The ORC team is excited to announce the release of ORC v1.5.13.

• Released: 15 September 2021
• Source code: orc-1.5.13.tar.gz
• GPG Signature signed by Dongjoon Hyun (34F0FC5C)
• Git tag: rel/release-1.5.13
• Maven Central: ORC 1.5.13
• SHA 256: 45274afce558b93f…
• Fixed issues: ORC-1.5.13

The new features of ORC 1.5:

• ORC-179 Add ORC C++ Writer
• ORC-91 Support for variable length blocks in HDFS.
• ORC-199 Implement a CSV to ORC converter
• ORC-344 Support for using Decimal64ColumnVector
• ORC-345 Adding Decimal64StatisticsImpl
• ORC-331 Support for building C++ under MSVC.
• ORC-234 Support for older versions of Hadoop (>= 2.2.x)
• ORC-305 Added statistics for size on disk

Known issues: