Hi everyone,

I'd like to propose the following RC2 to be released as the official Apache
Avro 1.9.2 release.

The commit id is bf20128ca6138a830b2ea13e0490f3df6b035639
* This corresponds to the tag: release-1.9.2-rc2
* https://github.com/apache/avro/releases/tag/release-1.9.2-rc2

The release tarball, signature, and checksums are here (revision 37932):
* https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/avro/avro-1.9.2-rc2/

You can find the KEYS file here:
* https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/avro/KEYS

Binary artifacts for Java are staged in Nexus here:
* 
https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/avro/avro/1.9.2/

This release includes 71 Jira issues (Thanks Ismael for the Fix
Version clean-up):
https://jira.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20AVRO%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%201.9.2

* Some bug fixes:
  - C#: AVRO-2606 handle multidimensional arrays of custom types
  - Java: AVRO-2592 Avro decimal fails on some conditions
  - Java: AVRO-2641 Generated code results in java.lang.ClassCastException
  - Java: AVRO-2663 Projection on nested records does not work
  - Python: AVRO-2429 unknown logical types should fall back
* Improvements:
  - Java: AVRO-2247 Improve Java reading performance with a new reader
  - Python: AVRO-2104 Schema normalisation and fingerprint support for Python 3
* Work to unify Python2 and Python3 APIs in preparation for sunset.
* Improved tests
* Improved, more reliable builds.
* Improved readability
* Upgrade dependencies to latest versions, including CVE fixes.
* And more...

Since RC1, five commits have been added, fixing the following JIRA:
* https://jira.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2663 (to complete the fix in RC1)
* https://jira.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2729 Upgrade Velocity to version 2.2
* https://jira.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2727 Upgrade hadoop3 to version 3.2.1
* https://jira.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2726 Upgrade Jackson to
version 2.10.2

Please download, verify, and test. This vote will remain open for at least
72 hours. Given sufficient votes, I would like to close after noon UTC
Wednesday, February
 12th

[ ] +1 Release this as Apache Avro 1.9.2
[ ] +0
[ ] -1 Do not release this because...

Best regards, Ryan Skraba

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