Hi Everyone, I propose that we release the following RC as the official PyIceberg 0.9.0 release.
A summary of the high level features: - 235 new commits *High Level Features:* - Implemented support for Alibaba OSS protocol in PyArrowFileIO - Enabled Dynamic Overwrite capability - Introduced V3 read support - Added support for Polars DataFrame and LazyFrame - Enabled column projection for efficient data access - Added table statistics - Implemented table UPSERT support with improved deduplication logic - Added support for Location Providers - Extended support for write paths with Location Providers (write.data.path, write.metadata.path) - Removed table name parsing from row_filter - Cross region S3 read support *Bug Fixes:* - Resolved issues reading from multiple S3 regions - Corrected URL encoding of partition field names - Fixed a TypeError issue with composite keys - Ensured proper handling of missing Parquet metadata *Documentation & Infrastructure:* - Improved contribution guidelines - Automated CI with nightly builds and release candidate processes - Automate building Release Candidate in github action The commit ID is 5cfb52710d84a48426df086e2154ee261da0c666 - This corresponds to the tag: pyiceberg-0.9.0rc2 (2bf90ec5081c358630388d71deb1db1b0381f849) - https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/releases/tag/pyiceberg-0.9.0rc2 - https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/tree/5cfb52710d84a48426df086e2154ee261da0c666 The release tarball, signature, and checksums are here: - https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/iceberg/pyiceberg-0.9.0rc2/ You can find the KEYS file here: - https://downloads.apache.org/iceberg/KEYS Convenience binary artifacts are staged on pypi: - https://pypi.org/project/pyiceberg/0.9.0rc2/ And can be installed using: pip3 install pyiceberg==0.9.0rc2 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 0.9.0 [ ] +0 [ ] -1 Do not release this because...