The key fixes in this release are:

• Fix to allow user-specified on read if consistent with the table schema
• Documentation update for Row Tracking to include Row Tracking Backfill introduced in Delta 3.3

Delta Kernel

• API documentation: https://docs.delta.io/3.3.1/api/java/kernel/index.html
• Maven artifacts: delta-kernel-api, delta-kernel-defaults

The key fixes in this release are:

• Kernel fix to handle non-uniform value types in map[string, string] in delta commit files

Other projects

No fixes or changes were made in the components below in this release but the corresponding artifacts are listed.

Delta Universal Format (UniForm)

• Documentation: https://docs.delta.io/3.3.1/delta-uniform.html
• Maven artifacts: delta-iceberg_2.12, delta-iceberg_2.13, delta-hudi_2.12, delta-hudi-2.13

Delta Sharing Spark

• Documentation: https://docs.delta.io/3.3.1/delta-sharing.html
• Artifacts: delta-sharing-spark_2.12, delta-sharing-spark_2.13

Credits

Wenchen Fan, Thang Long Vu