I'd like to announce the availability of Avro release 1.7.0.
Selected highlights of this release include:
AVRO-1006. Add schema fingerprinting to specification and Java.
(Raymie Stata via cutting)
AVRO-593. Java: Add support for Hadoop's newer mapreduce API.
(Garrett Wu via cutting)
AVRO-1052. Java: Add AvroMultipleOutputFormat, to permit splitting
mapreduce output to multiple locations. (Ashish Nagavaram via cutting)
AVRO-551. C: Now compiles on Win32, using Visual Studio C++ 2008.
(Vivek Nadkarni via dcreager)
AVRO-1085. Fingerprinting for C#. (Eric Hauser via thiru)
AVRO-1026. Add namespace support to C++. (Keh-Li Sheng via thiru)
Many other features, improvements and bug fixes are also included. The
full list of changes in this release is available at:
http://s.apache.org/avro170notes
This release can be downloaded from:
https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/avro/
Java jar files are available from Maven Central. Ruby artifacts are at
RubyGems. Python is at PyPi.
Thanks to everyone for contributing!
Doug
