Hey Oleksii, regarding the backports, I'm working on the 1.10.3 patch release, I think there's 1 more PR <https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/16692> we'll need to land and backport and then I'll have a candidate out right after that. We'd also want to backport this to 1.11.1 as well.
Thanks, Amogh Jahagirdar On Thu, Jul 16, 2026 at 7:12 AM Oleksii Omhovytskyi via dev < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to ask about release timing for the fix to the "encrypted > deletion vectors" bug (#16157 ( > https://github.com/apache/iceberg/issues/16157)): on a natively-encrypted > (AWS-KMS, format-v3) table, a merge-on-read UPDATE/DELETE writes a > deletion-vector Puffin file without key metadata, so the next read fails > with IllegalStateException: Null key metadata buffer. > > The fix is already merged: > - #15911 (https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/15911) — "Core: Preserve > DV encryption metadata in merges" (milestone 1.12.0) > - #16759 (https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/16759) — backport to > 1.11.x > - #16737 (https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/16737) — backport to > 1.10.x > > I verified the 1.11.x branch build against the exact repro and it resolves > the issue (details in my comment on the backport PR: > https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/16759#issuecomment-4922983564). > Since the latest release (1.11.0) doesn't yet carry the fix, I'm trying to > plan our upgrade. > > Could I ask: > - Is a 1.11.1 (and/or 1.10.3) patch release on the near-term radar, since > the backports are already on those branches? > - And/or is there an expected timeframe for 1.12.0 (which carries #15911)? > > Happy to help test a release candidate when one is cut. Thanks for the > work on this, and for any guidance on timing. > > Best regards, > Oleksii Omhovytskyi >
