Hive 1.2.1-1510 Release Notes

The notes below relate specifically to the MapR Distribution for Apache Hadoop. You may also be interested in the Apache Hive 1.2.1 changelog or the Apache Hive homepage.

Hive Version 1.2.1
Release Date November 20, 2015
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/1.2.0-mapr-1510
Maven Artifacts https://repository.mapr.com/maven/
Package Names The following packages are associated with this release:
  • mapr-hive-1.2.201511180952-1.noarch.rpm
  • mapr-hive_1.2.201511180952_all.deb
  • mapr-hivemetastore-1.2.201511180952-1.noarch.rpm
  • mapr-hivemetastore_1.2.201511180952_all.deb
  • mapr-hiveserver2-1.2.201511180952-1.noarch.rpm
  • mapr-hiveserver2_1.2.201511180952_all.deb
  • mapr-hivewebhcat-1.2.201511180952-1.noarch.rpm
  • mapr-hivewebhcat_1.2.201511180952_all.deb

New in this Release

This release of Apache Hive includes the following behavior change that is specific to MapR:
Flexible HiveServer2 Authentication Support
When the cluster is secure, HiveServer2 accepts both MAPR-SASL and PAM for in-bound authentication. This allows a single instance of HiveServer2 to accept both MapR-SASL authentication from Hue and PAM authentication from JDBC/ODBC connections.

For details on the features available in the open source version of this component, see the Apache Hive 1.2.1 changelog or the Apache Hive homepage.

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:

GitHub Commit Date (YYY-MM-DD) Comment
ad20274 2015-10-23 MAPR-21015: Backported HIVE-11456 so that HCatStorer honors the mapreduce.output.basename.
b724320 2015-10-22 MAPR-21055: The insert overwrite command no longer fails to remove old data files before it overwrites the table.
3fb70d8 2015-10-21 MAPR-21035: Hive 1.2 queries on parquet files no longer fail.
3e36752 2015-10-16 MAPR 20096: SMB Join no longer fails on Hive 1.2.
923ab18 2015-10-16 MAPR-19370: On a secure cluster, HiveServer2 now accepts both MapR-SASL and PAM authentication.
12bca74 2015-09-21 MAPR-20191: On the MapR 5.0 sandbox, the Hive classpath no longer contains newlines.
d9f47eb 2015-09-09 HIVE-11688: Backported HIVE-11688 to resolve the issue where OrcRawRecordMerger does not close the primary reader.