The ORC team is excited to announce the release of ORC v1.7.6.

The bug fixes:

  • ORC-1204 ORC MapReduce writer to flush when long arrays
  • ORC-1205 nextVector should invoke ensureSize when reusing vectors
  • ORC-1215 Remove a wrong NotNull annotation on value of setAttribute
  • ORC-1222 Upgrade tools.hadoop.version to 2.10.2
  • ORC-1227 Use Constructor.newInstance instead of Class.newInstance
  • ORC-1228 Fix setAttribute to handle null value

The test changes:

  • ORC-932 Bump byte-buddy from 1.10.19 to 1.11.12 (#842)
  • ORC-1169 Use Hadoop to 3.3.2 on Java 17+ (#1113)
  • ORC-1178 Use Hadoop 3.3.3 on Java 17+ (#1129)
  • ORC-1193 Bump parquet.version to 1.12.3
  • ORC-1207 Upgrade Spark to 3.3.0
  • ORC-1210 Upgrade maven to 3.8.6
  • ORC-1234 Upgrade objenesis to 3.2 in Spark benchmark
  • ORC-1235 Bump avro.version to 1.11.1
  • ORC-1240 Update site README to use apache/orc-dev DockerHub image
  • ORC-1241 Use apache/orc-dev DockerHub repository in Docker tests
  • ORC-1244 Upgrade byte-buddy to 1.12.13 in branch-1.7
  • ORC-1245 Use Hadoop 3.3.4 on Java 17+ and benchmark

The documentation changes:

  • MINOR: Update DOAP with new releases (#1127)
  • ORC-900 Update doap_orc.rdf for Apache Projects page (#806)
  • ORC-1231 Update supported OS list in building.md
  • ORC-1237 Remove a wrong image link to article-footer.png
  • ORC-1238 Update DOAP with 1.7.5

The tasks:

  • ORC-1185 Add merge_orc_pr.py
  • ORC-1187 Use main instead of master in merge_orc_pr.py
  • ORC-1213 Use https in ThirdpartyToolchain.cmake
  • ORC-1226 Add a deprecation warning for Hadoop 2.7.2 and below