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@@ -19,6 +19,149 @@
 
 # Historical Changelog
 
+
+## [56.2.0](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/tree/56.2.0) (2025-09-19)
+
+[Full Changelog](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/compare/56.1.0...56.2.0)
+
+**Implemented enhancements:**
+
+- \[Variant\] Add variant to arrow primitives for unsigned integers [\#8368](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8368)
+- \[Variant\] \[Shredding\] Support typed\_access for `FixedSizeBinary` [\#8335](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8335)
+- \[Variant\] \[Shredding\] Support typed\_access for `Utf8` and `BinaryView` [\#8333](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8333)
+- \[Variant\] \[Shredding\] Support typed\_access for `Boolean` [\#8329](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8329)
+- Allow specifying projection in ParquetRecordBatchReader::try\_new\_with\_row\_groups [\#8326](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8326)
+- \[Parquet\] Expose predicates from RowFilter [\#8314](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8314)
+- \[Variant\] Use row-oriented builders in `cast_to_variant` [\#8310](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8310)
+- Use apache/arrow-dotnet for integration test [\#8294](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8294)
+- \[Variant\] Add `Vairant::as_u*` [\#8283](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8283)
+- Add a way to modify WriterProperties [\#8273](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8273)
+- Dont truncate timestamps on display for Row [\#8265](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8265)
+- \[Parquet\] Add row group write with AsyncArrowWriter [\#8261](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8261)
+- \[Parquet\] Expose ArrowRowGroupWriter [\#8259](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8259)
+- \[Parquet\] Do not compress v2 data page when compress is bad quality [\#8256](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8256) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)]
+- \[Variant\] Refactor `cast_to_variant` [\#8234](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8234)
+- \[Variant\]: Implement `DataType::Union` support for `cast_to_variant` kernel [\#8195](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8195)
+- \[Variant\]: Implement `DataType::Duration` support for `cast_to_variant` kernel [\#8194](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8194)
+- \[Variant\] Support typed access for numeric types in variant\_get [\#8178](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8178)
+- \[Parquet\] Implement a "push style" API for decoding Parquet Metadata [\#8164](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8164)
+- \[Variant\] Support creating Variants with pre-existing Metadata [\#8152](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8152)
+- \[Variant\] Support Shredded Objects in `variant_get`: typed path access \(STEP 1\) [\#8150](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8150)
+- \[Variant\] Add `variant` feature to `parquet` crate [\#8132](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8132)
+- \[Parquet\] Concurrent writes with ArrowWriter.get\_column\_writers should parallelize across row groups [\#8115](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8115)
+- \[Variant\] Implement `VariantArray::value` for shredded variants [\#8091](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8091)
+- \[Variant\] Integration tests for reading parquet w/ Variants [\#8084](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8084)
+- \[Variant\]: Implement `DataType::Map` support for `cast_to_variant` kernel [\#8063](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8063)
+- \[Variant\]: Implement `DataType::List/LargeList` support for `cast_to_variant` kernel [\#8060](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8060)
+
+**Fixed bugs:**
+
+- Casting floating point numbers fails for Decimal64 but works for other variants [\#8362](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8362)
+- \[Variant\] cast\_to\_variant conflates empty map with NULL [\#8289](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8289)
+- \[Avro\] Decoder flush panics for map whose value field contains metadata [\#8270](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8270)
+- Parquet: Avoid page size exceeds i32::MAX [\#8263](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8263) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)]
+- \[Avro\] Decoder panics on flush when schema contains map whose value is non-nullable [\#8253](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8253)
+- Avro nullable field decode failure leads to panic upon decoder flush [\#8212](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8212)
+- Avro to arrow schema conversion fails when a field has a default type that is not string [\#8209](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8209)
+- parquet: No method named `to_ne_bytes` found for struct `bloom_filter::Block` for target `s390x-unknown-linux-gnu` [\#8207](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8207)
+- \[Variant\] cast\_to\_variant will panic on certain `Date64` or Timestamp Values values [\#8155](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8155)
+- Parquet: Avoid page-size overflows i32 [\#8264](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8264) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([mapleFU](https://github.com/mapleFU))
+
+**Documentation updates:**
+
+- Update docstring comment for Writer::write\(\) in writer.rs [\#8267](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8267) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([YKoustubhRao](https://github.com/YKoustubhRao))
+
+**Closed issues:**
+
+- comfy-table release 7.2.0 breaks MSRV [\#8243](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8243)
+- \[Variant\] Add `Variant::as_f16` [\#8228](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8228)
+- Support appending raw bytes to variant objects and lists [\#8217](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8217)
+- `VariantArrayBuilder` uses `ParentState` for simpler rollbacks [\#8205](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8205)
+- Make `ObjectBuilder::finish` signature infallible [\#8184](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8184)
+- Improve performance of `i256` to `f64` [\#8013](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8013)
+
+**Merged pull requests:**
+
+- \[Variant\] Support Variant to PrimitiveArrow for unsigned integer [\#8369](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8369) ([klion26](https://github.com/klion26))
+- \[Variant\] \[Shredding\] Support typed\_access for Utf8 and BinaryView [\#8364](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8364) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([petern48](https://github.com/petern48))
+- Fix casting floats to Decimal64 [\#8363](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8363) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([AdamGS](https://github.com/AdamGS))
+- \[Variant\] Implement new VariantValueArrayBuilder [\#8360](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8360) ([scovich](https://github.com/scovich))
