Can you please rehash the plan? I thought we just did a release last month and were aiming for a three month schedule. I may have missed something
On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 6:00 AM Ajantha Bhat <ajanthab...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Following the plan from the 1.8.0 release, I'll be handling the 1.9.0 > release. We have several major updates ready: > > - *Partition stats APIs:* All core APIs for partition statistics have > been merged, unblocking engines like Dremio, Trino, and Hive that were > waiting for this feature. > - *REST catalog authentication:* The refactoring PR for the REST > catalog authentication manager has been merged, improving authentication > support. > - *Spark 3.3 support removed:* We've officially dropped support for > Spark 3.3. > - *InternalData support in the core module:* The core module now > supports InternalData, leveraging the internal Parquet and Avro readers > added in the previous release. This allows metadata to be written in > Parquet. > - *Bug fixes:* Many important bug fixes have been merged. > > A 1.9.0 milestone has been created with additional "good-to-have" issues: > https://github.com/apache/iceberg/milestone/53 > > If there's anything urgent that needs to be included for this release, > please let me know or reply to this thread. > I'm aiming to start the release cut by the end of this week. > > > - Ajantha >
