March 2026 monthly summary for Apache Iceberg: Delivered a targeted documentation enhancement for the Snowflake vendor description, emphasizing Horizon Catalog, DDL support, Iceberg REST endpoints, and catalog-linked databases. The change improves customer clarity, aligns with external engine integrations, and sets expectations for permissions and data catalog usage.

January 2026 — Focused on documenting and validating data lake integration using Apache Polaris External Catalog. Delivered a knowledge-sharing feature (Blog Post) that maps legacy and heterogeneous data lakes to a push-based metadata management architecture, and updated the architecture diagram to reflect the intended design. No major bugs reported this period; two commits contributed to the blog post and diagram correction, reinforcing design alignment and traceability. Repository: renovate-bot/apache-_-polaris.