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Apache Polaris, the interoperable, open source catalog for Apache Iceberg

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Dominant language: Java
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 19, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 14, 2026
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271 open issues indexed

Support UUID/String principal IDs in the default OIDC PrincipalMapper Open

bug

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apache/polaris#5569 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Document and complete a supported audit trail for regulated deployments Open

enhancement

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apache/polaris#5561 · Opened Sep 20, 2026
Reconsider the ALLOW_SETTING_SUB_CATALOG_RBAC_FOR_FEDERATED_CATALOGS realm-wide gate Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

apache/polaris#5549 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Cannot create a table where metadata and data are in separate storage accounts Open

bug

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apache/polaris#5539 · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Migrate to AWS SDK's Apache5HttpClient Open

good first issue

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apache/polaris#5531 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Explain the use cases for ENABLE_SUB_CATALOG_RBAC_FOR_FEDERATED_CATALOGS in Federation docs Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

apache/polaris#5528 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 16, 2026
`OPTIMIZED_SIBLING_CHECK` rejects every namespace and table created under a namespace Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

apache/polaris#5521 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 15, 2026
[BUG] rotatePrincipalSecrets in JdbcBasePersistenceImpl silently drops credentials on concurrent rotation Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

apache/polaris#5503 · Opened Sep 12, 2026
Azure cleanup can drop tasks when ADLSFileIO suppresses deletion failures Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

apache/polaris#5482 · Opened Sep 9, 2026
Opa Auth: Skip Polaris native principal and RBAC resolution in `OpaPolarisAuthorizer` Open

enhancement

apache/polaris#5476 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · 2 assignees · Opened Sep 9, 2026
S3 connection pool exhausted over hours after enabling DROP_WITH_PURGE_ENABLED (1.7.0) Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

apache/polaris#5475 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 9, 2026
Prevent unsafe metadata cleanup after ambiguous JDBC table commits Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

apache/polaris#5459 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Support key-value tag on namespace/table/column Open

enhancement proposal

apache/polaris#5442 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Remove synthetic principals hack in Resolver Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

apache/polaris#5439 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Batch file cleanup reports success and drops tasks after deletion failures Open

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apache/polaris#5420 · Opened Aug 31, 2026
Python client drops external catalog subtype fields during deserialization Open

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apache/polaris#5409 · Opened Aug 29, 2026
Semantic model object documents bypass dataset source validation Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

apache/polaris#5405 · Opened Aug 28, 2026
Review request: unranked Polaris catalog and Ossie-converter evidence Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

apache/polaris#5403 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 28, 2026
Polaris crash-loops on local Kubernetes: the OTel GCP resource detector blocks startup for ~135s Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

apache/polaris#5401 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 28, 2026
InMemoryEntityCache is uninstrumented (JDBC persistence) Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

apache/polaris#5387 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 26, 2026
InMemoryEntityCache: byName map is unbounded and can OOM the JVM Open

bug

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apache/polaris#5386 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 26, 2026
Design a consistent color theme for the website Open

documentation enhancement stale

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

apache/polaris#5347 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 21, 2026
Policy and generic-table list endpoints ignore page-token and page-size Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

apache/polaris#5311 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 17, 2026
Missing spark example CI Open

enhancement stale

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

apache/polaris#5278 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 12, 2026
Docker image for Polaris Command Line Interface Open

enhancement stale

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

apache/polaris#5267 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 10, 2026
Principal、Privilege 、Policy and role support Spark SQL management. Open

enhancement stale

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

apache/polaris#5245 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 6, 2026
Federate to an Iceberg JDBC catalog (new JDBC connection type) Open

enhancement stale

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

apache/polaris#5235 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 4, 2026
Implement semantic model document validation Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

apache/polaris#5205 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 31, 2026
Design vendor-specific extensions for Iceberg REST federation Open

enhancement stale

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

apache/polaris#5195 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 30, 2026
Support Azure user-bound user delegation SAS (sduoid) for principal-bound credential vending Open

enhancement stale

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 48/100

apache/polaris#5193 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 30, 2026
Migrate all authorizeOrThrow(principal, ...) callers to authorize(state, request) and remove the legacy overloads Open

stale

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

apache/polaris#5171 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 28, 2026
Generic Tables cannot store or expose structured schema metadata Open

stale

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

apache/polaris#5128 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 23, 2026
Catalog Federation - Support opt-in pass through of vended credentials from remote Iceberg REST catalogs Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

apache/polaris#5123 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 21, 2026
Rest API to create a table using "STS AssumeRole with a Permanent Access Key Pair (No OIDC)" failed with exception on "VAST Data" Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

apache/polaris#5099 · 8 comments · Opened Jul 20, 2026
Add unit tests for DefaultAuthenticator role resolution logic Open

bug stale

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

apache/polaris#5092 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 19, 2026
Loading catalog config via IRC API results using multiple JDBC connections Open

stale

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

apache/polaris#5087 · 5 comments · Opened Jul 17, 2026
Add a generic webhook event listener for audit/SIEM integration Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

apache/polaris#5082 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 17, 2026
[PROPOSAL] Opt-in Soft-Delete, Hold Period, and Undrop for Iceberg Tables Open

enhancement proposal

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

apache/polaris#5054 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 13, 2026
Feature request: explicit “no vended credentials / no SAS” mode for IAM‑only setups (esp. Azure) Open

enhancement stale

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

apache/polaris#5050 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 13, 2026
Feature: Distributed Background Task Sweeper Daemon (Task GC) Open

stale

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

apache/polaris#4922 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 29, 2026
Refactor duplicated S3 access interfaces into shared S3TestcontainerAccess Open

enhancement stale

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

apache/polaris#4804 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 17, 2026
Review and Replace Collectors.toList() with Stream.toList() Where Mutability Is Not Required Open

enhancement stale

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

apache/polaris#4757 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 14, 2026
Refactor Static Map Initializations to Use Map.ofEntries() Open

enhancement stale

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

apache/polaris#4744 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 13, 2026
Refactor repeated PRINCIPAL_ROLE string literal into a shared constant Open

enhancement stale

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

apache/polaris#4738 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 13, 2026
Server-side retry for conflicting rename operations Open

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apache/polaris#4729 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 12, 2026
AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity appears to run per SigV4 AssumeRole request on EKS/IRSA Open

stale

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

apache/polaris#4711 · 9 comments · Opened Jun 12, 2026
Spark 4 client: add regression tests Open

bug

apache/polaris#4664 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 9, 2026
Table notification CREATE/UPDATE can fail under concurrent modification without retry Open

stale

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apache/polaris#4658 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 8, 2026
Missing error-path test coverage for invalid feature JSON in DefaultConfigurationStoreTest Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

apache/polaris#4639 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 7, 2026
JDBC: Add dedicated regression coverage for hasOverlappingSiblings behavior Open

bug stale

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

apache/polaris#4600 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 2, 2026

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