Hive is based on Apache Hive 0.13.1. Apache HCatalog is now merged with Apache Hive. Hive/HCatalog includes the following patches:
HADOOP-10839, HADOOP-10840, HADOOP-7664: Need hotfix for HADOOP-879 and HADOOP-880
HIVE-5072: Enable directly invoke Sqoop job through WebHCat
HIVE-5775: Introduce Cost Based Optimizer to Hive
HIVE-6338: Hive thrift metastore fails to start with error message .MetaException cannot be cast to RuntimeException
HIVE-6521: WebHCat cannot fetch correct percentComplete for Hive jobs
HIVE-6564: WebHCat E2E tests that launch MR jobs fail on check job completion timeout
HIVE-6569: HCatalog still has references to deprecated property hive.metastore.local
HIVE-6571: query id should be available for logging during query compilation
HIVE-6602: Multi-user HiveServer2 throws error
HIVE-6695: bin/hcat should include hbase jar and dependencies in the classpath [followup/clone of HCATALOG-621]
HIVE-6698: hcat.py script does not correctly load the hbase storage handler jars
HIVE-6726: Hcat cli does not close SessionState
HIVE-6741: HiveServer2 startup fails in secure (kerberos) mode due to backward incompatible hadoop change
HIVE-6745: HCat MultiOutputFormat hardcodes DistributedCache keynames
HIVE-6788: Abandoned opened transactions not being timed out
HIVE-6792: hive.warehouse.subdir.inherit.perms doesn't work correctly in CTAS
HIVE-6799: HiveServer2 needs to map kerberos name to local name before proxy check
HIVE-6817: Some hadoop2-only tests need diffs to be updated
HIVE-6824: Hive HBase query fails on Tez due to missing jars - part 2
HIVE-6861: more hadoop2 only golden files to fix
HIVE-6868: Create table in HCatalog sets different SerDe defaults than what is set through the CLI
HIVE-6869: Golden file updates for tez tests
HIVE-6871: Build fixes to allow Windows to run TestCliDriver
HIVE-6880: TestHWISessionManager fails with -Phadoop-2
HIVE-6888: Hive leaks MapWork objects via Utilities::gWorkMap
HIVE-6915: Hive HBase queries fail on secure Tez cluster
HIVE-6927: Add support for MSSQL in schematool
HIVE-6931: Windows unit test fixes
HIVE-6936: Provide table properties to InputFormats
HIVE-6946: Make it easier to run WebHCat e2e tests
HIVE-6947: More fixes for tests on hadoop-2
HIVE-6966: More fixes for TestCliDriver on Windows
HIVE-6967: Hive transaction manager fails when SQLServer is used as an RDBMS
HIVE-6976: Show query id only when there's jobs on the cluster
HIVE-7006: Fix ql_rewrite_gbtoidx.q output file
HIVE-7009: HIVE_USER_INSTALL_DIR could not be set to non-HDFS filesystem
HIVE-7011: HiveInputFormat's split generation isn't thread safe
HIVE-7031: Utiltites.createEmptyFile uses File.Separator instead of Path.Separator to create an empty file in HDFS
HIVE-7043: When using the tez session pool via hive, once sessions time out, all queries go to the default queue
HIVE-7055: config not propagating for PTFOperator
HIVE-7061: sql std auth - insert queries without overwrite should not require delete privileges
HIVE-7062: Hive query using SUM() windowing function fails to complete and stays stuck on reduce task
HIVE-7065, HIVE-7085: Hive jobs in webhcat run in default mr mode even in Hive on Tez setup
HIVE-7072: HCatLoader only loads first region of hbase table
HIVE-7076: Plugin (exec hook) to log to application timeline data to Yarn
HIVE-7099: Add Decimal datatype support for Windowing
HIVE-7112: Tez processor swallows errors
HIVE-7114: Extra Tez session is started during HiveServer2 startup
HIVE-7118: Oracle upgrade schema scripts do not map Java long datatype columns correctly for transaction related tables
HIVE-7118: Oracle upgrade schema scripts do not map Java long datatype columns correctly for transaction related tables
HIVE-7155: Need WebHCat fix to add configuration parameter to override WebHCat configuration to overwrite mapreduce.map.memory.mb for the controller job
HIVE-7167: Hive Metastore fails to start with SQLServerException
HIVE-7188: sum(if()) returns wrong results with vectorization
HIVE-7190: WebHCat launcher task failure can cause two concurent user jobs to run
HIVE-7209: allow metastore authorization api calls to be restricted to certain invokers
HIVE-7210: Null Pointer Exception with "No plan file found" when running Driver instances on multiple threads
HIVE-7268: On Windows Hive jobs in Webhcat always run on default MR mode
