The ORC team is excited to announce the release of ORC v1.3.1.

The new features of ORC 1.3:

  • ORC-58 Split C++ Reader into Reader and RowReader
  • ORC-120 Add backwards compatibility mode for schema evolution.
  • ORC-124 Fast decimal improvements
  • ORC-128 Add ability to get statistics from writer

Known issues:

  • CVE-2018-8015 ORC files with malformed types cause stack overflow.

  • ORC-135 Predicate push down is incorrect on timestamps when moved between timezones

  • ORC-285 Empty vector batches of floats or doubles cause EOFException