Apache Arrow Java 18.3.0 Release

The Apache Arrow team is pleased to announce the v18.3.0 release of Apache Arrow Java. This is a minor release since the last release v18.2.0.

Changelog

MINOR: ZstdCompressionCodec should use decompressedSize to get error name by @libenchao in #619
MINOR: Add explicit exception when no more buffer can be read when loading buffers by @viirya in #649
GH-81: [Flight] Expose gRPC in Flight client builder by @lidavidm in #660
GH-615: Produce Avro core data types out of Arrow VSR by @martin-traverse in #638
GH-494: [Flight] Allow configuring connect timeout in JDBC by @lidavidm in #495
GH-87: [Vector] Add ExtensionWriter by @xxlaykxx in #697
GH-698: Improve and fix Avro read consumers by @martin-traverse in #718
GH-737: [FlightSQL] Allow returning column remarks in FlightSQL’s CommandGetTables by @mateuszrzeszutek in #727
GH-661: [Flight] JDBC: Cache failed locations by @lidavidm in #662

GH-601: [Gandiva] Synchronize some methods on the Projector by @lriggs in #602
GH-625: Map MinorType getNewFieldWriter returns UnionMapWriter by @wsuppiger in #627
GH-653: Nullify fieldReader when invalidating parent object by @lriggs in #654
GH-655: Failure in UnionReader.read after DecimalVector promotion to UnionVector by @lriggs in #656
GH-692: Preserve nullability information while transfering DecimalVector and Decimal256Vector by @bodduv in #693
GH-704: Fix initialization of offset buffer when exporting VarChar vectors through C Data Interface by @Kontinuation in #705
GH-709: Correct length calculation of value buffers of variable-sized arrays by @pepijnve in #707
GH-721: Allow using 1GB+ data buffers in variable width vectors by @gszadovszky in #722
GH-463: Improve TZ support for JDBC driver by @aiguofer in #464
GH-729: [JDBC] Fix BinaryConsumer consuming null value by @hnwyllmm in #730

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