The ORC team is excited to announce the release of ORC v1.6.1.

• Released: 26 October 2019
• Source code: orc-1.6.1.tar.gz
• GPG Signature signed by Owen O’Malley (3D0C92B9)
• Git tag: rel/release-1.6.1
• Maven Central: ORC 1.6.1
• SHA 256: 56a7622629f0101f…
• Fixed issues: ORC-1.6.1

The new features of ORC 1.6:

• ORC-14 Add column encryption.
• ORC-189 Add timestamp with local timezone
• ORC-203 Trim minimum and maximum string values
• ORC-363 Add zstd support in Java
• ORC-397 Support selectively disabling dictionaries
• ORC-522 Add type annotations

Known issues:

• ORC-562 Don’t wrap the readerSchema with ACID fields, if it already is

• ORC-569 The first index entry may have empty positions

• ORC-571 ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in StripePlanner.readRowIndex