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Spice v2.0.1 (Jun 17, 2026)

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Phillip LeBlanc
Co-Founder and CTO of Spice AI

Spice v2.0.1 is now available! ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ

Spice v2.0.1 is a patch release focused on reliability and performance. It speeds up Apache Iceberg reads and fixes bugs across AWS S3 and object-store datasets, data acceleration, distributed query, and authenticated access.

What's New in v2.0.1โ€‹

Faster Iceberg Reads with Parallel File Scanningโ€‹

The Apache Iceberg reader now scans data files in parallel (#11331), improving read throughput and latency for Iceberg tables that span many files.

AWS S3 & Object-Store Reliabilityโ€‹

Three fixes improve S3 and object-store dataset behavior:

  • Refresh-skip restored (#11339): ETag/Version-based refresh-skip works reliably again, so unchanged S3 objects are no longer re-downloaded on every refresh.
  • Retry when source files are not yet available (#11342): an object-store dataset whose source files are not present at startup now retries and becomes ready once the data appears, instead of failing permanently.
  • Path-style addressing for dotted bucket names (#11347): on standard AWS, buckets whose names contain dots now default to path-style addressing, avoiding TLS wildcard certificate errors under virtual-hosted-style HTTPS.

Data Acceleration & Distributed Query Fixesโ€‹

Two fixes ensure accelerated datasets behave correctly in more configurations:

  • Acceleration endpoints (#11345): /v1/datasets/{name}/acceleration/refresh (and the related update-refresh-sql, partition-filters, and snapshots endpoints) now work for all accelerated datasets, fixing cases where some incorrectly reported Table is not accelerated.
  • Distributed clusters (#11226): the distributed query coordinator now serves accelerated data from executors for all accelerated datasets, instead of falling back to reading from the source for some.

Authenticated Query Fixesโ€‹

With authentication enabled, queries now consistently run as the requesting user (#11253), so per-user behavior such as results caching is correctly scoped to each user.

Contributorsโ€‹

Breaking Changesโ€‹

No breaking changes.

Cookbook Updatesโ€‹

No new cookbook recipes.

The Spice Cookbook includes more than 100 recipes to help you get started with Spice quickly and easily.

Upgradingโ€‹

To upgrade to v2.0.1, use one of the following methods:

CLI:

spice upgrade

Homebrew:

brew upgrade spiceai/spiceai/spice

Docker:

Pull the spiceai/spiceai:2.0.1 image:

docker pull spiceai/spiceai:2.0.1

For available tags, see DockerHub.

Helm:

helm repo update
helm upgrade spiceai spiceai/spiceai --version 2.0.1

AWS Marketplace:

Spice is available in the AWS Marketplace.

What's Changedโ€‹

Changelogโ€‹

Full Changelog: https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/compare/v2.0.0...v2.0.1