LGTM On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 10:48 AM Ryan Blue <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey everyone, > > Our September board report is due. Sorry I’m a bit late this quarter. > > For this report, I’ve switched to summarizing the community’s releases and > spec changes rather than using the highlights from our community syncs. > That’s because there are always more and more highlights to report! I think > this is going to be a better strategy since it reports what is actually > available, not just in progress. Another benefit is that this is easier to > compile and will force us to post good release highlights in the vote, > result, or announce emails. > > I went ahead and reviewed release notes for the release that didn’t have > highlights, but next time I’ll probably just note that a release happened — > so please take the time to draw attention to the high level improvements in > releases. > > The draft is below. Thanks, for all the hard work and awesome > improvements, everyone! > > Ryan > Description: > > Apache Iceberg is a table format for huge analytic datasets that is > designed > for high performance and ease of use. > Project Status: > > Current project status: Ongoing > Issues for the board: None > Membership Data: > > Apache Iceberg was founded 2020-05-19 (6 years ago) > There are currently 40 committers and 25 PMC members in this project. > The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 8:5. > > Community changes, past quarter: > > - No new PMC members. Last addition was Prashant Singh on 2026-02-23. > - Maximilian Michels was added as committer on 2026-07-25 > > Project Activity: > > Releases: > > - Terraform Provider 0.1.0 was released on 2026-09-02 > - PyIceberg 0.12.0 was released on 2026-08-31 > - Rust 0.10.1 was released on 2026-08-01 > - Rust 0.10.0 was released on 2026-07-20 > - C++ 0.3.0 was released on 2026-06-14 > > Specs: > > - Iceberg REST catalog spec added read restrictions to support > fine-grained > access control use cases, and labels to exchange catalog-owned > metadata. > - Expressions: Added the expression spec for storing and exchanging > expressions, > Updated REST protocol to include extended expressions. > - Indexes: A draft spec for scalar indexes is in review > - Tables: A draft spec for CHECK constraints is in review > - Tables: The changes for v4 adaptive metadata is in review > > PyIceberg 0.12.0: > > - Support for Python 3.14 > - Commit retry support > - New file format API > - View support > - Geometry and Geography type support > > Rust 0.10.x: > > - Schema evolution: addition and removal of columns are now supported > - Added ExpireSnapshotsAction to expire old snapshots according to > table policy > - Tokio runtime is now configurable > - Parquet content-defined chunking table properties are now respected > - Catalogs now support purge operations; some existing operations > renamed from > drop to purge > - REST Catalog can now be queried for optional supported endpoints > > C++ 0.3.0: > > - Added commit retries and merging snapshot updates > - Implemented reachability-based garbage collection > - Updated FileIO to support streams and bulk deletes > - Implemented merge-on-read > - Added nanosecond timestamp support > - Added a Puffin reader and writer > - Implemented OAuth2 token refresh for REST > - Added metrics reporting for scan and commit > - Added SQL catalog implementation > > Terraform 0.1.0: > > - Initial release of the Terraform provider! > > Community Health: > > The community continues to be healthy and make swift progress. To keep up > with > the pace, this and future reports, project activity for implementations > will be > based on released changes, not what has been committed. > > The community is preparing the next Iceberg Summit, scheduled for April > 2027. > > Contributors have reported that GMail has begun to classify Iceberg dev@ > emails > as spam in many cases. There appears to be no solution other than to add a > rule > to prevent this. Other communities appear to be affected by the issue as > well. >
