Release DataFusion 46.0.1 Patch or 46.1.0 minor release (March 2025)

[alamb]

Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge?

We recently released DataFusion 46:

• Release DataFusion 46.0.0 #14123

We have a plan to release DataFusion 47 in a month:

• Release DataFusion 47.0.0 (April 2025) #15072

However, since the release of 46 there have been a few reported issues that I think warrant potentially releasing a fix release for

Regressions

• regression: DataFusion 46 wasm compile error with parquet #15150
• Serde feature is broken #15122
• Regression: count(*) does not work unless using default expression planners #15114

Describe the solution you'd like

I would like to release DataFusion 46.0.1 with fixes for the above issues (and anything else we encounter)

Describe alternatives you've considered

No response

Additional context

No response

[alamb]

FYI @xudong963

[Omega359]

Seems reasonable to me

[xudong963]

+1

[xudong963]

After all related issues are solved, should we go through the process of releasing again? Such as voting in dev list.

[alamb]

After all related issues are solved, should we go through the process of releasing again? Such as voting in dev list.

I think we need to do a full on release

The process would be:

1. Backport the fixes to branch-46 (looks like this one is still outstanding)
2. Update version + changelog
3. Make a new RC + vote

[xudong963]

After all related issues are solved, should we go through the process of releasing again? Such as voting in dev list.

I think we need to do a full on release

The process would be:

1. Backport the fixes to branch-46 (looks like this one is still outstanding)
2. Update version + changelog
3. Make a new RC + vote

Nice, I'll do it after all todos are done

[alamb]

• I am trying to sort out fix: add an "expr_planners" method to SessionState #15119

Once we have that merged (or decide we don't need it) let's make an RC and start voting

[alamb]

• Unfortunately Regression: count(*) does not work unless using default expression planners #15114 doesn't seem likely to make it into this release. I'll proceed with making backport PRs now

[alamb]

I have made the backport PRs:

• [branch-46] Fix broken serde feature (#15124) #15227
• [branch-46] Update ring to v0.17.13 (#15063) #15228
• [branch-46] Fix wasm32 build on version 46 #15229

I'll try and get them merged today and then I think we can make release notes and prep an RC

[xudong963]

I'll try and get them merged today and then I think we can make release notes and prep an RC

Hi @alamb , I'm going to bed, I'll start the release process tomorrow

[alamb]

THanks @xudong963 -- I merged the outstanding issues. I think it should be good to go now

[alamb]

@xudong963 I haven't seen a vote thread on the mailing list yet. Would you like me to make a release candidate to start the process?

[xudong963]

@alamb Sure, sorry I I got the process order wrong(I thought I should start the voting after #15244), now I believe after #15243, we can start the process!

[alamb]

Thanks again @xudong963 !

[xudong963]

Just a reminder, we can do a final release today, it seems to require a PMC member to do the last steps. cc @alamb.

[alamb]

Thanks @xudong963 -- I did so and published to crates.io!

Mailing list thread: https://lists.apache.org/thread/nmgp1lzq6kv6gtjvcwvky2f3rdw2kl1d

And with that onwards !