+- \[Variant\] Add constants for empty variant metadata [\#8359](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8359) ([scovich](https://github.com/scovich))
+- \[Variant\] Allow lossless casting from integer to floating point [\#8357](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8357) ([scovich](https://github.com/scovich))
+- \[Variant\] Minor code cleanups [\#8356](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8356) ([scovich](https://github.com/scovich))
+- \[Variant\] Remove unused metadata from variant ShreddingState [\#8355](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8355) ([scovich](https://github.com/scovich))
+- Adds Map & Enum support, round-trip & benchmark tests [\#8353](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8353) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([nathaniel-d-ef](https://github.com/nathaniel-d-ef))
+- \[Variant\] \[Shredding\] feat: Support typed\_access for FixedSizeBinary [\#8352](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8352) ([petern48](https://github.com/petern48))
+- Add arrow-avro Reader support for Dense Union and Union resolution \(Part 1\) [\#8348](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8348) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([jecsand838](https://github.com/jecsand838))
+- \[Variant\] feat: Support typed\_access for Boolean [\#8346](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8346) ([Weijun-H](https://github.com/Weijun-H))
+- \[Variant\] Make VariantToArrowRowBuilder an enum [\#8345](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8345) ([scovich](https://github.com/scovich))
+- \[Variant\] Rename VariantShreddingRowBuilder to VariantToArrowRowBuilder [\#8344](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8344) ([scovich](https://github.com/scovich))
+- \[Variant\] Add tests for variant\_get requesting Some struct [\#8343](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8343) ([scovich](https://github.com/scovich))
+- \[Variant\] Add nullable arg to StructArrayBuilder::with\_field [\#8342](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8342) ([scovich](https://github.com/scovich))
+- Minor: avoid an `Arc::clone` in CacheOptions for Parquet PredicateCache [\#8338](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8338) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([alamb](https://github.com/alamb))
+- Fix `can_cast_types` for temporal to `Utf8View` [\#8328](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8328) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([findepi](https://github.com/findepi))
+- Update `variant_integration` test to use final approved `parquet-testing` data [\#8325](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8325) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([alamb](https://github.com/alamb))
+- \[Variant\] ParentState tracks builder-specific state in a uniform way [\#8324](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8324) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([scovich](https://github.com/scovich))
+- \[Variant\] Remove boilerplate from make\_shredding\_row\_builder [\#8322](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8322) ([scovich](https://github.com/scovich))
+- \[Variant\] Move VariantAsPrimitive to type\_conversions.rs [\#8321](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8321) ([scovich](https://github.com/scovich))
+- \[Variant\] Remove unused output builder files [\#8320](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8320) ([scovich](https://github.com/scovich))
+- Add arrow-avro examples and Reader documentation [\#8316](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8316) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([jecsand838](https://github.com/jecsand838))
+- Expose predicates from RowFilter [\#8315](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8315) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([yeya24](https://github.com/yeya24))
+- \[Variant\] Implement row builders for cast\_to\_variant [\#8299](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8299) ([scovich](https://github.com/scovich))
+- Adds additional type support to arrow-avro writer [\#8298](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8298) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([nathaniel-d-ef](https://github.com/nathaniel-d-ef))
+- Use apache/arrow-dotnet for integration test [\#8295](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8295) ([kou](https://github.com/kou))
+- Add projection with default values support to `RecordDecoder` [\#8293](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8293) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([jecsand838](https://github.com/jecsand838))
+- Add array/map/fixed schema resolution and default value support to arrow-avro codec [\#8292](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8292) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([jecsand838](https://github.com/jecsand838))
+- Bump actions/labeler from 6.0.0 to 6.0.1 [\#8288](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8288) ([dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot))
+- Bump actions/github-script from 7 to 8 [\#8287](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8287) ([dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot))
+- \[Variant\] Add as\_u\* for Variant [\#8284](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8284) ([klion26](https://github.com/klion26))
+- \[Variant\] Support Shredded Objects in variant\_get \(take 2\) [\#8280](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8280) ([scovich](https://github.com/scovich))
+- Bump actions/setup-node from 4 to 5 [\#8279](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8279) ([dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot))
+- Bump actions/setup-python from 5 to 6 [\#8278](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8278) ([dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot))
+- Bump actions/labeler from 5.0.0 to 6.0.0 [\#8276](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8276) ([dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot))
+- Impl `Display` for `Tz` [\#8275](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8275) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([kylebarron](https://github.com/kylebarron))
+- Added List and Struct Encoding to arrow-avro Writer [\#8274](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8274) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([jecsand838](https://github.com/jecsand838))
+- Add into\_builder method for WriterProperties [\#8272](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8272) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([corwinjoy](https://github.com/corwinjoy))
+- chore\(parquet/record/field\): dont truncate timestamps on display [\#8266](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8266) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([Erigara](https://github.com/Erigara))
+- \[Parquet\] Write row group with async writer [\#8262](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8262) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([lilianm](https://github.com/lilianm))
