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Support for remaining Parquet data types was added (HIVE-6384).
Hive 2.4.0
Adjust timestamp values written to/read from Parquet files using a table property (HIVE-12767). See table properties in Create Table and the configuration parameter hive.parquet.mr.int96.enable.utc.write.zone.