## Description:
The mission of ORC is the creation and maintenance of software related
to the smallest, fastest columnar storage for Hadoop workloads.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention.
## Membership Data:
Apache ORC was founded 2015-04-21 (10 years ago)
There are currently 49 committers and 15 PMC members in this project.
The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 7:2.
- Shaoyun Chen was added to the PMC on 2025-03-23.
- No new committers. Last addition was Yuanping Wu on 2024-05-14.
## Project Activity:
According to our release cadence, we released six maintenance releases
in this quarter and helped other Apache communities use them.
- 1.9.7 was released on 2025-07-04.
- 1.8.10 was released on 2025-06-26.
- 2.1.2 was released on 2025-05-06.
- 2.0.5 was released on 2025-05-06.
- 1.9.6 was released on 2025-05-06.
- 1.8.9 was released on 2025-05-06.
In addition, we are preparing the following milestones for the
upcoming quarters.
- 2.2.0 (July)
- 2.0.7 (October)
- 2.1.3 (November)
## Community Health:
In this quarter, we saw a healthy growth in the community
with a 88% increase in traffic for the dev mailing list
and 52% increase in the issues mailing list.
We are preparing for the 2.2.0 release and have started
a soft feature freeze in preparation.
