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# Incubator PMC report for January 2026

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
  December:


## IP Clearance


## Legal / Trademarks


## Infrastructure


## Miscellaneous


## Credits

## Table of Contents  
[Amoro](#amoro)  
[Fesod](#fesod)  
[Fluss](#fluss)  
[Gluten](#gluten)  
[HugeGraph](#hugegraph)  
[Livy](#livy)  
[Pegasus](#pegasus)  
[Pony Mail](#ponymail)  
[ResilientDB](#resilientdb)  


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## Amoro

Amoro is a Lakehouse management system built on open data lake formats like
Apache Iceberg and Apache Paimon.

Amoro has been incubating since 2024-03-11.

### 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:

  - [ ] (amoro) Justin Mclean  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (amoro) Zhongyi Tan  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (amoro) Yu Li  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (amoro) Xinyu Zhou  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (amoro) 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. Release First version(2.0.0) under the Apache Incubator. 
  3. Continue to grow the community and word towards the ASF maturity Model. 

### 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. The project now has already has several regular contributors.
  2. Some contributors have begun proactively designing new features for project.

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

  1. Development of new features for the project is still ongoing.
  2. We attempted to release 2.0.0-RC1 at the end of Dec,2025( many issues needed improvement). 
  3. We will begin the release attempt for 2.0.0-RC2 this week. 


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

  We are currently addressing issues in RC1 that do not comply with ASF specifications.
  We plan to initiate the release process for 2.0.0-RC2 this week.

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

### Date of last release:

  N/A

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

  N/A


### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  We extend our special thanks to our mentors for their assistance. 

  Particular gratitude goes to @PJ Fanning for the questions raised during the release. 

  @tison and @Huajie Wang also provided substantial support as we worked toward releasing RC1.


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

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

### Signed-off-by:

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

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Fluss

Fluss is a streaming storage built for real-time analytics which can serve
as the real-time data layer for Lakehouse architectures.

Fluss has been incubating since 2025-06-04.

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

  1. The second release (v0.9.0) under the ASF incubator
  2. Grow the community and attract more committers, contributors and users.
  3. Fill out the maturity model


### 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?

  1. Add 2 new committers, currently with total 17 committers.
  2. The Fluss PPMC created a [LinkedIn page](https://s.apache.org/fluss-linkedin), which now has 1,302 followers, doubling organically over the past three months.
  3. [Regular Monthly Community Call](s.apache.org/fluss-community-call) for October and November; December’s call was skipped due to the holiday season.
  4. An “Apache Fluss × Apache Iceberg” joint webinar is scheduled for January 20, 2026, featuring contributors from both communities.
  5. Community presentations and outreach:
     * Jark Wu and Giannis Polyzos presented at Flink Forward Barcelona (2025-10-15)
     * Leonard Xu presented Fluss at QCon Shanghai (2025-10-24)
     * Giannis Polyzos spoke at Big Data Europe (2025-11-19)
     * Jark Wu presented to the CMU Database Group (2025-12-08)
  

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

  - Released v0.8.0 on 2025-11-09 which is the project’s first official release under the Apache Incubator. This milestone represents 4 months of collaborative development with 400+ commits from the community.
  - 8 new Fluss Improvement Proposals (FIPs) were submitted over the past quarter; several have already been approved and implemented.
  - Active development is underway for v0.9.0, targeted for release by end of January 2026.


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

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

Commentary: The project has successfully shipped its first Apache release and is actively growing its contributor and user base. Community engagement is strong, with regular calls, public talks, and cross-project collaboration. While still in its incubation, Fluss is steadily progressing toward graduation readiness.


### Date of last release:

  2025-11-09 (v0.8.0)

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

  2025-11-28

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes.


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

  Yes, everything is fine.


### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (fluss) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (fluss) Becket Qin  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (fluss) Yu Li  
     Comments: Good to see new committers joining and vibrant community activities.
  - [ ] (fluss) Jingsong Lee  
     Comments:  
  - [x] (fluss) Zili Chen  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
 

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## Gluten

Gluten is a middle layer responsible for offloading JVM-based SQL engines'
execution to native engines.

Gluten has been incubating since 2024-01-11.

