diff --git a/.asf.yaml b/.asf.yaml
index cda93fe..5281db6 100644
--- a/.asf.yaml
+++ b/.asf.yaml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ notifications:
   jira_options: link label worklog
 github:
   description: "Rust object_store crate"
-  homepage: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs-object-store
+  homepage: https://crates.io/crates/object_store
   labels:
     - object-store
   enabled_merge_buttons:
diff --git a/.github/workflows/object_store.yml b/.github/workflows/object_store.yml
index 93d289f..30049be 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/object_store.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/object_store.yml
@@ -67,10 +67,6 @@ jobs:
         run: cargo clippy --all-features --all-targets -- -D warnings
 
   # test doc links still work
-  #
-  # Note that since object_store is not part of the main workspace,
-  # this needs a separate docs job as it is not covered by
-  # `cargo doc --workspace`
   docs:
     name: Rustdocs
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
diff --git a/dev/release/check-rat-report.py b/dev/release/check-rat-report.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e30d72b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev/release/check-rat-report.py
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+##############################################################################
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+##############################################################################
+import fnmatch
+import re
+import sys
+import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
+
+if len(sys.argv) != 3:
+    sys.stderr.write("Usage: %s exclude_globs.lst rat_report.xml\n" %
+                     sys.argv[0])
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+exclude_globs_filename = sys.argv[1]
+xml_filename = sys.argv[2]
+
+globs = [line.strip() for line in open(exclude_globs_filename, "r")]
+
+tree = ET.parse(xml_filename)
+root = tree.getroot()
+resources = root.findall('resource')
+
+all_ok = True
+for r in resources:
+    approvals = r.findall('license-approval')
+    if not approvals or approvals[0].attrib['name'] == 'true':
+        continue
+    clean_name = re.sub('^[^/]+/', '', r.attrib['name'])
+    excluded = False
+    for g in globs:
+        if fnmatch.fnmatch(clean_name, g):
+            excluded = True
+            break
+    if not excluded:
+        sys.stdout.write("NOT APPROVED: %s (%s): %s\n" % (
+            clean_name, r.attrib['name'], approvals[0].attrib['name']))
+        all_ok = False
+
+if not all_ok:
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+print('OK')
+sys.exit(0)
diff --git a/dev/release/rat_exclude_files.txt b/dev/release/rat_exclude_files.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d08a0ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev/release/rat_exclude_files.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+venv/*
+testing/*
+target/*
+dev/release/rat_exclude_files.txt
+arrow/test/data/*
+arrow-csv/test/data/*
+arrow-json/test/data/*
+arrow/test/dependency/*
+arrow-integration-test/data/*
+parquet_derive/test/dependency/*
+.gitattributes
+**.gitignore
+.gitmodules
+Cargo.lock
+filtered_rat.txt
+rat.txt
+# auto-generated
+arrow-flight/src/arrow.flight.protocol.rs
+arrow-flight/src/sql/arrow.flight.protocol.sql.rs
+.github/*
+parquet/src/bin/parquet-fromcsv-help.txt
+arrow-flight/examples/data/*