amol- commented on a change in pull request #153:
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+title: "Apache Arrow 6.0.0 Release"
+date: "2020-10-22 00:00:00 -0600"
+author: pmc
+categories: [release]
+---
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+
+The Apache Arrow team is pleased to announce the 6.0.0 release. This covers
+over XX months of development work and includes [**XX resolved issues**][1]
+from [**XX distinct contributors**][2]. See the Install Page to learn how to
+get the libraries for your platform.
+
+The release notes below are not exhaustive and only expose selected highlights
+of the release. Many other bugfixes and improvements have been made: we refer
+you to the [complete changelog][3].
+
+## Community
+
+## Columnar Format Notes
+
+## Arrow Flight RPC notes
+
+GLib and Ruby have added bindings for Arrow Flight.
+
+While not part of the release, work is ongoing on Arrow Flight SQL, which
defines a protocol for clients to communicate with SQL databases using Arrow
Flight. For those interested in the project, please reach out on the [mailing
list](https://arrow.apache.org/community/).
+## C++ notes
+
+The month-day-nano interval type has been added (ARROW-13628).
+
+Various APIs, including extension types and scalars, are no longer
experimental (ARROW-5244).
+
+Support for Visual Studio 2015 was dropped (ARROW-14070).
+
+### Compute Layer
+
+A basic in-memory query engine has been implemented and is accessible from the
R bindings. Operations including filter, project, sort, equality joins, and
various aggregations are supported.
+
+The following compute functions have been added:
+
+* aggregate functions: `approximate_median`, `count_distinct`, `max`, `min`,
`product`
+* hash aggregate functions: `hash_all`, `hash_any`, `hash_approximate_median`,
`hash_count_distinct`, `hash_distinct`, `hash_max`, `hash_mean`, `hash_min`,
`hash_product`, `hash_stdev`, `hash_variance`
+* scalar arithmetic functions: `logb`, `round`, `round_to_multiple`
+* scalar string functions: `ascii_capitalize`, `ascii_swapcase`,
`ascii_title`, `utf8_capitalize`, `utf8_swapcase`, `utf8_title`
+* scalar temporal functions: `assume_timezone`, `day_time_interval_between`,
`days_between`, `hours_between`, `microseconds_between`,
`milliseconds_between`, `minutes_between`, `month_day_nano_interval_between`,
`month_interval_between`, `nanoseconds_between`, `quarters_between`,
`seconds_between`, `strftime`, `us_week`, `week`, `weeks_between`,
`years_between`
+* other scalar functions: `choose`, `list_element`
+* vector functions: `drop_null`, `select_k_unstable`
+
+In general, type support has been improved for most of the compute functions,
but work here is ongoing, particularly around decimal support.
+
+Crashes have been fixed in particular cases for `take`, `filter`, `unique`,
and `value_counts` (ARROW-13474, ARROW-13509, ARROW-14129).
+
+Hash aggregations (i.e. group by) supports scalar and array values
(ARROW-13737, ARROW-14027).
+
+Temporal functions are now timezone-aware (e.g. when extracting the hour of a
timestamp) (ARROW-12980).
+
+`count` can optionally count all values, not just null or non-null values
(ARROW-13574).
+
+`fill_null` has been replaced by the more general `coalesce` (ARROW-7179).
+
+`is_null` can optionally consider NaN as null (ARROW-12959).
+
+Sorting has been optimized (ARROW-10898, ARROW-14165). Also, null values can
now be sorted at either the beginning or the end (ARROW-12063).
+
+### CSV
+
+The CSV reader can read time32 and time64 types, and will infer time32 values
for columns in the format "hh:mm" and "hh:mm:ss" (ARROW-11243).
+
+The decimal point can be customized when reading (ARROW-13421).
+
+The streaming reader will not unintentionally infer null-typed columns when
using the various skip options (ARROW-13441).
+
+If a row has an incorrect number of columns, now the row can be skipped
instead of raising an error (ARROW-12673).
+
+The option `quoted_strings_can_be_null` applies to all column types now, not
just strings (ARROW-13580). When quoting is disabled entirely, the reader now
takes advantage of this to improve performance (ARROW-14150).
+
+A CSVWriter object is now exposed, allowing for incremental writing
(ARROW-11828). Dates can now be written (ARROW-12540).
+
+### Dataset Layer
+
+The dataset writer was refactored, and now supports more options, including a
limit on the number of files open at once, compatibility with the async
scanner, a limit on the number of rows written per file, and control over what
to do when files already exist in the target directory (ARROW-13650).
Additionally, the query engine can feed into the dataset writer as a sink
(ARROW-13542).
+
+The asynchronous scanner now properly respects backpressure (ARROW-13611,
ARROW-14192), as does the writer (ARROW-14191).
+
+ORC datasets are supported (ARROW-13572) with support for column projection
pushdown (ARROW-13797).
+
+The Parquet/IPC format readers now respect the batch_size scanner option
(ARROW-14024). Also, the Parquet reader now properly implements readahead for
better performance (ARROW-14026).
+
+### IO and Filesystem Layer
+
+The retry strategy of S3FileSystem can be customized (ARROW-13508). When
writing to an existing bucket as a user with limited permissions, Arrow will no
longer emit a spurious "Access Denied" error (ARROW-13685).
+
+On MacOS with NFS mounts, a "[errno 25] Inappropriate ioctl for device" error
was fixed (ARROW-13983).
+
+The basics of a Google Cloud Storage filesystem have been added; work is in
progress for full support (ARROW-8147, ARROW-14222, ARROW-14223, ARROW-14232,
ARROW-14236, ARROW-14345, ARROW-14157).
+
+### JSON
+
+A crash was fixed when duplicate keys were present (ARROW-14109).
+
+### Parquet
+
+Written min/max and null_count statistics for dictionary types were corrected
(ARROW-11634, ARROW-12513).
+
+An error with large files when built with Thrift 0.14 was fixed (ARROW-13655).
+
+The ParquetVersion enum was updated with more values to support finer-grained
Parquet format version selection (ARROW-13794).
+
+Writer performance was improved by avoiding repeated dynamic casts
(ARROW-13965).
+## C# notes
+
+## Go notes
+
+## Java notes
+
+## JavaScript notes
+
+## Python notes
+* Many new `pyarrow.compute` functions are available (see the C++ notes above
for more details), and introspection of the functions was improved so that they
look more like standard Python functions.
+* All Python functions and classes should now have documented parameters in
the API reference.
+* SIMD optimization is now enabled in M1 wheels
+* Wheels are now built for more Python versions on M1 systems.
+* PyArrow is now compatible with Python 3.10
+* Creating Arrow arrays now supports more than just numpy arrays as masks
+* Printing Tables now previews the values in the columns
+* `copy_files` is now available in Python
+* Datasets now support ORC files
+* Sets are now supported when building arrays or converting from pandas.
+* 39 bugs have been fixed.
+
+## R notes
+
+## Ruby and C GLib notes
+
Review comment:
@mrkn friendly reminder to update the Ruby release notes as I think it's
the last part pending for the blog post to be complete :)
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