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+title: "Apache Arrow 18.1.0 Release"
+date: "2024-12-01 00:00:00"
+author: pmc
+categories: [release]
+---
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+
+The Apache Arrow team is pleased to announce the 18.1.0 release. This
+covers roughly one month of development work and includes [**15 resolved
+issues**][1] on [**25 distinct commits**][2] from [**8 distinct
+contributors**][2]. See the [Install Page](https://arrow.apache.org/install/) to
+learn how to get the libraries for your platform.
+
+The release notes below are not exhaustive and only expose selected
+highlights of the release. Many other bugfixes and improvements have been made:
+we refer you to the [complete changelog][3].
+
+## Community
+
+Since the 18.0.0 release, Adam Reeve and Laurent Goujon have been invited
+to become committers. No new members have joined the Project Management
+Committee (PMC).
+
+Thanks for your contributions and participation in the project!
+
+## Columnar format
+
+## Arrow Flight RPC notes
+
+## C++ notes
+
+### Acero
+
+### Compute
+
+### Dataset
+
+### Filesystems
+
+### Gandiva
+
+### GPU
+
+### IPC
+
+### Parquet
+
+## C# notes
+
+## Java notes
+
+## JavaScript notes
+
+## Python notes
+
+## R notes
+
+For more on what’s in the 18.1.0 R package, see the [R changelog][4].
+
+## Ruby and C GLib notes
+
+### Ruby
+
+### C GLib
+
+## Rust and Go notes
+
+The Rust and Go projects have moved to separate repositories outside the
+main Arrow monorepo. For notes on the latest release of the Rust
+implementation, see the latest [Arrow Rust changelog][5].
+For notes on the latest release of the Go implementation, see the latest
+[Arrow Go changelog][6]
+
+## Linux packages notes
+
+[1]: https://github.com/apache/arrow/milestone/67?closed=1
+[2]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/18.1.0.html#contributors
+[3]: {{ site.baseurl }}/release/18.1.0.html#changelog
+[4]: {{ site.baseurl }}/docs/r/news/
+[5]: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/tags
+[6]: https://github.com/apache/arrow-go/tags