--- layout: post title: Spark 0.9.0 released categories: - News tags: [] status: publish type: post published: true meta: _edit_last: '4' _wpas_done_all: '1' --- We are happy to announce the availability of Spark 0.9.0! Spark 0.9.0 is a major release and Spark's largest release ever, with contributions from 83 developers. This release expands Spark's standard libraries, introducing a new graph computation package (GraphX) and adding several new features to the machine learning and stream-processing packages. It also makes major improvements to the core engine, including external aggregations, a simplified H/A mode for long lived applications, and hardened YARN support. Visit the release notes to read about the new features, or download the release today.