I'd like to announce the availability of Avro release 1.6.1. Changes included are:
INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES AVRO-951. Java: Fix generated code to not conflict with fields named 'data'. Code generated by the 1.6.0 compiler must be re-generated to work correctly with the 1.6.1 runtime. (cutting) NEW FEATURES AVRO-821. PHP: Add support for parsing protocols. (Andy Wick, Saleem Shafi and A B via cutting) OPTIMIZATIONS AVRO-946. Java: Optimize union resolution when writing. (cutting) BUG FIXES AVRO-943. Java: Fix an intermittent deadlock in TestNettyServerWithCallbacks. (James Baldassari via cutting) AVRO-950. C: Fix source tarball to include VERSION.txt. (dcreager) 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