Hey Ajantha, I was going to wait for 2-3 days before cutting an RC anyway :), to see if anyone has an objection or some more *critical* changes to get in. Thank you for the heads up !
Best, Prashant Singh On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM Ajantha Bhat <ajanthab...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a PR that needs to be included for 1.9.2 as well! > > I was about to start a release discussion for 1.9.2 tomorrow. > > It is from an oversight during partition stats refactoring (in 1.9.0). We > missed that field ids are tracked in spec during refactoring! Because of > it, schema field ids are not as per partition stats spec. Solution is to > implicitly recompute stats when old stats are detected with invalid field > id. Including the fix in 1.9.2 can reduce the issue impact as new stats > will have valid schema ids and also handle corrupted stats. Feature is not > widely integrated yet and engine integrations are in progress for 1.10.0. > But we still want to reduce the impact of the issue. I have chatted with > Peter and Russell about this. > > PR will be shared tomorrow. > > Just giving heads up to wait a day or two for a release cut. > > - Ajantha > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM Steven Wu <stevenz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> +1 for a 1.9.2 release >> >> On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 10:53 AM Prashant Singh <prashant010...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hey Kevin, >>> This goes well before 1.8, if you will see the issue that my PR refers >>> to is reported from iceberg 1.7, It has been there since the beginning of >>> the IRC client. >>> We were having similar debates on if we should patch all the releases, >>> but I think this requires more wider discussions, but 1.9.2 sounds like the >>> immediate next steps ! >>> >>> Best, >>> Prashant Singh >>> >>> On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM Kevin Liu <kevinjq...@apache.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Prashant, >>>> >>>> This sounds like a good reason to do a patch release. I'm +1 >>>> >>>> Do you know if this is also affecting other minor versions? Do we also >>>> need to patch 1.8.x? >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> Kevin Liu >>>> >>>> On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 10:30 AM Prashant Singh < >>>> prashant010...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hey all, >>>>> >>>>> A couple of users have recently reported a *critical table corruption >>>>> issue* when using the Iceberg REST catalog client. This issue has >>>>> existed from the beginning and can result in *committed snapshot data >>>>> being incorrectly deleted*, effectively rendering the table unusable >>>>> (i.e., corrupted). The root cause is *self-conflict during internal >>>>> HTTP client retries*. >>>>> >>>>> More context can be found here: >>>>> [1] https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/12818#issue-3000325526 >>>>> [2] >>>>> https://apache-iceberg.slack.com/archives/C025PH0G1D4/p1747992294134219 >>>>> >>>>> We’ve seen this issue hit by users in the wider community and also >>>>> internally on our end. I’ve submitted a fix here (now merged) : >>>>> https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/12818 >>>>> >>>>> Given the *severity* and the *broad version impact*, I’d like to >>>>> propose cutting a *1.9.2 patch release* to include this fix. >>>>> >>>>> I'm also happy to *volunteer as the release manager* for this release. >>>>> >>>>> Looking forward to hearing the community's thoughts. >>>>> >>>>> Best regards, >>>>> Prashant Singh >>>>> >>>>
