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Fluss is a streaming storage built for real-time analytics which can serve
as the real-time data layer for Lakehouse architectures.
Fluss has been incubating since 2025-06-04.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Complete more Apache releases: finalizing the Fluss-Rust 0.1.0 RC
voting process and planning the Fluss 0.9.1 release for April.
2. Grow the community and attract more committers, contributors and users.
3. Fill out the maturity model and graduation preparations
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
There are no critical issues to report at this time. The team is currently
preparing for the first release of Fluss-Rust, which includes C++ and
Python bindings. We expect to initiate the IPMC voting process within the
next few days.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
- Add 2 new committers (Liebing Yu and Keith Lee), currently with total 19
committers.
- Add 1 new PPMC member (Mehul Batra), the first invited PPMC member since
incubation, currently with total 14 PPMC members (including mentors).
- Held regular monthly community calls in January, February, and March.
- Community presentations and outreach:
* Fluss PPMC members presented at the joint "Apache Fluss × Apache
Iceberg" webinar on January 20, 2026.
* Giannis Polyzos spoke at QCon London on March 17, 2026.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
- Released version 0.9.0 on March 2, 2026, marking the second official
release under the Apache Incubator. This milestone reflects three months of
collaborative development featuring over 400 commits and 12 highlighted
features from the community.
- Initiated the release of Fluss-Rust 0.1.0, which includes C++ and Python
SDKs. This represents the first multi-language client version for Fluss,
comprising over 200 commits from 27 contributors.
- Active development is underway for version 1.0.0, with a target release
date in June 2026.
- The community discussed and finalized the [project roadmap for
2026](https://github.com/apache/fluss/discussions/2342).
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [ ] Community building
- [X] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
2026-03-02 (v0.9.0)
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2026-03-10
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Yes, everything is fine.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (fluss) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments: I think Fluss is pretty close to graduation. Maybe worth to
start evaluating the maturity model and other preparation steps.
- [X] (fluss) Becket Qin
Comments: I agree that Fluss is making steady progress and close to
graduation.
- [X] (fluss) Yu Li
Comments: It's great to see new committers and a PMC member joining,
which indicates a more diverse community. Regular sync meetings and
consistent releases further reflect robust community development, and I'm
confident the project is steadily progressing toward graduation.
- [X] (fluss) Jingsong Lee
Comments: +1 to fluss is close to graduation. I have seen a lot of
participants working together to make the Fluss community better.
- [ ] (fluss) Zili Chen
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Fluss is a streaming storage built for real-time analytics which can serve
as the real-time data layer for Lakehouse architectures.
Fluss has been incubating since 2025-06-04.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. The second release (v0.9.0) under the ASF incubator
2. Grow the community and attract more committers, contributors and users.
3. Fill out the maturity model
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
None at this time.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
1. Add 2 new committers, currently with total 17 committers.
2. The Fluss PPMC created a [LinkedIn
page](https://s.apache.org/fluss-linkedin), which now has 1,302 followers,
doubling organically over the past three months.
3. [Regular Monthly Community Call](s.apache.org/fluss-community-call)
for October and November; December’s call was skipped due to the holiday
season.
4. An “Apache Fluss × Apache Iceberg” joint webinar is scheduled for
January 20, 2026, featuring contributors from both communities.
5. Community presentations and outreach:
* Jark Wu and Giannis Polyzos presented at Flink Forward Barcelona
(2025-10-15)
* Leonard Xu presented Fluss at QCon Shanghai (2025-10-24)
* Giannis Polyzos spoke at Big Data Europe (2025-11-19)
* Jark Wu presented to the CMU Database Group (2025-12-08)
### How has the project developed since the last report?
- Released v0.8.0 on 2025-11-09 which is the project’s first official
release under the Apache Incubator. This milestone represents 4 months of
collaborative development with 400+ commits from the community.
- 8 new Fluss Improvement Proposals (FIPs) were submitted over the past
quarter; several have already been approved and implemented.
- Active development is underway for v0.9.0, targeted for release by end
of January 2026.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
Commentary: The project has successfully shipped its first Apache release
and is actively growing its contributor and user base. Community engagement
is strong, with regular calls, public talks, and cross-project
collaboration. While still in its incubation, Fluss is steadily progressing
toward graduation readiness.
### Date of last release:
2025-11-09 (v0.8.0)
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2025-11-28
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
Yes, everything is fine.
