Merge arrow-rs/main into shredding-variant-part1#5

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Commits on Aug 22, 2025

[Variant]: Implement DataType::List/LargeList support for cast_to_variant kernel (#8201)

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Commits on Aug 23, 2025

Add benchmarks for arrow-avro writer (#8165)
jecsand838
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Restore accidentally removed method Block::to_ne_bytes (#8211)
jhorstmann
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[Variant] feat: add support for casting MapArray to VariantArray (#8177)

Weijun-H
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alamb
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[Variant] Implement `VariantArray::value` for shredded variants (#8105)
klion26
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[Variant]: Implement `DataType::Union` support for `cast_to_variant` kernel (#8196)

liamzwbao
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alamb
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[Variant] VariantArrayBuilder uses MetadataBuilder and ValueBuilder (#8206)
scovich
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Commits on Aug 24, 2025

[avro] Fix Avro decoder bitmap corruption when nullable field decoding fails (#8213)
yongkyunlee
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Commits on Aug 25, 2025

[Variant] Support read-only metadata builders (#8208)
scovich
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Commits on Aug 26, 2025

Commits on Sep 2, 2025

feat: gRPC compression support for flight CLI (#8240)
crepererum
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