Thanks Ryan, rust part looks good to me! On Fri, Mar 13, 2026 at 2:08 AM Kevin Liu <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. >>>> >>>
