Prepare for 55.2.0 release (#7722)

# Which issue does this PR close?

- Part of #7394

# Rationale for this change

Prepare for next software release

# What changes are included in this PR?
1. Update version to `55.2.0`
2. See rendered changelog here:
https://github.com/alamb/arrow-rs/blob/alamb/prepare_55.2.0/CHANGELOG.md


# Are there any user-facing changes?

New release version

Author: alamb

CHANGELOG-old.md

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 # Historical Changelog
 
+## [55.1.0](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/tree/55.1.0) (2025-05-09)
+
+[Full Changelog](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/compare/55.0.0...55.1.0)
+
+**Breaking changes:**
+
+- refactor!: do not default the struct array length to 0 in Struct::try\_new [\#7247](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7247) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([westonpace](https://github.com/westonpace))
+
+**Implemented enhancements:**
+
+- Add a way to get max `usize` from `OffsetSizeTrait` [\#7474](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/7474) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)]
+- Deterministic metadata encoding [\#7448](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/7448) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)]
+- Support Arrow type Dictionary with value FixedSizeBinary in Parquet [\#7445](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/7445)
+- Parquet: Add ability to project rowid in parquet reader [\#7444](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/7444)
+- Move parquet::file::metadata::reader::FooterTail to parquet::file::metadata so that it is public [\#7438](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/7438) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)]
+- Speedup take\_bytes by precalculating capacity [\#7432](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/7432) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)]
+- Improve performance of interleave\_primitive and interleave\_bytes [\#7421](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/7421) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)]
+- Implement `Eq` and `Default` for `ScalarBuffer` [\#7411](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/7411) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)]
+- Add decryption support for column index and offset index [\#7390](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/7390) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)]
+- Support writing encrypted Parquet files with plaintext footers [\#7320](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/7320) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)]
+- Support Parquet key management tools [\#7256](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/7256) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)]
+- Verify footer tags when reading encrypted Parquet files with plaintext footers [\#7255](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/7255) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)]
+- StructArray::try\_new behavior can be unexpected when there are no child arrays [\#7246](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/7246) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)]
+- Parquet performance: improve performance of reading int8/int16 [\#7097](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/7097) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)]
+
+**Fixed bugs:**
+
+- StructArray::try\_new validation incorrectly returns an error when `logical_nulls()` returns Some\(\) && null\_count == 0 [\#7435](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/7435)
+- Reading empty DataPageV2 fails with `snappy: corrupt input (empty)` [\#7388](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/7388) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)]
+
+**Documentation updates:**
+
+- Improve documentation and add examples for ArrowPredicateFn [\#7480](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7480) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([alamb](https://github.com/alamb))
+- Document Arrow \<--\> Parquet schema conversion better [\#7479](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7479) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([alamb](https://github.com/alamb))
+- Fix a typo in arrow/examples/README.md [\#7473](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7473) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([Mottl](https://github.com/Mottl))
+
+**Closed issues:**
+
+- Refactor Parquet DecryptionPropertiesBuilder to fix use of unreachable [\#7476](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/7476) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)]
+- Implement `Eq` and `Default` for `OffsetBuffer` [\#7417](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/7417) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)]
+
+**Merged pull requests:**
+
+- Add Parquet `arrow_reader` benchmarks for {u}int{8,16}  columns [\#7484](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7484) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([alamb](https://github.com/alamb))
+- fix: `rustdoc::unportable_markdown` was removed [\#7483](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7483) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] [[arrow-flight](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow-flight)] ([crepererum](https://github.com/crepererum))
+- Support round trip reading / writing Arrow `Duration` type to parquet [\#7482](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7482) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([Liyixin95](https://github.com/Liyixin95))
+- Add const MAX\_OFFSET to OffsetSizeTrait [\#7478](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7478) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([thinkharderdev](https://github.com/thinkharderdev))
+- Refactor Parquet DecryptionPropertiesBuilder [\#7477](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7477) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([adamreeve](https://github.com/adamreeve))
+- Support parsing and display pretty for StructType [\#7469](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7469) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([goldmedal](https://github.com/goldmedal))
+- chore\(deps\): update sysinfo requirement from 0.34.0 to 0.35.0 [\#7462](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7462) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot))
+- Verify footer tags when reading encrypted Parquet files with plaintext footers [\#7459](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7459) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([rok](https://github.com/rok))
+- Improve comments for avro [\#7449](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7449) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([kumarlokesh](https://github.com/kumarlokesh))
+- feat: Support round trip reading/writing Arrow type `Dictionary(_, FixedSizeBinary(_))` to Parquet [\#7446](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7446) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([albertlockett](https://github.com/albertlockett))
+- Fix out of bounds crash in RleValueDecoder [\#7441](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7441) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([apilloud](https://github.com/apilloud))
+- Make `FooterTail` public  [\#7440](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7440) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([masonh22](https://github.com/masonh22))
+- Support writing encrypted Parquet files with plaintext footers [\#7439](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7439) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([rok](https://github.com/rok))
+- feat: deterministic metadata encoding [\#7437](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7437) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([timsaucer](https://github.com/timsaucer))
+- Fix validation logic in `StructArray::try_new` to account for array.logical\_nulls\(\) returning Some\(\) and null\_count == 0 [\#7436](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7436) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([phillipleblanc](https://github.com/phillipleblanc))
+- Minor: Fix typo in async\_reader comment [\#7433](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7433) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([amoeba](https://github.com/amoeba))
+- feat: coerce fixed size binary to binary view [\#7431](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7431) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([chenkovsky](https://github.com/chenkovsky))
+- chore\(deps\): update brotli requirement from 7.0 to 8.0 [\#7430](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7430) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot))
+- Speedup take\_bytes \(-35% -69%\) by precalculating capacity [\#7422](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7422) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([Dandandan](https://github.com/Dandandan))
+- Improve performance of interleave\_primitive \(-15% - 45%\) / interleave\_bytes \(-10-25%\) [\#7420](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7420) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([Dandandan](https://github.com/Dandandan))
+- Implement `Eq` and `Default` for `OffsetBuffer` [\#7418](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7418) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([kylebarron](https://github.com/kylebarron))
+- Implement `Default` for `Buffer` & `ScalarBuffer` [\#7413](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7413) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([emilk](https://github.com/emilk))
+- Implement `Eq` for `ScalarBuffer` when `T: Eq` [\#7412](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7412) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([emilk](https://github.com/emilk))
+- Skip page should also support skip dict page [\#7409](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7409) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([zhuqi-lucas](https://github.com/zhuqi-lucas))
+- Replace `RecordBatch::with_schema_unchecked` with `RecordBatch::new_unchecked` [\#7405](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7405) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([tustvold](https://github.com/tustvold))
+- feat: Adding `with_schema_unchecked` method for `RecordBatch` [\#7402](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7402) [[arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/arrow)] ([comphead](https://github.com/comphead))
+- Add benchmark for parquet reader with row\_filter and project settings [\#7401](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7401) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([zhuqi-lucas](https://github.com/zhuqi-lucas))
+- Parquet: Expose accessors from `ArrowReaderOptions` [\#7400](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7400) ([kylebarron](https://github.com/kylebarron))
+- Support decryption of Parquet column and offset indexes [\#7399](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7399) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([adamreeve](https://github.com/adamreeve))
+- Handle compressed empty DataPage v2 [\#7389](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7389) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([EnricoMi](https://github.com/EnricoMi))
+- Improve performance of reading int8/int16 Parquet data [\#7055](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/pull/7055) [[parquet](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/labels/parquet)] ([etseidl](https://github.com/etseidl))
 
 ## [55.0.0](https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/tree/55.0.0) (2025-04-08)