Hi, I would say go for the 1.8.0
Note that there are a few issues that seem appropriate to include for this one because they relate to a change in 'backwards compatibility": - AVRO-1586 Build against Hadoop 2 ( which should also fix AVRO-1453 Release version of avro-tools compiled against hadoop2 ) - AVRO-1559 Drop support for Ruby 1.8 On a personal note I would like a 'Yes, commit' / 'No, won't fix' choice from you guys regarding this proposal (Patch included): AVRO-1633 Add additional setXxx(Builder) method to make user code more readable. Niels Basjes On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Tom White <t...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > It would be good to do another Avro release soon. I'm happy to create > a release candidate so we can vote on it. > > What do folks think about releasing 1.7.8 vs. 1.8.0? There are very > few changes in the 1.7 branch, so it might be best to release 1.8.0 > from trunk. There have been enough changes to justify a new minor > release I think. Are there any drawbacks to doing that? > > The unresolved 1.8.0 issues are here: > > http://s.apache.org/Cdt > > And the unresolved 1.7.8 issues are here: > > http://s.apache.org/5ShO > > Thanks, > Tom -- Best regards / Met vriendelijke groeten, Niels Basjes