The Apache Avro community is pleased to announce the release of Avro 1.11.2!

This release addresses 89 Avro JIRA.

Highlights

C#

• AVRO-3434: Support logical schemas in reflect reader and writer
• AVRO-3670: Add NET 7.0 support
• AVRO-3724: Fix C# JsonEncoder for nested array of records
• AVRO-3756: Add a method to return types instead of writing them to disk

C++

• AVRO-3601: C++ API header contains breaking include
• AVRO-3705: C++17 support

Java

• AVRO-2943: Add new GenericData String/Utf8 ARRAY comparison test
• AVRO-2943: improve GenericRecord MAP type comparison
• AVRO-3473: Use ServiceLoader to discover Conversion
• AVRO-3536: Inherit conversions for Union type
• AVRO-3597: Allow custom readers to override string creation
• AVRO-3560: Throw SchemaParseException on dangling content beyond end of schema
• AVRO-3602: Support Map(with non-String keys) and Set in ReflectDatumReader
• AVRO-3676: Produce valid toString() for UUID JSON
• AVRO-3698: SpecificData.getClassName must replace reserved words
• AVRO-3700: Publish Java SBOM artifacts with CycloneDX
• AVRO-3783: Read LONG length for bytes, only allow INT sizes
• AVRO-3706: accept space in folder name

Python

• AVRO-3761: Fix broken validation of nullable UUID field
• AVRO-3229: Raise on invalid enum default only if validation enabled
• AVRO-3622: Fix compatibility check for schemas having or missing namespace
• AVRO-3669: Add py.typed marker file (PEP561 compliance)
• AVRO-3672: Add CI testing for Python 3.11
• AVRO-3680: allow to disable name validation

Ruby

• AVRO-3775: Fix decoded default value of logical type
• AVRO-3697: Test against Ruby 3.2
• AVRO-3722: Eagerly initialize instance variables for better inline cache hits

Rust

• Many, many bug fixes and implementation progress in this experimental SDK.
• Rust CI builds and lints are passing, and has been released to crates.io as version 0.15.0

In addition:

• Upgrade dependencies to latest versions, including CVE fixes.
• Testing and build improvements.
• Performance fixes, other bug fixes, better documentation and more...

Language SDK / Convenience artifacts

• C#: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Apache.Avro/1.11.2
• Java: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/avro/avro/1.11.2/
• Javascript: https://www.npmjs.com/package/avro-js/v/1.11.2
• Perl: https://metacpan.org/release/Avro
• Python 3: https://pypi.org/project/avro/1.11.2
• Ruby: https://rubygems.org/gems/avro/versions/1.11.2
• Rust: https://crates.io/crates/apache-avro/0.15.0

Known issues

• AVRO-3789 [Java]: Problem when comparing empty MAP types.

Thanks to everyone for contributing!