Spark 3.5.5.500 (DEP 10.1.0) Release Notes

This section provides reference information, including new features, patches, and known issues for Spark 3.5.5.500.

The notes below relate specifically to the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Distribution for Apache Hadoop. For more information, you may also want to consult the open-source Spark 3.5.2 Release Notes.

These release notes contain only Hewlett Packard Enterprise specific information and are not necessarily cumulative in nature. For information about how to use the release notes, see Ecosystem Component Release Notes.

Spark Version 3.5.5.500
Release Date April 2026
HPE Version Interoperability See Ecosystem Pack Components and OS Support.
Source on GitHub https://github.com/mapr/spark
GitHub Release Tag 3.5.5.500-dep-1010
Maven Artifacts https://repository.mapr.com/maven/
Package Names Navigate to https://package.ezmeral.hpe.com/releases/MEP/ and select your DEP and OS to view the list of package names.

Hive Support

  • Starting from Spark 3.1.2, Spark supports Hive 2.3.

New in This Release

Spark 3.5.5.500 introduces the following enhancements or HPE platform-specific behavior changes:

  • Bug fixes
  • JWT support
  • Login/logout UI

Fixes

This HPE release includes the following new fixes on the base Apache release. For details, refer to the commit log for this project in GitHub.

GitHub Commit Date (YYYY-MM-DD) Comment
6ccda3ab77a 2026-02-26 DEP-SPARK-1468: Vulnerable version of scala-collection-compat_2.12 2.7.0 bundled with mapr-spark
0d63adeba8b 2026-02-26 DEP-SPARK-1481: Log4j Vulnerability in Spark - CVE-2025-68161
035baa027a7 2026-02-23 DEP-SPARK-1476: Vulnerable version of netty-all 4.1.108.Final reported as part of mapr-spark-3.5.5.400.202512170541-1.noarch.rpm
28233c1ef02 2026-02-20 DEP-SPARK-1473: jetty-server 9.4.56.v20240826 bundled as part of mapr-spark

Known Issues and Limitations

  • SPARK-1099: FIPS in mixed mode not supported with enabled SSL for WebUI.

Resolved Issues

  • None.