The ORC team is excited to announce the release of ORC v1.8.8.

• Released: 11 November 2024
• Source code: orc-1.8.8.tar.gz
• GPG Signature signed by Gang Wu (8A461DF4)
• Git tag: rel/release-1.8.8
• Maven Central: ORC 1.8.8
• SHA 256: eca12a9139c0889d…
• Fixed issues: ORC-1.8.8

The bug fixes:

• ORC-1696: Fix ClassCastException when reading avro decimal type in benchmark
• ORC-1738: [C++] Wrong Int128 maximum value

The test changes:

• ORC-1793 Upgrade Spark to 3.4.4

The tasks:

• ORC-1540 Remove MacOS 11 from GitHub Action CI