Looks great, thanks for writing this up! Can we include both of these in the community section? * New Iceberg project blog: https://iceberg.apache.org/blog/ * Ownership transfer of the LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/apacheiceberg
Best, Kevin Liu On Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 8:48 AM Ryan Blue <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Peter. I included the first 3 items already. My note about > timeline was intended to signal that although it is in the v4 table spec > section, we don't know whether it is going to actually be part of v4 just > yet because it is early. I'll add the Flink maintenance item, good catch. > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 8:42 AM Péter Váry <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Thanks Ryan for preparing the report. >> >> Some small suggestions keep as much as you want: >> - "Ongoing discussion for adding secondary indexes, but the timeline is >> unclear" -> "Started discussion for adding secondary indexes. Early phase." >> - Stared discussion on spec update to allow efficient column updates >> - File Format API has been merged, work started on TCK >> - Flink only maintenance (no external system needed) >> >> Ryan Blue <[email protected]> ezt írta (időpont: 2026. márc. 12., Cs, >> 1:07): >> >>> Hey everyone, it’s that time again for a board report! >>> >>> Here’s my first draft. If you’d like to add anything please reply. >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Ryan >>> Description: >>> >>> Apache Iceberg is a table format for huge analytic datasets that is >>> designed >>> for high performance and ease of use. >>> Project Status: >>> >>> Current project status: Ongoing >>> Issues for the board: None >>> Membership Data: >>> >>> Apache Iceberg was founded 2020-05-19 (6 years ago) >>> There are currently 37 committers and 25 PMC members in this project. >>> The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:4. >>> >>> Community changes, past quarter: >>> >>> - Prashant Singh was added to the PMC on 2026-02-23 >>> - Sung Yun was added to the PMC on 2026-02-23 >>> - Drew Gallardo was added as committer on 2026-02-23 >>> >>> Project Activity: >>> >>> Releases: >>> >>> - Go 0.5.0 was released on 2026-03-05 >>> - PyIceberg 0.11.1 was released on 2026-03-02 >>> - PyIceberg 0.11.0 was released on 2026-02-09 >>> - C++ 0.2.0 was released on 2026-01-26 >>> - Rust 0.8.0 was released on 2026-01-16 >>> - Java 1.10.1 was released on 2025-12-22 >>> >>> REST specs: >>> >>> - Adopted a spec for exchanging SQL UDFs >>> - Added referenced-by to table/view loading to support secure >>> DEFINER views >>> >>> v4 table spec: >>> >>> - Design docs for v4 are reaching consensus and next up are the spec >>> changes >>> - Prototypes are going into Iceberg Java for content stats and >>> adaptive metadata >>> - Added column overwrite and append to the v4 goals >>> - Discussing extending the expressions that can be exchanged for new >>> use cases >>> - Ongoing discussion for adding secondary indexes, but the timeline >>> is unclear >>> >>> Java: >>> >>> - Adding remote scan planning implementation >>> - Committed the pluggable file format APIs >>> - Implemented freshness-aware table loading for REST catalog >>> - Implemented idempotency tokens for REST catalog updates >>> - Made separator character configurable for REST catalogs >>> - Spark: Added module for version 4.1 >>> - Spark: Added schema evolution in MERGE commands >>> - Dropped support for Java 11 >>> >>> PyIceberg: >>> >>> - Added Python 3.13 support >>> - Added rollback support >>> - Added REST scan planning support >>> - Added support for storage-credentials >>> - Now supports timestamptz, geometry, and geography >>> >>> Rust: >>> >>> - Discussing how to refactor and modularize >>> - Added Arrow schema conversion with field IDs >>> - Adding more DataFusion integrations: create/drop table, LIKE, LIMIT >>> - Added support for v2 to v3 upgrades with existing data >>> - Added storage trait for FileIO implementations, replacing direct >>> OpenDAL >>> - Added support for compressed metadata.json files >>> >>> Go: >>> >>> - Added support for AuthManager >>> - Added support for views >>> - Working on row lineage support from v3 >>> - Added support for unknown type >>> - Improving write support with overwrite, copy-on-write, and >>> merge-on-read >>> - Supports rolling at file size limit >>> - Added Hive Catalog client >>> >>> C++: >>> >>> - Website is live at https://cpp.iceberg.apache.org/ >>> - Adding update and write support, including fast appends >>> - Added REST catalog auth API, basic auth >>> - Implemented DataWriter for Parquet and Avro files >>> - Implemented SnapshotManager >>> >>> Created a new repo for a terraform provider and added a Flink quickstart >>> guide. >>> Community Health: >>> >>> We are happy to welcome Prashant and Sung as a PMC members and Drew as a >>> new >>> committer! >>> >>> The community shows steady health metrics this quarter. There was an >>> increase in >>> dev list traffic, but this metric tends to fluctuate based on >>> development cycles >>> and other factors like holidays. Unfortunately, PR and git metrics were >>> not >>> available. >>> >>> The community is also planning the third Iceberg Summit in early April >>> 2026. See >>> https://www.icebergsummit.org/ for the agenda and details. >>> >>
