The Apache Arrow team is pleased to announce the v18.5.2 release of Apache Arrow Go. This patch release covers 16 commits from 6 distinct contributors. Contributors $ git shortlog -sn v18.5.1..v18.5.2 11 Matt Topol 2 daniel-adam-tfs 1 Evan Todd 1 Rusty Conover 1 Stas Spiridonov 1 William Changelog What’s Changed chore: bump parquet-testing submodule by @zeroshade in #633 fix(arrow/array): handle empty binary values correctly in BinaryBuilder by @zeroshade in #634 test(arrow/array): add test to binary builder by @zeroshade in #636 fix(parquet): decryption of V2 data pages by @daniel-adam-tfs in #596 perf(arrow): Reduce the amount of allocated objects by @spiridonov in #645 fix(parquet/file): regression with decompressing data by @zeroshade in #652 fix(arrow/compute): take on record/array with nested struct by @zeroshade in #653 fix(parquet/file): write large string values by @zeroshade in #655 ci: ensure extra GC cycle for flaky tests by @zeroshade in #661 fix(arrow/array): handle exponent notation for unmarshal int by @zeroshade in #662 fix(flight/flightsql/driver): fix time.Time params by @etodd in #666 fix(parquet): bss encoding and tests on big endian systems by @daniel-adam-tfs in #663 fix(parquet/pqarrow): selective column reading of complex map column by @zeroshade in #668 feat(arrow/ipc): support custom_metadata on RecordBatch messages by @rustyconover in #669 feat: Support setting IPC options in FlightSQL call options by @peasee in #674 chore(dev/release): embed hash of source tarball into email by @zeroshade in #675 chore(arrow): bump PkgVersion to 18.5.2 by @zeroshade in #676 New Contributors @spiridonov made their first contribution in #645 @etodd made their first contribution in #666 @rustyconover made their first contribution in #669 @peasee made their first contribution in #674 Full Changelog: https://github.com/apache/arrow-go/compare/v18.5.1…v18.5.2