Thanks Aihua for driving the release! Very excited to see this go out to all the Iceberg users. It's been a while since the last release, the Iceberg community has accomplished so much! Onwards and upwards!
> git rev-list --count apache-iceberg-1.10.0..apache-iceberg-1.11.0 1117 On Wed, May 20, 2026 at 4:02 PM Steven Wu <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Aihua for driving this release, and thanks to everyone for > contributing to it. > > This is probably our largest release (besides the initial one). It has > been over 8 months since the last minor release 1.10.0. We even hit the > size limit on GitHub release notes auto-generation due to the large number > of commits. > There was an error creating your Release: body is too long (maximum is > 125000 characters). > > On a related note, 8 months is probably too long between minor version > releases. Previously, we discussed targeting a 3-4 month cadence. > Hopefully, the next minor version release (1.12.0) can stay close to the > target. > > On Wed, May 20, 2026 at 3:46 PM Neelesh Salian <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Congratulations! >> Thanks for running the release, Aihua and everyone for contributing! >> >> On Wed, May 20, 2026 at 3:40 PM Aihua Xu <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I'm pleased to announce the release of Apache Iceberg 1.11.0! >>> >>> Apache Iceberg is an open table format for huge analytic datasets. >>> Iceberg >>> delivers high query performance for tables with tens of petabytes of >>> data, >>> along with atomic commits, concurrent writes, and SQL-compatible table >>> evolution. >>> >>> This release can be downloaded from: >>> https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/iceberg/apache-iceberg-1.11.0/apache-iceberg-1.11.0.tar.gz >>> >>> Release notes: https://iceberg.apache.org/releases/#1.11.0 >>> >>> Java artifacts are available from Maven Central. >>> >>> Thanks to everyone for contributing! >>> >>
