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 ).