All stable really is is a sym link, Hive is heavily unit and integration tested. Also the release is not made after some manual testing as well. releases have historically been very stable. 12 has been out for some time.
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Bhaskar Dutta <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Is the Hive 0.12 release still not considered "stable"? The stable > directory in the apache mirrors show Hive 0.11 as the stable version. > > I am testing it with Hadoop 2.2.0 and Oozie 4.0.0 which is same as the HDP > 2.0 stack. > > >>>On the mirror, all recent releases are available, but are not > guaranteed to be stable. For stable releases, look in the stable directory. > > Thanks, > Bhaskie >
