ASF Project Spotlight: Apache Iceberg

<p><em>Read the complete Open Source and the Lakehouse series:</em></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://datalakehousehub.com/blog/2026-04-apache-software-foundation/" rel="noopener

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<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

<p>Release managers ran the show this week, and license files kept tripping them. Iceberg 1.12.0 went to a second release candidate after reviewers found bundled web assets

<blockquote> <p><strong>Original Japanese article</strong>: <a href="https://zenn.dev/penginpenguin/articles/28aa29c2f9fbeb" rel="noopener noreferrer">Apache

<p>The open lakehouse stack spent this week arguing about what belongs in a spec and what belongs in a release. Iceberg contributors opened a formal push to remove equality

<p><em>The Apache Iceberg community is discussing "secondary indexes." This topic is far more complex than it appears on the surface. Adding an index is not a simple engineering