Hi Hive dev team, As informed earlier, I, Yuming and many people from spark dev have made huge efforts to let Spark use official Hive release. Thanks Alan and all Hive dev for all the efforts for Hive 2.3.6 to make Spark support JDK 11.
Few months ago, an unexpected problem was found. Spark throws ClassCastException when initializing HiveMetaStoreClient. Please see SPARK-29245 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-29245> for more details. This has fixed by HIVE-21508 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-21508>. We postponed the Hive release request to Spark code freeze schedule to avoid multiple requests. Spark is going to freeze code 31st January (tomorrow), and I currently foresee the RC starts around March. So, this will be hopefully the last request for Hive release for Spark 3.0. I was wondering if we could release Hive 2.3.7 soon so Spark can uses it. Thanks.
