I have made a release candidate 0.4.1-rc0. We've fixed several critical bugs to hive release 0.4.0. We need hive release 0.4.1 out asap.
Here are the list of changes: HIVE-884. Metastore Server should call System.exit() on error. (Zheng Shao via pchakka) HIVE-864. Fix map-join memory-leak. (Namit Jain via zshao) HIVE-878. Update the hash table entry before flushing in Group By hash aggregation (Zheng Shao via namit) HIVE-882. Create a new directory every time for scratch. (Namit Jain via zshao) HIVE-890. Fix cli.sh for detecting Hadoop versions. (Paul Huff via zshao) HIVE-892. Hive to kill hadoop jobs using POST. (Dhruba Borthakur via zshao) HIVE-883. URISyntaxException when partition value contains special chars. (Zheng Shao via namit) Please vote. -- Yours, Zheng