AVRO-1183. Java: Provide a better error message when the schema for a Pair cannot be inferred.

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AVRO-1199. Java: Fix SortedKeyValueFile to copy the key used to compare against next.

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AVRO-1202. Java & Python: Add Getting Started guides.  Contributed by Skye Wanderman-Milne.

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AVRO-1207. Java: Add tests for Maven plugins.  Contributed by Sharmarke Aden.

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AVRO-1201. Java: Fix GenericData#toString() to generate valid JSON for enum values. Contributed by Sharmarke Aden.

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AVRO-1205. Java: Add stereotype annotation to generated classes.  Contributed by Sharmarke Aden.

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AVRO-1206. Ruby: Fix UTF-8 handling in Ruby 1.9.  Contributed by Nicolas Fouché.

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AVRO-1210. Java: Fix mistakes in AvroMultipleOutputs error messages.  Contributed by Dave Beech.

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AVRO-1178. Java: Fix typos in parsing document. Contributed by Martin Kleppmann.

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AVRO-1177. Ruby: Fix RPC to only send handshake for first request over a connection.  Contributed by Georg Franz.

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AVRO-1175. Java: Clear thread local reference in BinaryData#compare().

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AVRO-988, AVRO-1209: Add options to make fields in generated classes private and to make generated classes immutable, without setters.  Contributed by Jeff Kolesky.

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Preparing to create 1.7.3 RC0: Updated versions and fixed licensing.

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AVRO-1163: Fix memory leak in avro_fixed_private(). Contributed by Maxim Pugachev.


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AVRO-1174. Fix Windows build. Contributed by Stefan Langer.


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fix projected release date


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AVRO-1089. C: Remove performance penalty with resolved writer arrays

The problem was that an internal array wasn't being cleared, and was growing not
just with the size of each test case, but with the number of test cases.
Iterating through that array was causing the slowdown.


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Prepare for 1.7.3-rc2: updated projected release date.

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Prepare trunk for 1.7.4 development.

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AVRO-1217. Python: set_meta on DataFileWriter does not do anything

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