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 # arrow 12.0.1.9000
 
+## New features
+
+* Bindings for JSON Dataset  (#35055)
+* Implement schema extraction function (#35543)
+* Support new dplyr .by/by argument (@eitsupi, #35667)
+
+## Minor improvements and fixes
+
+* Create convenience function `arrow_array()` (#36381)
+* Add `scalar()` function  (#36265)
+* Always call `RecordBatchReader::ReadNext()` from DuckDB from the main R thread (#36307)
+* Warn for `set_io_thread_count()` with `num_threads` < 2 (#36304)
+* Ensure missing grouping variables are added to the beginning of the variable list (#36305)
+* CSV File reader options class objects should print the selected values (#35955)
+* Ensure that schema metadata can actually be set as a named character vector (#35954)
+* Ensure that the RStringViewer helper class does not own any Array references (#35812)
+* R builds failing with error 'Invalid: Timestamps already have a timezone: 'UTC'. Cannot localize to 'UTC'' (#35671)
+* Behavior something like group_by(foo) |> across(everything()) is different from dplyr (@eitsupi, #35473)
+
+## Installation
+
+* Link to correct version of OpenSSL when using autobrew (#36551)
+* Require cmake 3.16 in bundled build script (#36321)
+
+## Docs
+
+* Split out R6 classes and convenience functions (#36394)
+* Enable pkgdown built-in search (@eitsupi, #36374)
+* Re-organise reference page on pkgdown site (#36171)
+
 # arrow 12.0.1.1
 
 * Update a package version reference to be text only instead of numeric due to CRAN update requiring this (#36353, #36364)