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, we have received helpful guidance.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
N/A.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (geaflow) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (geaflow) Xin Wang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (geaflow) Jingsong Lee  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (geaflow) Paul Klingelhuber  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (geaflow) Justin Mclean  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## GraphAr

GraphAr is an open-source and language-independent data file format designed
for efficient graph data storage and retrieval.

GraphAr has been incubating since 2024-03-25.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Attract more committers, contributors, and users to grow the community.
  2. Release more versions compliant with ASF standards.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

None.

### How has the community developed since the last report?

1. a new contributors have had their PRs merged.
2. Communicate and cooperate with LEX (LDBC Extended GQL
Schema) in the graph YAML scheme

### How has the project developed since the last report?

1. Merged 19 PRs since the last report.
2. Added rust module
3. Improved python SDKIPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## GeaFlow

GeaFlow is a streaming graph computing engine for distributed large-scale 
real-time graph storage and analysis. It supports trillion-level graph 
storage, hybrid graph and table processing, real-time/offline graph 
computing, and interactive graph analysis.

GeaFlow has been incubating since 2025-06-06.

### Two most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

   1. Cultivate a more diverse community by engaging contributors and 
   committers from varied organizations and global regions.
   2. Implement predictable release cycles and maintain high project 
   stability to encourage broad participation and adoption.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
  No

### How has the community developed since the last report?
  The GeaFlow community has maintained its core contributor base over the 
  past month, with existing contributors continuing to drive development. The 
  community has remained active with ongoing contributions including new 
  features, optimizations, and bugfix. Additionally, several PRs are 
  currently under review.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  Over the past month, the GeaFlow project has focused on feature 
  enhancements, optimizations, and dependency updates. Key changes are 
  including:
  + Add ISO-GQL PROPERTY_EXISTS predicate(#702).
  + Adding Lucene & Embedding-Based Search Operators for LightWeight 
    Context GraphMemory(#716).
  + Fix memory management in mmap_ipc.cpp(#725).
  + Support Graph Consolidate algorithm and added GraphMemory Java Server 
    and Client(#729).

  These updates reflect ongoing progress in graph-related functionality 
  expansion, code quality improvements, and Graph+AI capabilities.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
  Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [x ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [x] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2025-08-29

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  2025-07-14

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
open issues that need to be addressed.

The mentors are very helpful and responsive.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings
name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to
correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name?

There are no known brand and naming issues.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (graphar) Calvin Kirs  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (graphar) tison  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (graphar) Xiaoqiao He  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (graphar) Yu Li  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Hamilton

Hamilton is a lightweight in-process framework to define, execute, and
observe             directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that express data
transformations. In Hamilton, one can             express complex DAGs of
transformations, e.g. from dataframe transformations (using
pandas, polars, PySpark), machine learning pipelines, through to regular
software             engineering API request and LLM API based workflows.
Observability hooks are built into             the framework. The Hamilton
UI is a self-hostable service to capture observability             output
from workflow runs.

Hamilton has been incubating since 2025-04-12.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Release all the packages under Apache.
  2. Build release cadance.
  3. Build community.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
N/A

### How has the community developed since the last report?
Feels flat-ish. But new contributors keep passing through.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
We managed to get our first release out. Otherwise guiding new contributors
that want to help with issues.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [X] Initial setup
  - [X] Working towards first releases [we've done 1 package, 4 more to go].
  - [ ] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2025-10-09

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

2025-04-12

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
open issues that need to be addressed.

All good. Nothing outstanding right now.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings
name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to
correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name?

Not aware of any issues.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (hamilton) Kevin Ratnasekera  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (hamilton) Ayush Saxena  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (hamilton) PJ Fanning  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (hamilton) Jarek Potiuk  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## HoraeDB

HoraeDB is a high-performance, distributed, cloud native time-series
database.

HoraeDB has been incubating since 2023-12-11 setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [X] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  The last version was released on November 19, 2025.

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  The last committers were elected on January 4, 2026.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Yes, we have received helpful guidance.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  N/A.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (geaflow) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (geaflow) Xin Wang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (geaflow) Jingsong Lee  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (geaflow) Paul Klingelhuber  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (geaflow) Justin Mclean  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## GraphAr

GraphAr is an open-source and language-independent data file format designed
for efficient graph data storage and retrieval.

GraphAr has been incubating since 2024-03-25.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Attract more committers, contributors, and users to grow the community.
  2. Release more versions compliant with ASF standards.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

  None.

