Release Notes - Apache Avro - Version 1.7.3 - HTML format

Bug

  • [AVRO-981] - Python Avro library does not build/install on OS X
  • [AVRO-1089] - Avro-C - Penalty 30x to 50x for using resolved writer on arrays
  • [AVRO-1163] - Memory leak in avro_fixed_private() function
  • [AVRO-1170] - Avro's new mapreduce APIs don't work with Hadoop 2
  • [AVRO-1171] - Configure method is being called twice on AvroMapper instances
  • [AVRO-1174] - AvroC 1.7.2 Fixing VS2008 Build
  • [AVRO-1175] - BinaryData keeps a thread local reference after completing a compare, preventing compared arrays from being GC'd
  • [AVRO-1177] - IPC interoperability problems with handshake
  • [AVRO-1178] - Typos in LL(1) CFG document
  • [AVRO-1183] - Avro Pair fails to initialize when either they key or value is a list.
  • [AVRO-1197] - Avro Java mapreduce pom depends on IPC test jar which is not exposed
  • [AVRO-1199] - SortedKeyValueFile$Writer.append method have a puzzle for the sorted key
  • [AVRO-1200] - DatumWriter can write malformed data if collection is modified during write
  • [AVRO-1201] - GenericRecord.toString can produce invalid JSON
  • [AVRO-1206] - utf-8 serialisation problems

New Feature

  • [AVRO-1186] - Java Annotations via IDL
  • [AVRO-1188] - External Schema Imports via AVSC Schema
  • [AVRO-1205] - Add Stereotype Annotation to Generated Beans

Improvement

  • [AVRO-988] - Java: Add public, private, and public-deprecated options for SpecificCompiler output
  • [AVRO-1157] - Idl tool - parse properties as plain String OR expose the property as Json
  • [AVRO-1169] - Reduce memory footprint of ResolvingGrammarGenerator
  • [AVRO-1202] - Add "Getting started" guide to documentation
  • [AVRO-1207] - Add Mojo Tests to the Maven Plugin
  • [AVRO-1209] - Include immutable source templates with Maven plugin
  • [AVRO-1210] - Spellling / grammar mistakes in AvroMultipleOutputs

Wish

  • [AVRO-485] - JavaScript encoding/decoding

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