Sub-task

• [SPARK-15723] - SimpleDateParamSuite test is locale-fragile and relies on deprecated short TZ name

Bug

• [SPARK-8428] - TimSort Comparison method violates its general contract with CLUSTER BY
• [SPARK-10722] - Uncaught exception: RDDBlockId not found in driver-heartbeater
• [SPARK-11327] - spark-dispatcher doesn't pass along some spark properties
• [SPARK-11507] - Error thrown when using BlockMatrix.add
• [SPARK-12655] - GraphX does not unpersist RDDs
• [SPARK-12712] - test-dependencies.sh script fails when run against empty .m2 cache
• [SPARK-12941] - Spark-SQL JDBC Oracle dialect fails to map string datatypes to Oracle VARCHAR datatype
• [SPARK-13023] - Check for presence of 'root' module after computing test_modules, not changed_modules
• [SPARK-13207] - _SUCCESS should not break partition discovery
• [SPARK-13227] - Risky apply() in OpenHashMap
• [SPARK-13242] - Moderately complex `when` expression causes code generation failure
• [SPARK-13327] - colnames()<- allows invalid column names
• [SPARK-13352] - BlockFetch does not scale well on large block
• [SPARK-13444] - QuantileDiscretizer chooses bad splits on large DataFrames
• [SPARK-13522] - Executor should kill itself when it's unable to heartbeat to the driver more than N times
• [SPARK-13566] - Deadlock between MemoryStore and BlockManager
• [SPARK-13622] - Issue creating level db file for YARN shuffle service if URI is used in yarn.nodemanager.local-dirs
• [SPARK-13631] - getPreferredLocations race condition in spark 1.6.0?
• [SPARK-13642] - Properly handle signal kill of ApplicationMaster
• [SPARK-13648] - org.apache.spark.sql.hive.client.VersionsSuite fails NoClassDefFoundError on IBM JDK
• [SPARK-13652] - TransportClient.sendRpcSync returns wrong results
• [SPARK-13697] - TransformFunctionSerializer.loads doesn't restore the function's module name if it's '__main__'
• [SPARK-13705] - UpdateStateByKey Operation documentation incorrectly refers to StatefulNetworkWordCount
• [SPARK-13711] - Apache Spark driver stopping JVM when master not available
• [SPARK-13755] - Escape quotes in SQL plan visualization node labels
• [SPARK-13772] - DataType mismatch about decimal
• [SPARK-13803] - Standalone master does not balance cluster-mode drivers across workers
• [SPARK-13806] - SQL round() produces incorrect results for negative values
• [SPARK-13845] - BlockStatus and StreamBlockId keep on growing result driver OOM
• [SPARK-13850] - TimSort Comparison method violates its general contract
• [SPARK-13901] - We get wrong logdebug information when jump to the next locality level.
• [SPARK-13958] - Executor OOM due to unbounded growth of pointer array in Sorter
• [SPARK-14006] - Builds of 1.6 branch fail R style check
• [SPARK-14074] - Use fixed version of install_github in SparkR build
• [SPARK-14138] - Generated SpecificColumnarIterator code can exceed JVM size limit for cached DataFrames
• [SPARK-14159] - StringIndexerModel sets output column metadata incorrectly
• [SPARK-14187] - Incorrect use of binarysearch in SparseMatrix
• [SPARK-14204] - [SQL] Failure to register URL-derived JDBC driver on executors in cluster mode
• [SPARK-14219] - Fix `pickRandomVertex` not to fall into infinite loops for graphs with one vertex
• [SPARK-14232] - Event timeline on job page doesn't show if an executor is removed with multiple line reason
• [SPARK-14243] - updatedBlockStatuses does not update correctly when removing blocks
• [SPARK-14261] - Memory leak in Spark Thrift Server
• [SPARK-14298] - LDA should support disable checkpoint
• [SPARK-14322] - Use treeAggregate instead of reduce in OnlineLDAOptimizer
• [SPARK-14357] - Tasks that fail due to CommitDeniedException (a side-effect of speculation) can cause job failure
• [SPARK-14363] - Executor OOM due to a memory leak in Sorter
• [SPARK-14368] - Support python.spark.worker.memory with upper-case unit
• [SPARK-14454] - Better exception handling while marking tasks as failed
• [SPARK-14468] - Always enable OutputCommitCoordinator
• [SPARK-14495] - Distinct aggregation cannot be used in the having clause
• [SPARK-14563] - SQLTransformer.transformSchema is not implemented correctly
• [SPARK-14665] - PySpark StopWordsRemover default stopwords are Java object
• [SPARK-14671] - Pipeline.setStages needs to handle Array non-covariance
• [SPARK-14679] - UI DAG visualization causes OOM generating data
• [SPARK-14739] - Vectors.parse doesn't handle dense vectors of size 0 and sparse vectors with no indices
• [SPARK-14757] - Incorrect behavior of Join operation in Spqrk SQL JOIN : "false" in the left table is joined to "null" on the right table
• [SPARK-14915] - Tasks that fail due to CommitDeniedException (a side-effect of speculation) can cause job to never complete
• [SPARK-14965] - StructType throws exception for missing field
• [SPARK-15165] - Codegen can break because toCommentSafeString is not actually safe
• [SPARK-15209] - Web UI's timeline visualizations fails to render if descriptions contain single quotes
• [SPARK-15260] - UnifiedMemoryManager could be in bad state if any exception happen while evicting blocks
• [SPARK-15262] - race condition in killing an executor and reregistering an executor
• [SPARK-15528] - conv function returns inconsistent result for the same data
• [SPARK-15601] - CircularBuffer's toString() to print only the contents written if buffer isn't full
• [SPARK-15736] - Gracefully handle loss of DiskStore files
• [SPARK-15754] - org.apache.spark.deploy.yarn.Client changes the credential of current user
• [SPARK-15892] - Incorrectly merged AFTAggregator with zero total count
• [SPARK-15975] - Improper Popen.wait() return code handling in dev/run-tests
• [SPARK-16017] - YarnClientSchedulerBackend now registers backends as IPs instead of Hostnames which causes all tasks to run with RACK_LOCAL locality.
• [SPARK-16035] - The SparseVector parser fails checking for valid end parenthesis
• [SPARK-16086] - Python UDF failed when there is no arguments
• [SPARK-16466] - names() function allows creation of column name containing "-". filter() function subsequently fails
• [SPARK-16709] - Task with commit failed will retry infinite when speculation set to true

