I'm please to announce the release of Parquet MR 1.9.0! Parquet is a general-purpose columnar file format for nested data. It uses space-efficient encodings and a compressed and splittable structure for processing frameworks like Hadoop. Changes are listed at: https://github.com/apache/parquet-mr/blob/apache-parquet-1.9.0/CHANGES.md This release can be downloaded from: https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/parquet/ Convenience Java artifacts are also available from Maven Central. Thanks to everyone for contributing to this release! -- Ryan Blue