The ORC team is excited to announce the release of ORC v1.3.4.

• Released: 16 October 2017
• Source code: orc-1.3.4.tar.gz
• GPG Signature signed by Prasanth Jayachandran (65C468A3)
• Git tag: rel/release-1.3.4
• Maven Central: ORC 1.3.4
• SHA 256: 55269430aea7b825…
• Fixed issues: ORC-1.3.4

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-285 Empty vector batches of floats or doubles cause EOFException