diff --git a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/iceberg_bug_report.yml b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/iceberg_bug_report.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..41110cf397
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/iceberg_bug_report.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+---
+name: Iceberg Bug report 🐞
+description: Problems, bugs and issues with Apache Iceberg
+labels: ["kind:bug"]
+body:
+  - type: dropdown
+    attributes:
+      label: Apache Iceberg version
+      description: What Apache Iceberg version are you using?
+      multiple: false
+      options:
+        - "0.5.0 (latest release)"
+        - "0.4.0"
+        - "0.3.0"
+        - "0.2.0"
+        - "0.1.0"
+        - "main (development)"
+    validations:
+      required: false
+  - type: textarea
+    attributes:
+      label: Please describe the bug 🐞
+      description: >
+        Please describe the problem, what to expect, and how to reproduce.
+        Feel free to include stacktraces and the Iceberg catalog configuration.
+        You can include files by dragging and dropping them here.
+    validations:
+      required: true
diff --git a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/iceberg_improvement.yml b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/iceberg_improvement.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0429236e9e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/iceberg_improvement.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+---
+name: Iceberg Improvement / Feature Request
+description: New features with Apache Iceberg
+labels: ["kind:feature request"]
+body:
+  - type: textarea
+    attributes:
+      label: Feature Request / Improvement
+      description: Please describe the feature and elaborate on the use case and motivation behind it
+    validations:
+      required: true
diff --git a/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/iceberg_question.yml b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/iceberg_question.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cf9997f4bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/iceberg_question.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+---
+name: Iceberg Question
+description: Questions around Apache Iceberg
+labels: ["kind:question"]
+body:
+  - type: textarea
+    attributes:
+      label: Question
+      description: What is your question?
+    validations:
+      required: true
diff --git a/.github/dependabot.yml b/.github/dependabot.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f851b8a54c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/dependabot.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+#
+
+version: 2
+updates:
+  - package-ecosystem: "pip"
+    directory: "/"
+    schedule:
+      interval: "weekly"
+      day: "sunday"
+    open-pull-requests-limit: 5
+  - package-ecosystem: "github-actions"
+    directory: "/"
+    schedule:
+      interval: "weekly"
+      day: "sunday"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/license_check.yml b/.github/workflows/license_check.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9408a3a046
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/license_check.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+#
+
+name: "Run License Check"
+on: pull_request
+
+jobs:
+  rat:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - run: dev/check-license
diff --git a/.github/workflows/python-ci-docs.yml b/.github/workflows/python-ci-docs.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fc65fc9545
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/python-ci-docs.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+#
+
+name: "Python Docs"
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' }}
+
+jobs:
+  docs:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python }}
+      - name: Install
+        working-directory: ./mkdocs
+        run: pip install -r requirements.txt
+      - name: Build
+        working-directory: ./mkdocs
+        run: mkdocs build --strict
+      - name: Copy
+        working-directory: ./mkdocs
+        run: mv ./site /tmp/site
+      - name: Push changes to gh-pages branch
+        run: |
+          git checkout --orphan gh-pages-tmp
+          git rm --quiet -rf .
+          cp -r /tmp/site/* .
+          git config --global user.name 'GitHub Actions'
+          git config --global user.email 'actions@github.com'
+          echo "py.iceberg.apache.org" > CNAME
+          git add --all
+          git commit -m 'Publish Python docs'
+          git push -f origin gh-pages-tmp:gh-pages || true
diff --git a/.github/workflows/python-ci.yml b/.github/workflows/python-ci.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ed06d4a7f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/python-ci.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+#
+
+name: "Python CI"
+
+on: [push, pull_request]
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' }}
+
+jobs:
+  lint-and-test:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        python: ['3.8', '3.9', '3.10', '3.11']
+
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - name: Install poetry
+      working-directory: ./python
+      run: make install-poetry
+    - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+      with:
+        python-version: ${{ matrix.python }}
+        cache: poetry
+        cache-dependency-path: ./poetry.lock
+    - name: Install
+      run: make install-dependencies
+    - name: Linters
+      run: make lint
+    - name: Tests
+      run: make test-coverage
diff --git a/.github/workflows/python-integration.yml b/.github/workflows/python-integration.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ebf95ed81d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/python-integration.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+#
