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+Parquet C++ 1.3.0
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+## Bug
+    * [PARQUET-1098] - [C++] Install new header in parquet/util
+    * [PARQUET-1085] - [C++] Backwards compatibility from macro cleanup in transitive dependencies in ARROW-1452
+    * [PARQUET-1074] - [C++] Switch to long key ids in KEYs file
+    * [PARQUET-1075] - C++: Coverage upload is broken
+    * [PARQUET-1088] - [CPP] remove parquet_version.h from version control since it gets auto generated 
+    * [PARQUET-1002] - [C++] Compute statistics based on Logical Types
+    * [PARQUET-1100] - [C++] Reading repeated types should decode number of records rather than number of values
+    * [PARQUET-1090] - [C++] Fix int32 overflow in Arrow table writer, add max row group size property
+    * [PARQUET-1108] - [C++] Fix Int96 comparators
+
+## Improvement
+    * [PARQUET-1104] - [C++] Upgrade to Apache Arrow 0.7.0 RC0
+    * [PARQUET-1072] - [C++] Add ARROW_NO_DEPRECATED_API to CI to check for deprecated API use
+    * [PARQUET-1096] - C++: Update sha{1, 256, 512} checksums per latest ASF release policy
+    * [PARQUET-1079] - [C++] Account for Arrow API change in ARROW-1335
+    * [PARQUET-1087] - [C++] Add wrapper for ScanFileContents in parquet::arrow that catches exceptions
+    * [PARQUET-1093] - C++: Improve Arrow level generation error message
+    * [PARQUET-1094] - C++: Add benchmark for boolean Arrow column I/O
+    * [PARQUET-1083] - [C++] Refactor core logic in parquet-scan.cc so that it can be used as a library function for benchmarking
+    * [PARQUET-1037] - Allow final RowGroup to be unfilled
+
+## New Feature
+    * [PARQUET-1078] - [C++] Add Arrow writer option to coerce timestamps to milliseconds or microseconds
+    * [PARQUET-929] - [C++] Handle arrow::DictionaryArray when writing Arrow data
+
+
 Parquet C++ 1.2.0
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 ## Bug