Hi Yonghao, +1 for releasing Apache Paimon C++ 0.4.0.
Thanks for volunteering as the release manager, and thanks to everyone who contributed to this release! Best regards, Nicholas Jiang On 2026-10-29 06:57 UTC Yonghao Fang wrote: > Hi everyone, > > > > I'd like to start a discussion about releasing Apache Paimon C++ 0.4.0. > > > > Since the 0.3.0 release, the community has merged around 180 pull requests > into the 0.4 release line. This release adds the following major new > capabilities: > > > > - REST catalog support, including DLF authentication, commit leases, > branches, and temporary data-access credentials > > > > - Real-time data reads, commit retries and metrics, and input, lookup, and > full-compaction changelog producers for append and primary key tables > > > > - Lance and Mosaic file formats, plus format table reads and writes over > Parquet and ORC > > > > - OSS file system support, alongside local and Jindo > > > > - Global index extensions: bitmap indexes, Lumina build checkpoints, and > full-text search > > > > - Vector and blob storage extensions, including ARRAY<BLOB> and MAP<K, > BLOB> support and a public BlobDescriptor API > > > > - Bitmap64 deletion vectors > > > > - Map shared shredding: a storage layout for MAP<STRING, T> columns with > configurable physical columns, an overflow map, and key projection during > reads > > > > - Read performance improvements: read-ahead and block caches, late > materialization, cross-file warmup, and parallel reader construction > > > > Many thanks to all contributors who proposed, reviewed, and merged changes > in this release line, as well as everyone who helped with testing and > discussion in the community. > > > > I would like to volunteer as the release manager for this release. > > > > Please share any concerns, blockers, or changes that should be included > before the release. If the community reaches consensus and no blockers are > identified, I plan to begin preparing the first release candidate in the > next few days. > > > > Best regards, > > > > Yonghao Fang >