New Feature

• [SPARK-11515] - QuantileDiscretizer should take random seed
• [SPARK-13465] - Add a task failure listener to TaskContext

Improvement

• [SPARK-13599] - Groovy-all ends up in spark-assembly if hive profile set
• [SPARK-13601] - Invoke task failure callbacks before calling outputstream.close()
• [SPARK-13663] - Upgrade Snappy Java to 1.1.2.1
• [SPARK-13810] - Add Port Configuration Suggestions on Bind Exceptions
• [SPARK-14058] - Incorrect docstring in Window.orderBy
• [SPARK-14107] - PySpark spark.ml GBT algs need seed Param
• [SPARK-14149] - Log exceptions in tryOrIOException
• [SPARK-14242] - avoid too many copies in network when a network frame is large
• [SPARK-14787] - Upgrade Joda-Time library from 2.9 to 2.9.3
• [SPARK-15205] - Codegen can compile the same source code more than twice
• [SPARK-15827] - Publish Spark's forked sbt-pom-reader to Maven Central
• [SPARK-18391] - Openstack deployment scenarios

Documentation

• [SPARK-14618] - RegressionEvaluator doc out of date
• [SPARK-15223] - spark.executor.logs.rolling.maxSize wrongly referred to as spark.executor.logs.rolling.size.maxBytes

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