Hi Everyone, I propose that we release the following RC as the official PyIceberg 0.7.1 release.
A summary of the high level features: * Fix `delete` to trace existing manifests when a data file is partially rewritten <https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/pull/1046> * Fix 'to_arrow_batch_reader' to respect the limit input arg <https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/pull/1042> * Fix correctness of applying positional deletes on Merge-On-Read tables <https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/pull/1026> * Fix overwrite when filtering data <https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/pull/1023> * Bug fix for deletes across multiple partition specs on partition evolution <https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/pull/984> * Fix evolving the table and writing in the same transaction <https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/pull/985> * Fix scans when result is empty <https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/pull/997> * Fix ListNamespace response in REST Catalog <https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/pull/995> * Exclude Python 3.9.7 from list of supported versions <https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/pull/526> * Allow setting write.parquet.row-group-limit <https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/pull/1016> * Allow setting write.parquet.page-row-limit <https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/pull/1017> <https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/pull/1023> * Fix pydantic warning during commit <https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/pull/972> The commit ID is f92994e85e526502a620506b964665b9afd385fe * This corresponds to the tag: pyiceberg-0.7.1rc2 (d33192a3f64e1b5840c691b24a6071768a9fc79b) * https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/releases/tag/pyiceberg-0.7.1rc2 * https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/tree/f92994e85e526502a620506b964665b9afd385fe The release tarball, signature, and checksums are here: * https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/iceberg/pyiceberg-0.7.1rc2/ You can find the KEYS file here: * https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/iceberg/KEYS Convenience binary artifacts are staged on pypi: https://pypi.org/project/pyiceberg/0.7.1rc2/ And can be installed using: pip3 install pyiceberg==0.7.1rc2 Instructions for verifying a release can be found here: * https://py.iceberg.apache.org/verify-release/ Please download, verify, and test. Please vote in the next 72 hours. [ ] +1 Release this as PyIceberg 0.7.1 [ ] +0 [ ] -1 Do not release this because...