[ANNOUNCE] Apache ORC 2.3.0 released

[Dongjoon Hyun <do...@apache.org>]

Hi all,

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Apache ORC 2.3.0.

https://orc.apache.org/news/2026/03/02/ORC-2.3.0/

This is a new feature release containing 139 patches. Key highlights
include:

ORC-2119: Support for Java 25
ORC-2075: New Lz4Codec based on lz4-java
ORC-2083: Support for XerialSnappyCodec
ORC-1986: Trigger stripe flushing for large input rows
ORC-2000: [C++] Added support for prefetching small stripes
ORC-2002: [C++] Improved stripe prefetch logic
ORC-1969: [C++] Support for async I/O prefetching of the next stripe
ORC-2013: [C++] Bumped minimum CMake requirement to 3.25 to leverage
FetchContent

The release is now available on Apache Downloads and Maven Central:

https://downloads.apache.org/orc/orc-2.3.0/
https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/orc/orc-core/2.3.0/

Best regards,
Dongjoon Hyun.