2018-07-10 version 0.21.1
* Ensure aliases are a list (@scottbelden in PR #241)
* Ensure a namespaced name is used when writing with tuples (@scottbelden in PR #240)

2018-07-09 version 0.21.0
* Remove `acquaint_schema` and replace it with `parse_schema` (@scottbelden in PR #237)

2018-07-03 version 0.20.0
* Remove `load`, `dump`, `read_data`, and `write_data` from the public API (@scottbelden in PR #233 and #234)

2018-06-29 version 0.19.9
* Change cython writer to use more cdef functions (@scottbelden in PR #228)
* Change cython reader to use more cdef functions (@scottbelden in PR #229)
* Fix incorrect field name when validating arrays and maps (@scottbelden in PR #231)
* Enforce that all named schemas have a "name" field (@scottbelden in PR #230)

2018-06-26 version 0.19.8
* Fix a RuntimeError on Python 3.7 (@scottbelden in PR #220)
* Make it more clear that a MIT license is being used (@scottbelden in PR #223)
* Fix issue with aliases when there is a new field in the new schema (@scottbelden in PR #226)

2018-06-13 version 0.19.7
* Implement the block_reader interface (@ryan-williams in PR #208)
* Add coverage report (@chobeat in PR #216)
* Add Python 3.7 testing (@scottbelden in PR #213)

2018-05-31 version 0.19.6
* Fix issue when ValidationErrorData field is None (@rhaarm in PR #212)

2018-05-29 version 0.19.5
* Fix overzealous validation errors (@ryan-williams in PR #207)

2018-05-22 version 0.19.4
* Improve error messages from validation (@rhaarm in PR #182 and @scottbelden in PR #202)

2018-05-20 version 0.19.3
* Improve performance when the reader schema matches the writer schema (@scottbelden in PR #199)

2018-05-18 version 0.19.2
* Fix reader for large value long types (@scottbelden in PR #198)

2018-05-15 version 0.19.1
* Allow numpy types for ints, longs, floats, and doubles (@NightFantomJ2 in PR #189)
* Add developer_requirements.txt file (@scottbelden in PR #190)
* Allow schema to be a dict-like object (@scottbelden in PR #194)

2018-05-14 version 0.19.0
* Ensure records have a "name" field (@scottbelden in PR #187)

2018-05-08 version 0.18.2
* Allow for schema migration in the schemaless reader (@scottbelden in PR #180)

2018-05-02 version 0.18.1
* Ignore unknown logical types (@rhaarm in PR #181)

2018-04-27 version 0.18.0
* Make logicalType datetimes be timezone aware (@lsterk in PR #174)

2018-03-30 version 0.17.10
* Ensure linux wheels are published (@pbabics in PR #170)

2018-03-01 version 0.17.9
* Ensure strings are not treated as arrays in union validation (@scottbelden in PR #167)

2018-02-12 version 0.17.8
* Ensure acquaint_schema acquaints to both READERS and WRITERS (@scottbelden in PR #160)
* Remove ujson (@scottbelden in PR #161)
* Update README and package classifiers (@barrywhart in PR #158)
* Remove cython dependency when installing (@barrywhart in PR #157)

2018-02-01 version 0.17.7
* Resolve issue with doubles on Windows (@scottbelden in PR #156)

2018-02-01 version 0.17.6
* Improvements to write union using tuple (@Artimi in PR #153)

2018-01-24 version 0.17.5
* Fix some exceptions when running the main module (@scottbelden in PR #149)

2018-01-22 version 0.17.4
* Add support for Avro aliases (@regisb in PR #113)

2018-01-19 version 0.17.3
* Build wheels for Windows (@scottbelden in PR #146)

2018-01-18 version 0.17.2
* Unpin cython version (@scottbelden in PR #143)

2017-12-27 version 0.17.1
* Handle records and maps that are OrderedDict rather than dict (@barrywhart in PR #141)
* Fix command-line tool crashes if data contains date or date/time values (@barrywhart in PR #140)

2017-12-26 version 0.17.0
* Rename fastavro.writer, other naming cleanup (@barrywhart in PR #137)

2017-12-23 version 0.16.7
* Speed up timestamp writes (@barrywhart in PR #138)
* Introduce descriptive ctypedefs for various-sized integer types (@barrywhart in PR #135)

