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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +slug: apache-cloudberry-incubation-report-202511 |
| 3 | +title: "Apache Cloudberry Incubation Report - November 2025" |
| 4 | +description: "We’re making steady progress to grow!" |
| 5 | +authors: [asfcloudberry] |
| 6 | +tags: [Incubation] |
| 7 | +image: /img/blog/apache-cloudberry-incubation-report.png |
| 8 | +--- |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | +:::note |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +This Cloudberry incubation report summarizes our major progress during August and October 2025. It is adapted from the [Apache Incubator Report November 2025](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INCUBATOR/November2025#cloudberry), with some modifications for readability. |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | +::: |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +<!-- truncate --> |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | +## Cloudberry |
| 19 | + |
| 20 | +Cloudberry is an advanced and mature open-source Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) database, derived from the open-source version of Pivotal Greenplum Database®️ but built on a more modern PostgreSQL 14 kernel, whereas Greenplum is based on PostgreSQL 12. This upgrade brings enhanced enterprise capabilities, making Cloudberry well-suited for data warehousing, large-scale analytics, and AI/ML workloads. |
| 21 | + |
| 22 | +Cloudberry has been incubating since 2024-10-11. |
| 23 | + |
| 24 | +### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: |
| 25 | + |
| 26 | + 1. Grow the contributor and community to ensure long-term sustainability. |
| 27 | + 2. Publish a few more Apache releases following the ASF release processes. |
| 28 | + |
| 29 | +### How has the community developed since the last report? |
| 30 | + |
| 31 | +- Mailing list Activity: 210 new emails on the Dev mailing list since the last report, covering community, technical and Apache-related discussions. |
| 32 | +- GitHub Discussions: 14 new threads since last report. |
| 33 | +- New Committers: |
| 34 | + - Sep 25, 2025 - Leonid Borchuk (leborchuk) |
| 35 | +- Events: |
| 36 | + - Apache Cloudberry Meetup organized in Beijing on August 16, 2025, which attracted 30~ attendees. This meetup focused on the new features and highlights of the 2.0.0 release and the Apache way. See recap post at https://s.apache.org/xqyi9. |
| 37 | + - Our committer Leonid Borchuk presented a talk, "PAX — column store for Apache Cloudberry/Postgres 14", at PGConf.SPb 2025 in Saint Petersburg on September 29, 2025. See details at https://pgconf.ru/talk/2484244. |
| 38 | + |
| 39 | +### How has the project developed since the last report? |
| 40 | + |
| 41 | +- Publish the first Apache Cloudberry (Incubating) 2.0.0 release on August 25, 2025. See announcement email at https://s.apache.org/fn13p |
| 42 | +- PostgreSQL Kernel upgrade (14~>16): the work has been in progress. See the monthly report at https://s.apache.org/kp3lj |
| 43 | +- 113 new commits to the main branch since the last report, focusing on CI, performance, bug fixes, and new features. |
| 44 | +- Sub-repositories: |
| 45 | + - Archived the `apache/cloudberry-devops-release` repo and migrated these files to the `devops/` directory of the main repository. |
| 46 | + - For the backup tool repos: |
| 47 | + - The `cloudberry-gpbackup` repo has been renamed to `cloudberry-backup`, reflecting the project’s independence and alignment with the Cloudberry brand. Its codebase has synced with the GP’s archived version. |
| 48 | + - The core files from `apache/cloudberry-gpbackup-s3-plugin` have been merged into the `cloudberry-backup` repos under `plugins/s3plugin`. Now, the S3 plugin will be installed together with Cloudberry Backup. |
| 49 | + - The `cloudberry-pxf` is still in progress on the archived Greenplum commits sync to Cloudberry. |
| 50 | + - `cloudberry-go-libs` has synced with the GP’s archived version. |
| 51 | +- Started the discussion on the next release 2.1.0. See discussion at https://s.apache.org/rx7s8 |
| 52 | +- It has been one year since Cloudberry joined the ASF Incubator. Here is our Roadmap recap at https://s.apache.org/5fxn9 |
| 53 | +- Ecosystem: |
| 54 | + - The community developers are working with the Apache MADlib team to add support for Cloudberry to MADlib upstream. See the PR at https://github.com/apache/madlib/pull/627 |
| 55 | + - The PostGIS for Cloudberry has been upgraded from 2.5 to 3.3.2 |
| 56 | + |
| 57 | +### How would you assess the podling's maturity? |
| 58 | + |
| 59 | + - [ ] Initial setup |
| 60 | + - [ ] Working towards first release |
| 61 | + - [X] Community building |
| 62 | + - [ ] Nearing graduation |
| 63 | + - [ ] Other: |
| 64 | + |
| 65 | +### Date of last release: |
| 66 | + |
| 67 | + - August 25, 2025 |
| 68 | + |
| 69 | +### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? |
| 70 | + |
| 71 | + - Sep 25, 2025 - Leonid Borchuk (leborchuk) |
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