[release] Pyiceberg 0.8.1

[kevinjqliu]

pyiceberg 0.8.1 proposal on devlist

0.8.1 Release Note

The behavior of Table.name is changed to return the table name without the catalog name. This is a broader effort to remove references to the catalog name in pyiceberg.

• Replace usage of Table.identifier with Table.name which returns the table name without the catalog name
• Replace the use of a deprecated function (identifier_to_tuple_without_catalog) in pyiceberg; remove unnecessary warnings

Documentation updates are included to reflect the updated process in https://py.iceberg.apache.org/

• Update “how to release” documentation
• 0.8.0 post-release steps

Bug fixes

• Fix add_files for parquet files without column stats
• Allow leading underscore in column name used in row filter
• Ignore tables without table_type property from Glue and Hive
• Write null in manifest list metadata when there is no parent-snapshot-id

Remove upper bound restrictions for dependency libraries; allow early testing of new versions

• Remove Python library version upper bound restriction; allow Python 3.13
• Remove fsspec library version upper bound restriction

Commits

36 new commits since the 0.8.0 release.

12 new commits will be included in 0.8.1

• 11 commits cherry-picked as bug fixes (listed below)
• 1 commit to bump version to 0.8.1

11 bug fixes (cherry-picked)

acbd071 Write null when there is no parent-snapshot-id (#1383)
bb078cf Add instruction for patch release (#1373)
ab43c6c fix KeyError raised by add_files when parquet file doe not have column stats (#1354)
cc1ab2c Improve documentation for "how to release" (#1359)
64dc6fe Remove Python 3.13 upper bound restriction (#1355)
d86ab6e Allow leading underscore in column name used in row filter (#1358)
7a4734e Replace reference of Table.identifier with Table.name (#1346)
a66ddc0 Ignore tables without table_type from Glue and Hive (#1332)
2cbc77d Drop upper bounds for fsspec and it's implementations (#1341)
7660a5b 0.8.0 post release steps (#1334)
b2f0a9e use the non-deprecated func (#1326)

9 features (not cherry-picked)

b4395ed Extend bugfix report (#1380)
3230186 Update upload-artifact to use v4 (#1371)
3b559c4 Deprecate the use of last-column-id (#1367)
6316900 check mkdocs build strict in CI (#1360)
8e0e6a1 dont override global warning (#1350)
12e87a4 Boto Glue standard retry policy with configuration (#1307)
150fa0c Set default for SortField's transform (#1347)
5f0f770 Remove deprecated datetime functions (#1134)
a90c014 Tests: Bump Spark to 3.5.3 (#1322)

16 misc (not cherry-picked)

7fe8fdc Bump Poetry to 1.8.4 (#1379)
1e9bdc2 Bump pypa/cibuildwheel from 2.21.3 to 2.22.0 (#1374)
8f6a3d4 Bump coverage from 7.6.7 to 7.6.8 (#1375)
d5fa615 Bump mkdocs-material from 9.5.45 to 9.5.46 (#1376)
c21aefd Bump getdaft from 0.3.13 to 0.3.14 (#1361)
e8e0037 Bump pydantic from 2.10.0 to 2.10.1 (#1364)
7a83695 Bump mkdocs-material from 9.5.44 to 9.5.45 (#1351)
15cfc51 Bump pydantic from 2.9.1 to 2.10.0 (#1352)
102a3bb Bump pre-commit versions (#1344)
93ebd39 Bump deptry from 0.21.0 to 0.21.1 (#1342)
a2b11de Bump mypy-boto3-glue from 1.35.53 to 1.35.65 (#1343)
7ecfa71 Bump moto from 5.0.20 to 5.0.21 (#1339)
42145f1 Bump aiohttp from 3.10.5 to 3.10.11 (#1338)
b4c43b0 Bump coverage from 7.6.5 to 7.6.7 (#1329)
1cbf429 Bump mkdocstrings from 0.26.2 to 0.27.0 (#1324)
60800d8 Bump coverage from 7.6.4 to 7.6.5 (#1325)

[Fokko]

Looks good @kevinjqliu! Thanks for creating that nice overview!

[Fokko]

@kevinjqliu One question, I noticed that this PR targets the pyiceberg-0.8.1 branch, what's the value of this? I missed this step when reviewing: https://github.com/apache/iceberg-python/pull/1359/files#r1857301535

[kevinjqliu]

I assume a new branch is needed for a patch release, but it seems like we just need a tag.
Originally I saw that the iceberg 1.7.1 patch release had its own branch, apache/iceberg#11629. But it seems like the commits were cherry-picked into the 1.7.x branch.

So for patch release, we should

• cherry-pick into 0.8.x branch
• create tag for 0.8.1
• proceed with the rest of the instructions

is that right?

[Fokko]

I think we should target this PR to the pyiceberg-0.8.x branch I created earlier this week, and then proceed with the instructions.

The instruction states that we create a tag for each of the RCs and when the vote passes. And we need to create a tag when the vote passes (I'll follow up with a PR).

[Fokko]

I was grepping for git tag, but it is already in there :) https://github.com/kevinjqliu/iceberg-python/blob/main/mkdocs/docs/how-to-release.md#create-a-github-release-note

[kevinjqliu]

changed the base branch to apache:pyiceberg-0.8.x

I want to include #1373 in this too so the instructions are up to date

[kevinjqliu]

thanks @Fokko cherry-picked #1373 as well

[kevinjqliu]

Added #1383

[kevinjqliu]

accidentally squashed the commits... redoing in #1384