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

  1. Complete more Apache releases: Plan for Gluten v1.6.0 in Jan.
  2. Grow the community: Attract and onboard more contributors to strengthen community diversity.
  3. Graduate from incubation: Prepare for the transition to Apache top-level project.

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

Yes, under reviewing the graduation from incubation.

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

2 new Committers and 2 new PPMC members, Currently with 44 committers and 35 PPMC members

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

The project made significant progress in the last quarter. Apache Gluten (incubating) 1.5.0 was released on 2025-10-29, marking the fifth incubating release.

### 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:

  2025-10-29

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

2 new PPMC members were joint on 2025/10/29.

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

Yes. The podling’s mentors (Apache members guiding Gluten’s incubation) have been very supportive and responsive.

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

Yes. The PPMC is adequately managing Apache Gluten’s branding and trademarks. There have been no naming conflicts or misuse of the Apache brand identified. 

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (gluten) Yu Li  
     Comments: The community is well-prepared for graduation.
  - [ ] (gluten) Wenli Zhang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (gluten) Kent Yao  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (gluten) Shaofeng Shi  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (gluten) Felix Cheung  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## HugeGraph

A large-scale and easy-to-use graph database

HugeGraph has been incubating since 2022-01-23.

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

  1. Release 1.7.0 (Already done)
  2. Prepare trademark docs / communication (Doing)
  3. Start a community discussion for graduation

### 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. Add 3 new Committers (before graduation)
2. Finished GSoC & OSPP & GLCC (student OSS activities)
3. 2 topic in COC Asia

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

1. Release 1.7.0 (include a string of improvement / refactor)
2. AI repo/module have got a great change
3. Support ToplingDB as RocksDB Plus

### 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:

  2025-11-28

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

2025-09-01

### 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, thanks for them

### 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?

Trademark transfer is in progress.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (hugegraph) Lidong Dai  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (hugegraph) Trista Pan  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (hugegraph) Xiangdong Huang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (hugegraph) Yu Li  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (hugegraph) Willem Ning Jiang  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Livy

Livy is web service that exposes a REST interface for managing long running
Apache Spark contexts in your cluster. With Livy, new applications can be
built on top             of Apache Spark that require fine grained
interaction with many Spark contexts.

Livy has been incubating since 2017-06-05.

### 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:

  - [ ] (livy) Bikas Saha  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (livy) Luciano Resende  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (livy) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (livy) Madhawa Kasun Gunasekara  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## Pegasus

Pegasus is a distributed key-value storage system which is designed to be
simple, horizontally scalable, strongly consistent and high-performance.

Pegasus has been incubating since 2020-06-28.

### 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:

  - [ ] (pegasus) Duo Zhang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (pegasus) Liang Chen  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (pegasus) Von Gosling  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (pegasus) Liu Xun  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## PonyMail

Pony Mail is a mail-archiving, archive viewing, and interaction service,
that can be integrated with many email platforms.

Pony Mail has been incubating since 2016-05-27.

### 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:

  - [ ] (ponymail) John D. Ament  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (ponymail) Dave Fisher  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:



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## ResilientDB

ResilientDB is a distributed blockchain framework that is open-source,
lightweight, modular, and highly performant.

ResilientDB has been incubating since 2023-10-21.

### 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:

  - [ ] (resilientdb) Junping Du  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (resilientdb) Kevin Ratnasekera  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (resilientdb) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/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.

### Three 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, documentation updates, and dependency maintenance. 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:

+ Adding support for vector stores (#637).
+ Implementing a classifier to address ISSUE701 (#720).
+ Optimizing hardcoded constants and magic numbers (#674).
+ Updating documentation URLs (#721).
+ Upgrading the lz4-java dependency from 1.9.0 to 1.10.1 (#715).
+ Updating the version to 0.8.0-SNAPSHOT after cherry-picking fixes from the 0.7.0 release (#712).

These updates demonstrate continued development in functionality expansion, code quality improvements, and dependency management.

### 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:

The first community version was released on November 19th.

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

This month, we held committer votes for two candidates: Leomrlin has been approved, while kitalkuyo-gita remains under observation to assess whether his contributions align with our project requirements.

### 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
- [ ] (GeaFlow) xinwang
- [ ] (GeaFlow) lzljs3620320
- [ ] (GeaFlow) jmclean
- [ ] (GeaFlow) paulk