Apache Arrow Go 18.2.0 Release

Published 16 Mar 2025
By The Apache Arrow PMC (pmc)

The Apache Arrow team is pleased to announce the v18.2.0 release of Apache Arrow Go. This minor release covers 21 commits from 7 distinct contributors.

Highlights

Arrow

  • Fixed bitmap ops on 32-bit platforms #277
  • Allocations by arrow/memory will always be aligned even from the Mallocator #289
  • Sped up overflow checks for small integers in compute library #303

Parquet

  • The parquet_reader CLI now has an option to dump the column and index offsets #281
  • Column readers now have a SeekToRow method that will leverage column/index offsets if they exist #283

Full Changelog

What’s Changed

  • fix(release): fix wrong upload path by @kou in #243
  • fix(release): fix svn add command and add script to generate release notes by @zeroshade in #249
  • fix(arrow/cdata): move headers into parent Go package by @zeroshade in #251
  • chore: Add NOTICE.txt file by @singh1203 in #257
  • chore: Update self-hosted arm runner to ubuntu-24.04-arm by @singh1203 in #268
  • chore: Drop executable file bit of source files by @jas4711 in #274
  • ci: update actions/cache by @zeroshade in #276
  • fix(arrow/bitutil): fix bitmap ops on 32-bit platforms by @zeroshade in #277
  • feat(internal/encoding): add Discard method to decoders by @zeroshade in #280
  • feat(parquet/cmd/parquet_reader): Add command to dump the column and offset indices by @zeroshade in #281
  • fix(internal/utils): fix clobbering BP by @zeroshade in #288
  • docs(license): update LICENSE.txt by @zeroshade in #290
  • feat(parquet/file): Add SeekToRow for Column readers by @zeroshade in #283
  • fix(parquet/pqarrow): propagate field id metadata for lists/maps by @zeroshade in #293
  • feat: Add arrayApproxEqualString to handle null characters in string. by @singh1203 in #291
  • feat(parquet): update comments for BufferedStreamEnabled by @joechenrh in #295
  • fix(arrow/memory): Align allocations always by @lidavidm in #289
  • feat(parquet): add byte buffer when disable buffered stream by @joechenrh in #302
  • perf(overflow): Speed up overflow checks for small integers by @cbandy in #303
  • chore: bump version by @zeroshade in #305
  • fix(pqarrow): respect list element nullability during conversion by @zeroshade in #311
  • chore(testing): Update testing submodules by @zeroshade in #312

New Contributors

  • @singh1203 made their first contribution in #257
  • @jas4711 made their first contribution in #274
  • @lidavidm made their first contribution in #289
  • @cbandy made their first contribution in #303

Full Changelog: https://github.com/apache/arrow-go/compare/v18.1.0…v18.2.0

Contributors

$ git shortlog -sn v18.1.0..v18.2.0
    13	Matt Topol
     3	Saurabh Singh
     2	Ruihao Chen
     1	Chris Bandy
     1	David Li
     1	Simon Josefsson
     1	Sutou Kouhei