The new report format looks good. Thanks for writing it up! ~ Anurag
On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 12:10 PM Yufei Gu <[email protected]> wrote: > +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. >
