Apache Avro 1.11.1

The Apache Avro community is pleased to announce the release of Avro 1.11.1!

Most interesting

This release includes 256 Jira issues, including some interesting features:

Avro specification

• AVRO-3436 Clarify which names are allowed to be qualified with namespaces
• AVRO-3370 Inconsistent behaviour on types as invalid names
• AVRO-3275 Clarify how fullnames are created, with example
• AVRO-3257 IDL: add syntax to create optional fields
• AVRO-2019 Improve docs for logical type annotation

C++

• AVRO-2722 Use of boost::mt19937 is not thread safe

C#

• AVRO-3383 Many completed subtasks for modernizing C# coding style
• AVRO-3481 Input and output variable type mismatch
• AVRO-3475 Enforce time-millis and time-micros specification
• AVRO-3469 Build and test using .NET SDK 7.0
• AVRO-3468 Default values for logical types not supported
• AVRO-3467 Use oracle-actions to test with Early Access JDKs
• AVRO-3453 Avrogen Add Generated Code Attribute
• AVRO-3432 Add command line option to skip creation of directories
• AVRO-3411 Add Visual Studio Code Devcontainer support
• AVRO-3388 Implement extra codecs for C# as seperate nuget packages
• AVRO-3265 avrogen generates uncompilable code when namespace ends
  with ".Avro"
• AVRO-3219 Support nullable enum type fields

Java

• AVRO-3531 GenericDatumReader in multithread lead to infinite loop
• AVRO-3482 Reuse MAGIC in DataFileReader
• AVRO-3586 Make Avro Build Reproducible
• AVRO-3441 Automatically register LogicalTypeFactory classes
• AVRO-3375 Add union branch, array index and map key "path"
  information to serialization errors
• AVRO-3374 Fully qualified type reference "ns.int" loses namespace
• AVRO-3294 IDL parsing allows doc comments in strange places
• AVRO-3273 avro-maven-plugin breaks on old versions of Maven
• AVRO-3266 Output stream incompatible with MagicS3GuardCommitter
• AVRO-3243 Lock conflicts when using computeIfAbsent
• AVRO-3120 Support Next Java LTS (Java 17)
• AVRO-2498 UUID generation is not working

Javascript

• AVRO-3489 Replace istanbul with nyc for code coverage
• AVRO-3322 Buffer is not defined in browser environment
• AVRO-3084 Fix JavaScript interop test to work with other languages on CI

Perl

• AVRO-3263 Schema validation warning on invalid schema with a long field

Python

• AVRO-3542 Scale assignment optimization
• AVRO-3521 "Scale" property from decimal object
• AVRO-3380 Byte reading in avro.io does not assert bytes read
• AVRO-3229 validate the default value of an enum field
• AVRO-3218 Pass LogicalType to BytesDecimalSchema

Ruby

• AVRO-3277 Test against Ruby 3.1

Rust

• AVRO-3558 Add a demo crate that shows usage as WebAssembly
• AVRO-3526 Improve resolving Bytes and Fixed from string
• AVRO-3506 Implement Single Object Writer
• AVRO-3507 Implement Single Object Reader
• AVRO-3405 Add API for user-provided metadata to file
• AVRO-3339 Rename crate from avro-rs to apache-avro
• AVRO-3479 Derive Avro Schema macro

Website

• AVRO-2175 Website refactor
• AVRO-3450 Document IDL support in IDEs

Rust

This is the first release that provides the apache-avro crate at crates.io!

JIRA

A list of all JIRA tickets fixed in 1.11.1 could be found here

Language repositories

In addition, language-specific release artifacts are available:

• C#: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Apache.Avro/1.11.1
• Java: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/avro/avro/1.11.1/
• Javascript: https://www.npmjs.com/package/avro-js/v/1.11.1
• Perl: https://metacpan.org/release/Avro
• Python 3: https://pypi.org/project/avro/1.11.1
• Ruby: https://rubygems.org/gems/avro/versions/1.11.1
• Rust: https://crates.io/crates/apache-avro/0.14.0

Thanks to everyone for contributing!