Hi, We are on Avro 1.4.0 and plan to upgrade to Avro 1.7.5. Is the binary encoding 100% compatible btw the 2 versions? Also, I did some perf testing and it seems that on average, 1.7.5 is about 6% faster on encoding and 20% slower on decoding compared with 1.4.0. Is the degradation on decoding performance expected (though the absolute decoding time is much smaller, typically 1/3 of the encoding time)? Finally, are there enough critical bug fixes/improvements to motivate such an upgrade?
Thanks, Jun
