LGTM, thanks Ryan! I’ll take a note to ensure we start highlighting major improvements in release notes for iceberg-rust.
Danny From: Renjie Liu <[email protected]> Reply to: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, 17 September 2026 at 10:06 To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] [REPORT] September board report CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you can confirm the sender and know the content is safe. THanks Ryan, LGTM! On Wed, Sep 16, 2026 at 4:51 AM Anurag Mantripragada <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: 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]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: +1 Thanks Ryan! Yufei On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 11:44 AM Russell Spitzer <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > LGTM > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2026 at 10:48 AM Ryan Blue > <[email protected]<mailto:[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.
