The Apache Arrow team is pleased to announce the 0.1.0 release of Apache Arrow nanoarrow. This initial release covers 31 resolved issues from 6 contributors. Release Highlights This initial release includes the following: A C library bundled as two files (nanoarrow.c and nanoarrow.h). An R package providing bindings for users of the R programming language. See the Changelog for a detailed list of contributions leading up to the initial release. Why nanoarrow? The adoption of the Arrow C Data Interface and the Arrow C Stream Interface since their introduction have been impressive and enthusiastic: not only have Arrow language bindings adopted the standard to pass data among themselves, a growing number of high-profile libraries like GDAL and DuckDB use the standard to improve performance and provide an ABI-stable interface to tabular input and output. GDAL and DuckDB are fortunate to have hard-working and forward-thinking maintainers that were motivated to provide support for the Arrow C Data and Stream interfaces…