I'll let others comment on a patch release, but let me clarify: we do major releases quarterly, and 3.0.0 was in January, so 4.0.0 will be in April.
Neal On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 2:45 PM Prem Sagar Gali <pg...@nvidia.com> wrote: > Hi Arrow Devs, > > I'm a maintainer of a project called cuDF ( > https://github.com/rapidsai/cudf.git) that is based on the Arrow columnar > format and depends on the Arrow C++ and Python libraries. Currently, we are > pinned to version `1.0.1`, but we've gotten feedback from the community > that they'd really like us to upgrade to the latest version. We tried to > upgrade to version `3.0.0` but ran into a major issue: > > > - GPU buffer validation fails in array and table creation code flows. > Related JIRA is https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-11872 and > subsequent PR fixing the issue is > https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/9640 and was merged a few days ago. > Unfortunately, this effectively blocks most usage of Arrow libraries for > CUDA projects. > > - After this, we tried version `2.0.0` but hit a different issue of > round-tripping of list of structs columns doesn't work properly in the > parquet reader and writer. This is fixed in version `3.0.0`. > > It seems like version `4.0.0` is tentatively scheduled for June 2021, > which is unfortunately quite a bit away. Would it be possible to do a patch > release in `3.x` that included the fix for GPU buffer validation? This > would greatly help us upgrade to the latest arrow version and directly help > users using both Arrow and cuDF. > > > Regards, > Prem >
