Thanks for driving this release, Prashant! Cheers, Dmitri.
On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM Prashant Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > The Apache Polaris team is pleased to announce Apache Polaris 1.2.0 > -incubating. > > This release includes: > *Upgrade Notes* > * Amazon RDS plugin enabled, this allows Polaris to connect to AWS Aurora > PostgreSQL using IAM authentication. > *New Features* > * Added a finer grained authorization model for UpdateTable requests. > Existing privileges continue to work for granting UpdateTable, such as > `TABLE_WRITE_PROPERTIES`. > However, you can now instead grant privileges just for specific > operations, such as `TABLE_ADD_SNAPSHOT` > * Added a Management API endpoint to reset principal credentials, > controlled by the `ENABLE_CREDENTIAL_RESET` (default: true) feature flag. > * The ENABLE_SUB_CATALOG_RBAC_FOR_FEDERATED_CATALOGS was added to support > sub-catalog (initially namespace and table) RBAC for federated catalogs. > The setting can be configured on a per-catalog basis by setting the > catalog property: > `polaris.config.enable-sub-catalog-rbac-for-federated-catalogs`. > The realm-level feature flag > ALLOW_SETTING_SUB_CATALOG_RBAC_FOR_FEDERATED_CATALOGS (default: true) > controls whether this functionality can be enabled or modified at the > catalog level. > * Added support for S3-compatible storage that does not have STS (use > `stsUavailable: true` in catalog storage configuration) > * Added a Management API endpoint to reset principal credentials, > controlled by the ENABLE_CREDENTIAL_RESET (default: true) feature flag. > * Events Persistence (Preview): Introduced new event types and added > support for persisting events to both Relational JDBC Persistence and AWS > CloudWatch. > *Note*: This is a preview feature. The persistence schema is subject to > change in future releases, and previously stored event data MAY become > unreadable (i.e., dropped) after an upgrade. > > *Changes* > * The following APIs will now return the newly-created objects as part of > the successful 201 response: createCatalog, createPrincipalRole, > createCatalogRole. > > *Breaking changes* > * Creating or altering a namespace with a custom location outside its > parent location is now prohibited by default. To restore the old behavior, > set the ALLOW_NAMESPACE_CUSTOM_LOCATION flag to true. > > - *Deprecations* > * The property `polaris.active-roles-provider.type` is deprecated and has > no effect anymore. > * The EclipseLink Persistence implementation has been deprecated since > 1.0.0 and will be completely removed > in 1.3.0 or in 2.0.0 (whichever happens earlier). > * The legacy management endpoints at `/metrics` and `/healthcheck` have > been deprecated in 1.2.0 and will be completely removed in 1.3.0 or in > 2.0.0 (whichever happens earlier). Please use the standard management > endpoints at `/q/metrics` and `/q/health` instead. > > > This release can be downloaded: > * https://polaris.apache.org/downloads/ > > The artifacts are available on Maven Central: > * https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/polaris/ > > The Docker images are available on Docker Hub: > * https://hub.docker.com/r/apache/polaris/tags > * https://hub.docker.com/r/apache/polaris-admin-tool/tags > > Apache Polaris is an open-source, fully-featured catalog for Apache > Iceberg™. It implements Iceberg's REST API, enabling seamless > multi-engine interoperability across a wide range of platforms, > including Apache Doris™, Apache Flink®, Apache Spark™, Dremio® OSS, > StarRocks, and Trino. > > Enjoy ! > > The Apache Polaris team. >
