Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: July 11 to July 18, 2026

<p>Three things ran through the dev lists this week. Projects kept redrawing their own boundaries, with the Iceberg Rust DataFusion integration voted out of Iceberg and into

<p>The week after a major release tends to look quiet on a project's dev list. This one did not. With Iceberg 1.11.0 and 1.10.2 both out the door the week before, and Polaris

<p><em>Dipankar Mazumdar is the Director of Developer Relations at Cloudera, leading global developer initiatives across lakehouse architecture and AI. He previously held advocacy

<p>The table format war is over, and the table formats are not. Both halves of that sentence are true, both matter, and the tension between them is exactly why this article needs