Hive branch 0.5 was created 5 weeks ago: https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hadoop/hive/branches/branch-0.5/
It has also been running as the production version of Hive at Facebook for 2 weeks. We'd like to start making release candidates (for 0.5.0) from branch 0.5. Please vote. -- Yours, Zheng
