Iceberg v3

Last seen at this status: 2026-05-21·May 2026

Native support for the Apache Iceberg v3 spec: deletion vectors, row lineage, and the VARIANT type, across managed, foreign, and UniForm tables.

Status history

GA
2026-05-21 · May 2026
Release notes
Verified on 2026-10-15 against Databricks sources.

Sources (2)

2026-05-28Databricks Blog GA
2026-05-21Release notes GA

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