diff --git a/kernel/README.md b/kernel/README.md
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index 00000000000..220d4e26512
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kernel/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# Delta Kernel
+
+[TODO] - For now refer to [delta-io/delta#1783](https://github.com/delta-io/delta/issues/1783) for further information.
diff --git a/kernel/build.sbt b/kernel/build.sbt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..67d7956195c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kernel/build.sbt
@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (2021) The Delta Lake Project Authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+val scala212 = "2.12.15"
+scalaVersion := scala212
+
+lazy val commonSettings = Seq(
+  organization := "io.delta",
+  scalaVersion := scala212,
+  fork := true,
+  scalacOptions ++= Seq("-target:jvm-1.8", "-Ywarn-unused:imports"),
+  javacOptions ++= Seq("-source", "1.8"),
+  // -target cannot be passed as a parameter to javadoc. See https://github.com/sbt/sbt/issues/355
+  Compile / compile / javacOptions ++= Seq("-target", "1.8", "-Xlint:unchecked"),
+  // Configurations to speed up tests and reduce memory footprint
+  Test / javaOptions += "-Xmx1024m",
+)
+
+// TODO javastyle checkstyle tests
+// TODO unidoc/javadoc settings
+
+lazy val kernelApi = (project in file("kernel-api"))
+  .settings(
+    name := "delta-kernel-api",
+    commonSettings,
+    scalaStyleSettings,
+    releaseSettings,
+    libraryDependencies ++= Seq()
+  )
+
+val hadoopVersion = "3.3.1"
+val deltaStorageVersion = "2.2.0"
+val scalaTestVersion = "3.2.15"
+val deltaSparkVersion = deltaStorageVersion
+val sparkVersion = "3.3.2"
+
+lazy val kernelDefault = (project in file("kernel-default"))
+  .dependsOn(kernelApi)
+  .settings(
+    name := "delta-kernel-default",
+    commonSettings,
+    scalaStyleSettings,
+    releaseSettings,
+    libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
+      "org.apache.hadoop" % "hadoop-client-api" % hadoopVersion, // Configuration, Path
+      "io.delta" % "delta-storage" % deltaStorageVersion, // LogStore
+      "com.fasterxml.jackson.core" % "jackson-databind" % "2.13.5", // ObjectMapper
+      "org.apache.parquet" % "parquet-hadoop" % "1.12.3",
+
+      "org.scalatest" %% "scalatest" % scalaTestVersion % "test",
+      "io.delta" %% "delta-core" % deltaSparkVersion % "test",
+      "org.apache.spark" %% "spark-sql" % sparkVersion % "test", // SparkSession
+      "org.apache.spark" %% "spark-sql" % sparkVersion % "test" classifier "tests",
+      "org.apache.spark" %% "spark-core" % sparkVersion % "test" classifier "tests",
+      "org.apache.spark" %% "spark-catalyst" % sparkVersion % "test" classifier "tests",
+      "junit" % "junit" % "4.11" % "test",
+      "com.novocode" % "junit-interface" % "0.11" % "test"
+    )
+  )
+
+/*
+ ***********************
+ * ScalaStyle settings *
+ ***********************
+ */
+ThisBuild / scalastyleConfig := baseDirectory.value / "scalastyle-config.xml"
+
+// Not used since scala is test-only
+lazy val compileScalastyle = taskKey[Unit]("compileScalastyle")
+lazy val testScalastyle = taskKey[Unit]("testScalastyle")
+
+lazy val scalaStyleSettings = Seq(
+  compileScalastyle := (Compile / scalastyle).toTask("").value,
+  Compile / compile := ((Compile / compile) dependsOn compileScalastyle).value,
+  testScalastyle := (Test / scalastyle).toTask("").value,
+  Test / test := ((Test / test) dependsOn testScalastyle).value
+)
+
+/*
+ ********************
+ * Release settings *
+ ********************
+ */
+
+// Don't release the root project
+publishArtifact := false
+publish / skip := true
+
+lazy val releaseSettings = Seq(
+  // Java only release settings
+  crossPaths := false, // drop off Scala suffix from artifact names
+  autoScalaLibrary := false, // exclude scala-library from dependencies in generated pom.xml
+
+  // Other release settings
+  publishArtifact := true,
+  Test / publishArtifact := false
+)
diff --git a/kernel/build/sbt b/kernel/build/sbt
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..044a2929bde
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kernel/build/sbt
@@ -0,0 +1,183 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+
+#
+# This file contains code from the Apache Spark project (original license above).
+# It contains modifications, which are licensed as follows:
+#
+
+#
+#  Copyright (2021) The Delta Lake Project Authors.
+#  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+#  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+#  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+#  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+#  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+#  limitations under the License.
+#
+
+
+# When creating new tests for Spark SQL Hive, the HADOOP_CLASSPATH must contain the hive jars so
+# that we can run Hive to generate the golden answer.  This is not required for normal development
+# or testing.
