Thanks Bryan for reporting this! I've opened #16519 <https://github.com/apache/iceberg/issues/16519> to track it, including a test case that reproduces the failure. Please take a look and let me know if it matches what you're seeing.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to and helped with the 1.11.0 release. I agree more frequent releases would benefit the community and we need to plan 1.12.0 soon in order to meet such cadence. I've also started drafting the 1.11.0 release blog post in #16516 <https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/16516>. It's still a work in progress, but if you notice any significant features or contributions that are missing, please drop a comment on the PR. On Thu, May 21, 2026 at 11:31 AM Bryan Keller <[email protected]> wrote: > FYI, we uncovered an issue in 1.11.0 which appears related to > https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/15150. Sort order specs are now > serialized in SerializedTable. During deserialization, the sort order specs > are bound to the current schema. If an old sort order spec refers to a > field that had been dropped, the sort order validation fails. > > I thought I'd raise awareness about this until there's a fix. > > -Bryan > > On May 21, 2026, at 8:59 AM, Anurag Mantripragada < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Congratulations everyone. This is a big release! > > On Thu, May 21, 2026 at 8:01 AM John Zhuge <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks Aihua and everyone who helped make this release happen! >> >> On Wed, May 20, 2026 at 7:16 PM roryqi <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Congrats to AIhua! Thanks for everyone! >>> >>> Kurtis Wright <[email protected]> 于2026年5月21日周四 07:48写道： >>> > >>> > Congratulations to Aihua and everyone who helped make this release >>> happen! >>> > >>> > On Wed, May 20, 2026 at 4:41 PM Talat Uyarer via dev < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> Thanks Aihua for driving this release. I also agree with the point >>> regarding our release cadence; I support moving toward more frequent >>> releases to ensure we stay closer to our 3-4 month target. >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> On Wed, May 20, 2026 at 4:22 PM Yufei Gu <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> Congratulations on the new release! Thanks everyone for working on >>> it. Thanks Aihua for driving it. >>> >>> >>> >>> Yufei >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, May 20, 2026 at 4:20 PM Steve <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>> >>>> Thanks Aihua for driving the 1.11 release since Dec last year. >>> >>>> >>> >>>> On Wed, May 20, 2026 at 4:14 PM Kevin Liu <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> > >>> >>>> > 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! >>> >> >> >> -- >> John Zhuge >> > >