+- Parquet: Do not compress v2 data page when compress is bad quality [\#8257](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8257) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([mapleFU](https://github.com/mapleFU))
+- Add Decimal32 and Decimal64 support to arrow-avro Reader [\#8255](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8255) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([jecsand838](https://github.com/jecsand838))
+- \[Minor\] Backport changes to metadata benchmark [\#8251](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8251) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([etseidl](https://github.com/etseidl))
+- Update hashbrown requirement from 0.15.1 to 0.16.0 [\#8248](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8248) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot))
+- Sort: Change lexsort comment from stable to unstable [\#8245](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8245) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([mapleFU](https://github.com/mapleFU))
+- pin comfy-table to 7.1.2 [\#8244](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8244) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([zachschuermann](https://github.com/zachschuermann))
+- Adds Confluent wire format handling to arrow-avro crate [\#8242](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8242) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([nathaniel-d-ef](https://github.com/nathaniel-d-ef))
+- feat: gRPC compression support for flight CLI [\#8240](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8240) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] [[arrow-flight](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow-flight)] ([crepererum](https://github.com/crepererum))
+- feat: `SSLKEYLOGFILE` support for flight CLI [\#8239](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8239) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] [[arrow-flight](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow-flight)] ([crepererum](https://github.com/crepererum))
+- \[Variant\] Refactor `cast_to_variant` [\#8235](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8235) ([liamzwbao](https://github.com/liamzwbao))
+- \[Variant\] add strict mode to cast\_to\_variant [\#8233](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8233) ([codephage2020](https://github.com/codephage2020))
+- \[Variant\] Add Variant::as\_f16 [\#8232](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8232) ([klion26](https://github.com/klion26))
+- Unpin nightly rust version \(MIRI job\) [\#8229](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8229) ([mbrobbel](https://github.com/mbrobbel))
+- Update apache-avro requirement from 0.14.0 to 0.20.0 [\#8226](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8226) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot))
+- Bump actions/upload-pages-artifact from 3 to 4 [\#8224](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8224) ([dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot))
+- Added arrow-avro enum mapping support for schema resolution [\#8223](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8223) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([jecsand838](https://github.com/jecsand838))
+- Added arrow-avro schema resolution value skipping [\#8220](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8220) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([jecsand838](https://github.com/jecsand838))
+- Fix error condition in doc comment of `Field::try_canonical_extension_type` [\#8216](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8216) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([mbrobbel](https://github.com/mbrobbel))
+- \[Variant\]: Implement `DataType::Duration` support for `cast_to_variant` kernel [\#8215](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8215) ([liamzwbao](https://github.com/liamzwbao))
+- \[Variant\] feat: remove unnecessary unwraps in `Object::finish` [\#8214](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8214) ([Weijun-H](https://github.com/Weijun-H))
+- \[avro\] Fix Avro decoder bitmap corruption when nullable field decoding fails [\#8213](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8213) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([yongkyunlee](https://github.com/yongkyunlee))
+- Restore accidentally removed method Block::to\_ne\_bytes [\#8211](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8211) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([jhorstmann](https://github.com/jhorstmann))
+- \[avro\] Support all default types for avro schema's record field [\#8210](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8210) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([yongkyunlee](https://github.com/yongkyunlee))
+- \[Variant\] Support read-only metadata builders [\#8208](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8208) ([scovich](https://github.com/scovich))
+- \[Variant\] VariantArrayBuilder uses MetadataBuilder and ValueBuilder [\#8206](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8206) ([scovich](https://github.com/scovich))
+- \[Variant\]: Implement DataType::List/LargeList support for cast\_to\_variant kernel [\#8201](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8201) ([sdf-jkl](https://github.com/sdf-jkl))
+- \[Variant\]: Implement `DataType::Union` support for `cast_to_variant` kernel [\#8196](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8196) ([liamzwbao](https://github.com/liamzwbao))
+- \[Variant\] Support typed access for numeric types in variant\_get [\#8179](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8179) ([superserious-dev](https://github.com/superserious-dev))
+- \[Variant\] feat: add support for casting MapArray to VariantArray [\#8177](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8177) ([Weijun-H](https://github.com/Weijun-H))
+- Add benchmarks for arrow-avro writer [\#8165](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8165) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([jecsand838](https://github.com/jecsand838))
+- Enable parallel writing across row groups when writing encrypted parquet [\#8162](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8162) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([rok](https://github.com/rok))
+- \[Variant\] Allow appending raw object/list bytes to variant builders [\#8141](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8141) ([scovich](https://github.com/scovich))
+- Add `variant_experimental` feature to `parquet` crate [\#8133](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8133) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([alamb](https://github.com/alamb))
+- \[Variant\] Implement `VariantArray::value` for shredded variants [\#8105](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8105) ([klion26](https://github.com/klion26))
+- \[Parquet\] Add ParquetMetadataPushDecoder [\#8080](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8080) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([alamb](https://github.com/alamb))
+- improve performance of i256 to f64 [\#8041](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8041) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([klion26](https://github.com/klion26))
+
+
 ## [56.1.0](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/tree/56.1.0) (2025-08-21)
 