+if [ -n "$HIVE_HOME" ]; then
+    for i in "$HIVE_HOME"/lib/*
+    do HADOOP_CLASSPATH="$HADOOP_CLASSPATH:$i"
+    done
+    export HADOOP_CLASSPATH
+fi
+
+realpath () {
+(
+  TARGET_FILE="$1"
+
+  cd "$(dirname "$TARGET_FILE")"
+  TARGET_FILE="$(basename "$TARGET_FILE")"
+
+  COUNT=0
+  while [ -L "$TARGET_FILE" -a $COUNT -lt 100 ]
+  do
+      TARGET_FILE="$(readlink "$TARGET_FILE")"
+      cd $(dirname "$TARGET_FILE")
+      TARGET_FILE="$(basename $TARGET_FILE)"
+      COUNT=$(($COUNT + 1))
+  done
+
+  echo "$(pwd -P)/"$TARGET_FILE""
+)
+}
+
+if [[ "$JENKINS_URL" != "" ]]; then
+  # Make Jenkins use Google Mirror first as Maven Central may ban us
+  SBT_REPOSITORIES_CONFIG="$(dirname "$(realpath "$0")")/sbt-config/repositories"
+  export SBT_OPTS="-Dsbt.override.build.repos=true -Dsbt.repository.config=$SBT_REPOSITORIES_CONFIG"
+fi
+
+. "$(dirname "$(realpath "$0")")"/sbt-launch-lib.bash
+
+
+declare -r noshare_opts="-Dsbt.global.base=project/.sbtboot -Dsbt.boot.directory=project/.boot -Dsbt.ivy.home=project/.ivy"
+declare -r sbt_opts_file=".sbtopts"
+declare -r etc_sbt_opts_file="/etc/sbt/sbtopts"
+
+usage() {
+ cat <<EOM
+Usage: $script_name [options]
+
+  -h | -help         print this message
+  -v | -verbose      this runner is chattier
+  -d | -debug        set sbt log level to debug
+  -no-colors         disable ANSI color codes
+  -sbt-create        start sbt even if current directory contains no sbt project
+  -sbt-dir   <path>  path to global settings/plugins directory (default: ~/.sbt)
+  -sbt-boot  <path>  path to shared boot directory (default: ~/.sbt/boot in 0.11 series)
+  -ivy       <path>  path to local Ivy repository (default: ~/.ivy2)
+  -mem    <integer>  set memory options (default: $sbt_mem, which is $(get_mem_opts $sbt_mem))
+  -no-share          use all local caches; no sharing
+  -no-global         uses global caches, but does not use global ~/.sbt directory.
+  -jvm-debug <port>  Turn on JVM debugging, open at the given port.
+  -batch             Disable interactive mode
+
+  # sbt version (default: from project/build.properties if present, else latest release)
+  -sbt-version  <version>   use the specified version of sbt
+  -sbt-jar      <path>      use the specified jar as the sbt launcher
+  -sbt-rc                   use an RC version of sbt
+  -sbt-snapshot             use a snapshot version of sbt
+
+  # java version (default: java from PATH, currently $(java -version 2>&1 | grep version))
+  -java-home <path>         alternate JAVA_HOME
+
+  # jvm options and output control
+  JAVA_OPTS          environment variable, if unset uses "$java_opts"
+  SBT_OPTS           environment variable, if unset uses "$default_sbt_opts"
+  .sbtopts           if this file exists in the current directory, it is
+                     prepended to the runner args
+  /etc/sbt/sbtopts   if this file exists, it is prepended to the runner args
+  -Dkey=val          pass -Dkey=val directly to the java runtime
+  -J-X               pass option -X directly to the java runtime
+                     (-J is stripped)
+  -S-X               add -X to sbt's scalacOptions (-S is stripped)
+  -PmavenProfiles    Enable a maven profile for the build.
+
+In the case of duplicated or conflicting options, the order above
+shows precedence: JAVA_OPTS lowest, command line options highest.
+EOM
+}
+
+process_my_args () {
+  while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
+    case "$1" in
+     -no-colors) addJava "-Dsbt.log.noformat=true" && shift ;;
+      -no-share) addJava "$noshare_opts" && shift ;;
+     -no-global) addJava "-Dsbt.global.base=$(pwd)/project/.sbtboot" && shift ;;
+      -sbt-boot) require_arg path "$1" "$2" && addJava "-Dsbt.boot.directory=$2" && shift 2 ;;
+       -sbt-dir) require_arg path "$1" "$2" && addJava "-Dsbt.global.base=$2" && shift 2 ;;
+     -debug-inc) addJava "-Dxsbt.inc.debug=true" && shift ;;
+         -batch) exec </dev/null && shift ;;
+
+    -sbt-create) sbt_create=true && shift ;;
+
+              *) addResidual "$1" && shift ;;
+    esac
+  done
+
+  # Now, ensure sbt version is used.
+  [[ "${sbt_version}XXX" != "XXX" ]] && addJava "-Dsbt.version=$sbt_version"
+}
+
+loadConfigFile() {
+  cat "$1" | sed '/^\#/d'
+}
+
+# if sbtopts files exist, prepend their contents to $@ so it can be processed by this runner
+[[ -f "$etc_sbt_opts_file" ]] && set -- $(loadConfigFile "$etc_sbt_opts_file") "$@"
+[[ -f "$sbt_opts_file" ]] && set -- $(loadConfigFile "$sbt_opts_file") "$@"
+
+exit_status=127
+saved_stty=""
+
+restoreSttySettings() {
+  stty $saved_stty
+  saved_stty=""
+}
+
+onExit() {
+  if [[ "$saved_stty" != "" ]]; then
+    restoreSttySettings
+  fi
+  exit $exit_status
+}
+
+saveSttySettings() {
+  saved_stty=$(stty -g 2>/dev/null)
+  if [[ ! $? ]]; then
+    saved_stty=""
+  fi
+}
+
+saveSttySettings
+trap onExit INT
+
+run "$@"
+
+exit_status=$?
+onExit
diff --git a/kernel/build/sbt-config/repositories b/kernel/build/sbt-config/repositories
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ca4160b22d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kernel/build/sbt-config/repositories
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+[repositories]
+  local
+  local-preloaded-ivy: file:///${sbt.preloaded-${sbt.global.base-${user.home}/.sbt}/preloaded/}, [organization]/[module]/[revision]/[type]s/[artifact](-[classifier]).[ext]
+  local-preloaded: file:///${sbt.preloaded-${sbt.global.base-${user.home}/.sbt}/preloaded/}
+  gcs-maven-central-mirror: https://maven-central.storage-download.googleapis.com/repos/central/data/
+  maven-central
+  typesafe-ivy-releases: https://repo.typesafe.com/typesafe/ivy-releases/, [organization]/[module]/[revision]/[type]s/[artifact](-[classifier]).[ext], bootOnly
+  sbt-ivy-snapshots: https://repo.scala-sbt.org/scalasbt/ivy-snapshots/, [organization]/[module]/[revision]/[type]s/[artifact](-[classifier]).[ext], bootOnly
+  sbt-plugin-releases: https://repo.scala-sbt.org/scalasbt/sbt-plugin-releases/, [organization]/[module]/(scala_[scalaVersion]/)(sbt_[sbtVersion]/)[revision]/[type]s/[artifact](-[classifier]).[ext]
+  bintray-typesafe-sbt-plugin-releases: https://dl.bintray.com/typesafe/sbt-plugins/, [organization]/[module]/(scala_[scalaVersion]/)(sbt_[sbtVersion]/)[revision]/[type]s/[artifact](-[classifier]).[ext]
+  bintray-spark-packages: https://dl.bintray.com/spark-packages/maven/
+  typesafe-releases: https://repo.typesafe.com/typesafe/releases/
diff --git a/kernel/build/sbt-launch-lib.bash b/kernel/build/sbt-launch-lib.bash
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..0d58bb7269c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kernel/build/sbt-launch-lib.bash
@@ -0,0 +1,197 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+
+# A library to simplify using the SBT launcher from other packages.
+# Note: This should be used by tools like giter8/conscript etc.
+
+# TODO - Should we merge the main SBT script with this library?
+
+if test -z "$HOME"; then
+  declare -r script_dir="$(dirname "$script_path")"
+else
+  declare -r script_dir="$HOME/.sbt"
+fi
+
+declare -a residual_args
+declare -a java_args
+declare -a scalac_args
+declare -a sbt_commands
+declare -a maven_profiles
+
+if test -x "$JAVA_HOME/bin/java"; then
+    echo -e "Using $JAVA_HOME as default JAVA_HOME."
+    echo "Note, this will be overridden by -java-home if it is set."
+    declare java_cmd="$JAVA_HOME/bin/java"
+else
+    declare java_cmd=java
+fi
+
+echoerr () {
+  echo 1>&2 "$@"
+}
+vlog () {
+  [[ $verbose || $debug ]] && echoerr "$@"
+}
+dlog () {
+  [[ $debug ]] && echoerr "$@"
+}
+
+acquire_sbt_jar () {
+  SBT_VERSION=`awk -F "=" '/sbt\.version/ {print $2}' ./project/build.properties`
+
+  # Download sbt from mirror URL if the environment variable is provided
+  if [[ "${SBT_VERSION}" == "0.13.18" ]] && [[ -n "${SBT_MIRROR_JAR_URL}" ]]; then
+    URL1="${SBT_MIRROR_JAR_URL}"
+  elif [[ "${SBT_VERSION}" == "1.5.5" ]] && [[ -n "${SBT_1_5_5_MIRROR_JAR_URL}" ]]; then
+    URL1="${SBT_1_5_5_MIRROR_JAR_URL}"
+  else
+    URL1=${DEFAULT_ARTIFACT_REPOSITORY:-https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/}org/scala-sbt/sbt-launch/${SBT_VERSION}/sbt-launch-${SBT_VERSION}.jar
+  fi
+
+  JAR=build/sbt-launch-${SBT_VERSION}.jar
+  sbt_jar=$JAR
+
+  if [[ ! -f "$sbt_jar" ]]; then
+    # Download sbt launch jar if it hasn't been downloaded yet
+    if [ ! -f "${JAR}" ]; then
+    # Download
+    printf 'Attempting to fetch sbt from %s\n' "${URL1}"
+    JAR_DL="${JAR}.part"
+    if [ $(command -v curl) ]; then
+      curl --fail --location --silent ${URL1} > "${JAR_DL}" &&\
+        mv "${JAR_DL}" "${JAR}"
+    elif [ $(command -v wget) ]; then
+      wget --quiet ${URL1} -O "${JAR_DL}" &&\
+        mv "${JAR_DL}" "${JAR}"
+    else
+      printf "You do not have curl or wget installed, please install sbt manually from https://www.scala-sbt.org/\n"
+      exit -1
+    fi
+    fi
+    if [ ! -f "${JAR}" ]; then
+    # We failed to download
+    printf "Our attempt to download sbt locally to ${JAR} failed. Please install sbt manually from https://www.scala-sbt.org/\n"
+    exit -1
+    fi
+    printf "Launching sbt from ${JAR}\n"
+  fi
+}
+
+execRunner () {
+  # print the arguments one to a line, quoting any containing spaces
+  [[ $verbose || $debug ]] && echo "# Executing command line:" && {
+    for arg; do
+      if printf "%s\n" "$arg" | grep -q ' '; then
+        printf "\"%s\"\n" "$arg"
+      else
+        printf "%s\n" "$arg"
+      fi
+    done
+    echo ""
+  }
+
+  "$@"
+}
+
+addJava () {
+  dlog "[addJava] arg = '$1'"
+  java_args=( "${java_args[@]}" "$1" )
+}
+
+enableProfile () {
+  dlog "[enableProfile] arg = '$1'"
+  maven_profiles=( "${maven_profiles[@]}" "$1" )
+  export SBT_MAVEN_PROFILES="${maven_profiles[@]}"
+}
+
+addSbt () {
+  dlog "[addSbt] arg = '$1'"
+  sbt_commands=( "${sbt_commands[@]}" "$1" )
+}
+addResidual () {
+  dlog "[residual] arg = '$1'"
+  residual_args=( "${residual_args[@]}" "$1" )
+}
+addDebugger () {
+  addJava "-agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=$1"
+}
+
+# a ham-fisted attempt to move some memory settings in concert
+# so they need not be dicked around with individually.
