[VOTE] Avro release 1.7.5 (rc0)

2013-08-08 Thread Doug Cutting 
I have created a candidate build for Avro release 1.7.5.

Changes are listed at:

  http://s.apache.org/Avro175

Please download the sources, check them, and vote.

  http://people.apache.org/~cutting/avro-1.7.5-rc0/

The Maven staging repository is at:

  https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapacheavro-076/

Thanks in advance for voting!

Doug

Re: [jira] [Commented] (AVRO-1334) Java: update dependencies for 1.7.5

2013-08-08 Thread Doug Cutting 
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Jeremy Kahn  wrote:
> I'd really like to see Jackson upgraded

Scott?  Any thoughts?  Will upgrading versions of dependencies in a
minor, bugfix release create any compatibility problems?

Doug

Re: release 1.7.5 soon?

2013-08-08 Thread Doug Cutting 
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Jeremy Kahn  wrote:
> Nevertheless, backwards-compatibility objections have been raised to some
> of the patches I'd offered, and I want to acknowledge that those objections
> are probably valid and should push those tickets off to 1.8.0.

I set these to 1.8.0.  Thanks!

Doug