HCatalog includes the following patches:
HCATALOG-448: Performance improvements for HCatStorer.
HCATALOG-350: Added support to write binary data to the HCatRecord.
HCATALOG-436: Fixed incorrect naming for JSON SerDe column on CTAS.
HCATALOG-471: Fixed issues with HCat_ShowDes_1 test failures.
HCATALOG-464: Upgraded datanucleus for HCatalog.
HCATALOG-412: Added support for HCatalog to publish artifacts to the Maven repository.
HCATALOG-410: Added support for proxy user in HCatalog client.
HCATALOG-420: Added HCATALOG-363 patch to the HCatalog 0.4 branch.