Community Weekly Report
Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2026
00Overview
This week, Doris is moving toward more open lakehouse reads, leaner search, and more automated data lifecycle management, while exploring tighter permissions and bounded-state implementations; community activity included 47 contributors, 138 merged PRs, and 30 new issues. Kernel and engineering remain the busiest theme, followed by real-time warehousing, suggesting that foundational work is supporting these directions, with capabilities at different stages from planning and proposals to delivery.
01Highlights
02By Scenario
Multi-modal Lakehouse
01Lakehouse work centered on generation-cached immutable Iceberg partition views and version-aware result-cache validation, reducing repeated conversion while distinguishing historical and branch references. Catalog labels, validated batched AI output and Elasticsearch 9.x discovery broadened integration; LOCAL entry points were disabled and legacy readers removed.
- [improvement](datasource) Version Iceberg partition views and SQL cache metadata
- [feature](fe) Support iceberg REST catalog labels as the $labels table
- [improvement](be) Add optional structured output for batched AI functions
- [fix](fe) Disable LOCAL TVF
Lakehouse work prioritizes native Google authentication with Application Default Credentials for Iceberg REST catalogs, easing Google Cloud connectivity. Alongside this, a proposed independent FILE type represents file references, metadata, and optional inline content within queries, broadening file-data modeling while reducing authentication integration effort.
- [feat](iceberg) Support Google Authentication for Iceberg REST catalog