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# Incubator PMC report for December 2025

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

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## 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
  November:


## IP Clearance


## Legal / Trademarks


## Infrastructure


## Miscellaneous


## Credits

## Table of Contents  
[Auron](#auron)  
[Baremaps](#baremaps)  
[BifroMQ](#bifromq)  
[Fesod](#fesod)  
[Iggy](#iggy)  
[KIE](#kie)  
[OpenServerless](#openserverless)  
[Otava](#otava)  
[OzHera](#ozhera)  
[Polaris](#polaris)  
[PouchDB](#pouchdb)  


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## Auron

Auron accelerates Apache Spark SQL by providing an alternative vectorized
execution layer implemented in Rust, enabling native performance while
maintaining full             Spark compatibility.

Auron has been incubating since 2025-08-05.

### 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?

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (auron) Becket Qin  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (auron) Calvin Kirs  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (auron) Hao Ding  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (auron) Nicholas Jiang  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Baremaps

Apache Baremaps is a toolkit and a set of infrastructure components for
creating, publishing, and operating online maps.

Baremaps has been incubating since 2022-10-10.

### 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?

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (baremaps) Bertrand Delacrétaz  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (baremaps) Martin Desruisseaux  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (baremaps) Julian Hyde  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (baremaps) Calvin Kirs  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (baremaps) George Percivall  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## BifroMQ

BifroMQ is a Java-based, high-performance, distributed MQTT broker with
native             multi-tenancy support, designed for large-scale
connections and message delivery.

BifroMQ has been incubating since 2025-04-22.

### 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?

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (bifromq) Christofer Dutz  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (bifromq) Xiangdong Huang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (bifromq) Calvin Kirs  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (bifromq) Penghui Li  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (bifromq) Sheng Wu  
     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.
  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?

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (fesod) tison  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (fesod) Dave Fisher  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (fesod) Huajie Wang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (fesod) PJ Fanning  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Iggy

Iggy is a high-performance, ultra-low latency and large-scale persistent
message streaming platform written in Rust.

Iggy has been incubating since 2025-02-04.

### 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?

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (iggy) Hao Ding  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (iggy) Yonik Seeley  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (iggy) Zili Chen  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (iggy) Hulk Lin  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## KIE

KIE (Knowledge is Everything) is a community of solutions and supporting
tooling for knowledge engineering and process automation, focusing on
events, rules, and             workflows.

KIE has been incubating since 2023-01-13.

### 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?

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (kie) Brian Proffitt  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (kie) Claus Ibsen  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (kie) Andrea Cosentino  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## OpenServerless

OpenServerless is an open source, cloud-agnostic, serverless platform. It
offers a complete environment for serverless applications development, based
on             Kubernetes. With Apache OpenWhisk as its FaaS engine, it
provides an unified developer             experience with a plethora of
services (SQL or noSQL databases, key-value stores, object
storage, LLMs services, function schedulers) managed by the platform's core:
the             operator, along with tooling (the CLI) to simplify (and
interact with) deployments,             integrated ide and starter
application and optimized runtimes integrated with the             staters.

OpenServerless has been incubating since 2024-06-17.

### 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?

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (openserverless) Bertrand Delacrétaz  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (openserverless) Enrico Olivelli  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (openserverless) François Papon  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (openserverless) JB Onofré  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (openserverless) PJ Fanning  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Otava

 Otava, a command-line tool, written in Python, that detects statistically
significant changes in time-series data stored either in databases or CSV
files. Otava             entered Incubation as Hunter

Otava has been incubating since 2024-11-27.

### 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?

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (otava) Dave Fisher  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (otava) Enrico Olivelli  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (otava) Lari Hotari  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (otava) Mick Semb Wever  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## OzHera

OzHera is an application observation platform (APM) in the era of cloud
native,             with the application as its core, integrating
capabilities such as metric monitoring,             trace tracking, logging,
and alerting

OzHera has been incubating since 2024-07-11.

### 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?

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (ozhera) Yu Xiao  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (ozhera) Yu Li  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (ozhera) Kevin Ratnasekera  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (ozhera) Duo Zhang  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Polaris

Polaris is a catalog for data lakes. It provides new levels of choice,
flexibility and control over data, with full enterprise security and Apache
Iceberg interoperability across a multitude of engines and
infrastructure.

Polaris has been incubating since 2024-08-09.

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

  1. Check the Polaris existing trademarks at the ASF (transfer has been done, to be verified)

### 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?

Between 2025-07-31 and 2025-10-31:
- 2 new releases
- 17 new contributors
- 649 PRs opened / 517 PR merged
- 745 messages on the dev@ mailing list
- Apache Polaris is now integrated to analytics.apache.org which shows **10,000** monthly visitors to polaris.apache.org across the globe [[website link](https://analytics.apache.org/index.php?module=CoreHome&action=index&date=yesterday&period=day&idSite=81#?period=month&date=2025-10-31&idSite=81&category=General_Visitors&subcategory=UserCountry_SubmenuLocations)]

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We are happy to see new contributors who contributed important new features:
- OPA support.
- Polaris Console (UI) is coming.
- S3 KMS support.

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

We did 1.1.0-incubating and 1.2.0-incubating releases since the last report.
1.3.0-incubating release is also in preparation.

Here's the highlights about project development since the last report:
- Improvement on the website, adding new blog posts (StarRocks and Polaris integration)
- Moving forward on NoSQL support
- New OPA Authorizer
- New MetricsReport interface
- New JDBC schema evolution support
- A lot of improvements on Python (CLI, ...)
- Enhanced support for S3-compatible (on-prem) storage
- Automated release workflows are in place, ongoing work to support ATR

### 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:

  2025-10-27

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

Last PPMC member has been elected on 2025-11-19 (Yong Zheng).


### 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.

Mentors are 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?

Yes, the podling manages the brand/trademarks, especially working with 3rd parties organizing meetups.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (polaris) Holden Karau  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (polaris) Kent Yao  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (polaris) Ryan Blue  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (polaris) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (polaris) François Papon  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## PouchDB

PouchDB is an open-source JavaScript database inspired by Apache CouchDB
that             is designed to run well within the browser.

PouchDB has been incubating since 2025-04-15.

### 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?

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (pouchdb) PJ Fanning  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (pouchdb) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes: