fastavro

Allow iterables for array type fields (@ksunden in PR #441)

Add type hints (@spenczar in PR #438)

Add compatibility fix for Python 3.4 (@dacjames in PR #436)

Fix performance regression in the writer (@scottbelden in PR #426)

Fix bug where JSON reader/writer wouldn't work with named schemas (@gudjonragnar in PR #419)

Fix some bugs in the validation where the schema was not being automatically parsed (@scottbelden in PR #417)

Add support for xz codec (@scottbelden in PR #412)

Fix bug in the JSON reader when using unions inside an array (@scottbelden in PR #400)

Add public API at fastavro.schema.expand_schema that will expand named types (@scottbelden in PR #340)

Use pytz for the UTC timezone rather than our own custom one to prevent compatibility issues with pandas (@scottbelden in PR #396)

Fix pre-epoch timestamps on Windows Python 3+ (@jmgpeeters in PR #394)

Add some documentation about return_record_name

Add support for lz4 coded (@mcguipat in PR #381)

Support Python 3.8 (@scottbelden in PR #373)

Add return_record_name option to schemaless reader so that it returns the record name along with the record (@bstockton in PR #370)

Fix bug where schema migration was not working correctly for records within an array (@scottbelden in PR #364)

Fixed bugs in decimal serialization and deserialization (@jancespivo in PR #361)

Change the way stdout is detected since buffer is not a part of the FileIO API (@scottbelden in PR #359)

Fix bug where we could not validate a union with a logical type (@Artimi in PR #349)

Fix snappy compression reader (@mattomatic in PR #346)

Implement an initial json_reader and json_writer (@scottbelden in PR #343)

Allow streaming to sys.stdout.buffer on OSX without raising ValueError (@jquast in PR #342)

Accept an ISO Date as a string (@scottbelden in PR #338)

CLI tests, bugfix streaming stdin on py3, add --metadata CLI argument (@jquast PR #331)

Build 32bit wheels on Windows (@scottbelden in PR #329)

Add write_block function to the Writer class (@josephglanville in PR #324)

Make sure to always read the writer schema in the cython implementation (@scottbelden in PR #317)

Make sure True and False do not validate as an int, long, float, or double (@scottbelden in PR #316)

Fix validation for UUIDs in unions (@kkirsanov in PR #310)

Change the return type of values when promoted by the reader schema (@scottbelden in PR #307)

Deprecate schema attribute on the reader class (@scottbelden in PR #305)

Ensure maps do not validate as arrays (@scottbelden in PR #304)

Add support for user specified sync_marker values (@scottbelden in PR #301)

Fix a regression to re-enable support for reading from streams (@scottbelden in PR #297)

Fix a regression to re-enable support for writing to streams (@jquast in PR #293)

Fix an issue where an avro file written out wouldn't be readable (@scottbelden in PR #289)

Fix bug where a decimal scale was not defaulting to zero (@scottbelden in PR #283)

Add support for appending to an existing avro file (@scottbelden in PR #278)

Change the validator back so that it will accept extra fields when validating union schema (@scottbelden in PR #275)

Fix validator picking the wrong union schema (@scottbelden in PR #273)

Fix namespace issue with embedded records (@scottbelden in PR #266)

Build OSX wheels (@scottbelden in PR #255)

Check schema equality before calling match_schema (@scottbelden in PR #247)

Fix issue where supplied reader_schema wasn't being parsed (@scottbelden in PR #245)

Ensure aliases are a list (@scottbelden in PR #241)

Remove acquaint_schema and replace it with parse_schema (@scottbelden in PR #237)

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Remove load, dump, read_data, and write_data from the public API (@scottbelden in PR #233 and #234)

Change cython writer to use more cdef functions (@scottbelden in PR #228)

Fix a RuntimeError on Python 3.7 (@scottbelden in PR #220)

Implement the block_reader interface (@ryan-williams in PR #208)

Fix issue when ValidationErrorData field is None (@rhaarm in PR #212)

Fix overzealous validation errors (@ryan-williams in PR #207)

Improve error messages from validation (@rhaarm in PR #182 and @scottbelden in PR #202)

Improve performance when the reader schema matches the writer schema (@scottbelden in PR #199)

Fix reader for large value long types (@scottbelden in PR #198)

Allow numpy types for ints, longs, floats, and doubles (@NightFantomJ2 in PR #189)

Ensure records have a "name" field (@scottbelden in PR #187)