2017-12-13 version 0.16.6
* Public Cython dump() function should take file object, not bytearray (@barrywhart in PR #133)
* Fix union schema resolution in writer (@Artimi in PR #129)

2017-12-12 version 0.16.5
* Expose Writer class (@barrywhart in PR #131)

2017-12-05 version 0.16.4
* Add Windows testing and fix some Windows-only bugs (@scottbelden in PR #127)

2017-11-28 version 0.16.3
* Cython-based implementation of reader module (@barrywhart in PR #118)

2017-11-27 version 0.16.2
* ujson packages usage in case if installed (@lemurchik in PR #104)

2017-11-25 version 0.16.1
* Rework the reader/writer/schema imports (@scottbelden in PR #117)

2017-11-25 version 0.16.0
* Improve write performance with customized cython (@barrywhart in PR #114)

2017-10-31 version 0.15.0
* Remove Python 2.6 support (@scottbelden in PR #110)

2017-10-31 version 0.14.11
* Added fixed decimal type (@glgnohk in PR #106)
* Fix validation failure when writing nullable datetime.date (@theianrobertson in PR #109)

2017-09-16 version 0.14.10
* Fix logicalType date conversion (@kkirsanov in PR #100, @bitzstein issue #96)

2017-09-08 version 0.14.9
* Added time-millis and time-micros logical types (@kkirsanov in PR #98)

2017-08-28 version 0.14.8
* Added UUID logical type (@kkirsanov in PR #93)

2017-08-08 version 0.14.7
* Fix logicalType serialization (@dodysw in PR #92)
* Update writer.py (@luup2k in PR #91)

2017-08-01 version 0.14.6
* Fix incorrect verification of datetime logical type (@kkirsanov in PR #89)

2017-07-15 version 0.14.5
* Fix incorrect matching of logical types (@kkirsanov in PR #86)

2017-06-24 version 0.14.4
* fix unions with logical types (@kkirsanov in PR #86)

2017-06-24 version 0.14.3
* fix writing unions of bytes or strings on py3 (@scottbelden in PR #83)

2017-06-08 version 0.14.2
* Pass through logical type (@kkirsanov in PR #82)

2017-06-07 version 0.14.1
* Fix bug in decimal (@kkirsanov in PR #80)

2017-06-03 version 0.14.0
* Support Avro 1.8 logical types (@kkirsanov in PR #79)

2017-04-19 version 0.13.0
* Added an optional shortcut when outputting a union (@NickG123 in PR #73)

2017-04-19 version 0.12.2
* write None value for nullable field (@nobo728x in PR #70)

2016-12-08 version 0.12.1
* `is_avro` supports file objects (ref #66)

2016-12-08 version 0.12.0
* Added `is_avro`, inspired by #66

2016-11-25 version 0.11.1
* Fix block_count reset (@DouglasOrr in PR #64)

2016-10-20 version 0.11.0
* Fix conda build
* Writer class (@qix in PR #61)

2016-08-01 version 0.10.2
* Fix to reader schemas with default values of None (@kurtostfeld in PR #59)
* Add __next__ iterator to reader for Python 3 (@kurtostfeld in PR #59)

2016-07-03 version 0.10.1
* Fixed regression with circular imports

2016-07-03 version 0.10.0
* `fastavro.schema.load_schema` utility function (@natb1 in PR #56)
* `fastavro.__version_info__` tuple allows for better version checking

2016-06-06 version 0.9.11
* Added `validator` argument to writer.write
* Added tests from issue #37

2016-06-06 version 0.9.10
* Raise error on missing values with missing default (#48, #49)

2016-02-13 version 0.9.9
* Raise EOF on empty input
* numpy style docs

2016-01-15 version 0.9.8
* Add some docstrings (issue #45)
* Don't use mutable default arguments

2015-12-27 version 0.9.7
* Python 2.6 support (@antonymayi in PR #44)
* Some code cleanup

2015-10-14 version 0.9.6
* Support streaming IO (@mjwillson in PR #40)

2015-10-04 version 0.9.5
* Fix issue with writing block (issue #35)

2015-09-01 version 0.9.4
* Support schema migration (@scottbelden in PR #31)

2015-09-01 version 0.9.3
* Speedup (@scottbelden in PR #30)
* Fix writer.validate on Python 3 (@mjwillson in PR #29)

2015-08-25 version 0.9.2
* allow extra metadata to be used (@scottbelden in PR #28)

