Apache Iceberg Rust 0.9.0 Release

The Apache Iceberg community is pleased to announce version 0.9.0 of iceberg-rust. This release covers development work from early January through early March 2026 and is the result of merging 109 PRs from 28 contributors, including 8 new 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).