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Posted to user@avro.apache.org by Doug Cutting <cu...@apache.org> on 2011/03/14 18:46:15 UTC

[ANNOUNCE] Avro Release 1.5.0

I'd like to announce the availability of Avro release 1.5.0.

Selected highlights of this release include:

  INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES

    AVRO-647. Java: Break avro.jar up into multiple parts: avro.jar,
    avro-compiler.jar, avro-ipc.jar, avro-mapred.jar, avro-tools.jar,
    and avro-maven-plugin.jar.  (scottcarey)

    AVRO-753. Java: Improve BinaryEncoder Performance. (scottcarey)

  NEW FEATURES

    AVRO-762. C: New and improved schema resolution API. (dcreager)

    AVRO-729. C: JSON encoded Avro values. (dcreager)

    AVRO-711. JSON encoder and decoder for C++. (thiru)

  IMPROVEMENTS

    AVRO-669. Java: Make MapReduce to work with reflection-based data.
    (cutting)

    AVRO-700. Change C++ build system to CMake (thiru)

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

  http://s.apache.org/nY

Or, in Jira at:

  http://tinyurl.com/avro150

This release can be downloaded from:

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

Java jar files are also available from Maven Central:

  https://repository.apache.org/#nexus-search;gav~org.apache.avro~~1.5.0~~

Doug