# Amazon EMR 6.9.0 - Iceberg release notes
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## Amazon EMR 6.9.0 - Iceberg changes
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| Type | Description | 
| --- | --- | 
| Feature | Amazon EMR Flink integration with Iceberg. | 
| Feature | Amazon EMR Hive integration with Iceberg. | 
| Feature | Support to cache Iceberg metadata files on Amazon FSx for Lustre to improve the query planning time. | 
| Backport | [PR 5050](https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/5050): Flink 1.15: Support write options in the in-line insert SQL comments. | 
| Backport | [PR 5282](https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/5282): Amazon: Fix PUT retry failures by opening new data file streams. | 
| Backport | [PR 5318](https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/5318): Flink 1.15: Bridge the gap between FlinkSource and IcebergSource (FLIP-27) and added an opt-in config to use FLIP-27 source in Flink SQL. | 
| Backport | [PR 5344](https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/5344): Flink 1.14: Bridge the gap between FlinkSource and IcebergSource (FLIP-27) and added an opt-in config to use FLIP-27 source in Flink SQL. | 
| Backport | [PR 5393](https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/5393): Flink 1.14, 1.15: Avoid converting Iceberg MetricContext to Flink metrics in FLIP-27 source reader. | 
| Backport | [PR 5401](https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/5401): Flink 1.14, 1.15: Missed IcebergSourceReader group in PR \#5393 for FLIP-27 source reader metrics. | 
| Backport | [PR 5679](https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/5679): Spark 3.2, 3.3: Fix nullability propagation for MergeRows node. | 
| Backport | [PR 5860](https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/5860): Spark 3.3: Fix QueryFailure when running RewriteManifestProcedure on Date partitioned tables. | 
| Backport | [PR 5880](https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/5880): Spark 3.3: Fix nullability in merge-on-read projections. | 
| Backport | [PR 5917](https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/5917): Spark 3.2: Fix nullability in merge-on-read projections. |