+get_mem_opts () {
+  local mem=${1:-1000}
+  local perm=$(( $mem / 4 ))
+  (( $perm > 256 )) || perm=256
+  (( $perm < 4096 )) || perm=4096
+  local codecache=$(( $perm / 2 ))
+
+  echo "-Xms${mem}m -Xmx${mem}m -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=${codecache}m"
+}
+
+require_arg () {
+  local type="$1"
+  local opt="$2"
+  local arg="$3"
+  if [[ -z "$arg" ]] || [[ "${arg:0:1}" == "-" ]]; then
+    echo "$opt requires <$type> argument" 1>&2
+    exit 1
+  fi
+}
+
+is_function_defined() {
+  declare -f "$1" > /dev/null
+}
+
+process_args () {
+  while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
+    case "$1" in
+       -h|-help) usage; exit 1 ;;
+    -v|-verbose) verbose=1 && shift ;;
+      -d|-debug) debug=1 && shift ;;
+
+           -ivy) require_arg path "$1" "$2" && addJava "-Dsbt.ivy.home=$2" && shift 2 ;;
+           -mem) require_arg integer "$1" "$2" && sbt_mem="$2" && shift 2 ;;
+     -jvm-debug) require_arg port "$1" "$2" && addDebugger $2 && shift 2 ;;
+         -batch) exec </dev/null && shift ;;
+
+       -sbt-jar) require_arg path "$1" "$2" && sbt_jar="$2" && shift 2 ;;
+   -sbt-version) require_arg version "$1" "$2" && sbt_version="$2" && shift 2 ;;
+     -java-home) require_arg path "$1" "$2" && java_cmd="$2/bin/java" && export JAVA_HOME=$2 && shift 2 ;;
+
+            -D*) addJava "$1" && shift ;;
+            -J*) addJava "${1:2}" && shift ;;
+            -P*) enableProfile "$1" && shift ;;
+              *) addResidual "$1" && shift ;;
+    esac
+  done
+
+  is_function_defined process_my_args && {
+    myargs=("${residual_args[@]}")
+    residual_args=()
+    process_my_args "${myargs[@]}"
+  }
+}
+
+run() {
+  # no jar? download it.
+  [[ -f "$sbt_jar" ]] || acquire_sbt_jar "$sbt_version" || {
+    # still no jar? uh-oh.
+    echo "Download failed. Obtain the sbt-launch.jar manually and place it at $sbt_jar"
+    exit 1
+  }
+
+  # process the combined args, then reset "$@" to the residuals
+  process_args "$@"
+  set -- "${residual_args[@]}"
+  argumentCount=$#
+
+  # run sbt
+  execRunner "$java_cmd" \
+    ${SBT_OPTS:-$default_sbt_opts} \
+    $(get_mem_opts $sbt_mem) \
+    ${java_opts} \
+    ${java_args[@]} \
+    -jar "$sbt_jar" \
+    "${sbt_commands[@]}" \
+    "${residual_args[@]}"
+}
diff --git a/kernel/project/build.properties b/kernel/project/build.properties
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b818a64bfa7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kernel/project/build.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+
+#
+# This file contains code from the Apache Spark project (original license above).
+# It contains modifications, which are licensed as follows:
+#
+
+#
+#  Copyright (2021) The Delta Lake Project Authors.
+#  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+#  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+#  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+#  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+#  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+#  limitations under the License.
