Iceberg's metadata tree was built for batch. V4 is rebuilding it for streaming – one-file commits, no write amplification, sub-second latency. That's just one of four spec changes coming. Here's the full picture from the community:

BREAKING: Iceberg lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms to Taco Bell restaurants has been linked to a parasitic outbreak that has infected thousands of people in five states, per WSJ. Michigan is one of the hardest-hit states, with the number of cases surpassing 4,000 as of Thursday.

Apache Iceberg™ 1.11 isn’t about flashy features. It’s about making Iceberg actually work in production: ✦︎ Fewer bugs ✦︎ Better performance ✦︎ More predictable behavior Take a closer look at what's new and why it matters:

Amid the spreading Cyclospora outbreak linked to iceberg lettuce from Mexico and a multistate salmonella outbreak, NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya says Americans can “rest assured” federal health officials are “working hard to trace back exactly where these outbreaks are occurring from” to keep contaminated products off store shelves.

An AI-ready open lakehouse has three layers: Apache Iceberg for storage, catalog federation for governance, and MCP for AI agent access. More on our borderless lakehouse with @googlecloud: 🧊