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Apache Iceberg releases

New Apache Iceberg features, previews and changes from data and AI companies.
DateRelease
Sep 22Amazon EMR 7.14 is now availableunverified
Sep 22Amazon EMR introduces Long Term Support with Apache Spark 4.1unverified
Sep 22On-Demand Compute now in private preview
Sep 18Apache Iceberg™ tables: Partition evolution (General availability)
Sep 15Lake Compute engine in private betaunverified
Sep 15Iceberg tables and Iceberg REST catalog are generally available
Sep 15Automatic change data feed will soon be available in all supported regions
Sep 15Elastic Channels for Snowpipe Streaming (General availability)
Sep 11Sharing foreign Iceberg tables with OpenSharing is now generally available
Sep 10Iceberg Scan Plan API in Horizon Catalog (Public Preview)
Sep 2026Lake Compute private beta: DuckDB-based engine for Iceberg tables
Sep 1$iceberg stage writes to S3 with s3:// scheme
Sep 1Automatic change data feed is now generally available
Sep 1Databricks Runtime 19: September 1, 2026
Aug 21AWS Glue 6.0 now available with 30% lower price and full Apache Iceberg v3 support
Aug 18Access externally managed Apache Iceberg™ tables through Snowflake Horizon Catalog (Preview)
Aug 14Sharing managed Iceberg tables is now generally available
Aug 13CREATE OR ALTER support for dynamic Apache Iceberg™ tables
Aug 10Amazon S3 Tables Iceberg REST catalog integration (General availability)
Aug 4Sharing Delta tables with Iceberg reads enabled is now generally available
Jul 29Multiple host names for private connectivity endpoints on Microsoft Azure
Jul 23Read and write to Cloudflare R2 Data Catalog
Jul 23Time Travel in Dataset Preview (beta)
Jul 22Transactions are now generally available
Jul 21Improved Google Cloud Storage query performance for credential-vended Iceberg tables
Jul 20Lakehouse : Cross-cloud Lakehouse now supports integration with SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) in Preview
Jul 14Catalog integration for Snowflake Postgres (General availability)
Jul 13Clone dynamic Iceberg tables (General availability)
Jul 13BigQuery Apache Iceberg managed tables get partitioning and transactions GA
Jul 9Write to Databricks-managed Iceberg tables
Jul 7Managed Iceberg materialized views are in Public Preview
Jul 2Server-side Apache Iceberg REST catalog attach in preview
Jul 2VARIANT data type on Delta Direct tables (General availability)
Jul 2026Fivetran Managed Data Lake Service adds Apache Polaris write credentials
Jun 30Writing to Apache Iceberg tables with $iceberg generally available
Jun 29Dynamic Iceberg table replication (General availability)
Jun 26Tableflow client-side field level encryption (Limited Availability)

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