Release DataFusion 54.2.0 (minor/patch) Release #23805

Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge?

• Part of [EPIC] DataFusion Releases #19783
• Follow on to Release DataFusion 54.1.0 (minor/patch) Release #22547

Let's plan a 54.1.1 or 54.2.0 patch release to fix any bugs / issues found in 54.1.0.

Steps:

• Update version and changelog
• Test with DataFusion Python
• Test with DataFusion Comet
• Test with delta.rs:
• Test vortex:
• Test with iceberg-rust:
• Test with LakeSail:
• Test with parquet viewer
• Test with datafusion-materialized-views
• Voting Thread:
• Publish to crates.io

Potential Content:

Bug Fixes

• fix: NOT IN with NULL subquery returns wrong results under SortMergeJoin #22810
• DataFusion 54.1.0 has a breaking API change #23886
• RepartitionExec withholds all output from an unbounded input until batch_size rows accumulate #24044

Performance

• TBD

Other

• TBD

Minor Features:

• TBD