data-engineering

Apache Iceberg 1.11.0 arrives with at-rest encryption across all table files, Spark 4.1 and Flink 2.1 compatibility, and Deletion Vector write support for Flink.

DuckDB 1.5.0 introduces a VARIANT type that speeds JSON queries up to 100x, promotes GEOMETRY into core, overhauls the CLI, and delivers broad performance gains across more than 6,500 commits from nearly 100 contributors.