The ORC team is excited to announce the release of ORC v1.6.8.

• Released: 21 May 2021
• Source code: orc-1.6.8.tar.gz
• GPG Signature signed by Dongjoon Hyun (34F0FC5C)
• Git tag: rel/release-1.6.8
• Maven Central: ORC 1.6.8
• SHA 256: 93d2e5f7c9f76ea5…
• Fixed issues: ORC-1.6.8

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: