[ANNOUNCE] Apache Parquet C++ release 1.2.0

["Uwe L. Korn" <uw...@apache.org>]

We are please to announce the release of Apache Parquet C++ 1.2.0!

Parquet is a general-purpose columnar file format supporting nested
data. It uses space-efficient encodings and a compressed and splittable
structure for processing frameworks like Hadoop.

The CHANGELOG for the release is available at [1].
This release can be downloaded from [2].

Release Highlights
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* Support for the Apache Arrow 0.5 releases
* Compressor interfaces from Arrow are used
* various bugfixes, esp. ensuring that all Status objects that are
returned
  by Arrow functions are definitely checked

Please report any feedback to the mailing lists ([3]).

Thanks to everyone for contributing!

Regards,
The Apache Parquet community

[1]
https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=parquet-cpp.git&f=CHANGELOG&hb=apache-parquet-cpp-1.2.0
[2]
https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/parquet/apache-parquet-cpp-1.2.0/
[3] https://lists.apache.org/list.html?dev@parquet.apache.org