I'm pleased to announce the release of Parquet Format 2.8.0! Parquet is a general-purpose columnar file format for nested data. It uses space-efficient encodings and a compressed and splittable structure for processing frameworks like Hadoop.
Changes are listed at: https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/blob/apache-parquet-format-2.8.0/CHANGES.md This release can be downloaded from: https://parquet.apache.org/downloads/ Java artifacts are available from Maven Central. Thanks to everyone for contributing!