[Feature Request] 4.0.0rc2 release on Spark 4.0.0-preview2

[Kimahriman]

Feature request

Which Delta project/connector is this regarding?

• Spark
• Standalone
• Flink
• Kernel
• Other (fill in here)

Overview

It would be great to have a new Delta release to run on Spark 4.0.0-preview2, as 4.0.0rc1 is not compatible with some new breaking changes.

Motivation

Further details

Willingness to contribute

The Delta Lake Community encourages new feature contributions. Would you or another member of your organization be willing to contribute an implementation of this feature?

• Yes. I can contribute this feature independently.
• Yes. I would be willing to contribute this feature with guidance from the Delta Lake community.
• No. I cannot contribute this feature at this time.

[SimonYang-CS]

+1.

We can run delta 4.0.0rc1 with Spark 4.0.0-preview1, but we encounter the following error with Spark 4.0.0-preview2.

Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: 'void org.apache.spark.sql.Column.(org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.expressions.Expression)'