+#
+
+sbt.version=1.6.1
diff --git a/kernel/project/plugins.sbt b/kernel/project/plugins.sbt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5f54199a54f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kernel/project/plugins.sbt
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (2021) The Delta Lake Project Authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+addSbtPlugin("com.github.sbt" % "sbt-release" % "1.1.0")
+
+addSbtPlugin("com.github.sbt" % "sbt-pgp" % "2.1.2")
+
+addSbtPlugin("org.scalastyle" %% "scalastyle-sbt-plugin" % "1.0.0")
+
+addSbtPlugin("com.eed3si9n" % "sbt-unidoc" % "0.4.3")
+
+addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe" % "sbt-mima-plugin" % "1.0.1")
+
+addSbtPlugin("org.xerial.sbt" % "sbt-sonatype" % "3.9.15")
+
+// TODO: let's add java checkstyle in a separate PR
+// addSbtPlugin("com.etsy" % "sbt-checkstyle-plugin" % "3.1.1")
+
+// By default, sbt-checkstyle-plugin uses checkstyle version 6.15, but we should set it to use the
+// same version as Spark
+// dependencyOverrides += "com.puppycrawl.tools" % "checkstyle" % "8.43"
diff --git a/kernel/scalastyle-config.xml b/kernel/scalastyle-config.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..31f2d4d8004
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kernel/scalastyle-config.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,469 @@
+<!--
+  ~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+  ~ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+  ~ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+  ~ The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+  ~ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+  ~ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+  ~
+  ~    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+  ~
+  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  ~ limitations under the License.
+  -->
+<!--
+  ~ This file contains code from the Apache Spark project (original license above).
+  ~It contains modifications, which are licensed as follows:
+  -->
+<!--
+  ~ Copyright (2021) The Delta Lake Project Authors.
+  ~
+  ~ Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+  ~ you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+  ~ You may obtain a copy of the License at
+  ~
+  ~
+  ~ http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+  ~
+  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  ~ limitations under the License.
+-->
+<!--
+
+If you wish to turn off checking for a section of code, you can put a comment in the source
+before and after the section, with the following syntax:
+
+  // scalastyle:off
+  ...  // stuff that breaks the styles
+  // scalastyle:on
+
+You can also disable only one rule, by specifying its rule id, as specified in:
+  http://www.scalastyle.org/rules-0.7.0.html
+
+  // scalastyle:off no.finalize
+  override def finalize(): Unit = ...
+  // scalastyle:on no.finalize
+
+This file is divided into 3 sections:
+ (1) rules that we enforce.
+ (2) rules that we would like to enforce, but haven't cleaned up the codebase to turn on yet
+     (or we need to make the scalastyle rule more configurable).
+ (3) rules that we don't want to enforce.
+-->
+
+<scalastyle>
+  <name>Scalastyle standard configuration</name>
+
+  <!-- ================================================================================ -->
+  <!--                               rules we enforce                                   -->
+  <!-- ================================================================================ -->
+
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.file.FileTabChecker" enabled="true"></check>
+
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.file.HeaderMatchesChecker" enabled="true">
+    <parameters>
+       <parameter name="regex">true</parameter>
+       <parameter name="header"><![CDATA[(?:\Q/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * This file contains code from the Apache Spark project (original license above).
+ * It contains modifications, which are licensed as follows:
+ */
+
+\E)?\Q/*
+ * Copyright (2021) The Delta Lake Project Authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */\E]]></parameter>
+    </parameters>
+  </check>
+
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.SpacesAfterPlusChecker" enabled="true"></check>
+
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.SpacesBeforePlusChecker" enabled="true"></check>
+
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.file.WhitespaceEndOfLineChecker" enabled="true"></check>
+
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.file.FileLineLengthChecker" enabled="true">
+    <parameters>
+      <parameter name="maxLineLength"><![CDATA[100]]></parameter>
+      <parameter name="tabSize"><![CDATA[2]]></parameter>
+      <parameter name="ignoreImports">true</parameter>
+    </parameters>
+  </check>
+
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.ClassNamesChecker" enabled="true">
+    <parameters><parameter name="regex"><![CDATA[[A-Z][A-Za-z]*]]></parameter></parameters>
+  </check>
+
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.ObjectNamesChecker" enabled="true">
+    <parameters><parameter name="regex"><![CDATA[(config|[A-Z][A-Za-z]*)]]></parameter></parameters>
+  </check>
+
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.PackageObjectNamesChecker" enabled="true">
+    <parameters><parameter name="regex"><![CDATA[^[a-z][A-Za-z]*$]]></parameter></parameters>
+  </check>
+
+  <check customId="argcount" level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.ParameterNumberChecker" enabled="true">
+    <parameters><parameter name="maxParameters"><![CDATA[10]]></parameter></parameters>
+  </check>
+
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.NoFinalizeChecker" enabled="true"></check>
+
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.CovariantEqualsChecker" enabled="true"></check>
+
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.StructuralTypeChecker" enabled="true"></check>
+
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.UppercaseLChecker" enabled="true"></check>
+
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.IfBraceChecker" enabled="true">
+    <parameters>
+      <parameter name="singleLineAllowed"><![CDATA[true]]></parameter>
+      <parameter name="doubleLineAllowed"><![CDATA[true]]></parameter>
+    </parameters>
+  </check>
+
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.PublicMethodsHaveTypeChecker" enabled="true"></check>
+
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.file.NewLineAtEofChecker" enabled="true"></check>
+
+  <check customId="nonascii" level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.NonASCIICharacterChecker" enabled="true"></check>
+
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.SpaceAfterCommentStartChecker" enabled="true"></check>
+
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.EnsureSingleSpaceBeforeTokenChecker" enabled="true">
+   <parameters>
+     <parameter name="tokens">ARROW, EQUALS, ELSE, TRY, CATCH, FINALLY, LARROW, RARROW</parameter>
+   </parameters>
+  </check>
+
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.EnsureSingleSpaceAfterTokenChecker" enabled="true">
+    <parameters>
+     <parameter name="tokens">ARROW, EQUALS, COMMA, COLON, IF, ELSE, DO, WHILE, FOR, MATCH, TRY, CATCH, FINALLY, LARROW, RARROW</parameter>
+    </parameters>
+  </check>
+
+  <!-- ??? usually shouldn't be checked into the code base. -->
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.NotImplementedErrorUsage" enabled="true"></check>
+
+  <!-- As of SPARK-7558, all tests in Spark should extend o.a.s.SparkFunSuite instead of FunSuite directly -->
+  <check customId="funsuite" level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.TokenChecker" enabled="true">
+    <parameters><parameter name="regex">^FunSuite[A-Za-z]*$</parameter></parameters>
+    <customMessage>Tests must extend org.apache.spark.SparkFunSuite instead.</customMessage>
+  </check>
+
+  <!-- As of SPARK-7977 all printlns need to be wrapped in '// scalastyle:off/on println' -->
+  <check customId="println" level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.TokenChecker" enabled="true">
+    <parameters><parameter name="regex">^println$</parameter></parameters>
+    <customMessage><![CDATA[Are you sure you want to println? If yes, wrap the code block with
+      // scalastyle:off println
+      println(...)
+      // scalastyle:on println]]></customMessage>
+  </check>
+
+  <check customId="hadoopconfiguration" level="error" class="org.scalastyle.file.RegexChecker" enabled="true">
+    <parameters><parameter name="regex">spark(.sqlContext)?.sparkContext.hadoopConfiguration</parameter></parameters>
+    <customMessage><![CDATA[
+      Are you sure that you want to use sparkContext.hadoopConfiguration? In most cases, you should use
+      spark.sessionState.newHadoopConf() instead, so that the hadoop configurations specified in Spark session
+      configuration will come into effect.
+      If you must use sparkContext.hadoopConfiguration, wrap the code block with
+      // scalastyle:off hadoopconfiguration
+      spark.sparkContext.hadoopConfiguration...
+      // scalastyle:on hadoopconfiguration
+    ]]></customMessage>
+  </check>
+
+  <check customId="deltahadoopconfiguration" level="error" class="org.scalastyle.file.RegexChecker" enabled="true">
+    <parameters><parameter name="regex">sessionState.newHadoopConf</parameter></parameters>
+    <customMessage><![CDATA[
+      Are you sure that you want to use sessionState.newHadoopConf? In most cases, you should use
+      deltaLog.newDeltaHadoopConf() instead, so that the hadoop file system configurations specified
+      in DataFrame options will come into effect.
+      If you must use sessionState.newHadoopConf, wrap the code block with
+      // scalastyle:off deltahadoopconfiguration
+      spark.sessionState.newHadoopConf...
+      // scalastyle:on deltahadoopconfiguration
+    ]]></customMessage>
+  </check>
+
+  <check customId="visiblefortesting" level="error" class="org.scalastyle.file.RegexChecker" enabled="true">
+    <parameters><parameter name="regex">@VisibleForTesting</parameter></parameters>
+    <customMessage><![CDATA[
+      @VisibleForTesting causes classpath issues. Please note this in the java doc instead (SPARK-11615).
+    ]]></customMessage>
+  </check>
+
+  <check customId="runtimeaddshutdownhook" level="error" class="org.scalastyle.file.RegexChecker" enabled="true">
+    <parameters><parameter name="regex">Runtime\.getRuntime\.addShutdownHook</parameter></parameters>
+    <customMessage><![CDATA[
+      Are you sure that you want to use Runtime.getRuntime.addShutdownHook? In most cases, you should use
+      ShutdownHookManager.addShutdownHook instead.
+      If you must use Runtime.getRuntime.addShutdownHook, wrap the code block with
+      // scalastyle:off runtimeaddshutdownhook
+      Runtime.getRuntime.addShutdownHook(...)
+      // scalastyle:on runtimeaddshutdownhook
+    ]]></customMessage>
+  </check>
+
+  <check customId="mutablesynchronizedbuffer" level="error" class="org.scalastyle.file.RegexChecker" enabled="true">
+    <parameters><parameter name="regex">mutable\.SynchronizedBuffer</parameter></parameters>
+    <customMessage><![CDATA[
+      Are you sure that you want to use mutable.SynchronizedBuffer? In most cases, you should use
+      java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentLinkedQueue instead.
+      If you must use mutable.SynchronizedBuffer, wrap the code block with
+      // scalastyle:off mutablesynchronizedbuffer
+      mutable.SynchronizedBuffer[...]
+      // scalastyle:on mutablesynchronizedbuffer
+    ]]></customMessage>
+  </check>
+
+  <check customId="classforname" level="error" class="org.scalastyle.file.RegexChecker" enabled="true">
+    <parameters><parameter name="regex">Class\.forName</parameter></parameters>
+    <customMessage><![CDATA[
+      Are you sure that you want to use Class.forName? In most cases, you should use Utils.classForName instead.
+      If you must use Class.forName, wrap the code block with
+      // scalastyle:off classforname
+      Class.forName(...)
