Hi All, I would like to propose entering a Feature Freeze for Apache ORC 2.3 by cutting the branch-2.3 release branch.
You can track the progress of the 2.3.0 milestone here: https://github.com/apache/orc/milestone/50 Apache ORC 2.3 will deliver several notable changes and improvements. Here is a summary of the key JIRA issues: [Pending] ORC-2068: Upgrade Hadoop to 3.4.3 [Completed Features] ORC-2075: Support new Lz4Codec based on lz4-java ORC-2083: Support XerialSnappyCodec ORC-1986: Trigger flush stripe for large input rows ORC-2013: [C++] Bump to CMake 3.25+ to use FetchContent ORC-2000: [C++] Add support to prefetch small stripes ORC-2002: [C++] Improve prefetching stripe ORC-1969: [C++] Support async I/O prefetch of next stripe [Added Test Coverage] ORC-2092: Add Ubuntu 26.04 to docker tests and GitHub Action ORC-2070: Add OracleLinux 10 to docker tests and GitHub Action ORC-2079: Add lz4 codec pool test coverage [End-of-Support] ORC-2099: Remove Ubuntu 22.04 Support ORC-2015: Remove Debian 11 Support ORC-2072: Remove OracleLinux 8 Support ORC-2056: Remove MacOS 14 from GitHub Action CI and docs Please let me know your thoughts or if there are any concerns about cutting the branch at this time. Bests, William
