Hi Stamatis, `It's been already 4 months since the release of Hive 4.0.0`. That's true, Zhihua can give a more detailed view of things, however, the main reason is that it took a while to resolve the identified bugs. ATM the only blocking item is TEZ-4557, which might not be available until September, so we might decide to skip it or try to workaround in Hive if possible.
Hive-4.0 branch was well-tested by the community and is in a much better shape than the master. For Hive-4.1 release plan was to migrate to JDK-17+ which might take more time. `Commit and release always from master.` I don't think that's a good idea as it won't solve the mentioned here reason for the change: increase release cadence I feel the current problem is the lack of support from committers, as many major bug fixes are simply not being reviewed on time. Regards, Denys
