[ANNOUNCE] Apache Hive 1.2.1 Released

[Sushanth Sowmyan <kh...@apache.org>]

The Apache Hive team is proud to announce the the release of Apache
Hive version 1.2.1.

The Apache Hive (TM) data warehouse software facilitates querying and
managing large datasets residing in distributed storage. Built on top
of Apache Hadoop (TM), it provides:

* Tools to enable easy data extract/transform/load (ETL)
* A mechanism to impose structure on a variety of data formats
* Access to files stored either directly in Apache HDFS (TM) or in
other data storage systems such as Apache HBase (TM)
* Query execution via Apache Hadoop MapReduce, Apache Tez & Apache
Spark frameworks.

For Hive release details and downloads, please visit:
https://hive.apache.org/downloads.html

Hive 1.2.1 is an incremental release on top of Hive 1.2.0 and release
notes are available here:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12332384&styleName=Text&projectId=12310843


We would like to thank the many contributors who made this release possible.

Regards,
The Apache Hive Team