Hi all, We've upgraded Avro from 1.7 to 1.8, to support date/timestamp/decimal types in the newly added Avro data source in the coming Spark 2.4, and also to make Avro work with Parquet.
Since Avro 1.8 is not binary compatible with Avro 1.7 (see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1502), users may need to re-compile their Spark applications if they use Spark with Avro. I'm sending this email to collect feedbacks for this upgrade, so that we can write the release notes more clearly about what can be broken. Thanks, Wenchen
