Chamikara Jayalath

@tvalentyn do we have a good owner for this ?

In the failed test suite Spanner tests passed: https://ge.apache.org/s/n4qn2ounkz6b2/tests/overview So seems like it's unrelated.

Please update "CHANGES.md" separately if needed.

assign set of reviewers

Thanks! Updated the description and the PR title.

> The ResolveArtifacts call will unconditionally download the 300MB beam-sdks-java-extensions-sql-expansion-service-2.55.0.jar to a temporary directory for each ste The downloaded jars should be cached. Probably this caching doesn't work for your...

`and False` part does seem like a bug but I don't think that actually gets hit since the Java expansion response serves Beam artifacts as DEFERRED artifacts that are retrieved...

So transform service just wrap expansion services. So change of behavior should be similar to the change of behavior of the Java expansion service. Regarding, cross-version usage, I think what...

cc: @ahmedabu98 @damccorm probably we should think about improving the schema-transforms API so that these redundant pieces can be avoided.

Noting that Jackson 2.14.1 has a conflict with SnakeYaml 2.0: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/issues/34405 SnakeYaml 1.x has a known vulnerability (https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.yaml/snakeyaml/1.33), so we need to upgrade Jackson to properly resolve this conflict. Also,...