We decided to have a fast follow up on the things that missed release train of 1.8.0 during community sync.
More details here: https://lists.apache.org/thread/wvz5sd7pmh5ww1yqhsxpt1kwf993276j On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM Russell Spitzer <russell.spit...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can you please rehash the plan? I thought we just did a release last month > and were aiming for a three month schedule. I may have missed something > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 6:00 AM Ajantha Bhat <ajanthab...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hey everyone, >> >> Following the plan from the 1.8.0 release, I'll be handling the 1.9.0 >> release. We have several major updates ready: >> >> - *Partition stats APIs:* All core APIs for partition statistics have >> been merged, unblocking engines like Dremio, Trino, and Hive that were >> waiting for this feature. >> - *REST catalog authentication:* The refactoring PR for the REST >> catalog authentication manager has been merged, improving authentication >> support. >> - *Spark 3.3 support removed:* We've officially dropped support for >> Spark 3.3. >> - *InternalData support in the core module:* The core module now >> supports InternalData, leveraging the internal Parquet and Avro readers >> added in the previous release. This allows metadata to be written in >> Parquet. >> - *Bug fixes:* Many important bug fixes have been merged. >> >> A 1.9.0 milestone has been created with additional "good-to-have" issues: >> https://github.com/apache/iceberg/milestone/53 >> >> If there's anything urgent that needs to be included for this release, >> please let me know or reply to this thread. >> I'm aiming to start the release cut by the end of this week. >> >> >> - Ajantha >> >
