- Update to 15.0.1
## Bug Fixes
* [Python] Fix race condition in _pandas_api#_check_import
(#39314)
* [Python] Avoid leaking references to Numpy dtypes (#39636)
* [Release] Update platform tags for macOS wheels to macosx_10_15
(#39657)
* [Python][CI] Fix test failures with latest/nightly pandas
(#39760)
* [C#] Restore support for .NET 4.6.2 (#40008)
* [Python] Make capsule name check more lenient (#39977)
* [Python][FlightRPC] Release GIL in GeneratorStream (#40005)
## New Features and Improvements
* [Python] Remove the use of pytest-lazy-fixture (#39850)
* [Python][CI] Pin moto<5 for dask integration tests (#39881)
* [Python] Fix tests for pandas with CoW / nightly integration
tests (#40000)
- Release 15.0.0
## Bug Fixes
* [C++][Python] Add a no-op kernel for
dictionary_encode(dictionary) (#38349)
* [Python] Fix S3FileSystem equals None segfault (#39276)
* Fix TestArrowReaderAdHoc.ReadFloat16Files to use new
uncompressed files (#38825)
* [Python] Fix spelling (#38945)
* [CI][Python] Update pandas tests failing on pandas nightly CI
build (#39498)
* [CI][JS] Force node 20 on JS build on arm64 to fix build issues
(#39499)
## New Features and Improvements
* [C++][Python] Add "Z" to the end of timestamp print string when
tz defined (#39272)
* [Python] Remove the legacy ParquetDataset custom python-based
implementation (#39112)
* [Python] add Table.to/from_struct_array (#38520)
* [C++][Python] DLPack implementation for Arrow Arrays (producer)
(#38472)
* [Python] FixedSizeListArray.from_arrays supports mask parameter
(#39396)
* [C++][Python][R] Allow users to adjust S3 log level by
environment variable (#38267)
* [Python] Expose Parquet sorting metadata (#37665)
* [C++][Python][Parquet] Implement Float16 logical type (#36073)
* [Python] Make CacheOptions configurable from Python (#36627)
* [Python][Parquet] Parquet Support write and validate Page CRC
(#38360)
* [Python][Dataset] Expose file size to python dataset (#37868)
* [R] Allow code() to return package name prefix. (#38144)
* [Python] Remove usage of pandas internals DatetimeTZBlock
(#38321)
* Add validation logic for offsets and values to
arrow.array.ListArray.fromArrays (#38531)
* [Python][Compute] Describe strptime format semantics (#38665)
* [Python] Remove dead code in _reconstruct_block (#38714)
* [Python] Fix append mode for cython 2 (#39027)
* [Python] Add append mode for pyarrow.OsFile (#38820)
* [Python] Extract libparquet requirements out of
libarrow_python.so to new libarrow_python_parquet_encryption.so
(#39316)
* Create module info compiler plugin (#39135)
* [Python] RecordBatchReader.from_stream constructor for objects
implementing the Arrow PyCapsule protocol (#39218)
* [Python] Pass in type to MapType.from_arrays (#39516)
* [Python][CI] Skip failing dask tests: test_describe_empty and
test_view (#39534)
* [Python] NumPy 2.0 compat: remove usage of np.core (#39535)
* [Packaging][Python] Add a numpy<2 pin to the install
requirements for the 15.x release branch (#39538)