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<p>I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m missing something here, since default values are the standard way of Avro to provide full compatibility. Probably there&#8217;s use cases out there where people wish to have some rudimentary validation, or centralized constraints, perhaps for example in the context of something like a Kafka Topic.</p>
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<p>Apache aliases can be used to rename fields and 