### How has the community developed since the last report?

  1. a new contributors have had their PRs merged.
  2. Communicate and cooperate with LEX (LDBC Extended GQL
  Schema) in the graph YAML scheme

### How has the project developed since the last report?

  1. Merged 19 PRs since the last report.
  2. Added rust module
  3. Improved python SDK

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
  Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [X] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [X] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2025-08-29

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  2025-07-14

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
  open issues that need to be addressed.

  The mentors are very helpful and responsive.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings
  name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to
  correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name?

  There are no known brand and naming issues.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (graphar) Calvin Kirs  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (graphar) tison  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (graphar) Xiaoqiao He  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (graphar) Yu Li  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Hamilton

Hamilton is a lightweight in-process framework to define, execute, and
observe             directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that express data
transformations. In Hamilton, one can             express complex DAGs of
transformations, e.g. from dataframe transformations (using
pandas, polars, PySpark), machine learning pipelines, through to regular
software             engineering API request and LLM API based workflows.
Observability hooks are built into             the framework. The Hamilton
UI is a self-hostable service to capture observability             output
from workflow runs.

Hamilton has been incubating since 2025-04-12.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Release all the packages under Apache.
  2. Build release cadance.
  3. Build community.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
  N/A

### How has the community developed since the last report?
  Feels flat-ish. But new contributors keep passing through.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  We managed to get our first release out. Otherwise guiding new 
  contributors that want to help with issues.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
  Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ X] Initial setup
  - [ X] Working towards first release releases [we've done 1 package, 4 more to go].
  - [ ] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  XXXX2025-XX10-XX09

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?


  2025-04-12

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
  open issues that need to be addressed.

  All good. Nothing outstanding right now.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings
  name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to
  correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name?

  Not aware of any issues.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (horaedbhamilton) tisonKevin Ratnasekera  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (horaedbhamilton) ShaofengAyush ShiSaxena  
     Comments:  
  - [ X] (horaedbhamilton) GangPJ LiFanning  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (horaedbhamilton) VonJarek GoslingPotiuk  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Seata

Seata(Simple Extensible Autonomous Transaction Architecture)is an easy-to-
use             and high-performance distributed transaction solution, used
to solve the data             consistency problem.

Seata has been incubating since 2023-10-29.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Complete the transfer of Seata's existing trademarks to ASF. After 
  several rounds of communication, we have not reached an agreement on the 
  trademark issue yet.   

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

  1.  WeWe hope to sign an additional memorandum with the ASF counsel team for 
  the trademark transfer process within Ant Group.   


### How has the community developed since the last report?
   1. 27 new code contributors have joined the community (649 contributors 
  in total).   
  2. 6 new committers were elected.   
  3. We participated in the China Open Source Conference event and 
  introduced the community progress of Apache Seata.   

### How has the project developed since the last report?
   1. Since the last report, we've merged 204 PRs, which included multiple 
  AI-related features.   
  2. Since the last report, We've fixed some of the reported 
  vulnerabilities and fixed more than 59 dependency vulnerabilities.   

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
  Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [X ] Community building
  - [X] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

   2025-10-06   

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  
  2026-01-04   

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Are things falling through the cracks? If so, please list any
  open issues that need to be addressed.

  Our mentors have been very helpful and responsive.   


### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  Are 3rd parties respecting and correctly using the podlings
  name and brand? If not what actions has the PPMC taken to
  correct this? Has the VP, Brand approved the project name?

  No Trademark issues.   


### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (seata) Sheng Wu  
     Comments:  
  - [ X] (seata) Justin Mclean  
     Comments:  
  - [ X] (seata) Huxing Zhang  
     Comments:  The podling needs sometime to finish trademark transfer. 
     Otherwise it is all good.
  - [ ] (seata) Heng Du  
     Comments:  
  - [xX] (seata) Xin Wang  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Texera

Texera is an open-source system to support collaborative data science, AI,
and             ML using GUI-based workflows. Our vision is to develop a
system to support cloud             platforms on which users can easily
analyze data and use AI/ML techniques provided as             operators.
Users with various backgrounds, irrespective of whether they know coding or
not, can collaborate on the same project to construct a pipeline.
Experienced users can             use programming languages such as Python,
R, Java, and Scala to implement customized             computation logic.
The platform allows users to pause the execution of a workflow to
investigate the operator states, and resume the execution at a later time.
The platform             can be used by a research community to publish
valuable resources such as data sets,             workflows, and ML models
to share their domain-specific knowledge and support
reproducibility of scientific research. The platform also allows users to
elastically             request computing resources from public clouds for
computationally-intensive tasks.

