question Re: When will Cloudera on base support Hive 4? in Support Questions

When will Cloudera on base support Hive 4?

moekraft — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 19:18:32 GMT

According to https://hive.apache.org/general/downloads/

"The Apache Hive Community has voted to declare the 3.x release line as End of Life (EOL). This means no further updates or releases will be made for this series.
We urge all Hive 3.x users to upgrade to the latest versions promptly to benefit from new features and ongoing support."

CDP 7.3.1 is still very much based on Hive 3.

https://docs.cloudera.com/cdp-private-cloud-base/7.3.1/hive-introduction/topics/hive_whats_new_in_this_release_hive.html

https://docs.cloudera.com/cdp-private-cloud-base/7.3.1/hive-introduction/topics/hive-apache-hive-3-architectural-overview.html

When will Cloudera on base support Hive 4?

Thanks

Re: When will Cloudera on base support Hive 4?

vats — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 20:09:52 GMT

Hello @moekraft

Thank you for raising your concern.

At the moment, we do not have definitive information regarding the supportability of this request. However, I will go ahead and create an internal JIRA to track it. Your request will be reviewed and addressed soon.

Re: When will Cloudera on base support Hive 4?

JoseManuel — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 15:55:02 GMT

@moekraft
Cloudera backports many JIRAs from Hive 4 to CDP 7.3.1 Hive
Is there a specific JIRA you want to check if it's included ?

Re: When will Cloudera on base support Hive 4?

DianaTorres — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 02:06:27 GMT

@moekraft Has the reply helped resolve your issue? If so, please mark the appropriate reply as the solution, as it will make it easier for others to find the answer in the future. Thanks.

Re: When will Cloudera on base support Hive 4?

mtaieb — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:27:41 GMT

Hi @JoseManuel ,

We’re currently encountering an issue on Hive 3 (CDP 7.1.7 SP1) that matches the one described in this JIRA: HIVE-24552. Do you know if this fix has been backported to any CDP version?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Re: When will Cloudera on base support Hive 4?

ggangadharan — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:52:31 GMT

HIVE-24552 is back-ported from CDP 7.1.7 and higher versions.

Re: When will Cloudera on base support Hive 4?

JoseManuel — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 17:38:26 GMT

@mtaieb
We can confirm that HIVE-24552 has been backported to Hive since CDP 7.1.6 and newer

Thanks!
-JMP

Re: When will Cloudera on base support Hive 4?

moekraft — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 16:50:38 GMT

I will check with the development team to see where they are failing with the Hive 4 support and let you know.

Thanks

Re: When will Cloudera on base support Hive 4?

moekraft — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:00:02 GMT

Are there any plans to migrate CDP to Hive 4?

Re: When will Cloudera on base support Hive 4?

asish — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:43:44 GMT

As of now, the product management team has not decided yet. Most of the bugs that are fixed in Hive 4 are backported in latest releases

Re: When will Cloudera on base support Hive 4?

moekraft — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 22:55:20 GMT

Thanks Asish!

In our product, we've already bumped up our Hive version to 4.1 and connecting from a Hive 4.1 client to Hive 3.x doesn't work in many instances. We've made some changes to Hive 4.1 to allow slightly more backwards compatibility but there are some instances where serialized objects are used and can't be deserialized because of version mismatches.

Thanks,

Moe