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Variant Type in Apache Parquet for Semi-Structured Data
Friday, February 27, 2026 in features
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The Apache Parquet community is excited to announce the addition of the Variant type—a feature that brings native support for semi-structured data to Parquet, significantly improving efficiency compared to less efficient formats such as JSON. This …
Native Geospatial Types in Apache Parquet
Friday, February 13, 2026 in features
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Geospatial data has become a core input for modern analytics across logistics, climate science, urban planning, mobility, and location intelligence. Yet for a long time, spatial data lived outside the mainstream analytics ecosystem. In primarily …
1.17.0
Tuesday, January 13, 2026 in parquet-java
The latest version of parquet-java is 1.17.0. For the changes, please check out the Release on Github. To check the validity of this release, use its: Release manager OpenPGP key OpenPGP signature SHA-512 The latest version of parquet-java on the …
1.16.0
Wednesday, September 03, 2025 in parquet-java
The latest version of parquet-java is 1.16.0. For the changes, please check out the Release on Github. To check the validity of this release, use its: Release manager OpenPGP key OpenPGP signature SHA-512 The latest version of parquet-java on the …
2.12.0
Thursday, August 28, 2025 in parquet-format
Github Release Link. The latest version of parquet-format is 2.12.0. To check the validity of this release, use its: Release manager OpenPGP key OpenPGP signature SHA-512 Older releases can be found in the Archives of the Apache Software Foundation: …
1.15.2
Thursday, May 01, 2025 in parquet-java
The latest version of parquet-java is 1.15.2. For the changes, please check out the Release on Github. To check the validity of this release, use its: Release manager OpenPGP key OpenPGP signature SHA-512 The latest version of parquet-java on the …
2.11.0
Sunday, March 23, 2025 in parquet-format
Github Release Link. The latest version of parquet-format is 2.11.0. To check the validity of this release, use its: Release manager OpenPGP key OpenPGP signature SHA-512 Older releases can be found in the Archives of the Apache Software Foundation: …
1.15.1
Sunday, March 16, 2025 in parquet-java
The latest version of parquet-java is 1.15.1. For the changes, please check out the Release on Github. To check the validity of this release, use its: Release manager OpenPGP key OpenPGP signature SHA-512 The latest version of parquet-java on the …
1.15.0
Monday, December 02, 2024 in parquet-java
The latest version of parquet-java is 1.15.0. For the changes, please check out the Release on Github. To check the validity of this release, use its: Release manager OpenPGP key OpenPGP signature SHA-512 The latest version of parquet-java on the …
1.14.4
Monday, November 11, 2024 in parquet-java
The latest version of parquet-java is 1.14.4. With the following bugfixes: GH-3040: DictionaryFilter.canDrop may return false positive result when dict size exceeds 8k GH-3029: Fix EncryptionPropertiesHelper not to use java.nio.file.Path GH-3042: …