HCatalog includes the following patches:
HCATALOG-485: Added document for storage-based security. The storage based security now ignores GRANT/REVOKE statements
HCATALOG-431: Added document for instructions on mapping HCatalog type to either a Java class or a Pig type.
HCATALOG-492: Added document for instructiosn on using the CTAS workaround for Hive with JSON SerDe.
HCATALOG-442: Updated documentation for instructiosn on using HCatalog with Pig.
HCATALOG-482: Added documentation for instructions on shipping libjars from HDFS. This otion allows reusing distributed cache entries.
HCATALOG-481: Fixed command line interface (CLI) usage syntax and also updated HCatalog documentation.
HCATALOG-444: Added documentation for using Reader and Writer Interfaces.
HCATALOG-427: Added documentation for storage based authorization.
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.