Blog Post for v1.10.3 (#1289)

Author: wyattwenzel

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+date: 2025-12-29
+title: 'Spice v1.10.3 (Dec 29, 2025)'
+type: blog
+authors: [phillipleblanc]
+tags: [release, s3, openai, azure, monitoring]
+
+---
+Announcing the release of Spice v1.10.3! 🚀
+
+v1.10.3 is a patch release with improved startup reliability, fixes for Azure BlobFS versioned containers, S3 custom endpoint query resolution, and a fix for the OpenAI Responses API.
+
+## What's New in v1.10.3
+
+### Additional Improvements & Bug Fixes
+
+- **Reliability**: Telemetry exporter initialization now runs asynchronously, preventing blocked startup in environments with network restrictions (e.g., Kubernetes with restrictive network policies).
+- **Reliability**: Fixed an issue where queries on Azure Blob containers with versioning enabled would fail with "Azure does not support suffix range requests" error in distributed query mode.
+- **Reliability**: Fixed S3 location-based queries against custom S3 endpoints (e.g., MinIO, LocalStack). Queries with `location` predicates on datasets using `s3_endpoint` and `s3_region` parameters now correctly route to the configured endpoint instead of defaulting to AWS S3.
+- **Reliability**: Fixed "project index out of bounds" errors in the query optimizer when union children have mismatched schemas. The optimizer now validates schema compatibility before applying projection pushdown.
+- **Reliability**: Fixed an issue where the OpenAI Responses API (`/v1/responses`) was not working correctly.
+
+## Contributors
+
+- [@lukekim](https://github.com/lukekim)
+- [@phillipleblanc](https://github.com/phillipleblanc)
+
+## Breaking Changes
+
+No breaking changes.
+
+## Cookbook Updates
+
+No major cookbook updates.
+
+The [Spice Cookbook](https://spiceai.org/cookbook) includes 84 recipes to help you get started with Spice quickly and easily.
+
+## Upgrading
+
+To upgrade to v1.10.3, use one of the following methods:
+
+**CLI**:
+
+```console
+spice upgrade
+```
+
+**Homebrew**:
+
+```console
+brew upgrade spiceai/spiceai/spice
+```
+
+**Docker**:
+
+Pull the `spiceai/spiceai:1.10.3` image:
+
+```console
+docker pull spiceai/spiceai:1.10.3
+```
+
+For available tags, see [DockerHub](https://hub.docker.com/r/spiceai/spiceai/tags).
+
+**Helm**:
+
+```console
+helm repo update
+helm upgrade spiceai spiceai/spiceai
+```
+
+**AWS Marketplace**:
+
+🎉 Spice is now available in the [AWS Marketplace](https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-jmf6jskjvnq7i)!
+
+## What's Changed
+
+### Changelog
+
+- Upgrade to openai-async v0.32 by [@lukekim](https://github.com/lukekim) in [#8635](https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/8635)
+- Fix issue with location predicate for custom S3 endpoints + regression integration test by [@phillipleblanc](https://github.com/phillipleblanc) in [#8668](https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/8668)
+- fix: Validate schema match before projection pushdown in UnionProjectionPushdownOptimizer by [@phillipleblanc](https://github.com/phillipleblanc) in [#8669](https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/8669)
+- Start the anonymous telemetry exporter asynchronously by [@phillipleblanc](https://github.com/phillipleblanc) in [#8679](https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/8679)
+- fix: Azure does not support suffix range requests by [@phillipleblanc](https://github.com/phillipleblanc) in [#8685](https://github.com/spiceai/spiceai/pull/8685)