Avro null deserialization

[marcospassos]

We found another issue related to schema evaluation, after deserialization of a null value. After a few hours of debugging, we found that the root issue has already been fixed, but it was not included in the latest release.

Is there any particular reason not to release this fix for 2.11.x versions?

[cowtowncoder]

Looking at #146 PR (for #145) originally submitted against master; I would not be against fix for 2.x if anyone has time to back port the change.

Since there is a new feature, it would have to go in 2.12(.0) however.

[marcospassos]

Is it ok if I provide a PR including only the fix for the null serialization issue?

[marcospassos]

PR opened.

[cowtowncoder]

Yes that makes sense.

[marcospassos]

Any ETA for 2.11.2?

[cowtowncoder]

I was hoping to hold off for bit longer as 2.11.1 was only released 1 month ago and total number of fixes is still quite low. But there are couple of important fixes so I think I will release this within a week, maybe over the weekend.

[marcospassos]

Thank you @cowtowncoder :)

[cowtowncoder]

2.11.2 was released on August 2nd, 2020.

[marcospassos]

Thank you @cowtowncoder.