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Spice v1.11.3 (Mar 9, 2026)

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Phillip LeBlanc
Phillip LeBlanc
Co-Founder and CTO of Spice AI

Announcing the release of Spice v1.11.3! 🛠️

Spice v1.11.3 is a patch release fixing schema consistency issues in the S3 and FlightSQL data connectors, improving CDC cache invalidation, and enhancing the HTTP data connector's error handling and response metadata.

What's New in v1.11.3​

S3 Data Connector Fix​

Fixed an issue where queries using metadata columns (location, last_modified, size) on S3 datasets produced Input field name does not match with the projection expression errors (#9647). This occurred when projecting metadata columns with filters or scalar functions (e.g., SELECT lower(location) FROM table WHERE location = '...'), and when projection returned no matching files.

FlightSQL Schema Consistency​

Fixed an issue where the Flight SQL JDBC driver returned Unsupported ArrowType Utf8View errors when performing ::TEXT type casts (#9253). The FlightSQL endpoint now maps view types (e.g., Utf8View, BinaryView) to their non-view equivalents, ensuring compatibility with JDBC and ODBC clients.

CDC Cache Invalidation​

Fixed an issue where the SQL results cache was invalidated on every change stream poll, even when zero records were returned (#9472). This caused near-total cache miss rates for datasets using refresh_mode: changes (e.g., DynamoDB Streams), effectively rendering the cache useless. Cache invalidation now only occurs when a change batch contains actual data changes.

HTTP Data Connector Improvements​

  • HTTP error responses (e.g., 5xx) are now excluded from the cache, preventing transient server errors from polluting cached results.
  • Added a response_headers column (Map type) to HTTP responses, providing access to response header metadata in query results.

Contributors​

Breaking Changes​

No breaking changes.

Cookbook Updates​

No new cookbook recipes.

The Spice Cookbook includes 86 recipes to help you get started with Spice quickly and easily.

Upgrading​

To upgrade to v1.11.3, use one of the following methods:

CLI:

spice upgrade

Homebrew:

brew upgrade spiceai/spiceai/spice

Docker:

Pull the spiceai/spiceai:1.11.3 image:

docker pull spiceai/spiceai:1.11.3

For available tags, see DockerHub.

Helm:

helm repo update
helm upgrade spiceai spiceai/spiceai --version 1.11.3

AWS Marketplace:

Spice is available in the AWS Marketplace.

What's Changed​

Changelog​

  • fix(s3): Fix metadata column schema mismatches in projected queries by @sgrebnov in #9664
  • s3_metadata_columns tests: include test for location outside table prefix by @sgrebnov in #9676
  • Fix Flight SQL schema consistency: expand view types and verify field names by @sgrebnov in #9438
  • Improve CDC cache invalidation by @krinart in #9651
  • Skip caching http error response + add response_headers by @krinart in #9670

Full Changelog: https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/compare/v1.11.2...v1.11.3