The ORC team is excited to announce the release of ORC v1.8.5.

• Released: 5 September 2023
• Source code: orc-1.8.5.tar.gz
• GPG Signature signed by Gang Wu (578F619B)
• Git tag: rel/release-1.8.5
• Maven Central: ORC 1.8.5
• SHA 256: 3dfb227d9810a3b6…
• Fixed issues: ORC-1.8.5

The bug fixes:

• ORC-1315: [C++] Byte to integer conversions fail on platforms with unsigned char type
• ORC-1482: RecordReaderImpl.evaluatePredicateProto assumes floating point stats are always present

The tasks:

• ORC-1489 Assign a writer id to CUDF