Apache Avro 1.9.2

This release includes 71 Jira issues: https://jira.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20AVRO%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%201.9.2

• Some bug fixes:
  • C#: AVRO-2606 handle multidimensional arrays of custom types
  • Java: AVRO-2592 Avro decimal fails on some conditions
  • Java: AVRO-2641 Generated code results in java.lang.ClassCastException
  • Java: AVRO-2663 Projection on nested records does not work
  • Python: AVRO-2429 unknown logical types should fall back
• Improvements:
  • Java: AVRO-2247 Improve Java reading performance with a new reader
  • Python: AVRO-2104 Schema normalisation and fingerprint support for Python 3
• Work to unify Python2 and Python3 APIs in preparation for sunset.
• Improved tests
• Improved, more reliable builds.
• Improved readability
• Upgrade dependencies to latest versions, including CVE fixes.
• And more...

Apache Avro 1.9.2 RC2

release-1.9.2-rc2

Apache Avro 1.9.2 RC2

Apache Avro 1.9.2 RC1

release-1.9.2-rc1

Preparing for release 1.9.2

Apache Avro 1.9.1

This release includes 31 Jira issues: https://jira.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20AVRO%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%201.9.1

• Most important, fix regression issues:
  • Java: decoding schema's: https://jira.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2400
  • .Net: Performance issue: https://jira.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2396
• Java: Make org.apache.avro.Schema serializable
• Java: Ability to add custom objects to Velocity templating
• Improved interoperability testing
• Remove possible NPE's
• Upgrade dependencies to latest to the latest version
• And many more :-)

Apache Avro 1.9.1 RC3

AVRO-2531: Update commons-compress to version 1.19

(cherry picked from commit bd559d63d5d86eeff7b317d8188cdd7038c9f3fe)

Apache Avro 1.9.1 RC2

AVRO-2528: Exclude test resources from license check

(cherry picked from commit 94923cf2fb64ed56705ae6310d948a28a506a2f4)

Apache Avro 1.9.1 RC1

release-1.9.1-rc1

Preparing for release 1.9.1

Apache Avro 1.9.0

This release includes 272 Jira issues: https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/AVRO/versions/12333394

• Deprecate Joda-Time in favor of Java8 JSR310 and setting it as default
• Remove support for Hadoop 1.x
• Move from Jackson 1.x to 2.9
• Add ZStandard Codec
• Lots of updates on the dependencies to fix CVE's
• Remove Jackson classes from public API
• Apache Avro is built by default with Java 8
• Apache Avro is compiled and tested with Java 11 to guarantee compatibility
• Apache Avro MapReduce is compiled and tested with Hadoop 3
• Apache Avro is now leaner, multiple dependencies were removed: guava, paranamer, commons-codec, and commons-logging
• Introduce JMH Performance Testing Framework
• Add Snappy support for C++ DataFile
• and many, many more!

Apache Avro 1.9 RC4

AVRO-2386: Make customEncode and customDecode public (#511)

* Make customEncode and customDecode methods public

* Make methods in superclass public

(cherry picked from commit e250dcc0ae0e3b32ce9d1cad0e9f580dbd241b15)

Apache Avro 1.9 RC3

Also exclude the new sums from being re-summed

(cherry picked from commit 0c6367802773005f563bc2ca0429abf2c420c082)