All, We've added some new features and I'd like to get them released. Most critical is that we create a release that is a superset of the Hive ORC so that we can can replace it our artifact.
Added features and fixes: * ORC-58 Split C++ Reader into Reader and RowReader * ORC-106 Add ORC scanner * ORC-109 fix pom issues * ORC-119 add PhysicalWriter API * ORC-120 add backward compatibility mode for schema evolution * ORC-122, ORC-123 Fix memory leaks in C++ * ORC-124 port HIVE-15335 fast decimal * ORC-125 fix writer version to properly use future * ORC-126 remove our fork of storage-api * ORC-127 fix Coverity report in C++ * ORC-128 add ability to get statistics from writer * ORC-129 clean up C++ RowReader API Artifacts: http://home.apache.org/~omalley/orc-1.3.0rc0/ git tag: https://github.com/apache/orc/releases/tag/release-1.3.0rc0 Thanks, Owen
