The Apache Avro community is pleased to announce the release of Avro 1.11.4! All signed release artifacts, signatures and verification instructions can be found here This release addresses 4 Jira issues only in the Java SDK. All other SDKs have no difference to their 1.12.0 release, so please use 1.12.0 for them! Highlights Java AVRO-3985: Restrict trusted packages in ReflectData and SpecificData AVRO-3989: Maven Plugin Always Recompiles IDL Files AVRO-3880: Upgrade maven-antrun-plugin to 3.