What's Changed
- [1.8.x] Revert "Core: Serialize
nullwhen there is no current snapshot" by @Fokko in #12313 - [1.8.x] Core: Fallback to GET requests for namespace/table/view exists checks by @nastra in #12328
- [1.8.x] Core: Adjust Jackson settings to handle large metadata json (#12224) by @nastra in #12330
- [1.8.x] Parquet: Fix performance regression in reader init (#12305) by @nastra in #12338
- [1.8.x] Kafka: Pin Kafka-Connect version to fix integration tests by @nastra in #12341
- [1.8.x] Build: Revert AWS SDK from 2.30.11 to 2.29.52 by @nastra in #12339
- [1.8.x] Core: Remove namespace/table/view HEAD endpoints from defaults (#12351) by @nastra in #12368
- [1.8.x] Core: Don't remove trailing slash from absolute paths by @adutra in #12390
- [1.8.x] Fix versions in LICENSE/NOTICE by @jbonofre in #12365
Full Changelog: apache-iceberg-1.8.0...apache-iceberg-1.8.1