Apache Arrow ADBC 17 (Libraries) Release

Published 07 Mar 2025
By The Apache Arrow PMC (pmc)

The Apache Arrow team is pleased to announce the version 17 release of the Apache Arrow ADBC libraries. This release includes 18 resolved issues from 13 distinct contributors.

This is a release of the libraries, which are at version 17. The API specification is versioned separately and is at version 1.1.0.

The subcomponents are versioned independently:

  • C/C++/GLib/Go/Python/Ruby: 1.5.0
  • C#: 0.17.0
  • Java: 0.17.0
  • R: 0.17.0
  • Rust: 0.17.0

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.

Release Highlights

The CMake config can now build against system dependencies instead of forcing vendored dependencies (#2546). Also, CMake files are now installed even for the drivers written in Go (#2506). Packages for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS are now available (#2482).

The performance of AdbcDataReader and ValueAt has been improved in C# (#2534). The C# BigQuery driver will now use a default project ID if one is not specified (#2471).

The Flight SQL and Snowflake drivers allow passing low-level options in Go (gRPC dial options in #2563 and gosnowflake options in #2558). The Flight SQL driver should now provide column-level metadata (#2481). The Snowflake driver now no longer requires setting the current schema to get metadata (#2517).

Contributors

$ git shortlog --perl-regexp --author='^((?!dependabot\[bot\]).*)$' -sn apache-arrow-adbc-16..apache-arrow-adbc-17
    15	David Li
     6	Matthijs Brobbel
     2	Hélder Gregório
     2	Matt Topol
     2	Matthias Kuhn
     2	Sutou Kouhei
     2	davidhcoe
     1	Curt Hagenlocher
     1	Felipe Oliveira Carvalho
     1	Felipe Vianna
     1	Marius van Niekerk
     1	Shuoze Li
     1	amangoyal

Roadmap

There is some discussion on a potential second revision of ADBC to include more missing functionality and asynchronous API support. For more, see the milestone. We would welcome suggestions on APIs that could be added or extended.

Getting Involved

We welcome questions and contributions from all interested. Issues can be filed on GitHub, and questions can be directed to GitHub or the Arrow mailing lists.