Tracking issues of Iceberg Rust 0.5.0 Release (May 2025)

[Xuanwo]

This issue is used to track tasks of the iceberg rust 0.5.0 release.

• RM: @kevinjqliu
• Milestone: https://github.com/apache/iceberg-rust/milestone/4

Tasks

Blockers

Blockers are the tasks that must be completed before the release.

• refactor: Add FileIO::remove_dir_all to deprecate remove_dir #1275
• Expose datafusion table provider as python binding #1324

Build Release

GitHub Side

• Bump version in project (Bump iceberg-rust version to 0.5.0 (Round 1) #1342 / Bump iceberg-rust version to 0.5.0 #1345)
• Update changelog / docs (Bump iceberg-rust version to 0.5.0 #1345)
• Generate dependencies list (Bump iceberg-rust version to 0.5.0 #1345)
• Push release candidate tag to GitHub

ASF Side

• Create an ASF Release
• Upload artifacts to the SVN dist repo

Voting

• Start VOTE at iceberg community

Official Release

• Push the release git tag
• Publish artifacts to SVN RELEASE branch
• Change Iceberg Rust Website download link
• Send the announcement

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Next release: #1331

For details of each step, please refer to: https://rust.iceberg.apache.org/release

[Xuanwo]

During our last sync meeting, @kevinjqliu expressed interest in serving as the release manager for this release. Are you available to take on this role?

[kevinjqliu]

Yes! I can do it

[Xuanwo]

Yes! I can do it

Great, I'm now passing the RM duties over to you. Enjoy!

[Xuanwo]

Hi, I'm guessing we didn't finish the release process yet?

[liurenjie1024]

Hi, I'm guessing we didn't finish the release process yet?

Yes, it's the close ... pr description which closed it automatically.

[kevinjqliu]

oops thats my bad

[kevinjqliu]

#1345 is merged! The commit is e488f45. Using this to create a new tag, v0.5.0-rc.1

Tag push to repo kicked off 3 github actions

• Publish Python 🐍 distribution 📦 to PyPI
• Security audit
• Publish

[kevinjqliu]

ASF release:

git checkout v0.5.0-rc.1
ICEBERG_VERSION=0.5.0 ICEBERG_VERSION_RC=1 ./scripts/release.sh

svn co https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/iceberg/ /tmp/iceberg-dist-dev
release_version=0.5.0-rc.1
mkdir /tmp/iceberg-dist-dev/apache-iceberg-rust-${release_version}
cp dist/* /tmp/iceberg-dist-dev/apache-iceberg-rust-${release_version}/
cd /tmp/iceberg-dist-dev/

svn status
svn add apache-iceberg-rust-${release_version}
svn status
svn commit -m "Prepare for iceberg-rust ${release_version}"

Uploaded to dev dist
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/iceberg/apache-iceberg-rust-0.5.0-rc.1/