Thanks to everyone who has tested the release candidate and given their comments and votes.
The tally is as follows. 3 binding +1s: Stamatis Zampetakis Denys Kuzmenko Ayush Saxena 3 non-binding +1s: Zhihua Deng Sourabh Badhya Simhadri Govindappa No 0s or -1s. Therefore, I am delighted to announce that the proposal to release Apache Hive 4.0.0-beta-1 has passed. I will proceed with the next steps of the release and I will send an announcement once the release becomes publicly available (sometime next week). Best, Stamatis
