# Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: March 20–27, 2026

With the Iceberg Summit less than two weeks away, the open lakehouse ecosystem spent this week in a final push of preparation, stabilization, and policy refinement. The AI contribution guidelines debate that erupted across Iceberg and Polaris last week continued drawing community input, while release engineering and summit logistics dominated the technical threads. Across all four projects, the mood is pre-conference focus — tying off loose ends before the community gathers in San Francisco on April 8–9. Apache Iceberg The Iceberg community spent the week in summit countdown mode. With the Iceberg Summit 2026 now less than two weeks out, logistics threads picked up as the selection committee finalized the speaker lineup. The two-day event at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco will feature hands-on workshops, deep technical sessions, and direct access to core maintainers — the largest gathering of Iceberg practitioners yet. On the release front, the 1.10.2 patch release discussion th