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (fluss) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments: The podling is operating great. The community is smoothly
growing up.
- [X] (fluss) Becket Qin
Comments:
- [X] (fluss) Yu Li
Comments: Good to see new committers joining and vibrant community
activities.
- [X] (fluss) Jingsong Lee
Comments:
- [X] (fluss) Zili Chen
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Fluss is a streaming storage built for real-time analytics which can serve
as the real-time data layer for Lakehouse architectures.
Fluss has been incubating since 2025-06-04.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Publish the first release under the ASF incubator
2. Grow the community and attract more committers, contributors and users.
3. Fill out the maturity model
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
Fluss plans to release its first version (v0.8) under ASF incubator in
October and will need IPMC assistance, including validation and voting.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
- Add 2 new committers, currently with total 15 committers.
- The Fluss PPMC created a [LinkedIn page]
(https://www.linkedin.com/company/apachefluss/), which has 625
followers within ~3 months, all organic growth.
- [Regular Monthly Community Call]
(https://docs.google.com/document/d/18b7G_dvYx-1FogV7LWEFMHXze5D5T9XZ3h
9zSU75dDA/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.9aenn0fakn4l) for July, Aug, Sept.
- Jark Wu presented Fluss at CommunityOverCode Asia 2025 on July 26th.
- Jark Wu and Giannis Polyzos are going to Flink Forward Barcelona 2025
to present Fluss on October 15th.
- Leonard Xu is going to QCon Shanghai to represent Fluss on October 24th.
- Giannis Polyzos is going to Big Data Europe to present Fluss on
November 19-21.
- Fluss participated #hacktoberfest2025
### How has the project developed since the last report?
We have completed the full migration of the website and codebase from
Alibaba to Apache.
Additionally, we’ve finalized development of Fluss v0.8 which was started
since the project entered ASF incubator.
This version introduces Streaming Lakehouse support with Apache Iceberg
and Lance. Now, all streaming events written to Fluss are automatically
converted into either Iceberg or Lance format in real-time, enabling
seamless lakehouse integration.
Besides, since introducing the Fluss Improvement Proposal (FIP) process
in July, we have already created 17 FIPs, many of which have been approved
and implemented.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [X] Working towards first release
- [ ] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
N/A
We released fluss-shaded-1.0-incubating in August, but this is not
considered an official Fluss release, as it is a shaded utility module
rather than part of the core Fluss system. The community is working on the
official release of Fluss core (v0.8).
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
2025-07-29
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
N/A
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (fluss) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments: Good "start" for the podling, growing the community already
happens. I'm looking for the first Apache release.
- [X] (fluss) Becket Qin
Comments:
- [X] (fluss) Yu Li
Comments: Good to see new committers joining and rich community
activities. Looking forward to the first apache release.
- [ ] (fluss) Jingsong Lee
Comments:
- [X] (fluss) Zili Chen
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
Fluss is a streaming storage built for real-time analytics which can serve
as the real-time data layer for Lakehouse architectures.
Fluss has been incubating since 2025-06-04.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Ensure website and code are full compliance with ASF policie
2. Publish the first release under the ASF incubator
3. Grow the community and fill out the maturity model
### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?
No.
### How has the community developed since the last report?
We are still in the setup phase, but we have seen some active contributors
that deserved to be committer candidates.
Jark Wu is going to Flink Forward Asia 2025 (Singapore) to present Fluss on
July 3rd.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
The community is developing for the next release v0.8 which is expected to
be released at September.
The community has established the Fluss Improvement Proposal (FIP) process
[1] to facilitate design discussions for major features. Currently, there
are already five FIPs in progress.
[1]
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLUSS/Fluss+Improvement+Proposal
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### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [X] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [ ] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
We are still in the process of initial setup. We have migrated the GitHub
repository and website to the Apache organization. We will set up the CI/CD
pipelines to streamline future development and deployment.
### Date of last release:
N/A
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
N/A
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
N/A
### Signed-off-by:
- [X] (fluss) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
Comments: Good work on the initial setup. Congrats !
- [ ] (fluss) Becket Qin
Comments:
- [X] (fluss) Yu Li
Comments: Initial setup is completed and look forward to the further
development of the project.
- [X] (fluss) Jingsong Lee
Comments:
- [X] (fluss) Zili Chen
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes: