Apache Polaris 1.1.0-incubating

Released on September 19th, 2025.

Downloads🔗

Release Notes🔗

New features & enhancements🔗

• HMS support
• IMPLICIT authentication type
• Support for non-AWS S3 compatible storage with STS: MinIO, s3a scheme support
• Use of Realm instead of RealmId
• Modularized Federation Architecture
• Federated Catalog Support in Polaris CLI
• Expanded External Identity Provider support
• Python package (official)
• Documentation improvements (release process, multi-realms configuration)

Bug fixes🔗

• Fix drop view with default server configuration
• Fix MinIO support
• Remove ThreadLocal

Breaking changes🔗

• Helm chart: the default value of the authentication.tokenBroker.secret.symmetricKey.secretKey property has changed from symmetric.pem to symmetric.key.
• For migrations from 1.0.x to 1.1.x, users using JDBC persistence and wanting to continue using v1 schema, must ensure that they, run following SQL statement under POLARIS_SCHEMA to make sure version table exists:

   1CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS version (
   2   version_key TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
   3   version_value INTEGER NOT NULL
   4);
   5INSERT INTO version (version_key, version_value)
   6  VALUES ('version', 1)
   7ON CONFLICT (version_key) DO UPDATE
   8                        SET version_value = EXCLUDED.version_value;
   9COMMENT ON TABLE version IS 'the version of the JDBC schema in use';
  10
  11ALTER TABLE polaris_schema.entities ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS location_without_scheme TEXT;
  

  • Please don’t enable OPTIMIZED_SIBLING_CHECK feature configuration, once the above SQL statements are run. As it may lead to incorrect behavior, due to missing data for location_without_scheme column.