Hive 3.1.3.950 (DEP 10.1.0) 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 3.1.3.950
Release Date April 2026
HPE Version Interoperability See Ecosystem Pack Components and OS Support.
Source on GitHub https://github.com/mapr/hive
GitHub Release Tag 3.1.3.950-dep-1010
Maven Artifacts https://repository.mapr.com/maven/
Package Names Navigate to http://package.ezmeral.hpe.com/releases/MEP/, and select your DEP (EEP or 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 3.1.3.750 or higher:

  • Supports Hive-3.1.3 on Tez-0.10.2.

  • Does not support Hive on Spark, so you cannot use Spark as an execution 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

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

Fixes

This release includes CVE and bug fixes according to the following list of changes.

GitHub Commit Number Data (YYYY-MM-DD) HPE Fix Number and Description
bb90dc6b7d 2026-04-02 DEP-HIVE-1643: Automate Log4j properties file refreshment
ed01d1ff33 2026-03-13 DEP-HIVE-1640: [5401619245] pgrep utility cannot find the PID
eb445009bb 2026-02-16 DEP-HIVE-1635: Query to the PARQUET files fails with ClassCastException
a0312f36bb 2026-02-09 DEP-HIVE-1631: Log4j Vulnerability for hive CVE-2025-68161 - Part-3
7ca97fc0db 2026-01-28 DEP-HIVE-1631: Log4j Vulnerability for hive CVE-2025-68161 - Part-2
0deddee655 2026-01-26 DEP-HIVE-1631: Log4j Vulnerability for hive CVE-2025-68161
b9c0524a35 2025-12-23 DEP-HIVE-1628: Hive SchemaTool fails with 'type clob does not exist' during upgrade when the backend database is PostgreSQL - Part-2
388a674cf1 2025-12-22 DEP-HIVE-1628: Hive SchemaTool fails with 'type clob does not exist' during upgrade when the backend database is PostgreSQL

For complete details refer to the commit log for this project in GitHub.

Known Issues and Limitations