Merge branch '2.18' into 2.19

Author: cowtowncoder

release-notes/CREDITS-2.x

@@ -330,6 +330,11 @@ Yoann Vernageau (@yvrng)
    when source is an empty `InputStream`
   (2.17.1)
 
+John Hudson (@johhud1)
+ * Contributed fix for #541: (cbor, protobuf, smile) `SmileParser.getValueAsString()`
+   FIELD_NAME bug
+  (2.17.4)
+
 Rafał Harabień (@rafalh)
  * Contributed fix for #167: (avro) Incompatibility with Avro >=1.9.0 (upgrade to Avro 1.11.3)
   (2.18.0)

release-notes/VERSION-2.x

@@ -19,6 +19,11 @@ Active maintainers:
 #536: (avro) Add Logical Type support for `java.util.UUID`
  (contributed by Michal F)
 
+2.18.3 (not yet released)
+
+#541: (cbor, protobuf, smile) `SmileParser.getValueAsString()` FIELD_NAME bug
+ (fix contributed by John H)
+
 2.18.2 (27-Nov-2024)
 
 No changes since 2.18.1