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Reproducible Example

import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame({'a': [3,6,1,1,None,6]}, dtype='Int64[pyarrow]')
df['a_mask'] = df['a'].isna()
print(df.groupby('a_mask').rank(method='min'))

Issue Description

On Windows, this outputs

      a
0   4.0
1   1.0
2   1.0
3   1.0
4  <NA>
5   5.0

Expected Behavior

On Linux, it outputs

      a
0   3.0
1   4.0
2   1.0
3   1.0
4  <NA>
5   4.0

Installed Versions

Windows:

INSTALLED VERSIONS ------------------ commit : c888af6d0bb674932007623c0867e1fbd4bdc2c6 python : 3.11.9 python-bits : 64 OS : Windows OS-release : 10 Version : 10.0.26100 machine : AMD64 processor : Intel64 Family 6 Model 141 Stepping 1, GenuineIntel byteorder : little LC_ALL : None LANG : None LOCALE : English_United Kingdom.1252 pandas : 2.3.1 numpy : 2.3.1 pytz : 2025.2 dateutil : 2.9.0.post0 pip : None Cython : None sphinx : None IPython : 9.4.0 adbc-driver-postgresql: None adbc-driver-sqlite : None bs4 : None blosc : None bottleneck : None dataframe-api-compat : None fastparquet : None fsspec : None html5lib : None hypothesis : 6.135.32 gcsfs : None jinja2 : 3.1.6 lxml.etree : None matplotlib : None numba : None numexpr : None odfpy : None openpyxl : None pandas_gbq : None psycopg2 : None pymysql : None pyarrow : 21.0.0 pyreadstat : None pytest : 8.4.1 python-calamine : None pyxlsb : None s3fs : None scipy : None sqlalchemy : None tables : None tabulate : None xarray : None xlrd : None xlsxwriter : None zstandard : None tzdata : 2025.2 qtpy : None pyqt5 : None

Linux:

INSTALLED VERSIONS ------------------ commit : c888af6d0bb674932007623c0867e1fbd4bdc2c6 python : 3.12.8 python-bits : 64 OS : Linux OS-release : 6.6.87.2-microsoft-standard-WSL2 Version : #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Jun 5 18:30:46 UTC 2025 machine : x86_64 processor : x86_64 byteorder : little LC_ALL : None LANG : C.UTF-8 LOCALE : C.UTF-8 pandas : 2.3.1 numpy : 2.3.1 pytz : 2025.2 dateutil : 2.9.0.post0 pip : None Cython : None sphinx : None IPython : 9.1.0 adbc-driver-postgresql: None adbc-driver-sqlite : None bs4 : None blosc : None bottleneck : None dataframe-api-compat : None fastparquet : None fsspec : 2025.7.0 html5lib : None hypothesis : 6.135.32 gcsfs : None jinja2 : 3.1.6 lxml.etree : None matplotlib : 3.10.3 numba : None numexpr : None odfpy : None openpyxl : None pandas_gbq : None psycopg2 : None pymysql : None pyarrow : 21.0.0 pyreadstat : None pytest : 8.4.1 python-calamine : None pyxlsb : None s3fs : None scipy : 1.16.0 sqlalchemy : None tables : None tabulate : None xarray : None xlrd : None xlsxwriter : None zstandard : None tzdata : 2025.2 qtpy : None pyqt5 : None

Comment From: MarcoGorelli

Note that downgrading PyArrow to version 20 resolves this

I think this may be related to the PyArrow 21 release from 9 hours ago? https://pypi.org/project/pyarrow/21.0.0/