Hi all, We previously reached consensus[1] to deprecate Hive 2 in 1.7 and drop in 1.8. However, when working on the removal PR[2], multiple tests failed in Hive 3 due to not supporting JDK11[3]. The fix has been back-ported to branch-3.1[4] but not released yet. As announced on Hive website, Hive 3.x is declared as End of Life so there will be no more Hive 3 release. Peter(@pvary) suggested upgrading to Hive 4 instead. On the other hand, iceberg-hive3 tests are already broken after we dropped JDK 8 support. It's not caught previously due to tests not running[6].
Based on the current situation, here are the options I can think of to move forward A. Continue to remove Hive 2 in the current PR and upgrade to Hive 4 in a separate PR. B. Hold on removing Hive 2 until we upgrade to Hive 4 C. Add source dependency[7] on Hive branch-3.1 or make a Hive 3.1 release from a forked repo. 1. https://lists.apache.org/thread/zg14b8cor4lnbyd3t4n1297y2bwb1fsg 2. https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/10996 3. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-21584 4. https://github.com/apache/hive/commits/branch-3.1/ 5. https://hive.apache.org/general/downloads/ 6. https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/11584 7. https://blog.gradle.org/introducing-source-dependencies Which option do you prefer? Any better alternative? Thanks, Manu
