+1 Thanks Ryan! Yufei
On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 11:44 AM Russell Spitzer <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
