Add Spark 3.5.7 release notes (#637)

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Author: peter-toth

documentation.md

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ navigation:
 <ul>
   <li><a href="{{site.baseurl}}/docs/4.0.1/">Spark 4.0.1</a></li>
   <li><a href="{{site.baseurl}}/docs/4.0.0/">Spark 4.0.0</a></li>
+  <li><a href="{{site.baseurl}}/docs/3.5.7/">Spark 3.5.7</a></li>
   <li><a href="{{site.baseurl}}/docs/3.5.6/">Spark 3.5.6</a></li>
   <li><a href="{{site.baseurl}}/docs/3.5.5/">Spark 3.5.5</a></li>
   <li><a href="{{site.baseurl}}/docs/3.5.4/">Spark 3.5.4</a></li>

js/downloads.js

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ var packagesV14 = [hadoop3p, hadoop3pscala213, hadoopFree, sources];
 var packagesV15 = [hadoop34p, hadoop34pSparkConnect, hadoopFree, sources];
 
 addRelease("4.0.1", new Date("09/06/2025"), packagesV15, true);
-addRelease("3.5.6", new Date("05/29/2025"), packagesV14, true);
+addRelease("3.5.7", new Date("09/24/2025"), packagesV14, true);
 
 function append(el, contents) {
   el.innerHTML += contents;

news/_posts/2025-09-24-spark-3-5-7-released.md

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+---
+layout: post
+title: Spark 3.5.7 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 <a href="{{site.baseurl}}/releases/spark-release-3-5-7.html" title="Spark Release 3.5.7">Spark 3.5.7</a>! Visit the <a href="{{site.baseurl}}/releases/spark-release-3-5-7.html" title="Spark Release 3.5.7">release notes</a> to read about the new features, or <a href="{{site.baseurl}}/downloads.html">download</a> the release today.

releases/_posts/2025-09-24-spark-release-3-5-7.md

@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+---
+layout: post
+title: Spark Release 3.5.7
+categories: []
+tags: []
+status: publish
+type: post
+published: true
+meta:
+  _edit_last: '4'
+  _wpas_done_all: '1'
+---
+
+Spark 3.5.7 is the seventh maintenance release containing security and correctness fixes. This release is based on the branch-3.5 maintenance branch of Spark. We strongly recommend all 3.5 users to upgrade to this stable release.
+
+### Notable changes
+
+- [[SPARK-52721]](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-52721): Wrong message parameter for CANNOT_PARSE_DATATYPE
+- [[SPARK-52749]](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-52749): Replace preview1 to dev1 in its PyPI package name
+- [[SPARK-53518]](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-53518): catalogString of User Defined Type should not be truncated
+- [[SPARK-46941]](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-46941): Can't insert window group limit node for top-k computation if contains SizeBasedWindowFunction
+- [[SPARK-49872]](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-49872): Spark History UI -- StreamConstraintsException: String length (20054016) exceeds the maximum length (20000000)
+- [[SPARK-52023]](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-52023): udaf returning Option can cause data corruption and crashes
+- [[SPARK-52032]](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-52032): ORC filter pushdown causes incorrect results with eqNullSafe (<=>) in DataFrame filter
+- [[SPARK-52240]](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-52240): VectorizedDeltaLengthByteArrayReader throws ParquetDecodingException: Failed to read X bytes
+- [[SPARK-52339]](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-52339): Relations may appear equal even though they are different
+- [[SPARK-52516]](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-52516): Memory Leak with coalesce foreachpartitions and v2 datasources
+- [[SPARK-52611]](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-52611): Fix SQLConf version for excludeSubqueryRefsFromRemoveRedundantAliases configuration
+- [[SPARK-52684]](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-52684): Make CACHE TABLE Commands atomic while encounting execution errors
+- [[SPARK-52737]](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-52737): SHS performance regression when visiting homepage
+- [[SPARK-52776]](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-52776): ProcfsMetricsGetter splits the comm field if it contains space characters
+- [[SPARK-52791]](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-52791): Inferring a UDT errors when first element is null
+- [[SPARK-52809]](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-52809): Don't hold reader and iterator references for all partitions in task completion listeners for metric update
+- [[SPARK-52873]](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-52873): Hint causes semi join results to vary
+- [[SPARK-53054]](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-53054): The Scala Spark Connect DataFrameReader does not use the correct default format
+- [[SPARK-53094]](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-53094): Cube-related data quality problem
+- [[SPARK-53155]](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-53155): Global lower agggregation should not be removed
+- [[SPARK-53435]](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-53435): race condition in CachedRDDBuilder
+- [[SPARK-53560]](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-53560): Crash looping when retrying uncommitted batch in Kafka source and AvailableNow trigger
+- [[SPARK-53581]](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-53581): Potential thread-safety issue for mapTaskIds.add() in IndexShuffleBlockResolver
+
+### Dependency changes
+
+While being a maintenance release we did still upgrade some dependencies in this release they are:
+- [[SPARK-52635]](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-52635): Upgrade ORC to 1.9.7
+- [[SPARK-53532]](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-53532): Upgrade Jetty to 9.4.58.v20250814
+
+You can consult JIRA for the [detailed changes](https://s.apache.org/spark-3.5.7).
+
+We would like to acknowledge all community members for contributing patches to this release.
+

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@@ -159,6 +159,7 @@ <h2><span class="text-capitalize">Apache Spark<span class="tm">&trade;</span></s
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+  <li><a href="/docs/3.5.7/">Spark 3.5.7</a></li>
   <li><a href="/docs/3.5.6/">Spark 3.5.6</a></li>
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@@ -386,6 +387,9 @@ <h3>Research Papers</h3>
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