The ORC team is excited to announce the release of ORC v1.7.2.

• Released: 20 December 2021
• Source code: orc-1.7.2.tar.gz
• GPG Signature signed by Dongjoon Hyun (34F0FC5C)
• Git tag: rel/release-1.7.2
• Maven Central: ORC 1.7.2
• SHA 256: ef39bae755116fec…
• Fixed issues: ORC-1.7.2

The bug fixes:

• ORC-492 Avoid potential ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when getting WriterVersionn
• ORC-1053 Fix time zone offset precision when convert tool converts LocalDateTime to Timestamp is not consistent with the internal default precision of ORC
• ORC-1041 Use memcpy during LZO decompression
• ORC-1059 Align findColumns behaviour between 1.6 and 1.7 release

The ‘tools’ improvements:

• ORC-1012 Support specifying columns in orc-scan
• ORC-1017 Add sizes tool to determine and display the sizes of each column in a set of files
• ORC-1023 Support writing bloom filters in ConvertTool

The ‘tests’ fixes:

• ORC-915 Remove io.netty.netty from Spark benchmark
• ORC-938 Bump netty-all from 4.1.42.Final to 4.1.66.Final
• ORC-948 Add hive benchmark integration tests
• ORC-957 Bump netty-all from 4.1.66.Final to 4.1.67.Final
• ORC-1021 Add -fno-omit-frame-pointer in DEBUG and RELWITHDEBINFO builds
• ORC-1051 Update benchmark dependencies