I went through the commits,
```
git log pyiceberg-0.11.0..main --oneline > diff.txt
```

This might be a good candidate too,
https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/pull/3035

I can start a patch release tomorrow with #3010 and #3035 if there is no
more feedback

Best,
Kevin Liu

On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 12:05 PM Drew <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for raising this Kevin!
>
> I'm +1 on a patch release, there are a lot of good features in 0.11.0, and
> a few people have raised some upgrade issues. I also took a pass through
> the merged fixes since the release and nothing else jumped out, but are
> there any others we should include?
>
> Drew
>
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 10:07 AM Kevin Liu <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'd like to propose cutting a 0.11.1 patch release to address a
>> regression introduced in 0.11.0.
>>
>> *The problem: *
>> 0.11.0 added stricter validation on the ConfigResponse from REST Catalog
>> servers, but the HttpMethod enum was missing several standard HTTP methods
>> like PUT. This causes RestCatalog initialization to crash immediately when
>> connecting to Apache Polaris 1.2.0+, since Polaris returns PUT endpoints in
>> its config/ API response. The integration is completely broken for those
>> users.
>>
>> It's worth noting that the standard Iceberg REST Catalog spec does not
>> include PUT as a valid method. However, Polaris extends the spec with
>> additional endpoints that use PUT, and PyIceberg was not handling those
>> gracefully — instead of ignoring unknown methods, it was throwing an error.
>>
>> This was reported in issue #3074 [1] and fixed in PR #3010 [2], which has
>> already been merged to main.
>>
>> *Why a patch release: *
>> This is a critical regression — users who upgrade to 0.11.0 and use
>> Apache Polaris hit a hard crash on startup with no workaround short of
>> pinning to 0.10.x. Given that Polaris is a widely used catalog
>> implementation, I think it's worth getting a fix out quickly rather than
>> waiting for 0.12.0.
>>
>> If there are other bug fixes that have been merged to main since 0.11.0
>> that are worth bundling in, please reply and we can include them in the
>> patch.
>> Would love to hear thoughts from the community. If there's consensus, I'm
>> happy to help coordinate the release.
>>
>> Best,
>> Kevin Liu
>>
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/issues/3074
>> [2] https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/pull/3010
>>
>>

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