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eerhardt commented on code in PR #207:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-site/pull/207#discussion_r873246289


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+layout: post
+title: "Apache Arrow 8.0.0 Release"
+date: "2022-05-05 00:00:00"
+author: pmc
+categories: [release]
+---
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+
+The Apache Arrow team is pleased to announce the 8.0.0 release. This covers
+over 3 months of development work and includes [**586 resolved issues**][1]
+from [**127 distinct contributors**][2]. See the Install Page 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 7.0.0 release, Kun Liu, Raphael Taylor-Davies Xudong Wang, Yijie Shen
+and Liang-Chi Hsieh have been invited to be committers.
+Thanks for your contributions and participation in the project!
+
+## Columnar Format Notes
+
+## Arrow Flight RPC notes
+
+Flight SQL has been extended with a method to get type metadata ([ARROW-15313](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-15313)) and column metadata in returned schemas ([ARROW-15314](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-15314), [ARROW-16064](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-16064)) New documentation is available describing Flight and Flight SQL, along with several Cookbook recipes ([ARROW-14698](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-14698), [ARROW-16065](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-16065)).
+
+The C++ libraries now support UCX as a network transport ([ARROW-15706](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-15706)), and the APIs have been refactored to allow other transports to be implemented ([ARROW-15282](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-15282)). UCX support is experimental and still subject to change. Many of the APIs have been refactored to use the `arrow::Result` type, and the original variants have been deprecated ([ARROW-16032](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-16032)). Support for gRPC >= 1.43 has been added ([ARROW-15551](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-15551)).
+
+## C++ notes
+
+### Compute
+
+Arrow C++ can now optionally build with support for the experimental
+[Substrait](https://substrait.io/) query representation format ([ARROW-15238](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-15238)).
+
+A number of compute kernels operating on temporal data have been added:
+
+* addition, subtraction and multiplication between various temporal types;
+* a new "is_dst" function to compute whether the input timestamps fall within
+daylight saving time (DST);
+* a new "is_leap_year" function to compute whether the input timestamps fall
+within a leap year.
+
+It is possible to enable a timezone database on Windows at runtime
+by calling the `arrow::Initialize()` function ([ARROW-13168](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-13168)).
+
+New hash aggregations are available: "hash_one" to return one value from each
+group ([ARROW-13993](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-13993)), and "hash_list" to return all values from each group
+([ARROW-15152](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-15152)).  Null columns are now supported on the sum, mean and product
+hash aggregates ([ARROW-15506](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-15506)).  Also, it is now possible to execute hash
+"aggregations" with only key columns ([ARROW-15609](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-15609)).
+
+A new compute function "map_lookup" allows looking up a given key in a map
+array ([ARROW-15089](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-15089)).
+
+New compute functions "sqrt" and "sqrt_checked" allow extracting the square
+root of their input ([ARROW-15614](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-15614)).
+
+Casting between two struct types is now possible, assuming the destination field
+names all exist in the source struct type ([ARROW-1888](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1888), [ARROW-15643](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-15643)).
+
+Optional OpenTelemetry tracing has been added to kernel functions and execution
+plan nodes ([ARROW-15061](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-15061)).
+
+The CMake build option `ARROW_ENGINE` has been renamed to `ARROW_SUBSTRAIT`,
+to better reflect its actual effect ([ARROW-16158](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-16158)).
+
+### CSV
+
+It is now possible to change the field delimiter when writing a CSV file
+([ARROW-15672](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-15672)).
+
+### Dataset
+
+The ORC dataset scanner now observes the batch size parameter ([ARROW-14153](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-14153)).
+
+The dataset layer now supports filename-based partitioning, where the data
+files are all laid out in the dataset's base directory, their names prefixed
+with the partition values separated by underscore characters ([ARROW-14612](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-14612)).
+
+Optional OpenTelemetry tracing has been added to the dataset scanner ([ARROW-15067](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-15067)).
+
+### Filesystem
+
+It is possible to instantiate a Google Cloud Storage (GCS) filesystem
+from a URI, making GCS implicitly usable in the datasets layer ([ARROW-14893](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-14893)).
+Recognized URI schemes are `gs` and `gcs`.
+
+`FileSystem::DeleteDirContents` can now optionally succeed when the directory
+doesn't exist ([ARROW-16159](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-16159)).
+
+### IO
+
+It is possible to override the number of IO threads using the
+environment variable `ARROW_IO_THREADS` ([ARROW-15941](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-15941)).
+
+### IPC
+
+The IPC file reader and writer now allow accessing the custom metadata
+associated with record batches ([ARROW-16131](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-16131)).
+
+### Miscellaneous
+
+It is possible to enable lightweight memory checks on the standard memory pools
+using a dedicated environment variable `ARROW_DEBUG_MEMORY_POOL` ([ARROW-15550](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-15550)).
+These checks are not a replacement for sophisticated checkers such as Address
+Sanitizer or Valgrind, but might come up useful if those tools are not
+available.
+
+Temporal data is now validated when doing full array validation ([ARROW-10924](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-10924)).
+The validation catches values not matching the specification (for example,
+a time value being outside of the span of one day).
+
+The GDB plugin now attempts to print the data of an array, in addition to its
+metadata ([ARROW-15389](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-15389)).  This only works for primitive datatypes.
+
+Pretty-printing is now shorter and more customizable for nested datatypes
+([ARROW-14798](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-14798)).
+
+## C# notes

Review Comment:
   ```suggestion
   ## C# notes
   
   With [.NET Core 2.1 reaching end-of-life](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/net-core-2-1-will-reach-end-of-support-on-august-21-2021/) in August 2021, the Apache.Arrow library has been updated to target `netcoreapp3.1` and higher. It still supports `netstandard1.3`, so the library works on .NET Framework. But to get the best performance, using .NET Core 3.1, .NET 5, or later is recommended.
   ```



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