Fwd: Avro and Kafka Schema Registry Client versions out of date

[Lucas Heimberg]

Hello,

I noticed that even in Flink 1.11. Avro in flink-avro and the Kafka Schema Registry client in flink-avro-confluent-registry are still at version 1.8.2 and 4.1.0, respectively.

Avro 1.9.2 brings a lot of improvements and bugfixes, in particular in respect to logical types.

The Kafka Schema Registry Client 5.5.0 finally supports schema references, i.e., schemas that are composed from different subjects of the Schema Registry, which is a very useful feature for the reuse of schemas.

I would like to ask if there are plans to bump both version numbers in the near future, or whether there are specific obstacles for that?

Thank you very much & kind regards,

Lucas

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Dr. Lucas Heimberg

[Lucas Heimberg]

Hello,

I noticed that even in Flink 1.11. Avro in flink-avro and the Kafka Schema Registry client in flink-avro-confluent-registry are still at version 1.8.2 and 4.1.0, respectively.

Avro 1.9.2 brings a lot of improvements and bugfixes, in particular in respect to logical types.

The Kafka Schema Registry Client 5.5.0 finally supports schema references, i.e., schemas that are composed from different subjects of the Schema Registry, which is a very useful feature for the reuse of schemas.

I would like to ask if there are plans to bump both version numbers in the near future, or whether there are specific obstacles for that?

Thank you very much & kind regards,

Lucas

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[Arvid Heise-3]

Hi Lucas,

1.9.2 [1] support depends on Hive upgrading as well [2] . You could cast a vote on both tickets to accelerate it.

Schema registry 5.5.0 depends on Avro 1.9.2 and I'm not sure what the implications of a downgrade are.

Of course, you could build the module yourself with 5.5.0, test, and report back. [3]

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-12532

[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-21737

[3] https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/master/flink-formats/flink-avro-confluent-registry/pom.xml#L33

On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 8:09 PM Lucas Heimberg <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hello,

I noticed that even in Flink 1.11. Avro in flink-avro and the Kafka Schema Registry client in flink-avro-confluent-registry are still at version 1.8.2 and 4.1.0, respectively.

Avro 1.9.2 brings a lot of improvements and bugfixes, in particular in respect to logical types.

The Kafka Schema Registry Client 5.5.0 finally supports schema references, i.e., schemas that are composed from different subjects of the Schema Registry, which is a very useful feature for the reuse of schemas.

I would like to ask if there are plans to bump both version numbers in the near future, or whether there are specific obstacles for that?

Thank you very much & kind regards,

Lucas

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Dr. Lucas Heimberg

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