v0.16.0

A new release is here! Thank you everyone that contributed to it! 🙇

Full Changelog

Breaking changes:

• Made IPC writer take owned schema #1361 (ritchie46)
• Correctly update child-offsets in GrowableUnion #1360 (jleibs)

Fixed bugs:

• invalid written parquet file of nested structures. (Mixing list with structs) #1325
• Fix incorrect downcast in estimated_size_bytes #1351 (jleibs)
• fix(parquet): nested struct /list writing #1347 (ritchie46)
• Fixed csv infer_schema on empty fields #1342 (tripokey)

Enhancements:

• Added support for take of FixedSizeListArray #1386 (kylebarron)
• Renamed factory argument on parquet read functions to reader_factory #1380 (ozgrakkurt)
• Made some structs and functions public #1375 (b41sh)
• Added Utf8Array::apply_validity #1367 (Arty-Maly)
• Added set/get scratches #1363 (ritchie46)
• Amortized intermediate allocations in IPC writer #1362 (ritchie46)
• Improved clippy #1353 (jorgecarleitao)

Documentation updates:

• Fixed typo in OffsetsBuffer docs #1373 (DzenanJupic)
• Update README.md to fix capitalization and spelling #1338 (yerke)

Testing updates:

• add toolchain.toml #1349 (ritchie46)

New Contributors

• @yerke made their first contribution in #1338
• @jleibs made their first contribution in #1351
• @tripokey made their first contribution in #1342
• @Arty-Maly made their first contribution in #1367
• @DzenanJupic made their first contribution in #1373
• @kylebarron made their first contribution in #1386