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GeaFlow is a streaming graph computing engine for distributed large-scale
real-time graph storage and analysis. It supports trillion-level graph
storage, hybrid graph and table processing, real-time/offline graph
computing, and interactive graph analysis. Currently, the community is
actively advancing the development of Graph Memory, aiming to serve as the
underlying infrastructure for Agent Memory.
GeaFlow has been incubating since 2025-06-06.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1.Cultivate a more diverse community by engaging contributors and
committers from varied organizations and global regions.
2.Implement predictable release cycles and maintain high project
stability to encourage broad participation and adoption.
### 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?
The GeaFlow community has maintained its core contributor base over the
past month, with existing contributors continuing to drive development. The
community has remained active with ongoing contributions including new
features, optimizations, and bugfix. Additionally, several PRs are
currently under review.
Furthermore, multiple community contributors are actively participating
in CoC Asia 26, which will be held in Beijing, China, and have prepared
multiple proposals for the associated Incubator, Streaming, and Data+AI
tracks.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
Over the past month, the GeaFlow project has continued its progress with
a focus on code robustness, dependency management, and community
facilitation. Key developments include:
- Introduced the CONTRIBUTING.md file to outline contribution guidelines,
facilitating easier onboarding for new developers (#765).
- Enhanced code stability by adding checks for empty search results to
prevent array out of bounds errors (#769) and handling null/empty inputs in
average methods (#760).
- Optimized code quality by defining the BYTES_PER_KB constant for
consistency (#770), replacing raw type usage with type-safe methods (#766),
and excluding conflicting lucene-core dependencies (#778).
- Improved CI infrastructure by formatting build and test commands for
better readability (#763).
- New pull requests were opened targeting production GCN inference
pipelines, hot-reload mechanisms, and vector implementation, indicating
active development in AI capabilities and architecture optimization.
These updates demonstrate continued advancement in codebase health,
project infrastructure stability, and the expansion of Graph+AI features.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
The last version was released on November 19, 2025.
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
The last committers were elected on January 4, 2026.
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, we have received helpful guidance.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
N/A.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (geaflow) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:
- [X] (geaflow) Xin Wang
Comments:
- [ ] (geaflow) Jingsong Lee
Comments:
- [ ] (geaflow) Paul Klingelhuber
Comments:
- [X] (geaflow) Justin Mclean
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
GeaFlow is a streaming graph computing engine for distributed large-scale real-time graph storage and analysis. It supports trillion-level graph storage, hybrid graph and table processing, real-time/offline graph computing, and interactive graph analysis. GeaFlow has been incubating since 2025-06-06. ### Two most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 1. Cultivate a more diverse community by engaging contributors and committers from varied organizations and global regions. 2. Implement predictable release cycles and maintain high project stability to encourage broad participation and adoption. ### 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? The GeaFlow community has maintained its core contributor base over the past month, with existing contributors continuing to drive development. The community has remained active with ongoing contributions including new features, optimizations, and bugfix. Additionally, several PRs are currently under review. ### How has the project developed since the last report? Over the past month, the GeaFlow project has continued its progress with a focus on feature enhancements, code quality improvements, and infrastructure updates. Key developments include: - Introduced the CASTS operator to enhance GeaFlow's reasoning capabilities within the AI component (#737). - Refactored varint encoding/decoding constants to improve code readability and maintainability (#744). - Updated repository references in documentation to reflect the official Apache location (#746). - Fixed typos in log messages and comments across multiple files (#752). - New issues were opened, covering topics such as architecture design, documentation consistency, contributor guidance, and potential overflow bugs, indicating active community scrutiny and roadmap discussions. These updates demonstrate continued advancement in Graph+AI functionality, codebase health, project branding alignment, and community-driven evolution. ### How would you assess the podling's maturity? Please feel free to add your own commentary. - [ ] Initial setup - [ ] Working towards first release - [X] Community building - [ ] Nearing graduation - [ ] Other: ### Date of last release: The last version was released on November 19, 2025. ### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? The last committers were elected on January 4, 2026. ### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? Yes, we have received helpful guidance. ### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks? N/A. ### Signed-off-by: - [X] (GeaFlow) Willem Ning Jiang - [X] (GeaFlow) xinwang - [ ] (GeaFlow) lzljs3620320 - [ ] (GeaFlow) jmclean - [ ] (GeaFlow) paulk ### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
GeaFlow is a streaming graph computing engine for distributed large-scale
real-time graph storage and analysis. It supports trillion-level graph
storage, hybrid graph and table processing, real-time/offline graph
computing, and interactive graph analysis.
