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+.. Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
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+.. to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
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+
+..   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
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+
+.. currentmodule:: pyarrow
+
+.. _api.ipc:
+
+Serialization and IPC
+=====================
+
+Inter-Process Communication
+---------------------------
+
+.. autosummary::
+   :toctree: ../generated/
+
+   ipc.new_file
+   ipc.open_file
+   ipc.new_stream
+   ipc.open_stream
+   ipc.read_message
+   ipc.read_record_batch
+   ipc.get_record_batch_size
+   ipc.read_tensor
+   ipc.write_tensor
+   ipc.get_tensor_size
+   ipc.IpcWriteOptions
+   ipc.Message
+   ipc.MessageReader
+   ipc.RecordBatchFileReader
+   ipc.RecordBatchFileWriter
+   ipc.RecordBatchStreamReader
+   ipc.RecordBatchStreamWriter
+
+Serialization
+-------------
+
+.. warning::
+
+   The serialization functionality is deprecated in pyarrow 2.0, and will
+   be removed in a future version. Use the standard library ``pickle`` or
+   the IPC functionality of pyarrow (see :ref:`ipc`).
+
+
+.. autosummary::
+   :toctree: ../generated/
+
+   serialize
+   serialize_to
+   deserialize
+   deserialize_components
+   deserialize_from
+   read_serialized
+   SerializedPyObject
+   SerializationContext