Thanks kevin for raising this, +1 from me. On Thu, Mar 26, 2026 at 11:43 PM Shawn Chang <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Kevin for bringing this up! I think it's a good idea to patch this. > > Would happy to be the release manager of the patch release if needed! > > Best, > Shawn > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 8:03 AM Kevin Liu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey folks, >> >> In the latest PyPI release of pyiceberg-core (0.9.0), Python 3.12 wheels >> for Linux platforms are missing. Instead, wheels were built against Python >> 3.8, which is EOL and outside our requires-python = ">=3.10" specification. >> The root cause is a bug in the python build github workflow; maturin-action >> GitHub Action. It runs Linux builds inside a manylinux Docker container and >> defaults to Python 3.8, which is a documented limitation of maturin-action. >> As a result, Linux users running pip install pyiceberg-core will receive >> a cp38 wheel — or, if no compatible wheel is found, pip will attempt to >> build the package from source, which requires Rust. This was reported by >> end users [1]. >> >> The fix has been merged [2] and validated in the nightly pipeline. >> >> Should we do a patch release to ensure the correct wheels are available? >> >> Thanks, >> Kevin >> >> >> [1] https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/issues/3190 >> [2] https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/pull/2277 >> >
