The ORC team is excited to announce the release of ORC v1.4.4.

• Released: 14 May 2018
• Source code: orc-1.4.4.tar.gz
• GPG Signature signed by Owen O’Malley (3D0C92B9)
• Git tag: rel/release-1.4.4
• Maven Central: ORC 1.4.4
• SHA 256: 9df0f59ba4046d2a…
• Fixed issues: ORC-1.4.4

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: