• Iceberg Integration

    • Advanced Snapshot management
    • Branches & Tags support
    • DML (insert/update/delete/merge)
    • COW & MOR modes
    • Vectorised Reads & Writes
    • Table migration command
    • LOAD DATA statements support
    • Partition-level operations support
    • Improved statistics (column stats support)


  • Hive ACID

    • Use sequences for TXN_ID generation (performance)
    • Read-only transactions optimization
    • Zero-wait readers
    • Optimistic and Pessimistic concurrency control 
    • Lockless reads




  • HiveServer2

    • Support SAML 2.0/JWT authentication mode  
    • Support both Kerberos and LDAP auth methods in parallel   
    • Graceful shutdown
    • Easy access to the operation log through web UI


  • Hive Replication

    • Optimised Bootstrap Solution
    • Support for Snapshot Based Replication for External Table
    • Better Replication Tracking Metrics
    • Support for Checkpointing during Replication


  • Security

    • Authorizations in alter table/view, UDFs, and Views created from Apache Spark.
    • Authorizations on tables created based on storage handlers.
    • Critical CVE fixes of transitive dependencies.


  • Compiler

    • Materialized view support for Iceberg tables
    • Improvements to refresh materialized views
    • Date/Timestamp fixes and improvements
    • Anti join support
    • Split update support
    • Branch pruning
    • Column histogram statistics support
    • Calcite upgrade to 1.25
    • HPL/SQL improvements
    • Scheduled query support


  • Miscl.

    • Support for ESRI GeopSpatial UDF's
    • Added support for Apache Ozone
    • Support Hadoop-3.3.6
    • Supports Tez 0.10.3
    • Works with Aarch64 (ARM)
    • New UDFs (Hive UDFs)
    • Deprecated Hive on MR & Removed Hive on Spark
    • Deprecated Hive CLI