 [Full Changelog](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/compare/56.0.0...56.1.0)
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1f4bfff77b6c..0511d71105c9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -19,147 +19,28 @@
 
 # Changelog
 
-## [56.2.0](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/tree/56.2.0) (2025-09-19)
+## [56.2.1](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/tree/56.2.1) (2026-05-07)
 
-[Full Changelog](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/compare/56.1.0...56.2.0)
-
-**Implemented enhancements:**
-
-- \[Variant\] Add variant to arrow primitives for unsigned integers [\#8368](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8368)
-- \[Variant\] \[Shredding\] Support typed\_access for `FixedSizeBinary` [\#8335](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8335)
-- \[Variant\] \[Shredding\] Support typed\_access for `Utf8` and `BinaryView` [\#8333](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8333)
-- \[Variant\] \[Shredding\] Support typed\_access for `Boolean` [\#8329](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8329)
-- Allow specifying projection in ParquetRecordBatchReader::try\_new\_with\_row\_groups [\#8326](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8326)
-- \[Parquet\] Expose predicates from RowFilter [\#8314](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8314)
-- \[Variant\] Use row-oriented builders in `cast_to_variant` [\#8310](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8310)
-- Use apache/arrow-dotnet for integration test [\#8294](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8294)
-- \[Variant\] Add `Vairant::as_u*` [\#8283](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8283)
-- Add a way to modify WriterProperties [\#8273](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8273)
-- Dont truncate timestamps on display for Row [\#8265](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8265)
-- \[Parquet\] Add row group write with AsyncArrowWriter [\#8261](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8261)
-- \[Parquet\] Expose ArrowRowGroupWriter [\#8259](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8259)
-- \[Parquet\] Do not compress v2 data page when compress is bad quality [\#8256](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8256) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)]
-- \[Variant\] Refactor `cast_to_variant` [\#8234](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8234)
-- \[Variant\]: Implement `DataType::Union` support for `cast_to_variant` kernel [\#8195](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8195)
-- \[Variant\]: Implement `DataType::Duration` support for `cast_to_variant` kernel [\#8194](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8194)
-- \[Variant\] Support typed access for numeric types in variant\_get [\#8178](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8178)
-- \[Parquet\] Implement a "push style" API for decoding Parquet Metadata [\#8164](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8164)
-- \[Variant\] Support creating Variants with pre-existing Metadata [\#8152](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8152)
-- \[Variant\] Support Shredded Objects in `variant_get`: typed path access \(STEP 1\) [\#8150](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8150)
-- \[Variant\] Add `variant` feature to `parquet` crate [\#8132](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8132)
-- \[Parquet\] Concurrent writes with ArrowWriter.get\_column\_writers should parallelize across row groups [\#8115](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8115)
-- \[Variant\] Implement `VariantArray::value` for shredded variants [\#8091](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8091)
-- \[Variant\] Integration tests for reading parquet w/ Variants [\#8084](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8084)
-- \[Variant\]: Implement `DataType::Map` support for `cast_to_variant` kernel [\#8063](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8063)
-- \[Variant\]: Implement `DataType::List/LargeList` support for `cast_to_variant` kernel [\#8060](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8060)
+[Full Changelog](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/compare/56.2.0...56.2.1)
 
 **Fixed bugs:**
 
-- Casting floating point numbers fails for Decimal64 but works for other variants [\#8362](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8362)
-- \[Variant\] cast\_to\_variant conflates empty map with NULL [\#8289](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8289)
-- \[Avro\] Decoder flush panics for map whose value field contains metadata [\#8270](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8270)
-- Parquet: Avoid page size exceeds i32::MAX [\#8263](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8263) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)]
-- \[Avro\] Decoder panics on flush when schema contains map whose value is non-nullable [\#8253](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8253)
-- Avro nullable field decode failure leads to panic upon decoder flush [\#8212](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8212)
-- Avro to arrow schema conversion fails when a field has a default type that is not string [\#8209](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8209)
-- parquet: No method named `to_ne_bytes` found for struct `bloom_filter::Block` for target `s390x-unknown-linux-gnu` [\#8207](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8207)
-- \[Variant\] cast\_to\_variant will panic on certain `Date64` or Timestamp Values values [\#8155](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8155)
-- Parquet: Avoid page-size overflows i32 [\#8264](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8264) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([mapleFU](https://github.com/mapleFU))
-
-**Documentation updates:**
-
-- Update docstring comment for Writer::write\(\) in writer.rs [\#8267](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8267) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([YKoustubhRao](https://github.com/YKoustubhRao))
-
-**Closed issues:**
-
-- comfy-table release 7.2.0 breaks MSRV [\#8243](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8243)
-- \[Variant\] Add `Variant::as_f16` [\#8228](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8228)
-- Support appending raw bytes to variant objects and lists [\#8217](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8217)
-- `VariantArrayBuilder` uses `ParentState` for simpler rollbacks [\#8205](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8205)
-- Make `ObjectBuilder::finish` signature infallible [\#8184](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8184)
-- Improve performance of `i256` to `f64` [\#8013](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/8013)
+- \[arrow-buffer\] Integer overflow in BufferBuilder::reserve leads to undefined behavior [\#9897](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/9897) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)]
+- \[arrow-array\] Integer overflow in FixedSizeBinaryArray::value leads to undefined behavior [\#9898](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/9898) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)]
+- \[arrow-data\] Integer overflow in ArrayData::slice leads to undefined behavior [\#9899](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/9899) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)]
+- \[arrow-data\] Integer overflow in ArrayData validation leads to undefined behavior [\#9900](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/9900) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)]
+- \[arrow-row\] Integer overflow in Rows::row index handling leads to undefined behavior [\#9901](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/9901) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)]
+- \[arrow-buffer\] Integer overflow in BitChunks::new leads to undefined behavior [\#9903](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/9903) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)]
 
 **Merged pull requests:**
 
-- \[Variant\] Support Variant to PrimitiveArrow for unsigned integer [\#8369](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8369) ([klion26](https://github.com/klion26))
-- \[Variant\] \[Shredding\] Support typed\_access for Utf8 and BinaryView [\#8364](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8364) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([petern48](https://github.com/petern48))
-- Fix casting floats to Decimal64 [\#8363](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8363) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([AdamGS](https://github.com/AdamGS))
-- \[Variant\] Implement new VariantValueArrayBuilder [\#8360](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8360) ([scovich](https://github.com/scovich))
-- \[Variant\] Add constants for empty variant metadata [\#8359](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8359) ([scovich](https://github.com/scovich))
-- \[Variant\] Allow lossless casting from integer to floating point [\#8357](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8357) ([scovich](https://github.com/scovich))
-- \[Variant\] Minor code cleanups [\#8356](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8356) ([scovich](https://github.com/scovich))
-- \[Variant\] Remove unused metadata from variant ShreddingState [\#8355](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8355) ([scovich](https://github.com/scovich))
-- Adds Map & Enum support, round-trip & benchmark tests [\#8353](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8353) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([nathaniel-d-ef](https://github.com/nathaniel-d-ef))
-- \[Variant\] \[Shredding\] feat: Support typed\_access for FixedSizeBinary [\#8352](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8352) ([petern48](https://github.com/petern48))
-- Add arrow-avro Reader support for Dense Union and Union resolution \(Part 1\) [\#8348](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8348) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([jecsand838](https://github.com/jecsand838))
-- \[Variant\] feat: Support typed\_access for Boolean [\#8346](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8346) ([Weijun-H](https://github.com/Weijun-H))
-- \[Variant\] Make VariantToArrowRowBuilder an enum [\#8345](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8345) ([scovich](https://github.com/scovich))
-- \[Variant\] Rename VariantShreddingRowBuilder to VariantToArrowRowBuilder [\#8344](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8344) ([scovich](https://github.com/scovich))
-- \[Variant\] Add tests for variant\_get requesting Some struct [\#8343](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8343) ([scovich](https://github.com/scovich))
-- \[Variant\] Add nullable arg to StructArrayBuilder::with\_field [\#8342](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8342) ([scovich](https://github.com/scovich))
-- Minor: avoid an `Arc::clone` in CacheOptions for Parquet PredicateCache [\#8338](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8338) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([alamb](https://github.com/alamb))
-- Fix `can_cast_types` for temporal to `Utf8View` [\#8328](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8328) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([findepi](https://github.com/findepi))
-- Update `variant_integration` test to use final approved `parquet-testing` data [\#8325](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8325) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([alamb](https://github.com/alamb))
-- \[Variant\] ParentState tracks builder-specific state in a uniform way [\#8324](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8324) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([scovich](https://github.com/scovich))
-- \[Variant\] Remove boilerplate from make\_shredding\_row\_builder [\#8322](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8322) ([scovich](https://github.com/scovich))
-- \[Variant\] Move VariantAsPrimitive to type\_conversions.rs [\#8321](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8321) ([scovich](https://github.com/scovich))
-- \[Variant\] Remove unused output builder files [\#8320](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8320) ([scovich](https://github.com/scovich))
-- Add arrow-avro examples and Reader documentation [\#8316](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8316) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([jecsand838](https://github.com/jecsand838))
-- Expose predicates from RowFilter [\#8315](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8315) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([yeya24](https://github.com/yeya24))
-- \[Variant\] Implement row builders for cast\_to\_variant [\#8299](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8299) ([scovich](https://github.com/scovich))
-- Adds additional type support to arrow-avro writer [\#8298](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8298) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([nathaniel-d-ef](https://github.com/nathaniel-d-ef))
-- Use apache/arrow-dotnet for integration test [\#8295](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8295) ([kou](https://github.com/kou))
-- Add projection with default values support to `RecordDecoder` [\#8293](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8293) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([jecsand838](https://github.com/jecsand838))
-- Add array/map/fixed schema resolution and default value support to arrow-avro codec [\#8292](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8292) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([jecsand838](https://github.com/jecsand838))
-- Bump actions/labeler from 6.0.0 to 6.0.1 [\#8288](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8288) ([dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot))
-- Bump actions/github-script from 7 to 8 [\#8287](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8287) ([dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot))
-- \[Variant\] Add as\_u\* for Variant [\#8284](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8284) ([klion26](https://github.com/klion26))
-- \[Variant\] Support Shredded Objects in variant\_get \(take 2\) [\#8280](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8280) ([scovich](https://github.com/scovich))
-- Bump actions/setup-node from 4 to 5 [\#8279](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8279) ([dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot))
-- Bump actions/setup-python from 5 to 6 [\#8278](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8278) ([dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot))
-- Bump actions/labeler from 5.0.0 to 6.0.0 [\#8276](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8276) ([dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot))
-- Impl `Display` for `Tz` [\#8275](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8275) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([kylebarron](https://github.com/kylebarron))
-- Added List and Struct Encoding to arrow-avro Writer [\#8274](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8274) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([jecsand838](https://github.com/jecsand838))
-- Add into\_builder method for WriterProperties [\#8272](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8272) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([corwinjoy](https://github.com/corwinjoy))
-- chore\(parquet/record/field\): dont truncate timestamps on display [\#8266](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8266) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([Erigara](https://github.com/Erigara))
-- \[Parquet\] Write row group with async writer [\#8262](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8262) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([lilianm](https://github.com/lilianm))
-- Parquet: Do not compress v2 data page when compress is bad quality [\#8257](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8257) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([mapleFU](https://github.com/mapleFU))
-- Add Decimal32 and Decimal64 support to arrow-avro Reader [\#8255](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8255) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([jecsand838](https://github.com/jecsand838))
-- \[Minor\] Backport changes to metadata benchmark [\#8251](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8251) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([etseidl](https://github.com/etseidl))
-- Update hashbrown requirement from 0.15.1 to 0.16.0 [\#8248](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8248) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot))
-- Sort: Change lexsort comment from stable to unstable [\#8245](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8245) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([mapleFU](https://github.com/mapleFU))
-- pin comfy-table to 7.1.2 [\#8244](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8244) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([zachschuermann](https://github.com/zachschuermann))
-- Adds Confluent wire format handling to arrow-avro crate [\#8242](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8242) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([nathaniel-d-ef](https://github.com/nathaniel-d-ef))
-- feat: gRPC compression support for flight CLI [\#8240](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8240) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] [[arrow-flight](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow-flight)] ([crepererum](https://github.com/crepererum))
-- feat: `SSLKEYLOGFILE` support for flight CLI [\#8239](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8239) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] [[arrow-flight](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow-flight)] ([crepererum](https://github.com/crepererum))
-- \[Variant\] Refactor `cast_to_variant` [\#8235](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8235) ([liamzwbao](https://github.com/liamzwbao))
-- \[Variant\] add strict mode to cast\_to\_variant [\#8233](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8233) ([codephage2020](https://github.com/codephage2020))
-- \[Variant\] Add Variant::as\_f16 [\#8232](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8232) ([klion26](https://github.com/klion26))
-- Unpin nightly rust version \(MIRI job\) [\#8229](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8229) ([mbrobbel](https://github.com/mbrobbel))
-- Update apache-avro requirement from 0.14.0 to 0.20.0 [\#8226](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8226) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot))
-- Bump actions/upload-pages-artifact from 3 to 4 [\#8224](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8224) ([dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot))
-- Added arrow-avro enum mapping support for schema resolution [\#8223](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8223) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([jecsand838](https://github.com/jecsand838))
-- Added arrow-avro schema resolution value skipping [\#8220](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8220) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([jecsand838](https://github.com/jecsand838))
-- Fix error condition in doc comment of `Field::try_canonical_extension_type` [\#8216](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8216) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([mbrobbel](https://github.com/mbrobbel))
-- \[Variant\]: Implement `DataType::Duration` support for `cast_to_variant` kernel [\#8215](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8215) ([liamzwbao](https://github.com/liamzwbao))
-- \[Variant\] feat: remove unnecessary unwraps in `Object::finish` [\#8214](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8214) ([Weijun-H](https://github.com/Weijun-H))
-- \[avro\] Fix Avro decoder bitmap corruption when nullable field decoding fails [\#8213](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8213) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([yongkyunlee](https://github.com/yongkyunlee))
-- Restore accidentally removed method Block::to\_ne\_bytes [\#8211](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8211) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([jhorstmann](https://github.com/jhorstmann))
-- \[avro\] Support all default types for avro schema's record field [\#8210](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8210) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([yongkyunlee](https://github.com/yongkyunlee))
-- \[Variant\] Support read-only metadata builders [\#8208](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8208) ([scovich](https://github.com/scovich))
-- \[Variant\] VariantArrayBuilder uses MetadataBuilder and ValueBuilder [\#8206](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8206) ([scovich](https://github.com/scovich))
-- \[Variant\]: Implement DataType::List/LargeList support for cast\_to\_variant kernel [\#8201](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8201) ([sdf-jkl](https://github.com/sdf-jkl))
-- \[Variant\]: Implement `DataType::Union` support for `cast_to_variant` kernel [\#8196](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8196) ([liamzwbao](https://github.com/liamzwbao))
-- \[Variant\] Support typed access for numeric types in variant\_get [\#8179](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8179) ([superserious-dev](https://github.com/superserious-dev))
-- \[Variant\] feat: add support for casting MapArray to VariantArray [\#8177](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8177) ([Weijun-H](https://github.com/Weijun-H))
-- Add benchmarks for arrow-avro writer [\#8165](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8165) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([jecsand838](https://github.com/jecsand838))
-- Enable parallel writing across row groups when writing encrypted parquet [\#8162](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8162) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([rok](https://github.com/rok))
-- \[Variant\] Allow appending raw object/list bytes to variant builders [\#8141](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8141) ([scovich](https://github.com/scovich))
-- Add `variant_experimental` feature to `parquet` crate [\#8133](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8133) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([alamb](https://github.com/alamb))
-- \[Variant\] Implement `VariantArray::value` for shredded variants [\#8105](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8105) ([klion26](https://github.com/klion26))
-- \[Parquet\] Add ParquetMetadataPushDecoder [\#8080](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8080) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([alamb](https://github.com/alamb))
-- improve performance of i256 to f64 [\#8041](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/8041) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([klion26](https://github.com/klion26))
-
+- \[56_maintenance\] Prevent ArrayData::slice length overflow \(\#9813\) [\#9916](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/9916) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([alamb](https://github.com/alamb))
+- \[56_maintenance\] Prevent FixedSizeBinaryArray i32 offset overflows \(\#9872\) [\#9917](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/9917) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([alamb](https://github.com/alamb))
+- \[56_maintenance\] Prevent buffer builder length overflow in MutableBuffer::extend_zeros \(\#9820\) [\#9915](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/9915) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([alamb](https://github.com/alamb))
+- \[56_maintenance\] Prevent ArrayData validation length overflow \(\#9816\) [\#9914](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/9914) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([alamb](https://github.com/alamb))
+- \[56_maintenance\] Prevent Rows row index overflow \(\#9817\) [\#9913](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/9913) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([alamb](https://github.com/alamb))
+- \[56_maintenance\] Prevent BitChunks length overflow \(\#9818\) [\#9896](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/9896) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([alamb](https://github.com/alamb))
+- \[56_maintenance\] Fix cargo_audit: Pin cargo-msrv and Cargo.lock in CI [\#9902](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/9902) ([alamb](https://github.com/alamb))
 
 
 \* *This Changelog was automatically generated by [github_changelog_generator](https://github.com/github-changelog-generator/github-changelog-generator)*
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 055962611e44..b4a6d9ce2a31 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "arrow"
-version = "56.2.0"
+version = "56.2.1"
 dependencies = [
  "arrow-arith",
  "arrow-array",
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "arrow-arith"
-version = "56.2.0"
+version = "56.2.1"
 dependencies = [
  "arrow-array",
  "arrow-buffer",
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "arrow-array"
-version = "56.2.0"
+version = "56.2.1"
 dependencies = [
  "ahash",
  "arrow-buffer",
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "arrow-avro"
-version = "56.2.0"
+version = "56.2.1"
 dependencies = [
  "apache-avro",
  "arrow",
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "arrow-buffer"
-version = "56.2.0"
+version = "56.2.1"
 dependencies = [
  "bytes",
  "criterion 0.5.1",
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "arrow-cast"
-version = "56.2.0"
+version = "56.2.1"
 dependencies = [
  "arrow-array",
  "arrow-buffer",
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "arrow-csv"
-version = "56.2.0"
+version = "56.2.1"
 dependencies = [
  "arrow-array",
  "arrow-buffer",
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "arrow-data"
-version = "56.2.0"
+version = "56.2.1"
 dependencies = [
  "arrow-buffer",
  "arrow-schema",
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "arrow-flight"
-version = "56.2.0"
+version = "56.2.1"
 dependencies = [
  "anyhow",
  "arrow-arith",
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "arrow-integration-test"
-version = "56.2.0"
+version = "56.2.1"
 dependencies = [
  "arrow",
  "arrow-buffer",
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "arrow-integration-testing"
-version = "56.2.0"
+version = "56.2.1"
 dependencies = [
  "arrow",
  "arrow-buffer",
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "arrow-ipc"
-version = "56.2.0"
+version = "56.2.1"
 dependencies = [
  "arrow-array",
  "arrow-buffer",
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "arrow-json"
-version = "56.2.0"
+version = "56.2.1"
 dependencies = [
  "arrow-array",
  "arrow-buffer",
@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "arrow-ord"
-version = "56.2.0"
+version = "56.2.1"
 dependencies = [
  "arrow-array",
  "arrow-buffer",
@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "arrow-pyarrow"
-version = "56.2.0"
+version = "56.2.1"
 dependencies = [
  "arrow-array",
  "arrow-data",
@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "arrow-row"
-version = "56.2.0"
+version = "56.2.1"
 dependencies = [
  "arrow-array",
  "arrow-buffer",
@@ -445,7 +445,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "arrow-schema"
-version = "56.2.0"
+version = "56.2.1"
 dependencies = [
  "bincode",
  "bitflags",
@@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "arrow-select"
-version = "56.2.0"
+version = "56.2.1"
 dependencies = [
  "ahash",
  "arrow-array",
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "arrow-string"
-version = "56.2.0"
+version = "56.2.1"
 dependencies = [
  "arrow-array",
  "arrow-buffer",
@@ -2263,7 +2263,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "parquet"
-version = "56.2.0"
+version = "56.2.1"
 dependencies = [
  "ahash",
  "arrow",
@@ -2353,7 +2353,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "parquet_derive"
-version = "56.2.0"
+version = "56.2.1"
 dependencies = [
  "parquet",
  "proc-macro2",
@@ -2363,7 +2363,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "parquet_derive_test"
-version = "56.2.0"
+version = "56.2.1"
 dependencies = [
  "chrono",
  "parquet",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 69e9703dcdd3..fb723dafa7a1 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ exclude = [
 ]
 
 [workspace.package]
-version = "56.2.0"
+version = "56.2.1"
 homepage = "https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs"
 repository = "https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs"
 authors = ["Apache Arrow <dev@arrow.apache.org>"]
@@ -84,22 +84,22 @@ edition = "2021"
 rust-version = "1.84"
 
 [workspace.dependencies]
-arrow = { version = "56.2.0", path = "./arrow", default-features = false }
-arrow-arith = { version = "56.2.0", path = "./arrow-arith" }
-arrow-array = { version = "56.2.0", path = "./arrow-array" }
-arrow-buffer = { version = "56.2.0", path = "./arrow-buffer" }
-arrow-cast = { version = "56.2.0", path = "./arrow-cast" }
-arrow-csv = { version = "56.2.0", path = "./arrow-csv" }
-arrow-data = { version = "56.2.0", path = "./arrow-data" }
-arrow-ipc = { version = "56.2.0", path = "./arrow-ipc" }
-arrow-json = { version = "56.2.0", path = "./arrow-json" }
-arrow-ord = { version = "56.2.0", path = "./arrow-ord" }
-arrow-pyarrow = { version = "56.2.0", path = "./arrow-pyarrow" }
-arrow-row = { version = "56.2.0", path = "./arrow-row" }
-arrow-schema = { version = "56.2.0", path = "./arrow-schema" }
-arrow-select = { version = "56.2.0", path = "./arrow-select" }
-arrow-string = { version = "56.2.0", path = "./arrow-string" }
-parquet = { version = "56.2.0", path = "./parquet", default-features = false }
+arrow = { version = "56.2.1", path = "./arrow", default-features = false }
+arrow-arith = { version = "56.2.1", path = "./arrow-arith" }
+arrow-array = { version = "56.2.1", path = "./arrow-array" }
+arrow-buffer = { version = "56.2.1", path = "./arrow-buffer" }
+arrow-cast = { version = "56.2.1", path = "./arrow-cast" }
+arrow-csv = { version = "56.2.1", path = "./arrow-csv" }
+arrow-data = { version = "56.2.1", path = "./arrow-data" }
+arrow-ipc = { version = "56.2.1", path = "./arrow-ipc" }
+arrow-json = { version = "56.2.1", path = "./arrow-json" }
+arrow-ord = { version = "56.2.1", path = "./arrow-ord" }
+arrow-pyarrow = { version = "56.2.1", path = "./arrow-pyarrow" }
+arrow-row = { version = "56.2.1", path = "./arrow-row" }
+arrow-schema = { version = "56.2.1", path = "./arrow-schema" }
+arrow-select = { version = "56.2.1", path = "./arrow-select" }
+arrow-string = { version = "56.2.1", path = "./arrow-string" }
+parquet = { version = "56.2.1", path = "./parquet", default-features = false }
 
 # These crates have not yet been released and thus do not use the workspace version
 parquet-variant = { version = "0.1.0", path = "./parquet-variant" }
diff --git a/dev/release/update_change_log.sh b/dev/release/update_change_log.sh
index ece0132205f1..c51eda8b782b 100755
--- a/dev/release/update_change_log.sh
+++ b/dev/release/update_change_log.sh
@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@
 
 set -e
 
-SINCE_TAG="56.1.0"
-FUTURE_RELEASE="56.2.0"
+SINCE_TAG="56.2.0"
+FUTURE_RELEASE="56.2.1"
 
 SOURCE_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
 SOURCE_TOP_DIR="$(cd "${SOURCE_DIR}/../../" && pwd)"