Hello everyone, bengbengbalabalabeng here. I am incredibly honored and thrilled to share some great news with you all: I recently received an official invitation to become a Committer for the Apache Fesod (Incubating) project.

From starting out as an everyday user to submitting my first bug fix, and eventually diving deep into code contributions, documentation improvements, and community support—this journey has been incredibly rewarding. I'd like to take this opportunity to document my open-source adventure so far.

February 2026 — The Apache Fesod (Incubating) community is pleased to announce the official release of Apache Fesod (Incubating) 2.0.1-incubating.

This is not only a technical iteration but also a significant milestone: the first official release of Fesod since joining the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Incubator. Over the past few months, the community has collaboratively completed extensive compliance improvements, architectural refactoring, and functional enhancements. This release marks Fesod’s readiness to embark on a new chapter of high-performance Excel processing under the ASF governance.

Hello everyone! It's a great honor to be invited by the Apache Fesod community to become a Committer. I'm thrilled to share my open source journey and how I got here.

On September 17, 2025, Beijing time, Fesod successfully passed the voting resolution of the Apache Foundation Incubator. According to the Apache Foundation mailing list, it was approved with 9 binding votes, with no abstentions or opposing votes, to accept Fesod into the Apache Incubator. This marked its official status as an incubation project under the Apache Software Foundation, the world's largest open-source foundation. On September 25, 2025, the Fesod repository was officially transferred to the Apache Software Foundation.