The ORC team is excited to announce the release of ORC v2.1.4.

• Released: 9 January 2026
• Source code: orc-2.1.4.tar.gz
• GPG Signature signed by William Hyun (DECDFA29)
• Git tag: rel/release-2.1.4
• Maven Central: ORC 2.1.4
• SHA 256: c3481370582dea92…
• Fixed issues: ORC-2.1.4

The bug fixes:

• ORC-1892: Upgrade snappy to 1.2.2
• ORC-1893: Upgrade zstd to 1.5.7
• ORC-1952: [C++] Fix the issue where the value of headerThirdByte exceeds the valid byte range
• ORC-1973: Use int64_t instead of google::protobuf::int64 for Protobuf v22+
• ORC-1974: Use google::protobuf::TextFormat instead of DebugString for Protobuf v30+
• ORC-2010: Use IANA Identifier America/Los_Angeles instead of US/Pacific in Java
• ORC-2027: Undefined behavior in DoubleColumnReader::readFloat()

The test changes:

• ORC-1970: [CI] Update cpp-linter-action to f91c446a32ae3eb9f98fef8c9ed4c7cb613a4f8a
• ORC-1996: Remove MacOS 13 from GitHub Action CI and docs