Hi The Apache Polaris team is pleased to announce Apache Polaris 1.8.0!
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. This release includes several fixes and improvements, especially: - Semantic models now support dedicated privileges for listing, creating, reading, updating, and dropping. Privileges can be granted to catalog roles on individual models or at namespace or catalog scope, with separate controls for managing model grants. - Python CLI: `catalogs update` now supports `--no-sts` and `--no-kms` to toggle STS/KMS availability on an existing S3 catalog. Previously these were only settable at `catalogs create` time. - Python CLI: added `gcp` as an external catalog authentication type for Iceberg REST federation, enabling CLI creation of GCP-authenticated catalogs such as BigLake without passing Google credential secrets through command-line flags. - Python CLI: added a global `--page-size` option to paginate list calls internally on Iceberg endpoints. Requires the server-side `LIST_PAGINATION_ENABLED` feature flag. - The database schema used by the Relational JDBC persistence backend is now configurable through standard datasource configuration: the JDBC driver's `currentSchema` connection property (defaulted to `POLARIS_SCHEMA` via `quarkus.datasource.jdbc.additional-jdbc-properties.currentSchema`) selects the schema, and the persistence layer is agnostic of the schema name. Also exposed as `persistence.relationalJdbc.additionalProperties.currentSchema` in the Helm chart. - Python CLI: `catalogs create` and `catalogs update` now support `--storage-name` to set an optional name referencing a server-side storage configuration. This release can be downloaded here: https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/polaris/apache-polaris-1.8.0. You can find more details about this release here: https://polaris.apache.org/downloads/1.8.0/ Artifacts are available on Maven Central. Enjoy !
