Thanks Jarek,
> I am not sure whether the changes included any code that should find > its way into the official source package on the > https://downloads.apache.org/arrow/ - but if yes, then there is not > much choice from the Apache By-laws but the convenience/compiled > packages (and this is what PyPI packages are) should always be built > basing on the officially released sources > https://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#compiled-packages > On the PR there was a small code change required to fix an issue due to a change of behaviour on Python 3.11 on how enums are being printed in order to maintain behaviour on pyarrow. So we do have to release the new source packages.