Apache Hive 1.2.0 Release Candidate 0 is available here: https://people.apache.org/~khorgath/releases/1.2.0_RC0/artifacts/
My public key used for signing is as in : http://people.apache.org/~khorgath/releases/1.2.0_RC0/artifacts/khorgath.public_key (Note : I've not yet updated the hive central keys list to include my public key, but I will before rolling out further RCs) Maven artifacts are available here: https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachehive-1027 Source tag for RC0 is up on the apache git repo as tag "release-1.2.0-rc0" (Browseable view over at https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=hive.git;a=tag;h=96360490d7f06994344f3b30ff1c71b1e66f0c22 ) Voting will conclude in 0 minutes, since I -1 this RC myself. The purpose of this RC0 was merely to go through the process of release preparation to make future RCs easier, and making it available for people to have a look at, this does not yet solve all the blockers laid out in https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Hive+1.2+Release+Status. Hive PMC Members: Please feel free to verify my signatures, check the tarball, artifacts, tags/etc as needed. Thanks, -Sushanth