---
layout: news_item
title: "ORC 1.7.2 Released"
date: "2021-12-20 03:00:00 -0800"
author: dongjoon
version: 1.7.2
categories: [release]
---

The ORC team is excited to announce the release of ORC v1.7.2.

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The bug fixes:

- [ORC-492]({{site.jira}}/ORC-492) Avoid potential ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when getting WriterVersionn
- [ORC-1053]({{site.jira}}/ORC-1002) Fix time zone offset precision when convert tool converts LocalDateTime to Timestamp is not consistent with the internal default precision of ORC
- [ORC-1041]({{site.jira}}/ORC-1041) Use memcpy during LZO decompression
- [ORC-1059]({{site.jira}}/ORC-1059) Align findColumns behaviour between 1.6 and 1.7 release


The 'tools' improvements:
- [ORC-1012]({{site.jira}}/ORC-1012) Support specifying columns in orc-scan
- [ORC-1017]({{site.jira}}/ORC-1017) Add sizes tool to determine and display the sizes of each column in a set of files
- [ORC-1023]({{site.jira}}/ORC-1023) Support writing bloom filters in ConvertTool

The 'tests' fixes:
- [ORC-915]({{site.jira}}/ORC-915) Remove io.netty.netty from Spark benchmark
- [ORC-938]({{site.jira}}/ORC-938) Bump netty-all from 4.1.42.Final to 4.1.66.Final 
- [ORC-948]({{site.jira}}/ORC-948) Add hive benchmark integration tests
- [ORC-957]({{site.jira}}/ORC-957) Bump netty-all from 4.1.66.Final to 4.1.67.Final
- [ORC-1021]({{site.jira}}/ORC-1021) Add -fno-omit-frame-pointer in DEBUG and RELWITHDEBINFO builds
- [ORC-1051]({{site.jira}}/ORC-1051) Update benchmark dependencies

