Hi, Just now I ran into an obscure problem in the 1.8.2 release I thought I had already fixed. Researching the issue I found that some of the fixes that have been committed to the master over the last few months have not been included in this release.
I myself made some of those fixes and I would really like to know: What went wrong? What did I do wrong? To get some insight I simply did a diff of the CHANGELOG and found these to be missing: AVRO-1993: C++ Byte ordering macro does not work on FreeBSD (thiru) AVRO-1975: Upgrade java dependencies (gabor) AVRO-1960: Add log4j properties for avro-tools AVRO-1748. Add Snappy Compression to C++ DataFile (J. Langley via thiru) AVRO-1626: C#: Fix Avro.pref build error. (Naruto Takahashi via blue) AVRO-1966: Java: Fix NPE When copying builder with nullable record. (Niels Basjes) AVRO-1967: Java: Fix NPE when calling getXyzBuilder on instance where the xyz is null (Niels Basjes) AVRO-1970: Java: Flaky test: TestInputBytes. (Gabor Szadovszky via tomwhite) AVRO-1881: Java: Avro (Java) Memory Leak when reusing JsonDecoder instance. (Nandor Kollar via tomwhite) AVRO-1954: Java: Schema.Field.defaultVal() generates: Unknown datum type (Nandor Kollar via tomwhite) AVRO-1930: JsonParser doesn't handle integer scientific notation (Pietro Cerutti via thiru) AVRO-1912: C++ Resolving Decoding doesn't work if element removed from record in array. (via thiru) AVRO-1866. JsonNullFormatter fwd-declared as class, defined as struct ( Pietro Cerutti via thiru) AVRO-1750. GenericDatum API behavior breaking change (thiru) AVRO-1995: JSON Parser does not properly check current state (Victor Mota via thiru) AVRO-1216. Setting precision for the output stream (John McClean via thiru) AVRO-1937: C++ generator for recursive structure crashes (thiru) AVRO-1892. C++ library cannot parse unions with default values (Hua Zhang via thiru) AVRO-1994. C++ Code Generator Generates Invalid Code if Field is of type Null (Darryl Green via thiru) AVRO-1997. Avro Field.defaultVal broken for Fixed fields. (Zoltan Farkasi via thiru) AVRO-1838: Java: Update checkstyle to catch trailing whitespace. (nielsbasjes via blue) Since several of these are NPE/crashes area I think we should consider getting 1.8.3 out quicker than what we would normally do. -- Best regards / Met vriendelijke groeten, Niels Basjes
