date: 2026-05-06 title: 'Spice v1.11.6 (May 6, 2026)' type: blog authors: [krinart] tags: [release, dynamodb, data-connector, helm]

Spice v1.11.6 is now available! 🛠️

Spice v1.11.6 is a patch release improving DynamoDB bootstrap ingestion performance and making Helm chart health probes configurable.

What's New in v1.11.6

DynamoDB: Faster Bootstrap Ingestion

Improved DynamoDB (opens in a new tab) bootstrap ingestion throughput for refresh_mode: changes datasets (#10616 (opens in a new tab)). Large tables now maintain a high, steady ingestion rate throughout the entire bootstrap, even for very large tables.

Helm Chart: Configurable Health Probes

The Spice Helm chart (opens in a new tab) now supports configurable livenessProbe, readinessProbe, and startupProbe settings (#10696 (opens in a new tab)), including probe path, port, and timing parameters.

Example values.yaml:

...
livenessProbe:
  httpGet:
    path: /health
    port: 8090
  timeoutSeconds: 1
  periodSeconds: 10
  failureThreshold: 3

readinessProbe:
  httpGet:
    path: /v1/ready
    port: 8090
  timeoutSeconds: 5
  periodSeconds: 10
  failureThreshold: 3

startupProbe:
  httpGet:
    path: /health
    port: 8090
  timeoutSeconds: 1
  periodSeconds: 10
  failureThreshold: 30

...
livenessProbe:
  httpGet:
    path: /health
    port: 8090
  timeoutSeconds: 1
  periodSeconds: 10
  failureThreshold: 3

readinessProbe:
  httpGet:
    path: /v1/ready
    port: 8090
  timeoutSeconds: 5
  periodSeconds: 10
  failureThreshold: 3

startupProbe:
  httpGet:
    path: /health
    port: 8090
  timeoutSeconds: 1
  periodSeconds: 10
  failureThreshold: 30

Contributors

• @krinart (opens in a new tab)
• @lukekim (opens in a new tab)

Breaking Changes

No breaking changes.

Cookbook Updates

No new cookbook recipes.

The Spice Cookbook (opens in a new tab) includes 86 recipes to help you get started with Spice quickly and easily.

Upgrading

To upgrade to v1.11.6, use one of the following methods:

CLI:

spice upgrade

spice upgrade

Homebrew:

brew upgrade spiceai/spiceai/spice

brew upgrade spiceai/spiceai/spice

Docker:

Pull the spiceai/spiceai:1.11.6 image:

docker pull spiceai/spiceai:1.11.6

docker pull spiceai/spiceai:1.11.6

For available tags, see DockerHub (opens in a new tab).

Helm:

helm repo update
helm upgrade spiceai spiceai/spiceai --version 1.11.6

helm repo update
helm upgrade spiceai spiceai/spiceai --version 1.11.6

AWS Marketplace:

Spice is available in the AWS Marketplace (opens in a new tab).

What's Changed

Changelog

• Improve DynamoDB Bootstrap performance by @krinart (opens in a new tab) in #10616 (opens in a new tab)
• fix: use InsertOp::Overwrite in DynamoDB bootstrap scan_and_overwrite_accelerator by @claudespice (opens in a new tab) in #10639 (opens in a new tab)
• fix: make Helm chart probes configurable by @lukekim (opens in a new tab) in #10696 (opens in a new tab)
• Migrate secrets to vars by @krinart (opens in a new tab) in #10354 (opens in a new tab)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/compare/v1.11.5...v1.11.6 (opens in a new tab)