---
layout: news_item
title: "ORC 1.0.0 Released"
date: "2016-01-25 16:45:00 -0800"
author: omalley
version: 1.0.0
categories: [release]
---

The ORC team is excited to announce the release of ORC v1.0.0. This release
contains the native C++ ORC reader and some tools.

{% assign releaseName = "1.0.0" %}
{% include release_description.md %}

The major features:

- Portable pure C++ ORC reader
- The C++ reader is known to work on:
    * CentOS and RHEL 5, 6, and 7
    * Debian 6 and 7
    * Ubuntu 12 and 14
    * Mac OS 10.10 and 10.11
- A file-contents command that prints the contents of the file as json records.
- A file-metadata command that prints the metadata of the file.
- Docker files for building and testing on various Linux distributions.
- Memory estimation for the reader.

{% include known_issues.md %}
