The open lakehouse stack spent this week arguing about what belongs in a spec and what belongs in a release. Iceberg contributors opened a formal push to remove equality deletes from the V4 spec, Parquet closed its vote on a brand new File logical type, and Polaris wrestled with how much consist...
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/alexmercedcoder/apache-data-lakehouse-weekly-july-11-to-july-18-2026-3f1p)