GeaFlow has been incubating since 2025-06-06.
### Two most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Cultivate a more diverse community by engaging contributors and
committers from varied organizations and global regions.
2. Implement predictable release cycles and maintain high project
stability to encourage broad participation and adoption.
### 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?
The GeaFlow community has maintained its core contributor base over the
past month, with existing contributors continuing to drive development. The
community has remained active with ongoing contributions including new
features, optimizations, and bugfix. Additionally, several PRs are
currently under review.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
Over the past month, the GeaFlow project has focused on feature
enhancements, optimizations, and dependency updates. Key changes are
including:
+ Add ISO-GQL PROPERTY_EXISTS predicate(#702).
+ Adding Lucene & Embedding-Based Search Operators for LightWeight
Context GraphMemory(#716).
+ Fix memory management in mmap_ipc.cpp(#725).
+ Support Graph Consolidate algorithm and added GraphMemory Java Server
and Client(#729).
These updates reflect ongoing progress in graph-related functionality
expansion, code quality improvements, and Graph+AI capabilities.
### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
Please feel free to add your own commentary.
- [ ] Initial setup
- [ ] Working towards first release
- [X] Community building
- [ ] Nearing graduation
- [ ] Other:
### Date of last release:
The last version was released on November 19, 2025.
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
The last committers were elected on January 4, 2026.
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, we have received helpful guidance.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
N/A.
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (geaflow) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:
- [X] (geaflow) Xin Wang
Comments:
- [ ] (geaflow) Jingsong Lee
Comments:
- [ ] (geaflow) Paul Klingelhuber
Comments:
- [X] (geaflow) Justin Mclean
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes:
GeaFlow is a streaming graph computing engine for distributed large-scale
real-time graph storage and analysis. It supports trillion-level graph
storage, hybrid graph and table processing, real-time/offline graph
computing, and interactive graph analysis.
GeaFlow has been incubating since 2025-06-06.
### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:
1. Enhance the diversity of the community (attracting more committers,
contributors, and users).
2. Release more versions under the ASF.
### 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?
1. Four new contributors have joined the community.
2. Participated in [2025 CSDI Summit in Shenzhen,
China](https://www.csdisummit.com/?page=555582&), and presented work in
the field of AI.
3. Participated in the open source initiative [OSPP
2025](https://github.com/summer-ospp) and helped new contributors resolve
specific project issues.
### How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Five new features have been merged, including support for the
distributed Paimon graph store, a new algorithm implementation for the
incremental minimum spanning tree, JDK 11 compatibility and more. Several
bug fixes and other improvements have also been made.
2. The Apache GeaFlow website is published with both Chinese and English
support.
3. The first community release is in the second round of voting
([v0.7.0-rc2](https://github.com/apache/geaflow/releases/tag/v0.7.0-rc2))
### 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
### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
None since entering the incubator.
We have several active community members and PPMC will review recent
contributors and consider the committer nominations.
### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
Yes, we have received helpful guidance.
### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
N/A
### Signed-off-by:
- [ ] (geaflow) Willem Ning Jiang
Comments:
- [X] (geaflow) Xin Wang
Comments:
- [X] (geaflow) Jingsong Lee
Comments:
- [ ] (geaflow) Paul Klingelhuber
Comments:
- [X] (geaflow) Justin Mclean
Comments:
### IPMC/Shepherd notes: