[ANNOUNCE] Apache Avro 1.10.0 released

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

The Apache Avro community is pleased to announce the release of Avro 1.10.1!

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

This release includes 33 Jira issues, including some interesting features:

C#: AVRO-2750 Support for enum defaults
C++: AVRO-2891 Expose last sync offset written on DataFileWriter
Java: AVRO-2924 SpecificCompiler add 'LocalDateTime' logical type
Java: AVRO-2937 Expose some missing flags in SpecificCompilerTool
PHP: AVRO-2096 Fixes to missing functions
Ruby: AVRO-2907 Ruby schema.single_object_schema_fingerprint is reversed

Migration notes:
Java: AVRO-2817 Turn off validateDefaults when reading legacy Avro files
Python: AVRO-2656 avro-python package is now the preferred python3 library
and
                  avro-python3 is prepared to be deprecated

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%201.10.1

The link to all fixed JIRA issues and a brief summary can be found at:
https://github.com/apache/avro/releases/tag/release-1.10.1

In addition, language-specific release artifacts are available:

* C#: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Apache.Avro/1.10.1
* Java: from Maven Central,
* Javascript: https://www.npmjs.com/package/avro-js/v/1.10.1
* Python 2: https://pypi.org/project/avro/1.10.1/
* Python 3: https://pypi.org/project/avro-python3/1.10.1/
* Ruby: https://rubygems.org/gems/avro/versions/1.10.1

Thanks to everyone for contributing!