Apache Hive 2.0.0 Release Candidate 0 is available here: http://people.apache.org/~sershe/hive-2.0.0-RC0/
Maven artifacts are available here: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachehive-1041/ Source tag for RC0 (github mirror) is: https://github.com/apache/hive/releases/tag/release-2.0.0-rc0 (https://github.com/apache/hive/commit/b45f4c69f0c8853d9faea2dac8523517d283 91d3) Voting will conclude in 72 hours. Hive PMC Members: Please test and vote. Note that this is the first Apache release that I’m making; I hope everything is correct... Thanks.