February 24, 2026

Texera Apache Incubation – Monthly Meeting Minutes

Date: February 24, 2026
Participants:

• Texera Team/Guests: Chen Li, Matthew Ball, Andy Zhang, Elliot Lin, Ali Risheh, Chris Park, Xuan Gu, Xiaozhen Liu, Jiadong Bai, Xinyuan Lin

1. Technical Updates

Infrastructure and Architecture

• Unified Proxy with Envoy Gateway (#4190):
  • The previous dual-proxy setup (Ingress Nginx for static routes plus a separate Envoy for computing units) was replaced with a single Envoy Gateway based on the Kubernetes Gateway API (implemented in #4191).
  • This simplifies the infrastructure and natively supports dynamic routing to ephemeral computing units without configuration reloads.
• Multipart Upload via File Service (#4136):
  • Dataset multipart uploads were redirected through the File Service, with server-side streaming to S3 and LakeFS managing multipart state.
  • New upload-session tracking (per-part ETags and completeness checks) lays the groundwork for reliable, resumable uploads.

UI and Features

• Markdown Editor for Descriptions (#4212):
  • Dataset and workflow descriptions now support Markdown, with a preview mode and an edit mode offering a formatting toolbar and side-by-side live preview (description columns widened to TEXT).
• Links Included in Region Display (#4226):
  • The region display calculation now includes links so that a region fully covers them, fixing cases where links fell outside the region boundary.
• User Registration Form (#4185):
  • First-time users are prompted for their affiliation (optional) and reason for joining (required), which is stored for admin review in the dashboard.
  • This consolidates the earlier separate “request access” and “affiliation” modals into a single form.

2. Apache Release Preparation

Release Pull Requests

• chore: update release workflow to comply with Apache release practice (#4128)
• feat(release): include container images and deployment artifacts in release (#4219)
• fix(ci): use consistent 9-char commit hash for image tags (#4231)

Release Candidate

• Release candidate v1.1.0-incubating-rc3 has been prepared.

3. Community

• Contributors (Feb 2026, excluding committers and PPMC members):
  • Carlos Ernesto Alvarez Berumen
  • Xuan Gu
  • Jae Yun Kim
  • Matthew George Ball
  • Seongjin Yoon

4. Next Steps

The team will focus on the following items moving forward:

• Fixing license requirements by Whimsy.
• Supporting control blocks.
• Enabling operator caching.