The release wave that defined late April carried straight into early May, with Arrow shipping two more votes in seven days, Polaris settling into post-1.4.0 stabilization mode, and the Iceberg dev list staying focused on V4 design follow-ups from the summit. The clearest story of the week is Arrow's release engineering: the arrow-rs 58.2.0 vote that opened on April 28 closed cleanly on May 2, and the Arrow .NET 23.0.0 vote opened the same day and passed by May 5. Two votes, two passing results, four days apart — a cadence that would have been unimaginable a year ago when the project was still navigating its full-stack release cycle. Iceberg's design lists stayed in absorption mode as contributors continued to translate post-summit alignments into formal specification work, and Parquet's dev list remained dense with format-level threads that have been simmering since the ALP encoding vote closed in April.…