APACHE ICEBERG 1.12.0 RELEASE

Summary from the TLDR IT newsletter

The Apache Iceberg community has announced the release of version 1.12.0, featuring significant performance enhancements, expanded write capabilities for Variant and geospatial data types, and new maintenance tasks. Key updates include faster unshredded Variant reads in Spark, multi-engine shredded Variant writes, and Flink-native resolution of equality deletes into row-position deletion vectors. The release also introduces Hilbert-curve clustering for multi-dimensional sorting, expands REST catalog and OpenAPI protocol features, and lays groundwork for Table Format V4.