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WebHCat provides a service that you can use to run Hadoop MapReduce (or YARN), Pig, Hive jobs or perform Hive metadata operations using an HTTP (REST style) interface.

Hive Versions

Recent versions of Hive are available on the Downloads page of the Hive website. The Downloads page provides each version's release date and list of changes.  If you want a list of changes for an earlier version (or a development branch), use the Configure Release Notes page.

The Apache Hive JIRA keeps track of changes to Hive code, documentation, infrastructure, etc. The version number or branch for each resolved JIRA issue is shown in the "Fix Version/s" field in the Details section at the top of the issue page. For example, HIVE-5107 has a fix version of 0.13.0.

Sometimes a version number changes before the release.  When that happens the original number might still be found in the JIRA, wiki, and mailing list discussions. For example:

General Information about Hive

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