add feature to version v0.21.1

Author: hoffmann

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.21.1.txt

@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ I/O
 - Bug in :func:`read_csv` when reading a compressed UTF-16 encoded file (:issue:`18071`)
 - Bug in :func:`read_csv` for handling null values in index columns when specifying ``na_filter=False`` (:issue:`5239`)
 - Bug in :meth:`DataFrame.to_csv` when the table had ``MultiIndex`` columns, and a list of strings was passed in for ``header`` (:issue:`5539`)
+- :func:`read_parquet` now allows to specify the columns to read from a parquet file (:issue:`18154`)
 
 Plotting
 ^^^^^^^^

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.22.0.txt

@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ I/O
 ^^^
 
 - :func:`read_html` now rewinds seekable IO objects after parse failure, before attempting to parse with a new parser. If a parser errors and the object is non-seekable, an informative error is raised suggesting the use of a different parser (:issue:`17975`)
-- :func:`read_parquet` now allows to specify the columns to read from a parquet file (:issue:`18154`)
+-
 -
 
 Plotting

pandas/io/parquet.py

@@ -190,6 +190,7 @@ def read_parquet(path, engine='auto', columns=None, **kwargs):
         File path
     columns: list, default=None
         If not None, only these columns will be read from the file.
+        .. versionadded 0.21.1
     engine : {'auto', 'pyarrow', 'fastparquet'}, default 'auto'
         Parquet reader library to use. If 'auto', then the option
         'io.parquet.engine' is used. If 'auto', then the first