diff --git a/.github/workflows/dev.yml b/.github/workflows/dev.yml
index 9871f8b7d29..1447d72a53b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/dev.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/dev.yml
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ jobs:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
         with:
           node-version: "14"
       - name: Prettier check
diff --git a/arrow-schema/src/schema.rs b/arrow-schema/src/schema.rs
index 43bbffd0652..b05cfbe3d95 100644
--- a/arrow-schema/src/schema.rs
+++ b/arrow-schema/src/schema.rs
@@ -57,6 +57,17 @@ impl SchemaBuilder {
         self.fields.remove(idx)
     }
 
+    /// Get mut FieldRef as index `idx`
+    /// if index out of bounds, will panic
+    pub fn field_mut(&mut self, idx: usize) -> &mut FieldRef {
+        &mut self.fields[idx]
+    }
+
+    /// Reverse the fileds
+    pub fn reverse(&mut self) {
+        self.fields.reverse();
+    }
+
     /// Appends a [`FieldRef`] to this [`SchemaBuilder`] checking for collision
     ///
     /// If an existing field exists with the same name, calls [`Field::try_merge`]
@@ -837,4 +848,34 @@ mod tests {
             "Could not find expected string '{expected}' in '{res}'"
         );
     }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_schemabuilder_change_field() {
+        let mut builder = SchemaBuilder::new();
+        builder.push(Field::new("a", DataType::Int32, false));
+        builder.push(Field::new("b", DataType::Utf8, false));
+        *builder.field_mut(1) = Arc::new(Field::new("c", DataType::Int32, false));
+        assert_eq!(
+            builder.fields,
+            vec![
+                Arc::new(Field::new("a", DataType::Int32, false)),
+                Arc::new(Field::new("c", DataType::Int32, false))
+            ]
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_schemabuilder_reverse() {
+        let mut builder = SchemaBuilder::new();
+        builder.push(Field::new("a", DataType::Int32, false));
+        builder.push(Field::new("b", DataType::Utf8, true));
+        builder.reverse();
+        assert_eq!(
+            builder.fields,
+            vec![
+                Arc::new(Field::new("b", DataType::Utf8, true)),
+                Arc::new(Field::new("a", DataType::Int32, false))
+            ]
+        );
+    }
 }
diff --git a/object_store/Cargo.toml b/object_store/Cargo.toml
index 7928648d170..cb820b509ad 100644
--- a/object_store/Cargo.toml
+++ b/object_store/Cargo.toml
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ walkdir = "2"
 # Cloud storage support
 base64 = { version = "0.21", default-features = false, features = ["std"], optional = true }
 hyper = { version = "0.14", default-features = false, optional = true }
-quick-xml = { version = "0.30.0", features = ["serialize", "overlapped-lists"], optional = true }
+quick-xml = { version = "0.31.0", features = ["serialize", "overlapped-lists"], optional = true }
 serde = { version = "1.0", default-features = false, features = ["derive"], optional = true }
 serde_json = { version = "1.0", default-features = false, optional = true }
 rand = { version = "0.8", default-features = false, features = ["std", "std_rng"], optional = true }
diff --git a/object_store/src/client/mod.rs b/object_store/src/client/mod.rs
index 3c968f11be2..77eee7fc92f 100644
--- a/object_store/src/client/mod.rs
+++ b/object_store/src/client/mod.rs
@@ -193,6 +193,9 @@ impl Default for ClientOptions {
         // <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdkref/latest/guide/feature-smart-config-defaults.html>
         // <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/s3-optimizing-performance-best-practices/timeouts-and-retries-for-latency-sensitive-applications.html>
         // Which recommend a connection timeout of 3.1s and a request timeout of 2s
+        //
+        // As object store requests may involve the transfer of non-trivial volumes of data
+        // we opt for a slightly higher default timeout of 30 seconds
         Self {
             user_agent: None,
             content_type_map: Default::default(),
@@ -203,7 +206,7 @@ impl Default for ClientOptions {
             proxy_excludes: None,
             allow_http: Default::default(),
             allow_insecure: Default::default(),
-            timeout: Some(Duration::from_secs(5).into()),
+            timeout: Some(Duration::from_secs(30).into()),
             connect_timeout: Some(Duration::from_secs(5).into()),
             pool_idle_timeout: None,
             pool_max_idle_per_host: None,