The Apache Avro community is pleased to announce the release of Avro 1.11.3! All signed release artifacts, signatures and verification instructions can be found here This release addresses 39 Jira issues. Highlights Java AVRO-3789: Comparing maps in GenericData is wrong for certain combinations and fails for empty maps AVRO-3713: Thread scalability problem with the use of SynchronizedMap AVRO-3486: Protocol namespace not parsed correctly if protocol is defined by full name AVRO-2771: Allow ha...