Release Parquet format 2.4.0

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This is an umbrella issue for the 2.4.0 release. Please add any issues you'd like to get into that release as blockers.

Reporter: Ryan Blue / @rdblue
Assignee: Ryan Blue / @rdblue

Related issues:

• Update Java for format 2.4.0 changes (blocks)
• Format: Do not shade slf4j-api (is blocked by)
• Allow for Unsigned Statistics in Binary Type (is blocked by)
• Makefile is broken (is blocked by)
• Bumps Thrift version to 0.9.3 (is blocked by)
• Add Brotli compression to Parquet format (is blocked by)
• Add index pages to the format to support efficient page skipping (is blocked by)
• Add new compression codecs to the Parquet spec (is blocked by)
• Add UUID logical type (is blocked by)
• Parquet format should not depend on slf4j-nop (is blocked by)
• add logical type timestamp with timezone (per SQL) (is depended upon by)

_{Note: This issue was originally created as PARQUET-1134. Please see the migration documentation for further details.}

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Junjie Chen / @chenjunjiedada:
Can we include PARQUET-41?

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Ryan Blue / @rdblue:
@chenjunjiedada, when we were talking about this release in the Parquet sync-up, we decided not to block the release for bloom filters. We will just do another release when bloom filters are ready.