Hi, All. Here is the summarized update.
- Apache ORC 2.0.6 is released. - Apache ORC 2.1.3 is going to be released tomorrow. We are ready to start a soft feature freeze by creating `branch-2.2` which is requsted from Apache Iceberg community for `v3`. https://github.com/apache/orc/issues/2224 Add support for geospatial types (geometry and geography) Note that we are still working on the following. Apache ORC PMC member can backport features during a soft feature freeze. - https://github.com/apache/orc/pull/2269 ORC-1920: [C++] Support Geometry and Geography types - https://github.com/apache/orc/pull/2319 ORC-1948: Fix GeospatialTreeWriter#writeBatch updating ColumnStatistics with incorrect values Independently, there is a bug fix PR reported from Apache Hive community that recently upgraded to ORC 2.1.2. https://github.com/apache/orc/pull/2300 ORC-1939: set TimestampColumnVector isUTC flag in TimestampFromXXXTreeReader Dongjoon. PS. AFAIK, we need to send a quarterly report soon. On 2025/07/04 01:25:39 Dongjoon Hyun wrote: > Hi, All. > > Thank you for helping the releases. Here is an update. > > After finalizing 1.9.7 vote tomorrow, I'm going to start to roll the > following two at the same time during weekend. > > - https://github.com/apache/orc/milestone/46 (2.0.6) > - https://github.com/apache/orc/milestone/43 (2.1.3) > > FYI, I'm working on these release for > - Apache ORC 1.9.7 for Apache Spark 3.5.7 > - Apache ORC 2.1.3 for Apache Spark 4.0.1 > > We can resume ORC 2.2.0 discussion to target Apache Spark 4.1.0-preview1. > > Best, > Dongjoon. > > > On 2025/06/23 18:48:49 Dongjoon Hyun wrote: > > Thank you. Sure, I'll start to roll from ORC 1.x releases. > > > > https://github.com/apache/orc/milestone/44 (1.8.10) > > https://github.com/apache/orc/milestone/45 (1.9.7) > > > > Dongjoon. > > > > On 2025/06/23 02:33:48 William Hyun wrote: > > > Thank you for your input Dongjoon! > > > Sounds good on delaying 2.2.0 release until the action items are complete. > > > We can get started on the other releases first. > > > > > > Bests, > > > William > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM Dongjoon Hyun <dongj...@apache.org> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Thank you, William. > > > > > > > > I'm also thinking about that recently. > > > > > > > > +1 for releasing 2.1.3, 2.0.6, 1.9.7, 1.8.10 soon (June). > > > > It would be helpful for all downstream projects. > > > > > > > > For ORC 2.2, I also support the early release (2025 July?) of Apache > > > > ORC 2.2.0. We may want to create branch-2.2 first as a soft feature > > > > freeze. BTW, to be complete, we need to finalize the following two > > > > items first. > > > > > > > > 1. ORC-1920: [C++] Support `Geometry` and `Geography` types (Under > > > > Review) > > > > https://github.com/apache/orc/pull/2269 > > > > > > > > 2. Test `orc-tools` with Java 24 (Under testing) > > > > To give you all some background, Homebrew's `orc-tools` formula seems > > > > to be broken due to its default Homebrew Java dependency (which is Java > > > > 24 as of now). We have three ways to handle that. > > > > > > > > (A) To fix the Homebrew formula by pinning JDK to Java 21. > > > > (B) To make `orc-tools` work on Java 24 with local files although we > > > > don't support Java 24 or 25 yet due to Hadoop dependency. > > > > (C) To build a native image of `orc-tools` via GraalVM Community > > > > Edition like Apache Kafka community's 'kafka-native' docker image. > > > > > > > > We can do (A) easily in the Homebrew repository contribution. For (B), > > > > although ORC-1927 was merged for that purpose, we need to test > > > > `orc-tools` on Java 24 more to make sure. For (C), I'm investigating > > > > personally. > > > > > > > > ORC-1927: Add Java `25-ea` test coverage for `tools` module > > > > > > > > Dongjoon. > > > > > > > > > > > > On 2025/06/19 04:02:20 William Hyun wrote: > > > > > Hello All! > > > > > > > > > > I'd like to propose to release from all live branches due to ORC-1898 > > > > > correctness patch. > > > > > > > > > > - https://github.com/apache/orc/pull/2223 > > > > > > > > > > In addition, I would also like to propose to release 2.2.0 earlier > > > > > than scheduled as there are > > > > > important features like the following waiting to be delivered. > > > > > > > > > > - ORC-1903: Support `Geometry` and `Geography` types > > > > > - ORC-1906: Support `Meson` build > > > > > > > > > > Full list of issues: > > > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/ORC/versions/12355545 (78 > > > > > resolved issues) > > > > > https://github.com/apache/orc/milestone/39 > > > > > > > > > > What do you all think about this? > > > > > > > > > > Bests, > > > > > William > > > > > > > > > > >
