(iceberg) branch main updated: Docs: add blog post for iceberg-rust 0.8.0 release (#15221)

[ke...@apache.org]

This is an automated email from the ASF dual-hosted git repository.

kevinjqliu pushed a commit to branch main
in repository https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf/iceberg.git


The following commit(s) were added to refs/heads/main by this push:
     new e786514c91 Docs: add blog post for iceberg-rust 0.8.0 release (#15221)
e786514c91 is described below

commit e786514c91f07af2d1452ad67f4c2f59a10f9195
Author: Kevin Liu <ke...@users.noreply.github.com>
AuthorDate: Tue Feb 3 18:46:17 2026 -0500

    Docs: add blog post for iceberg-rust 0.8.0 release (#15221)
---
 .../posts/2026-02-02-iceberg-rust-0.8.0-release.md | 141 +++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 141 insertions(+)

diff --git a/site/docs/blog/posts/2026-02-02-iceberg-rust-0.8.0-release.md b/site/docs/blog/posts/2026-02-02-iceberg-rust-0.8.0-release.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..347e85ab0a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/site/docs/blog/posts/2026-02-02-iceberg-rust-0.8.0-release.md
@@ -0,0 +1,141 @@
+---
+date: 2026-02-02
+title: Apache Iceberg Rust 0.8.0 Release
+slug: apache-iceberg-rust-0.8.0-release  # this is the blog url
+authors:
+  - iceberg-pmc
+categories:
+  - release
+---
+
+<!--
+ - Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ - contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ - this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ - The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ - (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ - the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ -
+ -   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ -
+ - Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ - distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ - WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ - See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ - limitations under the License.
+ -->
+
+The Apache Iceberg community is pleased to announce version 0.8.0 of [iceberg-rust](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust).
+
+This release covers development work from late November 2025 through early January 2026 and is the result of merging **144 PRs** from **37 contributors**. See the [changelog] for the complete list of changes.
+
+[changelog]: https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#v080---2026-01-06
+
+`iceberg-rust` is a native Rust implementation of the Apache Iceberg specification, providing high-performance libraries for reading, writing, and managing Iceberg tables in Rust applications and through Python bindings (`pyiceberg-core`).
+
+<!-- more -->
+
+## Release Highlights
+
+### V3 Metadata Support
+
+This release introduces [support for Iceberg V3 metadata format](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1682), enabling `iceberg-rust` to work with the latest version of the Iceberg table specification. This includes support for V3 manifests with delete file content and enhanced metadata handling.
+
+### Enhanced DataFusion Integration
+
+The DataFusion integration received significant improvements:
+
+- **INSERT INTO partitioned tables**: [Native support](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1827) for inserting data into partitioned Iceberg tables, with [partition column projection](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1602) and [repartitioning operator](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1620)
+- **Partition-aware sorting**: [New `sort_by_partition` operator](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1618) to sort input data by partition values
+- **SQLLogicTest integration**: [Added comprehensive testing framework](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1764) for DataFusion operations
+- **Parallel writing**: [Implemented parallel writer interface](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1769) for DataFusion execution
+
+### Advanced Delete File Handling
+
+`iceberg-rust` now has substantially improved support for Iceberg's delete files:
+
+- **Shared delete file caching**: [Optimized performance](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1941) by caching and sharing delete files across multiple readers
+- **Mixed delete types**: [Support for both position and equality deletes](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1778) on the same FileScanTask
+- **Binary type support**: [Added binary type support](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1848) in equality delete processing
+- **Performance fixes**: Fixed [stack overflow with large deletes](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1915) and [scan deadlocks](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1937)
+- **Row group filtering**: [Improved filtering](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1779) when FileScanTask contains byte ranges
+- **Case-sensitive deletes**: [Added support](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1930) for case-sensitive equality delete matching
+
+### Enhanced Reader Capabilities
+
+The Arrow reader received several important enhancements:
+
+- **Position-based projection**: [Support for Parquet files without field IDs](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1777), enabling reads from migrated tables
+- **PartitionSpec support**: [Added partition awareness](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1821) to FileScanTask and RecordBatchTransformer
