Hi, There have been a lot of great improvements <https://github.com/apache/avro/compare/release-1.8.2...master> since May 2017 when Avro 1.8.2 was released—241 commits from 55 different contributors over nearly a year. We would love to see these included in a new versioned release. Right now, people affected by this year's worth of fixes need to work around the issues or do a local build of master, both of which are inconvenient. The number of users affected will continue to grow until the next release.
Do you agree that it's time for a new release? If not now, when do you think will be best? We wanted to check in before starting our own workarounds. Thanks for all your work on this great project! Best, Edward Anderson Software Engineer Doximity, Inc.
