Charmed Apache Spark 3.4, 3.5 and 4.0 candidate releases

We are pleased to announce the candidate releases for Charmed Apache Spark under the tracks 3.4, 3.5 and 4.0.

This release brings the support for Apache Spark 4.0 and the new Charmed Apache Spark Terraform modules compliant to the CC008 specification, along with several enhancements, CVE fixes and bug fixes.

See our draft release notes for further information. Please note that they are still subject to change ahead of the stable release.

The different charms and artifacts and the new candidate channel / tag for them are listed below:

Charm / Artifact Channel / Tag
Rock Images: charmed-spark, charmed-spark-kyuubi, charmed-spark-gpu, charmed-spark-jupyterlab 3.4-22.04_candidate, 3.5-22.04_candidate, 4.0-22.04_candidate
spark-client snap 3.4/candidate, 3.5/candidate, 4.0/candidate
spark-history-server-k8s charm 3/candidate, 4/candidate
kyuubi-k8s charm 3.4/candidate, 3.5/candidate, 4.0/candidate

As always, we invite data scientists, ML engineers, and developers to explore the new candidate release and share valuable feedback with us!

This candidate release gives you early access to our processing solution, along with an opportunity to influence the future of Charmed Spark. Your feedback is crucial to improving our products:

  • Follow our step-by-step tutorial to test the new release
  • Reach out in Matrix with your questions about Charmed Spark’s capabilities
  • Report any bugs or issues you encounter
  • Provide suggestions for improving our products

Please note: This candidate release is not intended for production use and may involve risks. We encourage you to save your work regularly and proceed with caution. Canonical’s Processing team is always ready to assist you with any feedback or issues you might have.

We plan to allow about a week’s time for testing the current candidate release before promoting to stable.

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