Yuming Wang and Hjukjin Kwon have proposed releasing a Hive 2.3.5 that Spark can use. They need to push a couple of back ports into branch-2.3 first. See [1] and [2] for details.
I'm willing to work with them to get this done. Alan. 1. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-21639?focusedCommentId=16822802&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-16822802 2. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-21639?focusedCommentId=16826113&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-16826113
