The ORC team is excited to announce the release of ORC v1.4.2.

• Released: 23 January 2018
• Source code: orc-1.4.2.tar.gz
• GPG Signature signed by Owen O’Malley (3D0C92B9)
• Git tag: rel/release-1.4.2
• Maven Central: ORC 1.4.2
• SHA 256: 4c32e30a2b93953c…
• Fixed issues: ORC-1.4.2

The new features of ORC 1.4:

• ORC-72 Add benchmark code for file formats.
• ORC-87 Fix timestamp statistics in C++.
• ORC-150 Add tool to convert from JSON.
• ORC-151 Reduce the size of tools.jar.
• ORC-174 Create a nohive variant of the jars.

Known issues:

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

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