Hi Eric,

As you might know Apache releases are being voted for at least 3 days and
need 3 binding votes (i.e. from PMC members). So it depends on the start
date.
>From the other thread I have the feeling that Ryan will do it these days!
But I had the same feeling few months ago too :-)

Martin

On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 5:12 PM Eric Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Ismael and Martin,
>
> A related question on the next release, assuming an RC1 is forthcoming, is
> there a rough estimate when the final release would be available? Is there
> any chance the final release would be available by 15-Aug?
>
> Context is that we're using the Avro library and are planning our upcoming
> releases and I'd like to pick up the next Avro release. I'm interested in
> including Nilesh's contribution as well as
> https://github.com/apache/avro/pull/1640 which addresses a known CVE.
>
> Respectfully, Eric
>
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 6:32 AM Ismaël Mejía <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hello Nilesh,
> >
> > The Avro project makes around 2-3 releases per year since 2019 (when
> > we got a new release pace). Next release will be 1.11.1 (the link
> > Martin referred), it should be happening hopefully soon, your
> > contribution will be part of it.
> >
> > We tend to cherry-pick as much as we can so patch releases (1.11.1,
> > 1.11.2, etc) tend to be beefier. Also Avro DOES NOT follow semantic
> > versioning but we tend to be pretty conservative on not breaking
> > backwards compatibility without strong reasons and without giving a
> > good time frame to adapt.
> >
> > After writing this I realize that we should probably include a section
> > about releases and compatibility in the new website. I filled
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-3588 to add it once we have
> > the new website out.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ismael
> >
> > Extra: Slightly unrelated, but I noticed your email affiliation and
> > somehow it made me think that I have wanted for years to use Google's
> > OSS-Fuzz to strength Avro's C/C++ (and now) Rust implementations. I
> > filled https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-3128 long time ago,
> > in case you or someone else wants to give it a try.
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 9:10 AM Martin Grigorov <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > https://lists.apache.org/thread/w5kv5h774zx825o2yj285wwznx1sodn8
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 3:16 AM Nilesh Yadav
> <[email protected]
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I've recently contributed to Avro C++ library with
> > > > https://github.com/apache/avro/pull/1736
> > > >
> > > > I would like to understand the release cycle of Avro library changes.
> > What
> > > > are the steps involved?
> > > > Approximately when this feature would be available in public library?
> > > >
> > > > Thank you,
> > > > Nilesh
> > > >
> >
>

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