I did a quick review on the JIRA issues included and extracted some extra interesting info worth of addint to the release notes. Up to you to choose which matter or not to be added.
* Remove Jackson classes from public API * Avro is built by default with Java 8 * Avro is compiled and tested too with Java 11 to guarantee compatibility * Avro MapReduce is also compiled and tested with Hadoop 3 * Avro is now leaner, multiple dependencies were removed: guava, paranamer, commons-codec and commons-logging * Introduce JMH Performance Testing Framework * Add Snappy support for C++ DataFile On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 4:50 PM Ismaël Mejía <ieme...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Sorry, playing the killjoy again. > > It seems the files (and more critical the poms) still have the -SNAPSHOT > suffix. > Also the comment of Dan Kulp about the extra directory structure in > the main file build/avro-1.9.0 directory would be a nice extra thing > to fix. > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 12:54 PM Driesprong, Fokko <fo...@driesprong.frl> > wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > Since the last release of Apache Avro 1.8.2 on May 31, 2017. Two years > > later, > > I'm thrilled to propose the following RC to be released as official Apache > > Avro 1.9.0 release. > > > > The commit id is 24ff48c32d8d13433a1e31e485ef2af187d1eb62 > > * This corresponds to the tag: release-1.9.0-rc3 > > * https://github.com/apache/avro/releases/tag/release-1.9.0-rc3/ > > > > The release tarball, signature, and checksums are here: > > * https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/avro/avro-1.9.0-rc3/ > > > > You can find the KEYS file here: > > * https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/avro/KEYS > > > > Binary artifacts for Java are staged in Nexus here: > > * > > https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/org/apache/avro/avro/1.9.0/ > > > > This release includes 272 Jira issues: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/AVRO/versions/12333394 > > * Deprecate Joda-Time in favor of Java8 JSR310 and setting it as default > > * Remove support for Hadoop 1.x > > * Move from Jackson 1.x to 2.9 > > * Add ZStandard Codec > > * Lots of updates on the dependencies to fix CVE's > > * and many, many more! > > > > Since RC1, two commits have been added: > > * https://jira.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2381 > > * https://jira.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2383 > > > > Since RC2 the SHA1/MD5 checksums have been replaced with SHA512 > > > > Please download, verify, and test. This vote will remain open for at least > > 72 hours. Given sufficient votes, I would like to close it on or about > > midnight > > on Saturday, 4th of May 2019. > > > > [ ] +1 Release this as Apache Avro 1.9.0 > > [ ] +0 > > [ ] -1 Do not release this because... > > > > Consider this a +1 (non-binding) from my side: > > * Compiled the new version of Parquet against the Divolte collector and > > Apache Parquet > > > > Cheers, Fokko Driesprong
