Release arrow-rs / parquet minor version 53.4.0 (Jan 2025)

[alamb]

Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge? Please describe what you are trying to do.

Our release schedule is here https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs?tab=readme-ov-file#release-versioning-and-schedule

• We plan Release arrow-rs / parquet major version 54.0.0 (December 2024) #6342 in Dec

However, upstream in DataFusion we are planning to release without picking up arrow 54 until after DataFusion 44

• Release DataFusion 44.0.0 datafusion#13334
  To minimize downstream disruptions

However, there are several fixes / features (related to Utf8View support for example) that we would like to make available downstream before we release DataFusion 45 and thus I would like to propose another release from the 44 branch

Describe the solution you'd like

Create a 53.4.0 release:

• Release notes and bump version
• Vote thread
• Release to crates.io / approval

Describe alternatives you've considered

I think @andygrove would like to make

apache/datafusion#13334 (comment)

I am +1 for releasing DF 44 without the next major version of Arrow. However, there are some bug fixes and performance improvements in Arrow that I would like to use so would like to see a new minor release (and am happy to help with this if needed).

Process:

I will create the release from the https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/tree/53.0.0_maintenance branch

To include patches in this release, please create PRs targeting the 53.0.0_maintenance branch. Once that branch has the desired content we can cut the release

Additional context

Suggested content (please add more if necessary)

• fix: make GetCatalogsBuilder sort catalog names  #6864
• Enable matching temporal as from_type to Utf8View #6872
• add buffered data_pages to parquet column writer total bytes estimation #6862
• perf: Use Cow in get_format_string in FFI_ArrowSchema #6853
• Handling nullable DictionaryArray in CSV parser #6830
• [arrow-cast] Support cast boolean from/to string view #6822
• Add Array::shrink_to_fit(&mut self) #6790
• Support shrink to empty #6817
• [arrow-cast] Support cast numeric to string view (alternate) #6816
• fix: Encoding of List offsets was incorrect when slice offsets begin with zero #6805
• fix: decimal conversion looses value on lower precision #6836

[andygrove]

@himadripal I added #6836 for consideration for this point release

[alamb]

Update:

• There is now a maintenance branch where we will make the release from: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/tree/53.0.0_maintenance
• I added a process section above

Next steps are to start creating PRs (one or many) with the desired changes cherry-picked / backported targeting the 53.0.0_maintenance branch