Just saw this after I published a 0.11.1 RC. I think it's reasonable to include #3005 and #3012, both of which are bugs. #3077 is an UX improvement so let's defer that to 0.12.
I'll start a new RC On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 9:33 AM Neelesh Salian <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 (non-binding) on the patch release. > The ones mentioned by Jayce seem reasonable to add too: #3005, #3077, and > #3012 > More recent closed PRs look like chores and doc updates. > > 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 >> >>
