[ANNOUNCE] Apache Avro 1.11.1 released

[Ryan Skraba <rs...@apache.org>]

The Apache Avro community is pleased to announce the release of Avro 1.11.0!

All signed release artifacts, signatures and verification instructions can
be found here: https://avro.apache.org/releases.html

This release includes ~250 Jira issues, including some interesting features:

Some interesting highlights:

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
based on namespace path
- [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 read files generated by
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 read bytes to
requested nbytes
- [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

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

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%201.11.1

The link to all fixed JIRA issues and a brief summary can be found at:
https://github.com/apache/avro/releases/tag/release-1.11.1

In addition, language-specific release artifacts are available:

* C#: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Apache.Avro/1.11.1
* Java: from Maven Central,
* 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!