+- **Schema evolution**: [Fixed handling](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1750) of Parquet files with schema changes
+- **Compressed metadata**: [Support for reading](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1802) compressed table metadata
+- **Date32 support**: Improved handling of [Date32 values](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1792) and [struct defaults](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1847)
+- **Binary deserialization**: [Added support](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1820) for deserializing bytes values
+- **`_file` metadata column**: [Support for Iceberg's `_file` column](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1824) to expose source file information
+
+### Advanced Writers
+
+New writer implementations provide flexible approaches to data organization:
+
+- **Clustered and Fanout writers**: [Implemented writers](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1735) for different data distribution strategies
+- **Configurable FanoutWriter**: [Made writer configuration](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1962) more flexible
+- **Non-consuming builders**: [Refactored writer builders](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1889) to not consume self, allowing reuse
+
+### Catalog Improvements
+
+Multiple catalog implementations received updates:
+
+- **SqlCatalog**: Added [update_table support](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1911), [register_table](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1724), and a [builder pattern](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1666)
+- **S3TablesCatalog**: [Implemented update_table](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1594) for AWS S3 Tables
+- **Glue**: [Improved concurrency error handling](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1875) for Glue catalog
+- **MemoryCatalog**: [Fixed namespace handling](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1970) to return absolute NamespaceIdents
+- **REST catalog**: [Improved authentication](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1712) and [made types public](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1901) with documentation
+
+### Schema Conversion
+
+[New capability](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1928) to convert Arrow schemas to Iceberg schemas with auto-assigned field IDs, simplifying integration with Arrow-based systems.
+
+### PyIceberg-core Improvements
+
+The Python bindings received multiple enhancements:
+
+- **Smaller artifacts**: Multiple optimizations ([#1841](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1841), [#1844](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1844)) reduced package size
+- **ABI3 support**: [Using pyo3 abi3-py310](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1843) for better Python version compatibility
+- **RecordBatchTransformerBuilder**: [Updated API](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1857) for more ergonomic usage
+
+## Breaking Changes
+
+This release includes several breaking changes:
+
+- **Runtime**: [Dropped smol runtime support](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1900) in favor of tokio
+- **MSRV**: [Bumped to Rust 1.88](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1902)
+- **API cleanup**: [Removed deprecated `remove_all`](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1863) from FileIO
+- **SnapshotProducer**: [Simplified validation methods](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1853) by removing redundant parameters
+- **Enums**: [Removed wildcard patterns](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1925) from exhaustive enums
+
+## Dependency Updates
+
+- [Upgraded to DataFusion 51](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1899) from DataFusion 48
+- [Upgraded to Arrow 57](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1899) from Arrow 53
+- [Upgraded to apache-avro 0.21.0](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1881)
+- [Upgraded to OpenDAL v0.55](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1895)
+- [Migrated from tera to minijinja](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1798) for template rendering
+
+## Infrastructure Improvements
+
+- **Parallel testing**: [CI now runs unit tests](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1833) in parallel using a matrix strategy
+- **Python tooling**: [Migrated to uv](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1796) for faster Python dependency management
+- **License checking**: [Configured to ignore target/](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1954) directory
+- **GitHub workflow**: [Added failure notifications](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/1870)
+
+## Getting Involved
+
+The `iceberg-rust` project welcomes contributions. We use GitHub [issues](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/issues) for tracking work and the [Apache Iceberg Community Slack](https://iceberg.apache.org/community/#slack) for discussions.
+
+The easiest way to get started is to:
+
+1. Try `iceberg-rust` with your workloads and report any issues you encounter
+2. Review the [contributor guide](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)
+3. Look for [good first issues](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/contribute)
+
+For more information, visit the [iceberg-rust repository](https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust).