+1 (non binding) Thanks Dimitry for driving the release.
I have Verified the following: * Downloaded the source tarball, signature (.asc), and checksum: ✓ OK * Imported GPG keys and verified the signature: ✓ OK * Validated checksum and signature for the artifacts: ✓ OK * Successfully built from source with java jdk 21: ✓ OK * Build and run the Hive Docker image : ✓ OK * Initialized meta scripts against MySQL : ✓ OK * Build Docker image and started the HMS container: ✓ OK * Ran simple queries to create table,inserted records and read data on external table, acid tables and iceberg tables and with Tez and verified the output: ✓ OK Thanks, Simhadri G On Fri, Nov 21, 2025, 5:30 PM Ayush Saxena <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 (Binding) > > * Built from source > * Validated checksums > * Validated Signatures > * Ran some basic iceberg related queries > * Validated NOTICE & License files > * Verified the output of `hive version` > * Built docker images & ran some queries in the docker container > > Thanx Dmitriy for driving the release!!! > > -Ayush > > On Fri, 21 Nov 2025 at 17:16, Denys Kuzmenko <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Thanks Dima for driving the release! > > > > +1 (binding) > > > > Hive dist validations: > > ——————————— > > * Signatures and checksums: ✓ OK > > * Binary: ✓ OK > > > > ~/Downloads/apache-hive-4.2.0-bin > ls lib | grep iceberg > > hive-iceberg-catalog-4.2.0.jar* > > hive-iceberg-handler-4.2.0.jar > > hive-iceberg-shading-4.2.0.jar* > > > > iceberg-catalog and iceberg-shading jars are redundant ✓ KO (not > regression) > > > > * Built from sources (openjdk64-21.0.8): ✓ OK > > * Build Docker image and started the containers with Polaris: ✓ OK > > > > HADOOP_VERSION=3.4.1 > > TEZ_VERSION=0.10.5 > > > > * Connected via Beeline, created an Iceberg v3 table and executed number > of queries: ✓ OK > > - Select; > > - Insert (verified incremental compute stats); > > - DML (update, delete, merge); > > - Analyze table compute stats; > > > > - Alter table ice01 compact 'major'; ✓ KO (docker setup only, not a > regression) > > Error: Error while compiling statement: FAILED: Execution Error, > return code 40000 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.ddl.DDLTask. Version > information not found in metastore; > > > > - Drop table; > > > > Standalone metastore dist validations: > > ——————————————————— > > * Signatures and checksums: ✓ OK > > * Binary: ✓ OK > > > > ~/Downloads/apache-hive-metastore-4.2.0-bin ls lib | grep iceberg > > hive-iceberg-handler-4.2.0.jar > > > > * Built from sources (openjdk64-21.0.8): ✓ OK > > * Build Docker image and started the HMS container: ✓ OK > > * Created and fetched back an Iceberg table using RestCatalog ✓ OK > > > > PS: In the RN we should mention that the min supported Java version is > 21. > > > > Regards, > > Denys >
