Release arrow-rs / parquet major version 55.0.0 (Apr 2025)

[alamb]

Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge? Please describe what you are trying to do.

Our release schedule is here https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs?tab=readme-ov-file#release-versioning-and-schedule

• We will hopefully release 54.2.0 in Mar 2025 Release arrow-rs / parquet minor version 54.2.0 (~Mar~ Feb 2025) #7083

Items to fix before the release:

• Verify with downstream DataFusion tests:

Describe the solution you'd like

Create a release

• Release notes and bump version
• Release Candidate + Vote thread
• Release to crates.io / approval

Describe alternatives you've considered

Additional context

[mbrobbel]

Items for the next major release: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues?q=is%3Aopen%20label%3Anext-major-release%20

(title should be updated minor -> major)

[alamb]

Items for the next major release: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues?q=is%3Aopen%20label%3Anext-major-release%20

(title should be updated minor -> major)

Thank you -- and I updated the title of the ticekt

[tustvold]

We should probably try to get #7238 and by extension the update to object_store 0.12.0 (once released) into this release.