The ORC team is excited to announce the release of ORC v2.0.6.

• Released: 7 July 2025
• Source code: orc-2.0.6.tar.gz
• GPG Signature signed by Dongjoon Hyun (34F0FC5C)
• Git tag: rel/release-2.0.6
• Maven Central: ORC 2.0.6
• SHA 256: 81167d31d7ec51de…
• Fixed issues: ORC-2.0.6

The bug fixes:

• ORC-1898: When column is all null, NULL_SAFE_EQUALS pushdown doesn’t get evaluated correctly
• ORC-1929: Fix the Javadoc of ZstdCodec.compress
• ORC-1942: Fix PhysicalFsWriter to change tempOptions directly

The test changes:

• ORC-1728 Bump maven-shade-plugin to 3.6.0
• ORC-1872 Upgrade extra-enforcer-rules to 1.10.0
• ORC-1889 Upgrade parquet to 1.15.2
• ORC-1899 Upgrade Spark to 4.0.0 and Scala to 2.13.16
• ORC-1900 Upgrade Jackson to 2.18.2 in bench module
• ORC-1901 Remove threeten-extra exclusion in enforceBytecodeVersion rule
• ORC-1909 Remove unused test resource log4j.properties files
• ORC-1923 Remove Windows 2019 GitHub Action job