Hive 0.13.0-1605 Release Notes

Below are release notes for the Hive component included in the MapR Converged Data Platform. You may also be interested in the Apache Hive 0.13.0 changelog or the Apache Hive homepage.

Hive Version 0.13.0
Release Date June 6, 2016
MapR Version Interoperability See Hive and HCatalog Support Matrix and Ecosystem Support Matrix (Pre-5.2 releases)
Source on GitHub https://github.com/mapr/hive/tree/0.13.0-mapr-1605
Maven Artifacts https://repository.mapr.com/maven/
Package Names The following packages are associated with this release:
  • mapr-hive-0.13.201605311455-1.noarch.rpm
  • mapr-hive_0.13.201605311455_all.deb
  • mapr-hivemetastore-0.13.201605311455-1.noarch.rpm
  • mapr-hivemetastore_0.13.201605311455_all.deb
  • mapr-hiveserver2-0.13.201605311455-1.noarch.rpm
  • mapr-hiveserver2_0.13.201605311455_all.deb
  • mapr-hivewebhcat-0.13.201605311455-1.noarch.rpm
  • mapr-hivewebhcat_0.13.201605311455_all.deb

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
ae79594 2016-05-17 MAPR-23302: ListBucketing tables with uppercase skew values can now be created.
1878e90 2016-04-25 MAPR-23153: Hive will no longer create scratch dir with incorrect permissions when a CTAS query is run. If CTAS query is run, now, the table root directory with correct permissions from fs.permissions.umask-mode will be created first and then the scratch dir with permissions from hive.scrach.dir.permissions will be created.
5c67d97 2016-04-14 MAPR-23082: Beeline will no longer fail with NullPointerException when MAPR-SASL is used.
cb63c6d 2016-04-14 MAPR-23084: The datanucleus.schema.autoCreateAll property in hive-site.xml file is now set to true by default.
63ce07f 2016-04-01

MAPR-22719: The issue causing Hive 0.13 to incorrectly determine the authentication mechanism when installed on MapR 4.0.1 has been fixed.

Regression of MAPR-22677: Backported HIVE-8320 to fix the Hive 0.13 and Hue integration error.
1d2e15c 2016-01-29 MAPR-22222: The delay as a result of a single reduce task in the last stage is now fixed with a new parameter, hive.groupby.limit.extrastep, which can be used to enable or disable a new MR job for sorting the final output.
91b0053 2016-03-29 MAPR-22943: Pig will no longer try to receive Hive Metastore's functions and only receive standard functions, which are registered with FunctionRegistry class.
7d914fa 2015-08-19 HIVE-11592: Backported HIVE-11592 to set an upperbound on the protobuf message size.