I think this is the right choice. More ambitiously, I'd love it if releases were compatible with official released versions of our ASF dependencies like Hadoop and Ranger. Perhaps this would limit the Cloudera Maven dependencies for devs.
On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 12:32 AM Quanlong Huang <huangquanl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Due to Cloudera's maven repo changes, the latest released version 3.4.0 is > not compilable now (need the patch of IMPALA-9815). I'm thinking about > doing a minor release for 3.4.1. > > Another motivation is that we need a branch to maintain the Sentry support > which is removed in the 4.0 branch (IMPALA-9708). One bug we recently found > is IMPALA-10326 (PrincipalPrivilegeTree doesn't handle empty string and > wildcards correctly). We have a fix in downstream but can't put it upstream > due to missing the Sentry support. IMPALA-10130 is another Sentry issue > that we may need to fix. > > We can also apply some critical fixes in this version. Here are bugs that > affect 3.4.0 and are fixed in 4.0: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-9725?jql=project%20%3D%20IMPALA%20AND%20issuetype%20%3D%20Bug%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Resolved%20AND%20affectedVersion%20%3D%20%22Impala%203.4.0%22%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%20%22Impala%204.0%22%20ORDER%20BY%20priority%20DESC%2C%20updated%20DESC > > Any objections or suggestions? > > Thanks, > Quanlong >
