Thanks for writing it up Ryan. Looks good overall. Couple of additions: - Gang's addition to the PMC - The creation of the iceberg-verification repository for shared fixtures.
On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 10:33 AM Kevin Liu <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Ryan. A couple more callouts if you like to add them: > > - New blog site: https://iceberg.apache.org/blog/ > - Revamp LICENSE / NOTICE files > - Improvements to Github Runner usage > > And there a JIRA issue tracking the email going to gmail spam problem: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-28187 > > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 2:13 AM Jones, Danny <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 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]> 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]> 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. >> >>
