The ORC team is excited to announce the release of ORC v1.6.5.

• Released: 1 October 2020
• Source code: orc-1.6.5.tar.gz
• GPG Signature signed by Owen O’Malley (AD1C5877)
• Git tag: rel/release-1.6.5
• Maven Central: ORC 1.6.5
• SHA 256: 1e77840861a5c5c8…
• Fixed issues: ORC-1.6.5

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: