History

The project's life, one year at a time, told from the commit record: how activity rose and fell against the project's own baseline, who arrived when, and what was released.

Span
2017 – 2026
10 years
Peak Year
2026
1,613 commits
Releases
20
latest in 2026
2017BIRTHfirst commits

17 commits (0.2%) · +92,553 / −777 lines · 1 author

Led by Ryan Blue (17 commits)

First commits: Ryan Blue

2018QUIETwell below the usual pace

264 commits (2.8%) · +92,615 / −119,004 lines · 11 authors

Led by Ryan Blue (231 commits)

First commits: Parth Brahmbhatt, mccheah, Daniel Weeks, Owen O'Malley, Ratandeep Ratti, Omer van Kloeten (+4 more)

2019QUIETwell below the usual pace

359 commits (3.8%) · +336,055 / −16,830 lines · 56 authors

Led by Ryan Blue (118 commits)

First commits: Fokko Driesprong, Ted Gooch, Xabriel J. Collazo Mojica, David Phillips, Chen, Junjie, John Zhuge (+44 more)

2020STEADY

712 commits (7.5%) · +1,141,450 / −136,301 lines · 78 authors

Led by Ryan Blue (160 commits)

First commits: openinx, Russell Spitzer, pvary, Jingsong Lee, Jack Ye, Ryan Murray (+48 more)

2021STEADY

825 commits (8.7%) · +1,844,267 / −36,032 lines · 121 authors

Led by Anton Okolnychyi (114 commits)

First commits: Eduard Tudenhoefner, Szehon Ho, Ajantha Bhat, Wing Yew Poon, Yufei Gu, Carl Steinbach (+81 more)

2022STEADY

1,492 commits (15.7%) · +649,488 / −2,993,349 lines · 167 authors

Led by Fokko Driesprong (194 commits)

First commits: Amogh Jahagirdar, Yi Tang, Huaxin Gao, Kunni, Jonas(Rushan) Jiang, Mingliang Liu (+102 more)

Released: apache-iceberg-0.14.0, apache-iceberg-1.1.0, pyiceberg-0.2.0

2023STEADY

1,472 commits (15.5%) · +559,962 / −573,522 lines · 190 authors

Led by Fokko Driesprong (139 commits)

First commits: Liu Xiao, Naveen Kumar, Song Minseok, Rusty Conover, Rakesh Das, JB Onofré (+116 more)

Released: apache-iceberg-1.2.0, apache-iceberg-1.3.0, pyiceberg-0.5.0

2024STEADY

1,231 commits (13.0%) · +319,245 / −199,424 lines · 160 authors

Led by Eduard Tudenhoefner (119 commits)

First commits: Dong Wang, big face cat, sullis, Rahil C, Attila Kreiner, Arek Burdach (+81 more)

Released: apache-iceberg-1.5.0, apache-iceberg-1.6.0

2025STEADY

1,512 commits (15.9%) · +801,062 / −469,994 lines · 250 authors

Led by Eduard Tudenhoefner (99 commits)

First commits: Maximilian Michels, aiborodin, jackylee, Sreesh Maheshwar, Talat UYARER, Swapna Marru (+159 more)

Released: apache-iceberg-1.8.0, apache-iceberg-1.9.0, apache-iceberg-1.10.0

2026PEAKbusiest year

1,613 commits (17.0%) · +927,779 / −724,209 lines · 251 authors

Led by Kevin Liu (76 commits)

First commits: Uros, Eunbin Son, Xin Huang, vishnu prakash, Sergei Nikolaev, Rahul Shivu Mahadev (+149 more)

Released: apache-iceberg-1.11.0-rc1, apache-iceberg-1.11.0-rc2, apache-iceberg-1.11.0-rc3, apache-iceberg-1.11.0, apache-iceberg-1.11.0-rc4 (+4 more)