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Posted to user@avro.apache.org by Doug Cutting <cu...@apache.org> on 2011/05/06 23:06:38 UTC

[ANNOUNCE] Avro Release 1.5.1

I'd like to announce the availability of Avro release 1.5.1.

Selected highlights of this release include:

  NEW FEATURES

    AVRO-533. Add a C# implementation.
    (Jeremy Custenborder, Dona Alvarez and thiru)

    AVRO-788. Java: Add Snappy compression for data files, including
    MapReduce API support. (cutting)

    AVRO-808. Java: Add AvroAsTextInputFormat for use with streaming.
    (Tom White via cutting)

  IMPROVEMENTS

    AVRO-781. Generic data support in C++. (thiru)

    AVRO-783. Specific object support in C++. (thiru)

    AVRO-789. Datafile support in C++. (thiru)

    AVRO-787. Ruby: Make compatible with Ruby 1.9. (Michael L. Artz)

    AVRO-709. Python: Optimize property lookup. (Justin Azoff)

    AVRO-763. Java MapReduce API: add support for configure() and
    close() methods to mappers and reducers. (Marshall Pierce)

    AVRO-791. Java: Add avro-tools-nodeps jar.
    (scottcarey)

Many other improvements and bug fixes are also included.  The full list
of changes in this release is available at:

  http://tinyurl.com/avro151

The full release can be downloaded from:

  https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/avro/

(Although mirrors might not be updated until tomorrow.)

Java jar files are available from Maven Central.  Python is in PyPI.

Doug