Prepare release 44.0.0

Cargo.toml

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 [package]
 name = "datafusion-python"
-version = "43.0.0"
+version = "44.0.0"
 homepage = "https://datafusion.apache.org/python"
 repository = "https://github.com/apache/datafusion-python"
 authors = ["Apache DataFusion <[email protected]>"]

dev/changelog/44.0.0.md

@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
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+
+# Apache DataFusion Python 44.0.0 Changelog
+
+This release consists of 12 commits from 5 contributors. See credits at the end of this changelog for more information.
+
+**Implemented enhancements:**
+
+- feat: support enable_url_table config [#980](https://github.com/apache/datafusion-python/pull/980) (chenkovsky)
+- feat: remove DataFusion pyarrow feat [#1000](https://github.com/apache/datafusion-python/pull/1000) (timsaucer)
+
+**Fixed bugs:**
+
+- fix: correct LZ0 to LZO in compression options [#995](https://github.com/apache/datafusion-python/pull/995) (kosiew)
+
+**Other:**
+
+- Add arrow cast [#962](https://github.com/apache/datafusion-python/pull/962) (kosiew)
+- Fix small issues in pyproject.toml [#976](https://github.com/apache/datafusion-python/pull/976) (kylebarron)
+- chore: set validation and type hint for ffi tableprovider [#983](https://github.com/apache/datafusion-python/pull/983) (ion-elgreco)
+- Support async iteration of RecordBatchStream [#975](https://github.com/apache/datafusion-python/pull/975) (kylebarron)
+- Chore/upgrade datafusion 44 [#973](https://github.com/apache/datafusion-python/pull/973) (timsaucer)
+- Default to ZSTD compression when writing Parquet  [#981](https://github.com/apache/datafusion-python/pull/981) (kosiew)
+- Feat/use uv python management [#994](https://github.com/apache/datafusion-python/pull/994) (timsaucer)
+- minor: Update dependencies prior to release [#999](https://github.com/apache/datafusion-python/pull/999) (timsaucer)
+- Apply import ordering in ruff check [#1001](https://github.com/apache/datafusion-python/pull/1001) (timsaucer)
+
+## Credits
+
+Thank you to everyone who contributed to this release. Here is a breakdown of commits (PRs merged) per contributor.
+
+```
+     5	Tim Saucer
+     3	kosiew
+     2	Kyle Barron
+     1	Chongchen Chen
+     1	Ion Koutsouris
+```
+
+Thank you also to everyone who contributed in other ways such as filing issues, reviewing PRs, and providing feedback on this release.
+

pyproject.toml

@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ dev = [
     "pytest>=7.4.4",
     "ruff>=0.9.1",
     "toml>=0.10.2",
+    "pygithub==2.5.0",
 ]
 docs = [
     "sphinx>=7.1.2",