---

layout: docs title: Releases permalink: /releases.html

{% for relItr in site.data.releases %} {% if relItr[1][“state”] == “latest” %} {% assign releaseName = relItr[0] %} {% break %} {% endif %} {% endfor %}

Current Release - {{ releaseName }}:

ORC {{ releaseName }} contains both the Java and C++ reader and writer for ORC files. It also contains tools for working with ORC files and looking at their contents and metadata.

{% include release_description.md %} {% include orc_1.7.md %} {% include known_issues.md %}

Checking signatures

Verify the releases by following ASF procedures. All GPG signatures should be verified as matching one of the keys in ORC‘s committers’ [key list]({{ site.dist }}/KEYS).

% shasum -a 256 orc-X.Y.Z.tgz | diff - orc-X.Y.Z.tgz.sha256
% gpg --import KEYS
% gpg --verify orc-X.Y.Z.tgz.asc

All releases:

{% include release_table.html %}