Spark 2.0.1 Arrives

The Spark team announces the availability of Spark 2.0.1, a maintenance release with more than 300 stability and bug fixes. Release notes here; list of changes here.
Also, Databricks’ Jules Damji publishes the latest bi-weekly roundup of Spark news from around the web; and CERN’s Luca Canali investigates Spark 2.0 performance improvements.