Hi JB, That's excellent news! Thank you for driving this release, and many thanks to all the contributors!
Cheers, Alex On Mon, Sep 28, 2026 at 11:49 AM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 !