Texera has been incubating since 2025-04-12.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Regularize Apache Releases: Finalize the release process for 
  v1.1.0-incubating, ensuring all licensing requirements (Whimsy checks) are 
  met, and establish a consistent release cadence.

  2. Community Growth & Diversity: Continue expanding the active 
  contributor base beyond the initial research group to ensure a diverse, 
  self-sustaining community (as evidenced by recent external contributors).

  3.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
  None at this time.

### How has the community developed since the last report?
  We have welcomed contributions from several new developers including 
  Victor Fawole, GitHub user "LJX2017", and Carlos Ernesto Alvarez Berumen.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  Added ML training operators for linear and logistic regression and a 
  Choropleth map operator for visualization.

  Implemented support of Large Binary (single binary row with more than 2GB 
  data) to handle larger datasets efficiently.

  Introduced a Materialized Execution Mode.

  Improved Multipart Uploads by redirecting them through the File Service 
  and adding resumable upload support.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
  Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [ ] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

   2025-12-08 (tagged on Github)

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  No new PPMC members or committers were elected during this reporting 
  period.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Yes, mentors have been extremely helpful. Thanks to Ian Maxon, he attends 
  monthly sync meetings and helped a lot on release process and security 
  issues, and also thanks to PJ, he migrated our application from Akka to 
  Pekko for license compliance and actively monitors our code base.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  Yes. The PPMC is actively working on the texera.apache.org website setup 
  and has been auditing license headers and artifact naming to comply with 
  ASF branding and Whimsy requirements.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (texera) Cezar Andrei  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (texera) Gordon King  
     Comments:  
  - [ X] (texera) PJ Fanning  
     Comments:  
  - [ X] (texera) Ian Maxon  
     Comments: It might be good in the project status to mention how the 
new contributors are helping with the project

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Toree

Toree provides applications with a mechanism to interactively and remotely
access Apache Spark.

Toree has been incubating since 2015-12-02.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  None

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

  None, Nothing much of news from previous report

### How has the community developed since the last report?

  The community is actively working on Release 0.6 review feedback and enhancing
  enhancing some of the legal and branding aspects of the release aiming to be
  fully compliant
  with graduated requirements. The new release brings Scala 2.13
  and Spark 3.4.4
  support.

### How has the project developed since the last report?

  Release 0.6.0 preparation and votes
  New members joining the community

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
  Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [ ] Community building
  - [X] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2022-04-11

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  - PJ Fanning was added to the PPMC on 2025-11-10

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Note applicable

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?

  No trademark issues

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

### Signed-off-by:

  - [xX] (toree) Luciano Resende  
     Comments:  The podling should push graduation after release is out 
     process
   - [ ] (toree) Ryan Blue  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (toree) Weiwei Yang  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## XTable

XTable is an omni-directional converter for table formats that facilitates
interoperability across data processing systems and query engines.

XTable has been incubating since 2024-02-11.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Strengthening community building by actively engaging with users.
  
2. Increasing adoption by implementing key features planned - Deletion 
  Vectors, Data Governance interoperability for catalogs, Supporting new 
  Table Formats.
 
 3. Fixing packaging issues for bundled jars for new features.


### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
  No

### How has the community developed since the last report?
   1. 5 unique contributors have made commits during this period. 
   2. Community continues working collaboratively on major features like 
   Paimon source support and Delta Kernel support.

### How has the project developed since the last report?
  1. Apache Paimon conversion source support landed and enhanced with 
  incremental sync.
  2. Delta Kernel APIs implementation in progress (major milestone).
 
 3. Bug fixes for Delta-to-Iceberg conversion with column mapping.
  4. Improved handling of edge cases (empty tables, nested field stats).

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
  Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [xX] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

 2025  2025-06-04 (0.3.0-incubating)

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

Yes
  2025-11-09

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Our mentors have been helpful and responsive.


### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  No answer.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ X] (xtable) Jesús Camacho Rodríguez  
     Comments:  
  - [ X] (xtable) Stamatis Zampetakis  
     Comments:  
  - [ X] (xtable) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  I would suggest to try to speed up the release pace. I 
would also be happy to help to create momentum.

### IPMC/Shepherd notes: