Apache DataFusion 42.1.0 Changelog

This release consists of 5 commits from 4 contributors. See credits at the end of this changelog for more information.

Other:

• Backport update to arrow 53.1.0 on branch-42 #12977 (alamb)
• Backport “Provide field and schema metadata missing on cross joins, and union with null fields” (#12729) #12974 (matthewmturner)
• Backport “physical-plan: Cast nested group values back to dictionary if necessary” (#12586) #12976 (matthewmturner)
• backport-to-DF-42: Provide field and schema metadata missing on distinct aggregations #12975 (Xuanwo)

Credits

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this release. Here is a breakdown of commits (PRs merged) per contributor.

     2	Matthew Turner
     1	Andrew Lamb
     1	Andy Grove
     1	Xuanwo

Thank you also to everyone who contributed in other ways such as filing issues, reviewing PRs, and providing feedback on this release.