Congrats! Huge thanks to Adnan for driving this, and everyone involved.
Yufei On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 3:28 PM Dmitri Bourlatchkov <[email protected]> wrote: > Congratulations, everyone! > > Many thanks to Adnan for driving the release and to many others who helped > to make it happen! > > Cheers, > Dmitri. > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 6:20 PM Adnan Hemani <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > The Apache Polaris community is pleased to announce Apache Polaris 1.4.0. > > > > > > Apache Polaris 1.4.0 is our first release post-graduation. It introduces > > several key advancements in security, cloud integration, and > observability. > > This release significantly enhances credential vending with support for > AWS > > STS session tags, storage-scoped credentials, and principal-based > > subscoping. Observability is improved with the ability to persist Iceberg > > metrics directly to the database and refined privilege requirements for > > metrics reporting. Cloud capabilities are expanded through S3 KMS > > encryption support and more precise Azure ADLS hierarchical namespace > > management. Additionally, the release adds CockroachDB support for > > relational persistence, integrates the Kubernetes Gateway API into the > Helm > > chart, and migrates to a Guava-based rate limiter for improved stability. > > > > > > This release can be downloaded here: > > > > * https://polaris.apache.org/downloads/ > > > > > > The artifacts are available on Maven Central: > > > > * https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/polaris/ > > > > > > The Docker images are available on Docker Hub: > > > > * https://hub.docker.com/r/apache/polaris/tags > > > > * https://hub.docker.com/r/apache/polaris-admin-tool/tags > > > > > > Apache Polaris is an open-source, fully-featured catalog for Apache > > Iceberg™. It implements Iceberg's REST API, enabling seamless > multi-engine > > interoperability across a wide range of platforms, including Apache > Doris™, > > Apache Flink®, Apache Spark™, Dremio®, StarRocks, and Trino. > > > > > > Cheers! > > > > > > Best, > > > > Adnan Hemani > > >
