Hi all, I would like to start a discussion about a parquet-format 2.13.0 release.
It has been about 9 months since 2.12.0 was released on August 28, 2025. Since then, we have had some meaningful updates, especially: - [PR #514](https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/pull/514) PARQUET-2249: Introduce IEEE 754 total order & NaN-counts - [PR #565](https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/pull/565) GH-506: Clarify field ordering for partially shredded object union - [PR #560](https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/pull/560) Update wording in Geospatial spec - [PR #562](https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/pull/562) GH-561: variant schema examples to use `(VARIANT(1))` There are also some open PRs that may be worth waiting for, especially: - [PR #564](https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/pull/564) GH-563: Make `ColumnMetaData.path_in_schema` optional It looks promising to me, and there is already related implementation work in arrow-rs, parquet-java, and arrow-cpp. (Thanks Ed!) What do people think? Thanks, Gang
