Spark 0.7.0 released

[Matei Zaharia]

Hi folks,

We’re proud to announce the release of Spark 0.7.0, a new major version of Spark that adds several key features, including a Python API for Spark, an alpha of Spark Streaming, and numerous improvements across the board. This release is the result of the largest group of contributors yet behind a Spark release -- 31 contributors from inside and outside Berkeley. Head over to the release notes to read more about the new features or download the code: http://spark-project.org/spark-release-0-7-0/

I'd also like to thank the people who contributed to the release: Mikhail Bautin, Denny Britz, Paul Cavallaro, Tathagata Das, Thomas Dudziak, Harvey Feng, Stephen Haberman, Tyson Hamilton, Mark Hamstra, Michael Heuer, Shane Huang, Andy Konwinski, Ryan LeCompte, Haoyuan Li, Richard McKinley, Sean McNamara, Lee Moon Soo, Fernand Pajot, Nick Pentreath, Andrew Psaltis, Imran Rashid, Charles Reiss, Josh Rosen, Peter Sankauskas, Prashant Sharma, Shivaram Venkataraman, Patrick Wendell, Reynold Xin, Haitao Yao, Matei Zaharia, and Eric Zhang. Hope to see even more contributors to Spark in the future!

Matei

[Ryan LeCompte]

Congrats on the release! Super exciting stuff.

Ryan

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[seanm]

So awesome!  Great work!!

[Diego Medina]

Congratulations on the release!

Diego
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[Dmitriy Lyubimov]

I think this is supercool. And i worked with a lot of popular distributed systems.

-Dmitriy

Matei

[Andrew Psaltis]

I would add to the list that "Spark is addictive"