Apache Avro 1.10.0

This release includes 189 Jira issues, including some interesting features:

C#: AVRO-2389 Add Avro serialization for POCO (Reflection)
Java: AVRO-2723 Automatically find defaults on POJO when using reflection
Java: AVRO-2438 Better support for URI and URL types
Perl: AVRO-1461 Distribute Perl module in CPAN
PHP: AVRO-2527 Update to PHP 7.x
Python: AVRO-2387 Type checking added to python
Ruby: AVRO-1740 Support fingerprinting
Ruby: AVRO-2535 Support enum defaults
Ruby: AVRO-2545 Support aliases

Migration notes:
Java: AVRO-2278 Throw an exception when getting a non-existent field from a record
Java: AVRO-2581 Maven plugin generates specific records with private fields
Java: AVRO-2335 Remove Joda Time library
Python: AVRO-2656 avro-python package is now the preferred python3 library and avro-python3 is prepared to be deprecated

And of course upgraded dependencies to latest versions, CVE fixes and more
https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20AVRO%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%201.10.0