CDH 4 Release Notes

The following lists all Apache Hive Jiras included in CDH 4 that are not included in the Apache Hive base version 0.8.1. The hive-0.8.1+47.CHANGES.txt file lists all changes included in CDH 4. The patch for each change can be found in the cloudera/patches directory in the release tarball.

Changes Not In Apache Hive 0.8.1

Hive

Bug

[HIVE-2920] - TestStatsPublisherEnhanced throws NPE on JDBC connection failure
[HIVE-2878] - TestHBaseMinimrCliDriver hbase_bulk.m fails on 0.23
[HIVE-2778] - Fail on table sampling
[HIVE-2856] - Fix TestCliDriver escape1.q failure on MR2
[HIVE-2860] - TestNegativeCliDriver autolocal1.q fails on 0.23
[HIVE-2857] - QTestUtil.cleanUp() fails with FileNotException on 0.23
[HIVE-2840] - INPUT__FILE__NAME virtual column returns unqualified paths on Hadoop 0.23
[HIVE-2831] - TestContribCliDriver.dboutput and TestCliDriver.input45 fail on 0.23
[HIVE-2782] - New BINARY type produces unexpected results with supported UDFS when using MapReduce2
[HIVE-2789] - When integrating into MapReduce2, 'select * from src distribute by src.key limit 1' returns non-deterministic result
[HIVE-2793] - Disable loadpart_err.q on 0.23
[HIVE-2734] - Fix some nondeterministic test output
[HIVE-2724] - Remove unused lib/log4j-1.2.15.jar
[HIVE-2707] - Ant's untar task can't handle symlinks

Improvement

[HIVE-2760] - TestCliDriver should log elapsed time
[HIVE-2697] - Ant compile-test target should be triggered from subprojects, not from top-level targets
[HIVE-2700] - Add 'ivy-clean-cache' and 'very-clean' Ant targets

Task

[HIVE-2748] - Upgrade Hbase and ZK dependcies