---
layout: news_item
title: "ORC 1.8.1 Released"
date: "2022-12-02 03:00:00 -0800"
author: dongjoon
version: 1.8.1
categories: [release]
---

The ORC team is excited to announce the release of ORC v1.8.1.

{% assign releaseName = "1.8.1" %}
{% include release_description.md %}

The bug fixes:
- [ORC-1283]({{site.jira}}/ORC-1283) ENABLE_INDEXES does not take effect
- [ORC-1288]({{site.jira}}/ORC-1288) Invalid memory freeing with ZLIB compression
- [ORC-1291]({{site.jira}}/ORC-1291) NullPointerException in TypeDescription

The improvements:
- [ORC-1268]({{site.jira}}/ORC-1268) Set CMP0135 policy for CMake 3.24+
- [ORC-1282]({{site.jira}}/ORC-1282) Add slf4j impl to avoid warning message
- [ORC-1294]({{site.jira}}/ORC-1294) Build error when skip tests build
- [ORC-1295]({{site.jira}}/ORC-1295) Improve ORC Spec example (Decoding RLE v2 direct)
- [ORC-1299]({{site.jira}}/ORC-1299) benchmark can't work for data resource 403
- [ORC-1305]({{site.jira}}/ORC-1305) Add more orc java examples
- [ORC-1308]({{site.jira}}/ORC-1308) Avoid star import

The test changes:
- [ORC-1290]({{site.jira}}/ORC-1290) Bump spotbugs to 4.7.3
- [ORC-1300]({{site.jira}}/ORC-1300) Update Spark to 3.3.1 and its dependencies

The tasks:
- [ORC-1269]({{site.jira}}/ORC-1269) Remove FindBugs
- [ORC-1270]({{site.jira}}/ORC-1270) Move opencsv dependency to the tools module
- [ORC-1292]({{site.jira}}/ORC-1292) Add paragraph in java documentation
