[branch-53] Update Release Notes (#20952)

## Which issue does this PR close?

- Part of #19692

## Rationale for this change

We have backported a bunch of bug fixes to branch-53, so let's make sure
the release notes reflect that

## What changes are included in this PR?

I ran
```shell
uv run ./dev/release/generate-changelog.py 52.3.0 branch-53 53.0.0 > dev/changelog/53.0.0.md
```

And then had codex review via

```
› Please review dev/changelog/53.0.0.md to ensure it reflects all commits between where `apache/branch-53` and `main` diverged
```

Then I updated the change log to reflect the original authors not the
backport authors


## Are these changes tested?

By CI

Author: alamb

dev/changelog/53.0.0.md

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ under the License.
 
 # Apache DataFusion 53.0.0 Changelog
 
-This release consists of 447 commits from 105 contributors. See credits at the end of this changelog for more information.
+This release consists of 475 commits from 114 contributors. See credits at the end of this changelog for more information.
 
 See the [upgrade guide](https://datafusion.apache.org/library-user-guide/upgrading.html) for information on how to upgrade from previous versions.
 
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ See the [upgrade guide](https://datafusion.apache.org/library-user-guide/upgradi
 - Remove the statistics() api in execution plan [#20319](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20319) (xudong963)
 - Remove recursive const check in `simplify_const_expr` [#20234](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20234) (AdamGS)
 - Cache `PlanProperties`, add fast-path for `with_new_children` [#19792](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/19792) (askalt)
+- [branch-53] feat: parse `JsonAccess` as a binary operator, add `Operator::Colon` [#20717](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20717) (Samyak2)
 
 **Performance related:**
 
@@ -96,6 +97,7 @@ See the [upgrade guide](https://datafusion.apache.org/library-user-guide/upgradi
 - perf: Use Arrow vectorized eq kernel for IN list with column references [#20528](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20528) (zhangxffff)
 - perf: Optimize `array_agg()` using `GroupsAccumulator` [#20504](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20504) (neilconway)
 - perf: Optimize `array_to_string()`, support more types [#20553](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20553) (neilconway)
+- [branch-53] perf: sort replace free()->try_grow() pattern with try_resize() to reduce memory pool interactions [#20733](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20733) (mbutrovich)
 
 **Implemented enhancements:**
 
@@ -244,9 +246,11 @@ See the [upgrade guide](https://datafusion.apache.org/library-user-guide/upgradi
 - add redirect for old upgrading.html URL to fix broken changelog links [#20582](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20582) (mishop-15)
 - Upgrade DataFusion to arrow-rs/parquet 58.0.0 / `object_store` 0.13.0 [#19728](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/19728) (alamb)
 - Document guidance on how to evaluate breaking API changes [#20584](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20584) (alamb)
+- [branch-53] chore: prepare 53 release [#20649](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20649) (comphead)
 
 **Other:**
 
+- [branch-53] chore: Add branch protection (comphead)
 - Add a protection to release candidate branch 52 [#19660](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/19660) (xudong963)
 - Downgrade aws-smithy-runtime, update `rust_decimal`, ignore RUSTSEC-2026-0001 to get clean CI [#19657](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/19657) (alamb)
 - Update dependencies [#19667](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/19667) (alamb)
@@ -486,117 +490,151 @@ See the [upgrade guide](https://datafusion.apache.org/library-user-guide/upgradi
 - Add deterministic per-file timing summary to sqllogictest runner [#20569](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20569) (kosiew)
 - chore: Enable workspace lint for all workspace members [#20577](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20577) (neilconway)
 - Fix serde of window lead/lag defaults [#20608](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20608) (avantgardnerio)
+- [branch-53] fix: make the `sql` feature truly optional (#20625) [#20680](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20680) (linhr)
+- [53] fix: Fix bug in `array_has` scalar path with sliced arrays (#20677) [#20700](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20700) (neilconway)
+- [branch-53] fix: Return `probe_side.len()` for RightMark/Anti count(\*) queries (#… [#20726](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20726) (jonathanc-n)
+- [branch-53] FFI_TableOptions are using default values only [#20722](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20722) (timsaucer)
+- chore(deps): pin substrait to `0.62.2` [#20827](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20827) (milenkovicm)
+- chore(deps): pin substrait version [#20848](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20848) (milenkovicm)
+- [branch-53] Fix repartition from dropping data when spilling (#20672) [#20792](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20792) (xanderbailey)
+- [branch-53] fix: `HashJoin` panic with String dictionary keys (don't flatten keys) (#20505) [#20791](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20791) (alamb)
+- [branch-53] cli: Fix datafusion-cli hint edge cases (#20609) [#20887](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20887) (comphead)
+- [branch-53] perf: Optimize `to_char` to allocate less, fix NULL handling (#20635) [#20885](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20885) (neilconway)
+- [branch-53] fix: interval analysis error when have two filterexec that inner filter proves zero selectivity (#20743) [#20882](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20882) (haohuaijin)
+- [branch-53] correct parquet leaf index mapping when schema contains struct cols (#20698) [#20884](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20884) (friendlymatthew)
+- [branch-53] ser/de fetch in FilterExec (#20738) [#20883](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20883) (haohuaijin)
+- [branch-53] fix: use try_shrink instead of shrink in try_resize (#20424) [#20890](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20890) (ariel-miculas)
+- [branch-53] Reattach parquet metadata cache after deserializing in datafusion-proto (#20574) [#20891](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20891) (nathanb9)
+- [branch-53] fix: do not recompute hash join exec properties if not required (#20900) [#20903](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20903) (askalt)
+- [branch-53] fix(spark): handle divide-by-zero in Spark `mod`/`pmod` with ANSI mode support (#20461) [#20896](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20896) (davidlghellin)
+- [branch-53] fix: Provide more generic API for the capacity limit parsing (#20372) [#20893](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20893) (erenavsarogullari)
+- [branch-53] fix: sqllogictest cannot convert <subquery> to Substrait (#19739) [#20897](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20897) (kumarUjjawal)
+- [branch-53] Fix DELETE/UPDATE filter extraction when predicates are pushed down into TableScan (#19884) [#20898](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20898) (kosiew)
+- [branch-53] fix: preserve None projection semantics across FFI boundary in ForeignTableProvider::scan (#20393) [#20895](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20895) (Kontinuation)
+- [branch-53] Fix FilterExec converting Absent column stats to Exact(NULL) (#20391) [#20892](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20892) (fwojciec)
+- [branch-53] backport: Support Spark `array_contains` builtin function (#20685) [#20914](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20914) (comphead)
+- [branch-53] Fix duplicate group keys after hash aggregation spill (#20724) (#20858) [#20918](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20918) (gboucher90)
+- [branch-53] fix: SanityCheckPlan error with window functions and NVL filter (#20231) [#20932](https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/20932) (EeshanBembi)
 