+      // scalastyle:on classforname
+    ]]></customMessage>
+  </check>
+
+  <check customId="awaitresult" level="error" class="org.scalastyle.file.RegexChecker" enabled="true">
+    <parameters><parameter name="regex">Await\.result</parameter></parameters>
+    <customMessage><![CDATA[
+      Are you sure that you want to use Await.result? In most cases, you should use ThreadUtils.awaitResult instead.
+      If you must use Await.result, wrap the code block with
+      // scalastyle:off awaitresult
+      Await.result(...)
+      // scalastyle:on awaitresult
+    ]]></customMessage>
+  </check>
+
+  <check customId="awaitready" level="error" class="org.scalastyle.file.RegexChecker" enabled="true">
+    <parameters><parameter name="regex">Await\.ready</parameter></parameters>
+    <customMessage><![CDATA[
+      Are you sure that you want to use Await.ready? In most cases, you should use ThreadUtils.awaitReady instead.
+      If you must use Await.ready, wrap the code block with
+      // scalastyle:off awaitready
+      Await.ready(...)
+      // scalastyle:on awaitready
+    ]]></customMessage>
+  </check>
+
+  <check customId="caselocale" level="error" class="org.scalastyle.file.RegexChecker" enabled="true">
+    <parameters><parameter name="regex">(\.toUpperCase|\.toLowerCase)(?!(\(|\(Locale.ROOT\)))</parameter></parameters>
+    <customMessage><![CDATA[
+      Are you sure that you want to use toUpperCase or toLowerCase without the root locale? In most cases, you
+      should use toUpperCase(Locale.ROOT) or toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT) instead.
+      If you must use toUpperCase or toLowerCase without the root locale, wrap the code block with
+      // scalastyle:off caselocale
+      .toUpperCase
+      .toLowerCase
+      // scalastyle:on caselocale
+    ]]></customMessage>
+  </check>
+
+  <check customId="typedlit" level="error" class="org.scalastyle.file.RegexChecker" enabled="true">
+    <parameters><parameter name="regex">typed[lL]it</parameter></parameters>
+    <customMessage><![CDATA[
+      'typedlit' or `typedLit` uses ScalaReflection to resolve the data type which is inefficient in concurrent
+      queries. In most cases, you can use `lit` or `new Column(Literal(...))` instead.
+      If you must use it, wrap the code block with
+      // scalastyle:off typedlit
+      typedLit("foo")
+      // scalastyle:on typedlit
+    ]]></customMessage>
+  </check>
+
+  <check customId="sparkimplicits" level="error" class="org.scalastyle.file.RegexChecker" enabled="true">
+    <parameters><parameter name="regex">spark(Session)?.implicits._</parameter></parameters>
+    <customMessage><![CDATA[
+      When importing `spark.implicits._`, it's easy to create an `Encoder` unintentionally which can hurt
+      the performance a lot in concurrent queries. You can use `import com.databricks.sql.transaction.tahoe.implicits._`
+      instead to use `Encoder`s we cache for reusing. If this doesn't work, you can define new `Encoder`s
+      in `DeltaEncoders` to cache and reuse them.
+      If you must use it, wrap the code block with
+      // scalastyle:off sparkimplicits
+      import spark.implicits._
+      // scalastyle:on sparkimplicits
+    ]]></customMessage>
+  </check>
+
+  <check customId="throwerror" level="error" class="org.scalastyle.file.RegexChecker" enabled="true">
+    <parameters><parameter name="regex">throw new \w+Error\(</parameter></parameters>
+    <customMessage><![CDATA[
+      Are you sure that you want to throw Error? In most cases, you should use appropriate Exception instead.
+      If you must throw Error, wrap the code block with
+      // scalastyle:off throwerror
+      throw new XXXError(...)
+      // scalastyle:on throwerror
+    ]]></customMessage>
+  </check>
+
+  <check customId="countstring" level="error" class="org.scalastyle.file.RegexChecker" enabled="true">
+    <parameters><parameter name="regex">count\("</parameter></parameters>
+    <customMessage><![CDATA[
+      'count(String)' returns 'TypedColumn' and touches ScalaReflection which is inefficient in concurrent queries.
+      In most cases, you don't need a 'TypedColumn' and you should use 'count(new Column("..."))' instead.
+      If you must use it, wrap the code block with
+      // scalastyle:off countstring
+      count("foo")
+      // scalastyle:on countstring
+    ]]></customMessage>
+  </check>
+
+  <!-- As of SPARK-9613 JavaConversions should be replaced with JavaConverters -->
+  <check customId="javaconversions" level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.TokenChecker" enabled="true">
+    <parameters><parameter name="regex">JavaConversions</parameter></parameters>
+    <customMessage>Instead of importing implicits in scala.collection.JavaConversions._, import
+    scala.collection.JavaConverters._ and use .asScala / .asJava methods</customMessage>
+  </check>
+
+  <check customId="commonslang2" level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.TokenChecker" enabled="true">
+    <parameters><parameter name="regex">org\.apache\.commons\.lang\.</parameter></parameters>
+    <customMessage>Use Commons Lang 3 classes (package org.apache.commons.lang3.*) instead
+    of Commons Lang 2 (package org.apache.commons.lang.*)</customMessage>
+  </check>
+
+  <check customId="extractopt" level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.TokenChecker" enabled="true">
+    <parameters><parameter name="regex">extractOpt</parameter></parameters>
+    <customMessage>Use jsonOption(x).map(.extract[T]) instead of .extractOpt[T], as the latter
+    is slower.  </customMessage>
+  </check>
+
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.DisallowSpaceBeforeTokenChecker" enabled="true">
+    <parameters>
+      <parameter name="tokens">COMMA</parameter>
+    </parameters>
+  </check>
+
+  <!-- SPARK-3854: Single Space between ')' and '{' -->
+  <check customId="SingleSpaceBetweenRParenAndLCurlyBrace" level="error" class="org.scalastyle.file.RegexChecker" enabled="true">
+    <parameters><parameter name="regex">\)\{</parameter></parameters>
+    <customMessage><![CDATA[
+      Single Space between ')' and `{`.