+
+name: "Python Integration"
+
+on: [push, pull_request]
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' }}
+
+jobs:
+  integration-test:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      with:
+        fetch-depth: 2
+    - name: Install
+      run: make install
+    - name: Run integration tests
+      run: make test-integration
+    - name: Show debug logs
+      if: ${{ failure() }}
+      run: docker-compose -f dev/docker-compose.yml logs
diff --git a/.github/workflows/python-release.yml b/.github/workflows/python-release.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6902775b13
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/python-release.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+#
+
+name: "Python Release"
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      version:
+        description: 'Version'
+        type: string
+        default: 'master'
+
+
+jobs:
+  build_wheels:
+    name: Build wheels on ${{ matrix.os }}
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        os: [ ubuntu-22.04, windows-2022, macos-11 ]
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.8'
+
+      - name: Install poetry
+        run: pip install poetry
+
+      - name: Set version
+        run: python -m poetry version "${{ inputs.version }}"
+        working-directory: ./python
+        if: "${{ github.event.inputs.version != 'master' }}"
+
+      # Publish the source distribution with the version that's in
+      # the repository, otherwise the tests will fail
+      - name: Compile source distribution
+        run: python3 -m poetry build --format=sdist
+        if: startsWith(matrix.os, 'ubuntu')
+        working-directory: ./python
+
+      - name: Build wheels
+        uses: pypa/cibuildwheel@v2.16.0
+        with:
+          output-dir: wheelhouse
+          config-file: "pyproject.toml"
+        env:
+          # Ignore 32 bit architectures
+          CIBW_ARCHS: "auto64"
+          CIBW_PROJECT_REQUIRES_PYTHON: ">=3.8,<3.12"
+          CIBW_TEST_REQUIRES: "pytest==7.4.2 moto==4.2.2"
+          CIBW_TEST_EXTRAS: "s3fs,glue"
+          CIBW_TEST_COMMAND: "pytest -Werror {project}/tests/avro/test_decoder.py"
+          # There is an upstream issue with installing on MacOSX
+          # https://github.com/pypa/cibuildwheel/issues/1603
+          # Ignore tests for pypy since not all dependencies are compiled for it
+          # and would require a local rust build chain
+          CIBW_TEST_SKIP: "pp* *macosx*"
+
+      - name: Add source distribution
+        if: startsWith(matrix.os, 'ubuntu')
+        run: ls -lah dist/* && cp dist/* wheelhouse/
+
+      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: "release-${{ github.event.inputs.version }}"
+          path: ./wheelhouse/*
diff --git a/.github/workflows/stale.yml b/.github/workflows/stale.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..566ae2441e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/stale.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+#
+
+name: "Close Stale Issues"
+on:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: '0 0 * * *'
+
+permissions:
+  # All other permissions are set to none
+  issues: write
+
+jobs:
+  stale:
+    if: github.repository_owner == 'apache'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/stale@v8.0.0
+        with:
+          stale-issue-label: 'stale'
+          exempt-issue-labels: 'not-stale'
+          days-before-issue-stale: 180
+          days-before-issue-close: 14
+          # Only close stale issues, leave PRs alone
+          days-before-pr-stale: -1
+          stale-issue-message: >
+            This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has been open for 180 days
+            with no activity. It will be closed in next 14 days if no further activity occurs. To
+            permanently prevent this issue from being considered stale, add the label 'not-stale',
+            but commenting on the issue is preferred when possible.
+          close-issue-message: >
+            This issue has been closed because it has not received any activity in the last 14 days
+            since being marked as 'stale'
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9f432ea654
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+*.swp
+.DS_Store
+.cache
+tmp/
+site
+
+# intellij files
+.idea
+.idea_modules/
+*.ipr
+*.iws
+*.iml
+out
+
+# rat library install location
+lib/
+
+__pycache__/
+*.py[cod]
+.eggs/
+.tox/
+env/
+venv/
+*.egg-info/
+test-reports
+build/
+dist/
+sdist/
+.coverage
+coverage.xml
+.pytest_cache/
+
+# vscode/eclipse files
+.classpath
+.project
+.settings
+bin/
+
+# Hive/metastore files
+metastore_db/
+
+# Spark/metastore files
+spark-warehouse/
+derby.log
+
+# Python stuff
+.mypy_cache/
+htmlcov
+
+pyiceberg/avro/decoder_fast.c
+pyiceberg/avro/*.html
+pyiceberg/avro/*.so
+
diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index fe522351c4..a4a2682cdf 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -15,8 +15,7 @@
 # specific language governing permissions and limitations
 # under the License.
 ---
-files: ^python/
-exclude: ^python/vendor/
+exclude: ^vendor/
 
 repos:
   - repo: https://github.com/pre-commit/pre-commit-hooks
@@ -44,12 +43,12 @@ repos:
     hooks:
       - id: mypy
         args:
-          [--install-types, --non-interactive, --config=python/pyproject.toml]
+          [--install-types, --non-interactive, --config=pyproject.toml]
   - repo: https://github.com/hadialqattan/pycln
     rev: v2.2.2
     hooks:
       - id: pycln
-        args: [--config=python/pyproject.toml]
+        args: [--config=pyproject.toml]
   - repo: https://github.com/executablebooks/mdformat
     rev: 0.7.17
     hooks: