date: 2026-01-23 title: 'Spice v1.11.0-rc.3 (Jan 23, 2026)' type: blog authors: [krinart] tags: [release, acceleration, arrow]
Announcing the release of Spice v1.11.0-rc.3! :star:
v1.11.0-rc.3 is a patch release that includes improvements to Hash Indexing for Arrow Acceleration and fixes for TLS connections with Flight SQL endpoints.
Arrow-based accelerations now support hash indexing for faster point lookups on equality predicates. Hash indexes provide O(1) average-case lookup performance for columns with high cardinality.
Features:
Example configuration:
For more details, refer to the Hash Index Documentation.
TLS Connection Support: Fixed TLS connection issues when using grpc+tls:// scheme with Flight SQL endpoints. Added support for custom CA certificate files via the new flightsql_tls_ca_certificate_file parameter.
No breaking changes.
No major cookbook updates.
The Spice Cookbook includes 86 recipes to help you get started with Spice quickly and easily.
To upgrade to v1.11.0-rc.3, use one of the following methods:
CLI:
Homebrew:
Docker:
Pull the spiceai/spiceai:v1.11.0-rc.3 image:
For available tags, see DockerHub.
Helm:
AWS Marketplace:
Spice is available in the AWS Marketplace.