Hi - I also had a problem with the stale io.forward/yaml and this issue:

https://github.com/owainlewis/yaml/issues/28

So, I wrote my own YAML wrapper to SnakeYAML 2.0. You can see it here:

https://github.com/cloojure/tupelo/blob/master/src/clj/tupelo/parse/yaml.clj

Feel free to either reference this or copy it into your own lib.

Alan