Apache 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
- Remove Jackson classes from public API
- Apache Avro is built by default with Java 8
- Apache Avro is compiled and tested with Java 11 to guarantee compatibility
- Apache Avro MapReduce is compiled and tested with Hadoop 3
- Apache 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
- and many, many more!