2015-08-21 version 0.9.1
* Fix encoding of fields with default values (@scottbelden in PR #25)
* Fix boolean decoding (@scottbelden in PR #26)

2015-08-20 version 0.9.0
* Handle error types (@scottbelden in PR #20)
* Fix boolean encoding/decoding (@rodcarroll in PR #22)
* Support binary encoder (issue #14, @scottbelden in PR #24)

2015-08-18 version 0.8.8
* handle records with no fields (@scottbelden in PR #19)

2015-08-15 version 0.8.7
* fix boolean encoding (@scottbelden in PR #18)

2015-08-13 version 0.8.6
* Allow nested record definitions from arrays and maps (@mtth in PR #16)
* Fix namespace bug for union references. (@mtth in PR #16)
* Remove generated .c files from git
* Testing with Python 3.5rc1

2015-08-03 version 0.8.5
* Fixed nested schema bug (@dcreager in PR #15)
* Testing Python 3.5 and pypy3
* Don't build extension on *any* version of pypy

2015-08-03 version 0.8.4
* Packing fixes
* Detect unknown types (@pkoch in PR #11)
* Fix .decode with no codec (@oliverbestmann in PR #9)

2015-07-14 version 0.8.3
* Fixed pip install manifest issue (@rouge8 in PR #8)

2015-07-14 version 0.8.2
* Main repo moved to github

2015-06-02 version 0.8.1
* Fix float/double (@rodcarool in github #5)
* Write documentation

2015-05-04 version 0.8.0
* Write support (Paulo Köch in bitbucket PR #4)

2015-04-28 version 0.7.10
* Unexpose `write` (ref from bitbucket #2)

2014-08-28 version 0.7.9
* Expose "load" (github #1)

2013-04-20 version 0.7.8
* Don't compile extension under pypy > 1.8 (issue #12)
* pyflakes cleanup

2013-03-27 version 0.7.7
* Fixed bug when stdout.encoding is None

2013-03-26 version 0.7.6
* Fixed regression with --schema

2013-03-23 version 0.7.5
* Fixed regression with Cython and multiple definitions

2013-03-01 version 0.7.4
* Fixed regression in 2.7 and recursive

2013-02-19 version 0.7.3
* Fixed bug in Python 3 printing

2012-12-10 version 0.7.2
* Fixed bug in argument parsing

2012-12-10 version 0.7.1
* Fixed README (about snappy)

2012-12-10 version 0.7.0
* Snappy support

2012-10-05 version 0.6.10
* Handle names in unions (aboSamoor)
* Handle namespaces (aboSamoor)

2012-10-05 version 0.6.9
* Fixed handling if named records (issue #5)

2012-07-13 version 0.6.8
* Added "next" method to reader

2012-04-29 version 0.6.7
* Support recursive schema (issue #4)

2012-04-28 version 0.6.6
* Using Cython on six as well
* fastavro/pyfastavro.py -> fastavro/reader.py
* Show more info when running tests

2012-04-24 version 0.6.5
* Better error message when file is not avro file
* Fixed bug in error message when can't read file

2012-03-16 version 0.6.4
* Python 2.6 compatible (issue #3, thanks trochee)

2012-03-16 version 0.6.3
* Faster (using cython: auto_cpdef=True), thanks to Stefan Behnel

2012-03-10 version 0.6.2
* Simpler iterator
* Trove categories

2012-03-10 version 0.6.1
* Python 3 support works
* Better testing

2012-03-10 version 0.6.0
* Python 3 support

2012-02-22 version 0.5.0
* Generate `fastavro` script

2012-01-30 version 0.4.2
* Compliance with Apache license

2012-01-25 version 0.4.1
* Several files in command line
* Output encoding
* Conditional build of extension (from simplejson)

2012-01-25 version 0.4.0
* fastavro.reader
* Include README.rst in sdist package

2012-01-24 version 0.3.2
* Fixed read_array (issue #2)

2012-01-24 version 0.3.1
* Fixed read_enum (issue #1)

2012-01-23 version 0.3.0
* Distribute generate C file (idea by Juan)

2012-01-11 version 0.2.2
* Long description
* Get version from fastavro/__init__.py

2012-01-11 version 0.2.1
* --schema

2012-01-11 version 0.2.0
* Optionally use Cython (more speedup)

2012-01-05 version 0.1.0
* Initial release
