[jackylee-ch]

flink-metrics-dropwizard stopped being shipped in the iceberg-flink-runtime jar in 1.11.0 (#16155), which silently stops publishing the dataFilesSizeHistogram and deleteFilesSizeHistogram metrics. It was missed in the release notes.

Closes #16170

Testing

cd site && make lint

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• Model: Claude Opus 5
• Platform/Tool: Ducc
• Human Oversight: fully reviewed
• Prompt Summary: Add the 1.11.0 release note entry requested by the issue reporter for the dropwizard dependency removal.

[uros-b]

Suggested change

	- Flink: Do not ship optional `flink-metrics-dropwizard` dependency in the `iceberg-flink-runtime` fat jar. Without it the `dataFilesSizeHistogram` and `deleteFilesSizeHistogram` histogram metrics are no longer published; add the dependency manually to keep publishing them ([\#16155](https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/16155))
	- Flink: Do not ship optional `flink-metrics-dropwizard` dependency in the `iceberg-flink-runtime` fat jar. Without it, the `dataFilesSizeHistogram` and `deleteFilesSizeHistogram` histogram metrics are no longer published; add the dependency manually to keep publishing them ([\#16155](https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/16155))

[uros-b]

This is a good and accurate release note for a real behavior change, thank you @jackylee-ch for working on this! Please ping committers for further review

[jackylee-ch]

cc @pvary

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