Release DataFusion 43.0.0

[alamb]

Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge?

Tracking ticket for next release, also a place to track desired inclusions

Last release was https://crates.io/crates/datafusion/42.0.0 September 17th, 2024 so next major release would be around October 20, 2024

Prior release tickets:

• 42.0.0 Release DataFusion 42.0.0 #11902

Desired Items that would be good to get into this release:

• (Andrew's goal) Enable datafusion.execution.parquet.schema_force_string_view by default #11682
• (Andrew's goal) Enable parquet filter pushdown by default #3463

Items to fix before release

(TBD)

[andygrove]

I'm keen to start the 43.0.0 release process as soon as we have upgraded to arrow-rs 53.1.0 since it will unblock apache/datafusion-ray#10

[alamb]

I'm keen to start the 43.0.0 release process as soon as we have upgraded to arrow-rs 53.1.0 since it will unblock apache/datafusion-ray#10

The arrow upgrade is all ready here: #12724

Since the arrow upgrade is a minor version, you won't have to wait for the datafusion upgrade to get the latest version of arrow-rs