I'd like to announce the availability of Avro release 1.7.0.

Selected highlights of this release include:

    AVRO-1006.  Add schema fingerprinting to specification and Java.
    (Raymie Stata via cutting)

    AVRO-593. Java: Add support for Hadoop's newer mapreduce API.
    (Garrett Wu via cutting)

    AVRO-1052. Java: Add AvroMultipleOutputFormat, to permit splitting
    mapreduce output to multiple locations.  (Ashish Nagavaram via cutting)

    AVRO-551. C: Now compiles on Win32, using Visual Studio C++ 2008.
    (Vivek Nadkarni via dcreager)

    AVRO-1085. Fingerprinting for C#. (Eric Hauser via thiru)

    AVRO-1026. Add namespace support to C++. (Keh-Li Sheng via thiru)

Many other features, improvements and bug fixes are also included.  The
full list of changes in this release is available at:

 http://s.apache.org/avro170notes

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