diff --git a/release-notes/VERSION b/release-notes/VERSION
index 0f6d553..faffb1d 100644
--- a/release-notes/VERSION
+++ b/release-notes/VERSION
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ Project: jackson-dataformat-avro
 = Releases
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+2.7.4 (not yet released)
+
+#39: Byte arrays are represented as strings in generated avro schema
+ (reported by asmaier@github)
+
 2.7.3 (16-Mar-2016)
 
 #35: Not able to serialize avro generated object having schema$ object
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/avro/schema/VisitorFormatWrapperImpl.java b/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/avro/schema/VisitorFormatWrapperImpl.java
index 6272f6b..de20843 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/avro/schema/VisitorFormatWrapperImpl.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/avro/schema/VisitorFormatWrapperImpl.java
@@ -91,6 +91,20 @@ public JsonMapFormatVisitor expectMapFormat(JavaType mapType) {
     
     @Override
     public JsonArrayFormatVisitor expectArrayFormat(JavaType convertedType) {
+        // 22-Mar-2016, tatu: Actually we can detect byte[] quite easily here can't we?
+        if (convertedType.isArrayType()) {
+            JavaType vt = convertedType.getContentType();
+            if (vt.hasRawClass(Byte.TYPE)) {
+                _builder = new SchemaBuilder() {
+                    @Override
+                    public Schema builtAvroSchema() {
+                        return Schema.create(Schema.Type.BYTES);
+                    }
+                    
+                };
+                return null;
+            }
+        }
         ArrayVisitor v = new ArrayVisitor(_provider, convertedType, _schemas);
         _builder = v;
         return v;
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/avro/failing/BinaryDataTest.java b/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/avro/failing/BinaryDataTest.java
index 61cce54..d9f14e7 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/avro/failing/BinaryDataTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/avro/failing/BinaryDataTest.java
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ public void testAvroSchemaGenerationWithJackson() throws Exception
 
         byte[] ser = mapper.writer(schema).writeValueAsBytes(new FilePojo("ABC"));
         assertNotNull(ser);
-
+        
         // plus should probably also read back, right?
         FilePojo result = mapper.readerFor(FilePojo.class)
                 .with(schema)