+    ]]></customMessage>
+  </check>
+
+  <check customId="NoScalaDoc" level="error" class="org.scalastyle.file.RegexChecker" enabled="true">
+    <parameters><parameter name="regex">(?m)^(\s*)/[*][*].*$(\r|)\n^\1  [*]</parameter></parameters>
+    <customMessage>Use Javadoc style indentation for multiline comments</customMessage>
+  </check>
+
+  <check customId="OmitBracesInCase" level="error" class="org.scalastyle.file.RegexChecker" enabled="true">
+    <parameters><parameter name="regex">case[^\n>]*=>\s*\{</parameter></parameters>
+    <customMessage>Omit braces in case clauses.</customMessage>
+  </check>
+
+  <!-- SPARK-16877: Avoid Java annotations -->
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.OverrideJavaChecker" enabled="true"></check>
+
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.DeprecatedJavaChecker" enabled="true"></check>
+
+  <!-- ================================================================================ -->
+  <!--       rules we'd like to enforce, but haven't cleaned up the codebase yet        -->
+  <!-- ================================================================================ -->
+
+  <!-- We cannot turn the following two on, because it'd fail a lot of string interpolation use cases. -->
+  <!-- Ideally the following two rules should be configurable to rule out string interpolation. -->
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.NoWhitespaceBeforeLeftBracketChecker" enabled="false"></check>
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.NoWhitespaceAfterLeftBracketChecker" enabled="false"></check>
+
+  <!-- This breaks symbolic method names so we don't turn it on. -->
+  <!-- Maybe we should update it to allow basic symbolic names, and then we are good to go. -->
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.MethodNamesChecker" enabled="false">
+    <parameters>
+    <parameter name="regex"><![CDATA[^[a-z][A-Za-z0-9]*$]]></parameter>
+    </parameters>
+  </check>
+
+  <!-- Should turn this on, but we have a few places that need to be fixed first -->
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.EqualsHashCodeChecker" enabled="true"></check>
+
+  <!-- ================================================================================ -->
+  <!--                               rules we don't want                                -->
+  <!-- ================================================================================ -->
+
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.IllegalImportsChecker" enabled="false">
+    <parameters><parameter name="illegalImports"><![CDATA[sun._,java.awt._]]></parameter></parameters>
+  </check>
+
+  <!-- We want the opposite of this: NewLineAtEofChecker -->
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.file.NoNewLineAtEofChecker" enabled="false"></check>
+
+  <!-- This one complains about all kinds of random things. Disable. -->
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.SimplifyBooleanExpressionChecker" enabled="false"></check>
+
+  <!-- We use return quite a bit for control flows and guards -->
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.ReturnChecker" enabled="false"></check>
+
+  <!-- We use null a lot in low level code and to interface with 3rd party code -->
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.NullChecker" enabled="false"></check>
+
+  <!-- Doesn't seem super big deal here ... -->
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.NoCloneChecker" enabled="false"></check>
+
+  <!-- Doesn't seem super big deal here ... -->
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.file.FileLengthChecker" enabled="false">
+    <parameters><parameter name="maxFileLength">800></parameter></parameters>
+  </check>
+
+  <!-- Doesn't seem super big deal here ... -->
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.NumberOfTypesChecker" enabled="false">
+    <parameters><parameter name="maxTypes">30</parameter></parameters>
+  </check>
+
+  <!-- Doesn't seem super big deal here ... -->
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.CyclomaticComplexityChecker" enabled="false">
+    <parameters><parameter name="maximum">10</parameter></parameters>
+  </check>
+
+  <!-- Doesn't seem super big deal here ... -->
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.MethodLengthChecker" enabled="false">
+    <parameters><parameter name="maxLength">50</parameter></parameters>
+  </check>
+
+  <!-- Not exactly feasible to enforce this right now. -->
+  <!-- It is also infrequent that somebody introduces a new class with a lot of methods. -->
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.NumberOfMethodsInTypeChecker" enabled="false">
+    <parameters><parameter name="maxMethods"><![CDATA[30]]></parameter></parameters>
+  </check>
+
+  <!-- Doesn't seem super big deal here, and we have a lot of magic numbers ... -->
+  <check level="error" class="org.scalastyle.scalariform.MagicNumberChecker" enabled="false">
+    <parameters><parameter name="ignore">-1,0,1,2,3</parameter></parameters>
+  </check>
+
+</scalastyle>
diff --git a/kernel/version.sbt b/kernel/version.sbt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e91862e625a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kernel/version.sbt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+ThisBuild / version := "0.1.0-SNAPSHOT"