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)
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Compaction
- Rebalance compaction (Hive ACID)
- Compaction requests prioritization (compaction pooling)
- Iceberg compaction (Major)
Hive Metastore
- API optimization (performance)
- Dynamic leader election
- HMS support for Thrift over HTTP
- JWT authentication for Thrift over HTTP
- HMS metadata summary
- Use Zookeeper for service discovery
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.
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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