Hi Folks, We've cleared all the blockers listed for 1.2.0 release, either committing them, or deferring out to an eventual 1.2.1 stabilization release. (Any deferrals were a result of discussion between myself and the committer responsible for the issue.) More details are available here : https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Hive+1.2+Release+Status
Apache Hive 1.2.0 Release Candidate 2 is available here: https://people.apache.org/~khorgath/releases/1.2.0_RC2/artifacts/ My public key used for signing is as available from the hive committers key list : http://www.apache.org/dist/hive/KEYS Maven artifacts are available here: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachehive-1031 Source tag for RC0 is up on the apache git repo as tag "release-1.2.0-rc2" (Browseable view over at https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=hive.git;a=tag;h=8858fed41d868efe2d60d3605f1560f70e85d4e8 ) Voting will conclude in 72 hours. Hive PMC Members: Please test and vote. Thanks, -Sushanth