AlenkaF commented on code in PR #646:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-site/pull/646#discussion_r2078231885
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+title: "Apache Arrow 20.0.0 Release"
+date: "2025-04-27 00:00:00"
+author: pmc
+categories: [release]
+---
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+The Apache Arrow team is pleased to announce the 20.0.0 release. This release
+covers over 2 months of development work and includes [**259 resolved
+issues**][1] on [**327 distinct commits**][2] from [**63 distinct
+contributors**][2]. See the [Install Page](https://arrow.apache.org/install/)
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
+
+Since the 19.0.0 release, Ed Seidl, Jean-Baptiste Onofré and Matthijs Brobbel
+have been invited to become committers. Bryce Mecum, Ian Cook, Jacob
Wujciak-Jens
+and Rok Mihevc have been invited to join the Project Management Committee
(PMC).
+
+Thanks for your contributions and participation in the project!
+
+## C++ Notes
+
+### Compute
+
+
+### Acero
+
+
+### Filesystems
+
+### Flight RPC
+
+- The experimental Flight over UCX feature has been removed.
+([#43296](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/43296))
+
+
+### Parquet
+
+## C# Notes
+
+## Java, Go, and Rust Notes
+
+The Java, Go, and Rust Go projects have moved to separate repositories outside
+the main Arrow [monorepo](https://github.com/apache/arrow).
+
+- For notes on the latest release of the [Java
+implementation](https://github.com/apache/arrow-java), see the latest [Arrow
+Java changelog][7].
+- For notes on the latest release of the [Rust
+ implementation](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs) see the latest [Arrow
Rust
+ changelog][5].
+- For notes on the latest release of the [Go
+implementation](https://github.com/apache/arrow-go), see the latest [Arrow Go
+changelog][6].
+
+## Linux Packaging Notes
+
+## Python Notes
Review Comment:
```suggestion
## Python Notes
Compatibility notes:
* Minimum supported Cython has been raised to 3 and higher
[GH-45237](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/45237) .
* A subset of deprecated APIs have been removed
[GH-45680](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/45680):
``PARQUET_2_0`` [GH-45848](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/45848),
``use_legacy_dataset``
[GH-44790](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/44790),
serialize/deserialize PyArrow C++ code
[GH-43587](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/43587) .
New features:
* Large variable width types are supported in NumPy conversion
[GH-35289](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/35289).
* Biased/unbiased option are available in skew and kurtosis compute functions
[GH-45733](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/45733).
* Support for SAS token in the ``AzureFileSystem`` has been added
[GH-45705](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/45705).
* Interchange of ``decimal32``, ``decimal64`` and ``decimal256`` data type
objects between
Pandas and PyArrow is now supported
[GH-45582](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/45582),
[GH-45570](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/45570).
* ``pyarrow.ArrayStatistics``and ``pyarrow.Array.statistics()`` are added
[GH-45457](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/45457).
* Bindings for JSON streaming reader are added
[GH-14932](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/14932).
* Bindings for ``MemoryPool::total_bytes_allocated`` and
``MemoryPool::num_allocations`` are added.
Also allocator-specific statistics can now be printed to stderr
[GH-45358](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/45358).
* A new ``maps_as_pydicts``parameter is introduced to ``to_pylist``,
``to_pydict`` and ``as_py``
methods enabling deserialization into Python dictionary instead of list of
tuples
[GH-39010](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/39010).
Other improvements:
* Source (sdist) and binary distribution (wheels) are now uploaded to
GitHub Releases
[GH-45920](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/45920).
* Cython code has been cleaned up as we now require at least Cython 3.0
[GH-45433](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/45433).
* Building of free-threaded wheels on Windows is enabled
[GH-44421](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/44421) .
*Wheels for Alpine Linux are now provided
[GH-18036](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/18036) .
Relevant bug fixes:
* Pandas conversion roundtrip with bytes column names error is fixed
[GH-44188](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/44188).
* Exceptions are raised instead of showing segfaults when users try to
instantiate internal Parquet
metadata classes [GH-36628](https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/36628).
```
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