Apache Iceberg Rust 0.8.0 Release

The Apache Iceberg community is pleased to announce version 0.8.0 of iceberg-rust. This release covers development work from late November 2025 through early January 2026 and is the result of merging 144 PRs from 37 contributors. See the changelog for the complete list of changes. iceberg-rust is a native Rust implementation of the Apache Iceberg specification, providing high-performance libraries for reading, writing, and managing Iceberg tables in Rust applications and through Python bindings (pyiceberg-core).