The ORC team is excited to announce the release of ORC v1.4.5.

• Released: 9 December 2019
• Source code: orc-1.4.5.tar.gz
• GPG Signature signed by Owen O’Malley (3D0C92B9)
• Git tag: rel/release-1.4.5
• Maven Central: ORC 1.4.5
• SHA 256: 6b30272d4c4cbccc…
• Fixed issues: ORC-1.4.5

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: