Hive 3.1.3.570 - 2601 (EEP 9.2.4) Release Notes

The following notes relate specifically to the HPE Data Fabric Distribution for Apache Hive. You may also be interested in the Apache Hive-3.1.3 Release Notes and the Apache Hive homepage.
Hive Version 3.1.3.570
Release Date January 2026
HPE Version Interoperability See Hive and HCatalog Support Matrix and Ecosystem Support Matrix and Ecosystem Pack Components and OS Support.
Source on GitHub https://github.com/mapr/hive
GitHub Release Tag 3.1.3.570-eep-924
Maven Artifacts https://repository.mapr.com/maven/
Package Names Navigate to http://package.ezmeral.hpe.com/releases/MEP/, and select your EEP(MEP) and OS to view the list of package names.
ODBC/JDBC Drivers
Hive 3.1.3 works with the following HPE Hive drivers:

For additional driver information, see Connecting to HiveServer2.

Feature support

The following list describes support of various components and functionality with Hive 3.1.3.560 - 2505:

  • Supports Hive-3.1.3 on Tez-0.10.2.

  • Does not support Hive on Spark. You cannot use Spark as a query engine for Hive. However, you can run Hive and Spark on the same cluster. You can also use Spark SQL and Drill to query Hive tables.

  • Does not support HDFS encryption in Hive tables.

  • Does not support LLAP with Hive-3.1.3 because Apache Slider is not an HPE supported ecosystem component.

  • Starting from Hive 2.1, Hive must run the schematool command as an initialization step.

New in This Release

Hive 3.1.3.570 introduces the following enhancements or HPE platform-specific behavior changes:
  • Bug fixes.

Fixes

This HPE release includes the following fixes on the base release:

GitHub Commit Number Data (YYYY-MM-DD) HPE Fix Number and Description
072dea574d 2025-10-27 EEP-HIVE-1499: Configured scratchdir already in use
dedf5833d7 2025-10-27 DEP-HIVE-1608: Hive-HBase integration fails with ClassNotFoundException org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HBaseConfiguration
fa356bd5cd 2025-09-01 EEP-HIVE-1433: Hue can not connect to HiveServer2 HA over Zookeeper
7d46d62f52 2025-08-26 EEP-HIVE-1586: cleardanglingscratchdir tool causes Hive query failure
ed9777c371 2025-06-18 Revert "EEP-HIVE-1486: expand datatype for PARAM_VALUE column type in PARTITION_PARAMS metastore table"
a5b24226cc 2025-05-19 EEP-HIVE-1526: Fix CVE-2024-47561 for Apache Avro

Known Issues and Limitations

See Considerations for Hive on JDK 17 and later.