Hey folks, I'm kicking this thread off to discuss patch releases. I've encountered a bug where the Spark rewrite manifests procedure does not carry over first row IDs correctly. I have a fix PR <https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/16699> out.
Are there any other fixes folks would be interested in including in these patch releases? As a general reminder, patch releases typically cover correctness fixes, security fixes, or addressing significant regressions from the previous version. There's a separate question: should we continue patching v3 metadata correctness fixes in 1.10, or should we just focus on 1.11. I think since we made the claim that we want to have solid v3 support (not necessarily all features, but certainly correctness) in 1.10 there's an argument that we should continue to backport those specific fixes to 1.10. A significant number of clients out there are on 1.10 and I think we should ensure correctness for them and it's probably easier for them to upgrade a patch version than a minor version upgrade. Thanks, Amogh Jahagirdar
