---
layout: news_item
title: "ORC 1.7.4 Released"
date: "2022-04-15 03:00:00 -0800"
author: william
version: 1.7.4
categories: [release]
---

The ORC team is excited to announce the release of ORC v1.7.4.

{% assign releaseName = "1.7.4" %}
{% include release_description.md %}

The bug fixes:
- [ORC-1120]({{site.jira}}/ORC-1120) Remove C++ library limitation about write version
- [ORC-1121]({{site.jira}}/ORC-1121) Fix column conversion check bug which causes column filters don't work
- [ORC-1127]({{site.jira}}/ORC-1127) Add missing version of UNSTABLE-PRE-2.0
- [ORC-1146]({{site.jira}}/ORC-1146) Float category missing check if the statistic sum is a finite value
- [ORC-1147]({{site.jira}}/ORC-1147) Use isNaN instead of isFinite to determine the contain NaN values

The improvements:
- [ORC-236]({{site.jira}}/ORC-236) Support `UNION` type in Java Convert tool
- [ORC-1116]({{site.jira}}/ORC-1116) Fix csv-import tool when exporting long bytes
- [ORC-1123]({{site.jira}}/ORC-1123) Add estimationMemory method for writer

The test changes:
- [ORC-1145]({{site.jira}}/ORC-1145) Add Java 18 to GitHub Action CI
- [ORC-1118]({{site.jira}}/ORC-1118) Support Java 17 and ARM64 docker tests

The documentation changes:
- [ORC-1117]({{site.jira}}/ORC-1117) Add `Dask` page at `Using in Python` section
- [ORC-1119]({{site.jira}}/ORC-1119) Remove timestamp from ORC API docs
