Hi Folks, It's been a month since 1.2.0, and I promised to do a stabilization 1.2.1 release, and this is it. A large number of patches have been applied since 1.2.0, and major known issues have been cleared/fixed. A few jiras were deferred out to 1.3/2.0 as not being ready to commit into 1.2.1 at this time. More details are available here : https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Hive+1.2+Release+Status
Apache Hive 1.2.1 Release Candidate 0 is available here: https://people.apache.org/~khorgath/releases/1.2.1_RC0/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-1040/ Source tag for RC0 is up on the apache git repo as tag "release-1.2.1-rc0" (Browseable view over at https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=hive.git;a=tag;h=0f6ee99efc911cbc1566f9bbbc63a51600302703 ) Voting will conclude in 72 hours. Hive PMC Members: Please test and vote. Thanks, -Sushanth
