Hive 0.13.0-1501 Release Notes
The notes below relate specifically to the MapR Distribution for Apache Hadoop. You may also be interested in the Apache Hive 0.13.0 changelog or the Apache Hive homepage.
| Hive Version | 0.13.0-1501 |
| Release Date | January 21, 2015 |
| Source on GitHub | https://github.com/mapr/hive |
| GitHub Release Tag | 0.13-mapr-1501 |
| MapR Version Compatibility | See Ecosystem Support Matrix (Pre-5.2 releases). |
| Maven Artifacts | https://repository.mapr.com/maven/ |
Using Hive with Sentry and Impala
Hive 0.13 (1410 and 1501) works with Sentry 1.4 and Impala 1.4.1.
Using Hive with HBase
Hive 0.13 works with HBase 0.98.x.
New in this Release
The default log directory for Hivesever2 has changed from /tmp/<user> to /opt/mapr/hive/hive-<version>/logs/<user>. Users will not be impacted by this change if the log directory is set in /opt/mapr/hive.hive-<version>/conf/hive-log4j.properties.
Fixes
This release by MapR includes the following fixes on the base Apache release. For complete details, refer to the commit log for this project in GitHub.
| Commit | Date (YYYY-MM-DD) | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| 491c048 | 2015-01-19 | MAPR-16784: Secure Hive metastore no longer fails to start on a MapR 4.x cluster that runs MapReduce v1. |
| 83e5b3b | 2015-01-12 | MAPR-15587/Hive-9119: Reduced the number of ZooKeeper clients created per running instance of HiveServer2. |
| 6cf6531 | 2015-01-12 | MAPR-16706: Hive beeline no longer hangs on a secure MapR 3.1.0 cluster. |
| 35ffc63 | 2014-12-22 | MAPR-16535: TypeMismatchException no longer appears when calling Hadoop23Shims.createJobContext(Configuration conf, JobId jobId) API. |
| c99933a | 2014-12-09 | MAPR-15982: Hive service status check requires less CPU. |
| 37f75d4 | 2014-12-14 | MAPR-16184: On MapR 4.0.1, Hive statements using relative path URI to the filesystem no longer fail due to incorrect URI creation. |
| 313f016 | 2014-11-21 | MAPR-14270/HIVE-7279: format_number now supports the decimal datatype. |
| 608c461 | 2014-11-20 | MAPR-16090: hcat CLI no longer fails on a cluster that runs YARN. |
| 4dff42b | 2014-11-20 | MAPR-15833: The hive metatool updateLocation command no longer fails. |