I'm please to announce the availability of Avro release 1.8.0. Changes are listed at: http://s.apache.org/avro180
This release can be downloaded from: https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/avro/ Java artifacts are available from Maven Central, Ruby artifacts are at RubyGems, and Python is at PyPi. Thanks to everyone for contributing! Cheers, Tom