Release arrow-rs / parquet minor version 54.1.0 (Jan 2025)

[alamb]

Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge? Please describe what you are trying to do.

Our release schedule is here https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs?tab=readme-ov-file#release-versioning-and-schedule

• We released 54.0.0 in Dec 2024 Release arrow-rs / parquet major version 54.0.0 (December 2024) #6342

Items to fix before the release:

• Arrow IPC Writer Panics If the slice offset is starts with zero #6997

Describe the solution you'd like

Create a 54.1.0 release:

• Release notes and bump version
• Vote thread
• Release to crates.io / approval

Describe alternatives you've considered

Additional context

[alamb]

I plan to make this release next week

[alamb]

I added #6997 as an item we should probably fix before release

[alamb]

I plan to make the release candidate early next week (of Jan 27)