Release DataFusion 46.0.0

[alamb]

Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge?

Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge?

Tracking ticket for next release, also a place to track desired inclusions

Previous release will be https://crates.io/crates/datafusion/45.0.0 (likely Feb 1, 2025) December 31, 2024 so next major release would be around March 1, 2025

Steps:

• Update version and changelog
• Test with DataFusion Python:
• Test with DataFusion Comet:
• Test with delta.rs
• Test with SailHQ:
• Test with InfluxData
• Voting Thread:
• Create ticket for next release:

Prior release tickets:

• 44.0.0 Release DataFusion 45.0.0 #14008 (comment)
• 45.0.0 Release DataFusion 45.0.0 #14008 (comment)

Bugs that would be good to fix

• DataSink::write_all given invalid RecordBatchStream #14394
• Querying Parquet file specifically with a predicate returns invalid data error but works in other situations #14281
• Incorrect backslash treatment in string literals in DataFusion CLI #13286

Nice to have but non blockers

TODO

Needs some traige (should it be a blocker?)

TODO

Describe the solution you'd like

No response

Describe alternatives you've considered

No response

Additional context

No response

[alamb]

I think @xudong963 said they might be interested in running this one:

• Release DataFusion 45.0.0 #14008 (comment)

Thanks, alamb, I booked 46 in advance!