The ORC team is excited to announce the release of ORC v1.9.4.

• Released: 16 July 2024
• Source code: orc-1.9.4.tar.gz
• GPG Signature signed by William Hyun (DECDFA29)
• Git tag: rel/release-1.9.4
• Maven Central: ORC 1.9.4
• SHA 256: d9a6bcc00e07a6e5…
• Fixed issues: ORC-1.9.4

The bug fixes:

• ORC-1696 Fix ClassCastException when reading avro decimal type in bechmark
• ORC-1721 Upgrade aircompressor to 0.27
• ORC-1738 Wrong Int128 maximum value

The test changes:

• ORC-1619 Add MacOS 14 to GitHub Action
• ORC-1699 Fix SparkBenchmark in Parquet format according to SPARK-40918

The task changes:

• ORC-1540 Remove MacOS 11 from GitHub Action CI