 ## Credits
 
 Thank you to everyone who contributed to this release. Here is a breakdown of commits (PRs merged) per contributor.
 
 ```
     73	dependabot[bot]
-    35	Neil Conway
-    31	Kumar Ujjawal
-    27	Andrew Lamb
+    37	Neil Conway
+    32	Kumar Ujjawal
+    28	Andrew Lamb
     26	Adrian Garcia Badaracco
     21	Jeffrey Vo
     13	cht42
-    10	Albert Skalt
-    10	kosiew
+    11	Albert Skalt
+    11	kosiew
     10	lyne
      8	Nuno Faria
+     8	Oleks V
      7	Sergey Zhukov
      7	xudong.w
      6	Daniël Heres
+     6	Huaijin
      5	Adam Gutglick
      5	Gabriel
-     5	Oleks V
+     5	Jonathan Chen
      4	Andy Grove
      4	Dmitrii Blaginin
-     4	Huaijin
+     4	Eren Avsarogullari
      4	Jack Kleeman
-     4	Jonathan Chen
-     4	Yongting You
      4	notashes
      4	theirix
-     3	Eren Avsarogullari
+     4	Tim Saucer
+     4	Yongting You
+     3	dario curreri
+     3	feniljain
      3	Kazantsev Maksim
      3	Kosta Tarasov
      3	Liang-Chi Hsieh
      3	Lía Adriana
-     3	Tim Saucer
-     3	Yu-Chuan Hung
-     3	dario curreri
-     3	feniljain
+     3	Marko Milenković
      3	mishop-15
+     3	Yu-Chuan Hung
      2	Acfboy
      2	Alan Tang
+     2	David López
      2	Devanshu
      2	Frederic Branczyk
      2	Ganesh Patil
+     2	Heran Lin
+     2	jizezhang
      2	Miao
      2	Michael Kleen
+     2	niebayes
      2	Pepijn Van Eeckhoudt
      2	Peter L
      2	Subham Singhal
      2	Tobias Schwarzinger
      2	UBarney
+     2	Xander
      2	Yuvraj
      2	Zhang Xiaofeng
-     2	jizezhang
-     2	niebayes
      1	Andrea Bozzo
      1	Andrew Kane
      1	Anjali Choudhary
      1	Anna-Rose Lescure
+     1	Ariel Miculas-Trif
      1	Aryan Anand
      1	Aviral Garg
      1	Bert Vermeiren
      1	Brent Gardner
      1	ChanTsune
-     1	David López
+     1	comphead
+     1	danielhumanmod
      1	Dewey Dunnington
+     1	discord9
      1	Divyansh Pratap Singh
      1	Eesh Sagar Singh
+     1	EeshanBembi
      1	Emil Ernerfeldt
      1	Emily Matheys
      1	Eric Chang
      1	Evangeli Silva
+     1	Filip Wojciechowski
      1	Filippo
      1	Gabriel Ferraté
      1	Gene Bordegaray
      1	Geoffrey Claude
      1	Goksel Kabadayi
+     1	Guillaume Boucher
      1	Haresh Khanna
-     1	Heran Lin
+     1	hsiang-c
+     1	iamthinh
      1	Josh Elkind
-     1	Marko Milenković
+     1	karuppuchamysuresh
+     1	Kristin Cowalcijk
      1	Mason
+     1	Matt Butrovich
+     1	Matthew Kim
      1	Mikhail Zabaluev
      1	Mohit rao
+     1	nathan
      1	Nathaniel J. Smith
      1	Nick
      1	Oleg V. Kozlyuk
      1	Paul J. Davis
      1	Pierre Lacave
+     1	pmallex
      1	Qi Zhu
      1	Raz Luvaton
      1	Rosai
      1	Ruihang Xia
+     1	Samyak Sarnayak
      1	Sergio Esteves
      1	Simon Vandel Sillesen
      1	Siyuan Huang
      1	Tim-53
      1	Tushar Das
      1	Vignesh
-     1	XL Liang
-     1	Xander
      1	Xiangpeng Hao
-     1	comphead
-     1	danielhumanmod
-     1	discord9
-     1	hsiang-c
-     1	iamthinh
-     1	karuppuchamysuresh
-     1	pmallex
+     1	XL Liang
 ```
 
 Thank you also to everyone who contributed in other ways such as filing issues, reviewing PRs, and providing feedback on this release.