Currently, Apache Flink, Hive, and Impala are using the following ORC versions: Flink - 1.5.6 Impala - 1.6.2 Hive - 1.6.9
They cannot use 1.6.15 even if we deliver. However, if there is a need for EOL release, I can volunteer for it. Bests, William On Sun, Sep 4, 2022 at 12:44 PM Dongjoon Hyun <dongjoon.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, All. > > As of today, Apache ORC community recommends 1.8.0 as the latest version > and 1.7.6 as the stable version. > > https://orc.apache.org/releases/ > > As announced in the mailing thread before, > > https://lists.apache.org/thread/0prq5pt6wnm16zqnvthk85ljhxg7ycvs > > The following projects were using 1.7.6. > > - SPARK-40134 Update ORC to 1.7.6 (Apache Spark 3.4.0 3.3.1) > - ICEBERG #5580 ORC: Upgrade to 1.7.6 (Apache Iceberg 0.15) > - ARROW-17478 Update ORC to 1.7.6 (Apache Arrow 9.0) > - DRUID #12928 Update ORC to 1.7.6 (Apache Druid 0.24) > > AFAIK, William actively made PRs to migrate them from 1.7.6 to 1.8.0. > Currently, the following is done and the others are under community reviews. > > - Homebrew (orc-tools) > - Apache Spark 3.4.0 (SPARK-40323 Update ORC to 1.8.0) > > Finally, note that Apache ORC 1.6.0 was released on 2019-09-03 (3 years > ago) and has served us well with 15 maintenance releases (1.6.11 ~ 1.6.14) > during its lifetime. Today, Apache ORC 1.6.0 reaches End-Of-Life and > branch-1.6 has no patch for 1.6.15. > > https://github.com/apache/orc/commits/branch-1.6 > > The Apache ORC community is wondering if there is a blocker when 1.6.14 > users migrate to 1.7.6 or 1.8.0. Please try 1.8.0/1.7.6 and let us > know within the next three days if there is a specific bug-fix backport > request and valid reasons. In that case, we may want to deliver an official > EOL release for that. Otherwise, we can skip 1.6.15 in favor of 1.7.6 and > 1.8.0. > > Cheers, > Dongjoon.
